S.G. 2546/1876 sheet 2 - cadastral plan with grantees, Administrative District of George
SG plan · an original record · consulted 2026-08-20
- Type
- SG plan
- Repository
- Chief Surveyor-General, Cape Town (SGCTN), via the esio document index
- Reference
- S.G. No. 2546/1876, '1487 bb', 'This plan comprises 2 sheets', Registration 5267. CSG furl /images15/285/11717087.PDF (sheet 2) and /images15/285/11717119.PDF. 'Admin. Dist. GEORGE'; numbered under the Deeds Registries Act No. 47 of 1937.
- Consulted
- 2026-08-20
The citation as it was given
FETCHED 20 Aug 2026 while looking for a George-division equivalent of SRC-493, because the F.C. BOVEN OLIPHANTS RIVIER was a George unit (SRC-508). It is a cadastral sheet in the good old style: every farm carries its NUMBER, its NAME, ITS GRANTEE AND THE DATE OF GRANT. | *** WHAT IT CORRECTS. SRC-463 read two George farms off the provincial cadastre as MODDERAAS KLOOF Nos. 132 and 133. This sheet writes them, in a clear hand, as MODDENAARS KLOOF A (No. 133) and MODDENAARS KLOOF B (No. 132), both granted to JOHANNES MATTHEUS HEYNS on 1 August 1879. *** Moddenaars is Moordenaars - murderers' kloof, an ordinary Cape name - and it is not a MODDER name at all. One apparent Modder candidate in George is therefore removed rather than added, and the removal comes off an original rather than off a machine-readable name field. | Other farms legible on the sheet, for whoever works this country next: Doorn Rivier, Gemsbok Kloof, Kareemilks Hoogte, Wagenbooms Kraal, Fonteins Kloof, Palmiet Drift, Soldaats Kraal, Cabotor Kloof, Afgunst Rivier, Cradock Pass, Wilge Rivier, Klein Fontein. Grantee names include van der Westhuyzen, Heyns, Raubenheimer, Murray, Truter and Meeyn. | NOTE WHAT IT IS NOT: it is not a division plan and carries no field-cornetcies.
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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