NAAIRS searches of the Cape Town Archives Repository on the farm names MODDERFONTEIN and WANHOOP
archival index · a copy, index or transcription · consulted 2026-08-21
- Type
- archival index
- Repository
- National Archives of South Africa (NARSSA), NAAIRS, database KAB (Cape Town Archives Repository)
- Reference
- Queries run 21 Aug 2026: (MODDERFONTEIN) = 138 documents; (MODDERFONTEIN) and (Ending Date =< 1850) = 10 documents; (WANHOOP) = 3 documents.
- Consulted
- 2026-08-21
The citation as it was given
Run - 'search KAB for modderfontein and wanhoop' - after LEAD-0264 argued that the description field, not the surname, is where this project's question lives. It is a search of an INDEX: an absence here is an absence from the CATALOGUE, never from the archive. 10, no unqualified absolutes. | *** MODDERFONTEIN: 138 IN KAB, 10 BEFORE 1850, AND NOT ONE OF THE TEN IS IN THE GEORGE OR UNIONDALE COUNTRY. *** Every one is Boland or Eastern Cape: NCD 2/11 ref 57 (1796) Modderfontein 'situated at the KOEBERGEN'; NCD 1/39 ref 251 (1798) Modderfontein 'on the banks of the SMALL FISH RIVER', transferred out of an insolvent estate; CO 3896 ref 117 (1806) 'a piece of land called MODDERFONTEIN IN THE DISTRICT OF TULBAGH ON LOAN'; CO 3871 ref 86 (1809) Modderfontein, Drakenstynfontein, TYGERBERG; CO 3872 ref 150 (1809) Modderfontein, KLEINE RIETRIVER; CO 3872 ref 151 (1809) Modderfontein, STELLENBOSCH DISTRICT; CO 3873 ref 343 (1809) Houtbay; then LG 549/395 (1838), LG 554/855 (1842) and LG 569/291 (1847), memorials of Beukes, Engelbrecht and Beukes. No Oosthuizen in any of them. | *** WANHOOP: THREE DOCUMENTS IN THE WHOLE OF KAB, AND ALL THREE ARE UNIONDALE. *** PAE 1207 ref U164/397/ER, 1930-1935, and PAE 1126 ref U164/397 twice, 1930-1934 and 1935-1941 - inspection reports and personnel files of the UNIONDALE WANHOOP PRIMARY SCHOOL. | WHAT THE PAIR ESTABLISHES, and it is a district finding rather than a ground finding: Wanhoop is a real and rare Uniondale place-name that was still carrying a school 120 years after the roll that named it, which corroborates the reading of SRC-525 from a completely independent series. Modderfontein is a common name that the catalogue does not place anywhere near the Olifants before 1850. | AND AN OBSERVATION ON COVERAGE: no RLR row appeared in either result set. Suggestive that the loan-farm registers are not in the online index, not proof of it - two farm-name queries are a thin test. LEAD-0264.
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.
Nothing in the model cites this source yet.