Spitzkop No. 10 (Oudtshoorn)

Farm number: No. 10
Also recorded as: Spitzkop; Annex-Spitzkop
On the cadastre: 10, whole farmregistered as ANNEX SPITZKOP
Modern surveyed area: 548.3 ha

Why this farm is here

In the model from the cadastre pull only, nothing in the record yet says who held this ground or why it belongs here. 16 km from Klaarstroom.

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
ANNEX SPITSKOP				name only

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

Named on SG diagram 2920 of January 1911 as bounding UITKYK No. 12 (PAR-000285) to the west and south-west, in the FIELD CORNETCY OF CANGO EAST, Division of Oudtshoorn. That is the Cango valley above Oudtshoorn, the country SG 2440 OB of 1877-79 covers (SRC-493).

NO POLYGON, AND THAT IS A DECISION RATHER THAN A GAP. The name is read off SG diagram 2920 (SRC-496), which is a document; the LOCATION is not established. The Oudtshoorn cadastre extract holds no farm names at all - its P_FARMNAME column carries a numeric code, 6457 for Uitkyk itself - so the polygon cannot be found by name.

Adjacency was tried and does not settle it. Four modern farms share a boundary with Uitkyk No. 12: no. 11 to the W, no. 24 to the SW, no. 261 to the S and no. 13 to the E. The 1911 diagram names its neighbours NE, SE, SW and W-and-SW, so THE DIAGRAM'S NORTH-EAST NEIGHBOUR HAS NO MODERN COUNTERPART and its south-east is my south or east. A hundred and fourteen years of subdivision and renaming sits between the two, and a bearing to a centroid is crude on an irregular shape.

5: an unresolved place gets no pin, because a wrong pin is worse than a missing one. Same treatment as Drooge Kloof. [TO VERIFY]

AND THIS IS NOT THE SPITSKOP THIS PROJECT ALREADY HOLDS, which is a portion of Karee Rivier No. 143 in WILLOWMORE (PAR-000102). Different division, different farm. The 1911 sheet spells this one SPITZKOP with a z.

[20 Aug 2026] NOT FOUND under this name on the 1879 plan. SG 2440 OB sheet 2 (SRC-493, DOC-0318), the 1879 Plan of the Division of Oudtshoorn, read 20 Aug 2026 after being filed unread on 19 Aug. SG 2811/1911 (SRC-501) lists ANNEX-SPITZKOP as No. 10, granted to the Municipality, which implies a Spitzkop for it to be annexed to - but neither plan names one in this field-cornetcy. NOTE THE TRAP ALREADY RECORDED ON PAR-000285: the Spitskop this project holds elsewhere is a portion of Karee Rivier No. 143 in WILLOWMORE and is a different place. LEAD-0241.

*** NUMBERED 20 AUG 2026: SPITZKOP IS OUDTSHOORN NO. 10. *** SG 2440 OB sheet 2 (SRC-493) letters it '10 SPITZKOP Lot 39' with a later hand adding 'Oudtshoorn Municipality 17 July 1899'. SG 2811/1911 (SRC-501) lists No. 10 as ANNEX-SPITZKOP, also to the Municipality - so the name gained its 'Annex' between 1879 and 1911 on the same number and the same holder.

EXTENT DOES NOT AGREE AND IS RECORDED AS DISAGREEING: the 1911 table gives 644 morgen 95 roods, about 552 ha, and the cadastre draws 658 ha. Klipberg and Schildergat on the same table match their polygons within one per cent, so the scheme is sound and this particular figure is not. [TO VERIFY]

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

Open questions

Which cadastral polygons are Annex Uitkyk, Blaauwpunt, Voorzorg and Spitzkop? priority 2 · LEAD-0241
SG diagram 2920 of 1911 names four farms bounding Uitkyk No. 12 in the Field Cornetcy of Cango East. All four are in the model as NO-POLYGON. Which modern farms are they?

What would settle it Any one of the four neighbours' own diagrams, or the 1879 regional sheet read at the Cango East.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Spitzkop No. 10 (Oudtshoorn) 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.