Rietfontein A No. 139 (Ladismith)

139 on the cadastre · show on the map

Farm number: No. 139
Also recorded as: Riet Fontein; Rietfontein; Riet Valey?
On the cadastre: 139, whole farmregistered as RIETFONTEIN
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2112,9503 morgen as consolidated in 1958
Modern surveyed area: 1814.6 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. 144 km from Klaarstroom.

lead An open question in this record is about this ground Ockertskraal, Ladismith - find its farm number
lead An open question in this record is about this ground Christa's father's line comes out of the Ladismith country

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.

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.

W Wolvefontein No. 137 (Ladismith)

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

Consolidated diagram 5751/58 (DOC-0327, SRC-503), from the Remainder of the farm RIETFONTEIN (diagram 631/1839) and Lot E of GANS KOP (diagram 3326/1902). The Touw River is its boundary.

*** ITS FACE NAMES 'REM OF OCKERTS KRAAL' TO THE SOUTH-EAST AND 'REM OF WOLVER FONTEIN' AND 'LOT B OF WOLVER FONTEIN' TO THE WEST. *** So OCKERTSKRAAL, WOLVEFONTEIN and RIETFONTEIN adjoin, and OCKERTSKRAAL HAS NO NUMBER HERE YET; the nearest Ladismith farms to this one are no. 136 at 2.3 km south, no. 137 (Wolvefontein) at 3.0 km west, and nos. 146, 306 and 307 within 5 km. 136 is the leading candidate on position alone and that is a CANDIDATE, not a reading. [TO VERIFY]

Riet Fontein is also the loan place named on Wolvefontein's eastern boundary in 1838, which is this farm a century before the consolidation. *** WHAT IS ESTABLISHED AND WHAT IS NOT, BECAUSE THE TWO ARE EASY TO RUN TOGETHER HERE. *** ESTABLISHED: this farm exists, carries this number in the LADISMITH registration division, and its name appears in the farm column of the 1805 Swellendam opgaafrol on the same openings that carry the Oosthuizen entries (SRC-497). NOT ESTABLISHED: that any Oosthuizen held it. The roll's names leaf and farms leaf are separate photographs at different zooms and no row line has been traced across the opening - LEAD-0246, and SRC-485 set the rule: nothing may be concluded until somebody puts a ruler across it.

NOT CORE AND NOT IN THE KOUP. No plc_id, so scope.in_koup fails closed and the map's opening bounds stay on Klaarstroom, 150 km east. 9a: a prequel ground is drawn so the road can be seen, never grown into a second district.

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

Open questions

Ockertskraal, Ladismith - find its farm number priority 1 · LEAD-0248
The 1805 Swellendam opgaafrol's farm column names OCKERTS KRAAL (SRC-497, image 40) and the 1958 consolidated diagram of Rietfontein A No. 139 draws 'Rem of Ockerts Kraal' against its south-eastern boundary (SRC-503). What is its farm number in the Ladismith registration division?

What would settle it One diagram whose title block reads Ockertskraal with a number on it.
Christa's father's line comes out of the Ladismith country priority 2 · LEAD-0249
[FAMILY] Christa.s dad is from this area, so it is going to be interesting.' The Ladismith / Touwsberg ground now carrying Wolvefontein No. 137 and Rietfontein A No. 139 is therefore a SECOND family's ground as well as a possible Oosthuizen one. What is that line, and where does it touch this ground?

What would settle it A named ancestor of Christa's father holding or born on ground inside the Ladismith cluster, sourced.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Rietfontein A No. 139 (Ladismith) 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.