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Farm PAR-000162

Part of Klein Valie No. 182

Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)

· on record 1912–1932 · show on the map

The farm's own history, the grant, the original survey, sits on that page.

Farm number
No. 182
Portion
2
District
Prince Albert

This parcel has no matched survey polygon, so it cannot be drawn on the map. That is a gap in the cadastre match, not an absence from the record.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. Not yet placed on the map.

What this farm became

From 1932/1933 this ground stopped being one farm, and the story continues on the pieces cut from it. Its own record above ends there; what happened afterwards belongs to a portion, not to the whole.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Klein Valie No. 182, the farm this ground was part of until 1912. It is shown here because this ground was that farm, and separately from what follows because before the cut the record says the farm's name and not which part of it. Not everything below necessarily happened on this piece.

  1. 1833-08 document SG diagram B348/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-6
  2. ../1833 ownership Christian Hatting Junior (Klein Valie, 1833) loan farm · survey · confidence high
  3. ../1878 to 1897 ownership Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1836-11-27–1922-01-02) owner · confidence medium
  4. 1878 residence Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (1878-01-18–1961-10-29) memoir
  5. 1892 event The great perdevrekte of 1892 Horse-sickness swept the district: of 95 horses and mules on Kouwveldt (PAR-000088), 14 were left. 'Na hierdie vrekte het die donkie sy tuiste in ons wereld gekry' - the donkey arrived in the Koup's world because the horses died out of it. The diary ranks it with the fall of the ostrich-feather market.
  6. 1897 event Kouwveldt sold; the family moves to Droogekloof Ockert Almero Oosthuizen sells Kouwveldt - properly Klein Vallei, PAR-000088 - to Jan Muller and moves his household to his other farm, Droogekloof (PAR-000007). The same year the brandsiekwet came from Rhodes; 'die enigste goeie ding wat hy in Suid-Afrika gedoen het', the diary says, with the district protesting.
  7. 1897 ownership Jan Müller (bought Klein Vallei, 1897) purchase · confidence medium
  8. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1)
  9. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
  10. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Nieuwe Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 3)
  11. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Gideon's Hoop (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 4)
  12. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5)
  13. 1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (sketch)
  14. 1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p1)
  15. 1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p2)

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1912 boundary change subdivision: from Klein Valie No. 182
  2. 1932–1933 boundary change subdivision: becomes Kouveld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 6)
  3. 1932–1933 boundary change subdivision: becomes Groenkraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 7)
  4. 1932–1933 boundary change subdivision: becomes Grootleegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 8)

Research notes

[5 Aug 2026 inbox] Portion 2 of Klein Valie No. 182, NAMED KOUDE VELD. Not yet held as its own sheet - the name and the diagram number 2117/1912 are read off the three 1932 subdivisions cut out of it (Portions 6, 7 and 8), each of which describes itself as 'portion of KOUDE VELD' and cites 'the original diagram is No. 2117/1912 annexed to Transfer Deed No. 11089 dated 8 October 1919 in favour of A.P. Muller J.C. sonM'. Extent not yet known. [TO VERIFY - diagram 2117/1912] No cadastral polygon: the Surveyor-General's pull carries no farm 182 portion 2, which is consistent with Koude Veld having been wholly consumed by the 1932 subdivisions - Kouveld, Groenkraal and Grootleegte - and the remainder. Recorded as NO-POLYGON per 5-second-rule, not deleted.

[13 Aug 2026] Renamed to the one form this model uses for every portion - the portion's own name, then the parent farm, its number and the portion in brackets - so that a name is legible in a list, a search result and a map popup without the reader having to know which farm number is which. It read "Koude Veld (Klein Valie Ptn 2)" before. Nothing about the ground changed.

The research behind this page, kept separate from it: dated working notes, open questions, and what is not yet settled.

What the record is missing

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.