Buffels Klip No. 63 (Uniondale)
· on record 1832 · show on the map
- Farm number
- No. 63
- Also recorded as
- Buffelsklip; Buffels Klip
- Extent, as the diagram states it
- 2945 morgen (1832); resurveyed 1857 at 5010 morgen 511 sq roods
- Modern surveyed area
- 1520.0 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. 40 km from Klaarstroom.
- document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0341
- burial A burial ground stands on this farm Buffelsklip (Uniondale district)
- lead An open question in this record is about this ground The Veldkornetskap Oliphants Rivier farms - is this family tied to any of them beyond its own place?
What the record holds, in order
- 1832 document SG diagram 338/1832
Buried on this ground
- Buffelsklip (Uniondale district) 0 graves recorded
The burials also appear on this farm's timeline above, each at its own date.
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
Surveyor-General diagram, 338/1832, 183210810648.jpg
Cadastre
Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel
Research notes
The VELDKORNETSKAP OLIPHANTS RIVIER of the George district, named and listed on George opgaafrol J 91 (SRC-525). Added after that page identified the country the family's Olifants farms lay in. PREQUEL GROUND under 9a - the Oosthuizen road into the Koup - and NEVER `core`, so it must not move the map's opening bounds. Read by Frans in the same section.
*** [20 Aug 2026, SRC-528] THE 1832 QUITRENT DIAGRAM. *** Surveyed by A. EGIDIUS PETERSEN and described on the sheet as being in the FIELD CORNETCY OF BOVEN OLIFANTS RIVIER, DISTRICT OF GEORGE - the cornetcy this project spent 19-20 Aug hunting a district plan for. Held in shares by DAN:L A. SWART, J. G. WASSERMAN and the WIDOW OF C. J. M. ROUSSEAU. The 1857 resurveyor wrote on the sheet that Petersen's 1832 diagram was 'totally erroneous'.
The research behind this page, kept separate from it: dated working notes, open questions, and what is not yet settled.
Open questions
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The Veldkornetskap Oliphants Rivier farms - is this family tied to any of them beyond its own place?
priority 2 · LEAD-0270
Eleven Uniondale farms from the George rolls are now on the map - Nietgenaamd 9, Gorgida 14, Misgund 25, Moerasfontein 27, Keurfontein 45, Wilge River 46, Schoongezigt 52, Roodeheuvel 55, Diepe Kloof 56, Buffels Klip 63, Wilgehoute Rivier 69. *** NOT ONE OF THEM CARRIES A SINGLE OWNERSHIP ROW OR A NAMED HOLDER IN THIS MODEL. *** They are neighbours read off a roll, pinned to a cadastre. Is there any actual family tie to them, or only to Wanhoop and Modderfonteyn?
What would settle it A named holder on one of those eleven farms who is already a person here, or marries one.
What the record is missing
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Nobody is on record as ever having held this
third order · B8 never-held
Buffels Klip No. 63 (Uniondale) 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.