Opgaaf Rolle der Colonie Zwellendam van den Jaare 1808 - the title page, and the full LANDERIJEN opening for entries 397-435
opgaafrol · an original record · consulted 2026-08-20
- Type
- opgaafrol
- Repository
- FamilySearch, from the Cape Archives J-series (Swellendam opgaafrollen). Film # 008145384.
- Reference
- Film # 008145384. TITLE PAGE at image 319, in a display hand: 'Opgaaf Rolle der Colonie Zwellendam van den Jaare 1808'. The opening transcribed here carries entries 397-435, Pr: Transport 211 and Transporteere 235, with the right-hand leaf giving the Landerijen columns. Supplied by Frans as screenshots
- Consulted
- 2026-08-20
The citation as it was given
*** THE VOLUME NAMES ITSELF NOW, AND NOT ONLY THROUGH A FILMING CLERK'S CARD. *** SRC-486 identified this film from the twentieth-century target card at image 318. Image 319 is the roll's own title page and it says the same thing in the clerk's hand: 'Opgaaf Rolle der Colonie Zwellendam van den Jaare 1808'. Two independent statements of identity, one of them contemporary. | *** AND SRC-481'S PREDICTION IS CONFIRMED: THE ROLL CARRIES THE LANDERIJEN COLUMNS. *** On 17 Aug 2026 that row said the Swellendam rolls would be worth reading first IF they carried the landeryen block the 1816 George roll carries - 'the farms a man holds, their distance from the drostdy and the landdrostdij they sort under'. THEY DO. The right-hand leaf runs: In Eijgendom | In Erfpagt | In Leening | NAMEN DER PLAATSEN OF ERVEN WELKE HIJ BEZIT | 'Waar en op welken afstand van de drostdij of Hoofdplaats ...' | 'Tot welke Landbouwkundige Einden zij zelve geschikt zijn'. | *** THE DISTANCE COLUMN IS A LOCATOR AND IT IS THE THING THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN SHORT OF. *** It is given in HOURS FROM THE DROSTDY, and on this opening every entry reads 12, 14, 15, 16 or 17 uuren. The land-use column reads Vee-teelt or Landbouw. A farm name plus an hour-distance from Swellendam is a far better fix than a name alone. | THE FARMS COLUMN, transcribed as read with uncertainties marked, top to bottom: | 1 't Land vallij agter de [?Platte Cloof] - 14 uuren - Vee-teelt | 1 de [?tweeboven] fonteyn aan [?Zoutberg] - 14 do - do | 1 de [?leur] fonteyn gel: als boven - 15 do - do | de zeven fonteynen gel: agter / 1 de WAGENBOOMS BERG - 12 uuren - Vee-teelt | 1 de [?HOEKO] gel: aan de ZWARTBERG - 15 do - Landbouw | 1 de [?meul-kraal] als boven - 14 do - do | 1 de [?uytfonteyn] en 't [?Plathuis] - 14 do - do en | 2 gel: aan de TRAKA - 14 - Vee-teelt | de [?zwarte rivier] en de BUFFELS / 2 DRIFT gel: aan de ZWARTBERG - 16 do - Landbouw | 1 't [?Zwart fonteyn] gel: als boven - 15 do - do | 1 [?verheul] gel: aan ZWARTBERG - 15 do - Vee-teelt | 1 VOORBAAT gel: aan de GROOTE RIVIER - 14 do - Landbouw | 1 WOLFE FONTEYN gel: aan de SWARTBERG - 17 do - Vee-teelt | de BUFFELS-KRAAL aan de SWARTBERG - 14 do - Vee-teelt en | 2 en de OCKERTS KRAAL aan de GROOTE RIVIER - 15 do - Landbouw. | *** THIS IS THE FULL VERSION OF THE CROP AT SRC-483, WHICH ONLY EVER SHOWED THE LAST FIVE LINES. *** Same page, same hand, same column. | TWO OF THESE FARMS ARE ALREADY IN THE MODEL AND WERE ADDED THIS VERY SESSION: VOORBAAT is Voorbaat No. 42 (Ladismith) and WOLFE FONTEYN is Wolvefontein No. 137 (Ladismith), the burial ground whose Craffords Buffelsfontein No. 36 and Buffel Rivier Poort No. 30 are also held. So this column is the LADISMITH AND TOUWSBERG COUNTRY, which in 1808 was Swellendam district. | *** WHOSE FARMS THEY ARE IS NOT ESTABLISHED HERE. *** The left leaf runs 397 to 435 and the right leaf's rows are not ruled one-to-one against it at the size supplied. Aligning a farm to an entry needs a ruler across the opening, exactly as SRC-485 says of images 356-357. NOTHING IN THIS ROW ASSIGNS A FARM TO A PERSON.
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.