Paardefontein No. 79 (Uniondale)

Farm number: No. 79
Also recorded as: Perdefontein
Modern surveyed area: 4849.7 ha

Why this farm is here

Here because an open question in this record is about it; who held it is not yet established. 80 km from Klaarstroom.

lead An open question in this record is about this ground Antoniesberg farms of 1850 not yet on the map: Dwaas, Wanhoop, Naugasfontein, Klein Grobbe

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.

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

ANTONIESBERG, 1850: the p. 152 map's PERDEFONTEIN (SRC-663, J.G. le Roux, 'Die distrik George in 1850', with the HSRC map on typescript p. 152, which draws Moerasfontein on the Olifantsrivier among Rooi Klip, Misgund, Wanhoop, Dwaas, Perdefontein, Oupos and Naugasfontein). Added THE IDENTIFICATION RESTS ON NAME AND DISTANCE ONLY - 9.8 km from Moerasfontein No. 27 (PAR-000305) - and the 1850 map is a sketch; no deed or diagram has yet tied this number to the 1850 name [TO VERIFY]. PREQUEL GROUND under 9a (the Oosthuizen road into the Koup), NEVER core. See LEAD-0361.

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

Open questions

Antoniesberg farms of 1850 not yet on the map: Dwaas, Wanhoop, Naugasfontein, Klein Grobbe priority 3 · LEAD-0361
Which modern farm numbers are the 1850 farms around Moerasfontein that J.G. le Roux names and the HSRC map on p. 152 draws, and that the cadastre does not hold under those names? DWAAS is in the CSG index as Dwaas No. 428 (Uniondale), with Dwaasberg No. 414 beside it, but neither is in the provincial cadastre pull. WANHOOP, NAUGASFONTEIN (Frederik Salomon Terblanche, b. 1807, in 1850) and KLEIN GROBBE (Hendrik Johannes Nel) return nothing from the CSG index under any spelling tried (Wan Hoop, Naugas, Noagas, Nougasfontein, Naauwgas, Grobbe, Grobbelaars).

What would settle it A diagram or quitrent title that gives the 1850 name against a farm number.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Paardefontein No. 79 (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.