Modderfontein No. 417 (Kafferkuils, Riversdale)

417 on the cadastre · show on the map

Farm number: No. 417
On the cadastre: 417, whole farmregistered as MODDERFONTEIN
District: Kafferkuils river (Riversdale division)
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2693 morgen 77 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 1613.3 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

Here because an open question in this record is about it; who held it is not yet established. 146 km from Klaarstroom.

lead An open question in this record is about this ground Do the levels need a second centre now that the prequel grounds carry their communities?

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.

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

THE MODDER FENTEIJN OF 1776, AND NOT THE FARM THE 1809 ESTATE WAS TAKEN AT. MOOC8/16.11a-b (SRC-467) has WILLEM MARTHINUS OOSTHUIZEN (PER-001855) dying in 1776 with his opstal on 'de leening plaats genaamt de MODDER FENTEIJN gelegen aan de CAFFER KUIJLSRIVIER', taxed at Rd 10 and inventoried by the SECRETARY OF SWELLENDAM. In 1799 the same ground is Casparus Andries Willemse's (MOOC8/23.9), and diagram 592/1831 (SRC-466) titles it 'situated in the District of SWELLEMDAM' under deed SW.Q.7-23.

ITS RIVER IS THE ZOETEMELKS, which runs to the sea. The 1809 estate says d'Olifants rivier, so this is a different farm of the same name - which is the whole lesson of that name (LEAD-0222).

Not the Koup and not core.

AREA: the matcher pins this to a 210 ha polygon against a grant of 2,693 morgen (2,307 ha), and that gap is the farm's own history rather than a bad match. Diagram 592/1831 was CANCELLED in 1947 and the ground is cut into some forty portions; what still carries the parent number is a remainder. The 1,391 ha polygon and a dozen smaller ones are the rest of it.

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

Open questions

Do the levels need a second centre now that the prequel grounds carry their communities? priority 2 · LEAD-0235
Frans admitted the Olifants communityand said 'we can keep our levels and that will help show relevance'. Under LEVELS.md as written those people land in LEVEL 4. Should R2 be pointed at a second centre, and what else comes in if it is?

What would settle it Frans choosing between a second centre, a second centre plus the maternal one, and a separate time axis - after the numbers for each are measured rather than guessed.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Modderfontein No. 417 (Kafferkuils, Riversdale) 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.