Grootleegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 8)

· on record 1932–1994 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 182
Portion: 8
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 377.5030 morgen
Modern surveyed area: 322.5 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. 10 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Klein Valie No. 182
parcel Cut out of Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0234
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0235
…and 1 more, listed in full further down this page.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2), the farm this ground was part of until 1932/1933. 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: from Klein Valie No. 182
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)
1932/1933 boundary subdivision: becomes Kouveld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 6)
1932/1933 boundary subdivision: becomes Groenkraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 7)
1932/1933 boundary subdivision: becomes Grootleegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 8)

What the record holds, in order

1932–1933 boundary change subdivision: from Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
November 1932 document SG diagram 820/1933
1990 document SG diagram verso 820/1933 (verso)
April 1994 document SG diagram 3381/94

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, 820/1933, November 1932

Surveyor-General diagram, 820/1933, November 1932
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catalogued, no scan held

Diagram verso, 820/1933 (verso), 1990
10980359.jpg

catalogued, no scan held

Surveyor-General diagram, 3381/94, April 1994
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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 8 of Klein Valie No. 182, NAMED GROOTLEEGTE - a portion OF PORTION 2, Koude Veld. Subdivisional diagram under Sect. 24(a) of Act 9 of 1927, surveyed November 1932 by W.J. Tribelhorn, approved by Surveyor-General A.J.B. Simons. Figure A.B.C.D. Bounded by Gideons Hoop, Windwaai, Groote Leegte and Crown Land. Annexed to Transfer Deed 5650 dated 7.9.1933 in favour of L.v.W. Schoeman. Original diagram 2117/1912. TWO SIMILAR NAMES ON ONE FARM: this is GROOTLEEGTE, 377.5 morgen, cut out of Koude Veld in 1932. Portion 5 is GROOTE LEEGTE, 513 morgen, cut off the parent farm in 1912. They are different parcels and they adjoin - Portion 8's own diagram names Groote Leegte as its neighbour. Do not merge them.

[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 "Grootleegte (Klein Valie Ptn 8)" 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
Grootleegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 8) 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.