Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1

1/15 on the cadastre · on record 1955–2022 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 15
Portion: 1
On the cadastre: 1/15, portionregistered as TRAKAS KUILEN
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 4409.1618 morgen
Modern surveyed area: 3774.4 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. 46 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Trakas Kuilen No. 15
border Shares a boundary with Antjiesfontein (Leeukraal No. 24 Ptn 1) Antjiesfontein (Leeukraal No. 24 Ptn 1)
border Shares a boundary with Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Trakas Kuilen No. 15
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0255
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

January 1955 boundary change subdivided_into: from Trakas Kuilen No. 15
January 1955 document SG diagram 1283/1955
T15572/1955
2022 document SG diagram verso 1283/1955 (verso)
2022 document lease schedule 1283/1955 (leases, page 2)

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

· Remainder of Amos Poortje
· Amos Poortje A
· Klein Antjes Fontein
· Portion 6 of Antjes Fontein
· Portion 1 of the consolidated farm Leeukraal
· Dwaalfontein Portion 1 West Remainder
· Remainder of Trakas Kuilen No. 15

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

catalogued, no scan held

Surveyor-General diagram, 1283/1955, January 1955
SCAN174 15 1.jpg

catalogued, no scan held

Diagram verso, 1283/1955 (verso), 2022
SCAN175 15 1.jpg

catalogued, no scan held

lease_schedule, 1283/1955 (leases, page 2), 2022
11685551 15 1.jpg

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

Figure ABCDEFGHJ on SG diagram 1283/1955, surveyed January 1955, a sub-divisional diagram under sect. 24(b) of Act No. 9 of 1927. Annexed to Deed of Transfer 15572/1955. Beacons: rail-section and iron-standard corner fence posts, half iron standards in stone cairns, and at L a 4 ft concrete beacon named DWAALBERG. Two aqueduct servitudes 20 Cape feet wide run over the Remainder. LATER ENDORSEMENTS ARE ON THE VERSO and are not this sheet's date: a 1988 deduction, an Eskom powerline servitude of 1989/90, and two leases registered in 2022.

[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 "Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Portion 1" 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.

Open questions

Which Rondabel - Tarka (east) or Traka (Koup)? priority 1 · LEAD-0014
Do the 1818 du Plessis and 1823 de Bruin inventories ('leeningsplaats Rondabel aan de Tarca / in Tarka') describe the Prince Albert Rondabel No. 124 (PAR-000009), or a namesake loan farm in the eastern-Cape Tarka?

What would settle it Placing Greyling's or van Wyk's veldkornetskap, or a loan-farm register entry locating the leeningsplaats Rondabel.

What the record is missing

“Klein Antjes Fontein” is named as a neighbour 3 times and we hold no parcel for it second order · B3 unheld-farm
3 separate surveys in this model put Klein Antjes Fontein on the boundary of ground we do hold (PAR-000178, PAR-000179, PAR-000181). It has no parcel of its own here, so nothing is known about who held it or when, while it borders farms at the centre of the project.

What would settle it The Surveyor-General's farm index for the registration division will give it a farm number and a diagram; the cadastre pull in `data/fetch_cadastre.py` then places it on the map.
Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1 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.