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Source SRC-366

The 1820 manuscript diagram of the leeningsplaats LOKENBURG, which lists the buildings on the werf

SG diagram (manuscript original) · consulted 2026-08-10

Type
SG diagram (manuscript original)
Repository
Surveyor-General / national CSG. Stamped REGISTRATION, BARCRO NEGATIVE FILED. Supplied by
Reference
The handwritten original behind the typed copy No. 339/1820.
Consulted
2026-08-10

The citation as it was given

THE ORIGINAL HAND, AND IT LISTS THE WERF. Where the typed copy gives only extents, the manuscript enumerates the buildings standing on the farm in 1820: "waarop staande gebouwen als: No 1. het WOONHUIS. No 2. de STAL. No 3. het KOORN HUIS. No 4. een gebouw in verscheidene vertrekken verdeeld. en No 5. het WAGEN HUIS." A dwelling house, a stable, a corn house, a building divided into several rooms, and a wagon house. That is the homestead Schalk Willem van der Merwe would die on forty-six years later, described while it stood. Signed "Gemeeten voor Mevrouw Jacs. A. Louw den 17 February 1820, door my J. Schutte, gezw. Landmeter" - the same widow, named here as Mevrouw rather than Wede. The face also writes the neighbouring loan farm out in full: 'Leeningsplaats van Pieter van Zijl en de Wed. Jacs. A. Louw gend. Mensieskraal' - so she held an interest in TWO loan farms, one of them jointly with a van Zyl. And 'Leeningsplaats van J. Mosterd genaamd de Quispberg' to the west. The figure is drawn with the 3000-morgen leeningsplaats as a circle inside the 4971-morgen erfpacht land, which is how a loan farm was defined: a half-hour's walk in every direction from the werf. [TO VERIFY] some words on this scan are faint and the reading of the building list is confident; the neighbour annotations are less so.

Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.

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