Scruif Paal No. 2

Farm number: No. 2
On the cadastre: 2, whole farmregistered as SCRUIF PAAL
District: Prince Albert
Modern surveyed area: 4318.2 ha

Why this farm is here

Named on the boundary of ground we hold, the neighbours are how the district describes itself. 96 km from Klaarstroom.

border Shares a boundary with Wilger Fontein No. 59 Wilger Fontein No. 59

What the record holds, in order

No dated record on this parcel yet. It is on the map because the Surveyor-General has a polygon for it; the history is not transcribed.

On the 1915 divisional map

As the Surveyor-General printed this farm in 1915: the registered holder, the date the title was issued and its quitrent reference, copied off the sheet as written. The whole map, farm by farm

Farm, as printed	Holder	Title	Quitrent	Note
SCRUIF PAAL	N. L. Erasmus	24 March 1881	P.A.Q. 3.2 · fol. 2070	beacons "Schiet Kop" and "Gras Kop" nearby

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.

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

[13 Aug 2026] DISTRICT CONTEXT, AND NOTHING MORE. Added when Frans extended the western bound another 10 km- "many graves there", and he is right: ten burial grounds already recorded here sit in this strip, several of them named for the farms themselves. The name is the Surveyor-General's own P_FARMNAME (SCRUIF PAAL) and the polygon is his; the cadastre gives the whole farm as 4321.6 ha. Nothing here records who held this ground or when.

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
Scruif Paal No. 2 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.