Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5)

· on record 1912 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 182
Portion: 5
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 345 morgen 476 square roods
Modern surveyed area: 296.2 ha

The historic extent and the modern surveyed area are two separate measurements and are not presented here as confirming each other. The first is what a surveyor wrote on a diagram, usually in morgen. The second is what the modern cadastre draws.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 7 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Klein Valie No. 182
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0229

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.

1833-08 document SG diagram B348/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-6
../1833 ownership Christian Hatting Junior (Klein Valie, 1833) loan farm · survey · confidence high
../1878 to 1897 ownership Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1836-11-27–1922-01-02) owner · confidence medium
1878 residence Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (1878-01-18–1961-10-29) memoir
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.
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.
1897 ownership Jan Müller (bought Klein Vallei, 1897) purchase · confidence medium
1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1)
1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Nieuwe Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 3)
1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Gideon's Hoop (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 4)
1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5)
1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (sketch)
1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p1)
1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p2)

What the record holds, in order

1912 boundary change subdivision: from Klein Valie No. 182
July 1912 document SG diagram 2118/1912

Also bordered by, as the modern cadastre draws it

Ground that touches this farm on the Surveyor-General's current polygons and that none of the diagrams held here names. Derived from the geometry, not read off a document.

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, 2118/1912, July 1912

Surveyor-General diagram, 2118/1912, July 1912
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Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Surveyor-General diagram index for the whole farm, where the original survey of this ground sits.

Research notes

[5 Aug 2026 inbox] Portion 5 of Klein Valie No. 182, NAMED GROOTE LEEGTE. Diagram 2118/1912 (K.M. von OppellM, July 1912), Field-Cornetcy of Kredouw. Figure a.b.c.d.e.f measures 345 morgen 476 square roods; the diagram a.b.c'.d'.e.f represents 513 morgen. Bounded N by Koude Veld; S by Crown Land; SE by Wilgemond; NW by Koude Veld. Deducted No. 2862, 28 Oct 1912. Copied from the diagram relating to Transfer 11090 dated 8.10.1919. NOT THE SAME PARCEL AS PORTION 8, which is named GROOTLEEGTE - see that row. EXTENT CORRECTED 5 Aug 2026, same two-figure trap as Portion 1: 'Area Fig. a.b.c.d.e.f. 345 Morgen 476 Square Roods' is von Oppell's survey; the '513 Morgen' in the body is the primed figure a.b.c'.d'.e.f, the older line. The modern polygon measures 296.4 ha against 295.9 ha for 345 mg 476 sr - agreement to 0.2%.

[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 "Groote Leegte (Klein Valie Ptn 5)" 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

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5) is in the model and drawn on the map, and carries no ownership record of any kind, not a grant, not a transfer, not an occupation.

What would settle it The Surveyor-General's diagram for the farm number names the grantee and the date; the deed reference on it opens the transfer chain.

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.