Schoongezigt No. 52 (Uniondale)

Farm number: No. 52
Also recorded as: Schoongezicht; Schoongezigt
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2612 morgen (1832)
Modern surveyed area: 2657.8 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. 29 km from Klaarstroom.

document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0339
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 3/1832

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.

S Roodeheuvel No. 55 (Uniondale)

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, 3/1832, 1832

Surveyor-General diagram, 3/1832, 1832
11763183.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-526] 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. Leaseholders in 1832 FREDRIK JACOBUS BOTHA and JOHANNES PETRUS BOTHA. THE OLIFANTS RIVER IS DRAWN ACROSS THIS FARM and labelled on the diagram - the only one of the four where the river itself is on the sheet.

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

Open questions

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

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Schoongezigt No. 52 (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.