De Sagte Valleij (Land van Waveren)

District: Land van Waveren / Tulbagh

This parcel has no matched survey polygon, so it cannot be drawn on the map. That is a gap in the cadastre match, not an absence from the record.

Why this farm is here

Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1673-1740) held it. Not yet placed on the map.

Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1673-1740) is on record on this ground directly. No trace needed.

Who stood on this ground, and how they were related

Everyone the record places here - by deed, by residence, or by burial - and the kinship between each pair of them. Two numbers are given and they are deliberately kept apart. Steps is how far apart two people are in the family graph, counting a marriage as one step. The common ancestor is the nearest one they share by blood, with the year they were born. A pair four steps apart through a couple born in the 1750s is a relationship; a pair ten steps apart through a progenitor born in the 1630s is background, because almost everybody descends from him. Read both.

Each bar is one person's time on this ground. A faded bar has no recorded end and is closed at the next arrival, which is our inference and not a date anybody wrote down. Where two people who follow each other are related within six steps, the step count is printed between them.

1740 Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1673-1740) held ../1740
1740 Anne Prevost (1681-) held ../1740

Steps	Between	Nearest common ancestor by blood
1	Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1673-1740) · Anne Prevost (1681-)	none within twelve generations

Drawn from the parentage and marriages this project holds, never from a shared surname. A pair with no common ancestor here may still be related through a link nobody has recorded yet.

What the record holds, in order

before 1740 ownership Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1673-1740) (14 July 1673–21 March 1740), Anne Prevost (1681-) (18 February 1681–?)
loan farm · estate inventory · confidence high

Research notes

[30 Sep 2026, SRC-698] Named in MOOC8/6.51 (SRC-698) as "een opstal geleegen in 't Land van Waveren gen:t de Sagte Valleij", bequeathed to the son Gerrit for f1000. An OPSTAL, not a plaats - the buildings and improvements of a loan place rather than freehold, which is the same shape as Oude Muur, Lokenburg and Tygerhoek four generations later. NO CADASTRAL MATCH ATTEMPTED YET.

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