George opgaafrol of 1818 (volume J98) - the Olifants River ward, read for the land register
tax roll · an original record · consulted 2026-09-16
- Type
- tax roll
- Repository
- FamilySearch, Cape Province OPGAAFROLLEN (census-tax), filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Government Archives, Cape Town, project S-AF 20 B. FamilySearch catalogue: Opgaafrollen, 1692-1844, George Landdrosdistrik.
- Reference
- Film # 008145125, images 66 (target card) to 120; the Olifants ward Boven aan Olifants Rivier is images 101-105 with land leaves 102, 104, 106; named in the summary on image 113.
- Consulted
- 2026-09-16
The citation as it was given
[16 Sep 2026] Read by a reading pass into data/opgaaf_land.csv; the Modder Fontyn line checked against the page. Veldcornet Hendrik Grobler. 85 households. MODDER FONTEIN on image 101 line 11 / 102: SALOMON TERBLANS STEPH.Z [?Sr] x HESTER HELENA MARX, 2 sons 2 daughters, 40 wheat 30 barley reaped, 6500 vines, 1 place (checked against the page; the place word is partly legible at page scale and read 'Modder fontein' on the reading pass's close crop). The form has no tenure or distance columns. Also in the ward: PIETER MARTHINUS OOSTHUIZEN x Catharina Elis. Schoeman (line 10) and GERRIT ADRIAAN OOSTHUIZEN x Petronella Cath. Schoeman (line 83), neither with a place; Joachim Prinslo on Wanhoop; Christoffel Lombard x Hester TerBlans. Missing images 67-69 fall before the ward.
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.