GEORGE opgaafrol J 90, 1813 - the register's own title leaf, and a landerijen opening showing what its farm column holds

tax roll · an original record · consulted 2026-08-23

Type

tax roll

Repository

FamilySearch, film # 008145124; George district opgaafrollen, Cape Province, project S-AF 20 B roll 12

Reference

Film # 008145124, IMAGE 123 (the title leaf), images 163-164 and images 165-166 (two facing openings, the second at desktop resolution). Same film, roll and volume as SRC-523. *** THE TITLE LEAF IS BETTER THAN A TARGET CARD BECAUSE IT IS THE REGISTER ITSELF: *** it reads, in the clerk's own hand, 'Opgaaf Rolle van 't District GEORGE, voor 't Jaar 1813.' District and year, stated by the document.

Consulted

2026-08-23

The citation as it was given

Supplied by , with the single word '1813'. | *** WHY IT MATTERS: IT PROVES THE 1813 GEORGE ROLL CARRIES A FARM COLUMN, AND SHOWS WHAT ITS ENTRIES LOOK LIKE. *** IMAGE 163, the left leaf, is a household list ending in a page total of 370 | 292 | 335 | 331 | 18: 'Hend:k Jacobus Prinslo | Johan Fred:k [?Uesman] | Joachim Joh: Prinslo - Nesje Geertruid [?Mooijen] | Nicol:s Marth: Prinslo Nicol z. - Sara Marg:a Claassen | Philip Marth: Janse v Rensburg - Jacomina Maria Jordaan | SALOMON VERMAAK - MARIA OOSTHUIJZEN | Joh: Bodenstein'. | IMAGE 164, the facing leaf, is the landerijen column, and the farm entries are written out with quantities: '[?Botjes] fonteyn en 2 [?Boukas] fonteyn'; 'BUFFELS DRIFT' 1; 'LEEUWEBLAD en CAMMANIE en [?Kruleboom]' with 1/2 and 1; and a line reading '2 [?Heules] in [?Oude Muragie land]' - THAT LAST WORD IS NOT CONFIDENTLY READ and is marked, but if it is Oude Muragie it is the Cango farm where Faure's party signed four days before Modderfonteyn (SRC-549). Page totals 2 1/2 | 9 3/4 | 305 | 13 | 6:22 | 125. | *** AND THAT MAKES ONE UNREAD IMAGE THE MOST VALUABLE THING IN THIS FILM. *** SRC-523 already cites IMAGE 182 as 'the facing landerijen leaf' for the Oosthuizen household at image 181, and says a farm entry on it 'appears to read [?Winkhoop] en [?Margaret] with a quantity of 2 and a figure 55, but IT DOES NOT RESOLVE at the size supplied'. Image 164 here resolves perfectly. *** IMAGE 182 AT THIS RESOLUTION WOULD NAME THE FOSTER HOUSEHOLD'S FARM IN 1813, IN THE CLERK'S HAND. *** LEAD-0295. | MARIA OOSTHUIJZEN, married to Salomon Vermaak, is not identified and not matched - 9. | *** [THE SAME EVENING, AT DESKTOP RESOLUTION] IMAGES 165-166 GIVE THE COLUMN HEADINGS, AND THE LANDERIJEN LEAF IS A BETTER INSTRUMENT THAN EXPECTED. *** Image 165's heads read 'Mans Namen | Vrouwen Namen' and then the stock columns - Paarden, Beesten, Hamels, Slagtschapen, Ezels, Bokken. Image 166 continues them - Rogge, Wijnstokken, Leggers Wijn gemaakt, Leg:s Brandewyn, Wagens, Karren - and then the three that matter: *** 'IN EIGENDOM | IN ERFPACHT | IN LEENING', followed by 'der PLAATSEN of ERVEN welke hy bezit' and 'of HOOFDPLAATS de zelve geleegen zijn'. *** So the roll records, for every household, WHICH PLACES HE POSSESSES, ON WHAT TENURE - freehold, erfpacht or LOAN - and WHERE THEY LIE. | THE TWO ENTRIES THAT RESOLVE ON THIS OPENING SHOW THE FORM: 'PAARDE FONTEIN BY DE CANGOO BERG' and 'MOL[?]R KRAAL EN DE LANGE KLOOF', each with a 1 in the LEENING column, and the right-hand columns carrying figures and a use - 'Landbouw & [?]'. THE PLACE, ITS SITUATION AND ITS TENURE, IN ONE ROW. | 'By de Cangoo berg' is the Cango - the same country as d'Oude Muragie, where Faure's party signed four days before Modderfonteyn (SRC-549). | I HAVE NOT ALIGNED THE ROWS TO THE NAMES. The two leaves were supplied at different scroll positions and counting cells across them is the guess 5a forbids. | IMAGE 165 IS THE PAGE SRC-523 DESCRIBES as 'a DIFFERENT PART OF THE ROLL' carrying a separate JACOBUS OOSTHUYSEN 'among van Vuurens, van Staadens, Jordaans and Ferreiras' - and the reading is confirmed exactly: Joh:s Petrus Janse van Vuuren x Catharina v Staaden, Petrus Mart. van Vuuren, Joh:a Aletta Janse v Vuuren, Mart: van Staaden x Hesther Cat: Jordaan, Lonies Jordaan, JACOBUS OOSTHUYSEN, and Ignat:s Michiel [Ferreira] x Petron:a du Plessis. *** SO IMAGE 166 CARRIES THAT JACOBUS OOSTHUYSEN'S FARM TOO, and it is as unread as image 182. ***

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.