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Source SRC-662

G.M. Theal (ed.), Records of the Cape Colony 1793-1831, 36 volumes (1897-1905): the whole series, held as OCR text and searched for this project's families and places

published records · a copy, index or transcription · consulted 2026-09-22

Type
published records
Repository
Records of the Cape Colony, copied for the Cape Government from the manuscript documents in the Public Record Office, London, ed. G.M. Theal. Internet Archive (several scans per volume: recordsofcapecolNNtheauoft, recordsofcapecol00thea_N, recordscapecoloNNoffigoog). Private copies (92 text files) and a hit list (RCC-search-hits.csv) at the private research folder/Records-of-the-Cape-Colony-reference
Reference
cite by volume (roman) and page, e.g. RCC viii 53
Consulted
2026-09-22

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The citation as it was given

[22 Sep 2026] Downloaded and searched for 22 names and places (450 distinct hits, many duplicated across scans). Public domain. Mostly English originals and contemporary English translations of Dutch papers. Volume II is also SRC-661. WHAT BEARS ON THIS PROJECT: (1) VOL. VIII pp. 49-54: Landdrost J.G. Cuyler of Uitenhage, 3 May 1811, 'a List of such Loan places as have been abandoned in consequence of the Depredations of the Kaffirs and other causes' in the district of Uitenhage, by loan-register folio: '505 | Ockert Oosthuyzen | Koorn Kraal | No information can be obtained about this place.' Which Ockert, and where Koorn Kraal was, is open: the one surviving Korenkraal (Willowmore No. 33) is 54 km from Moerasfontein and 66 from Uniondale, north of Willowmore [TO VERIFY; LEAD]. (2) VOL. V p. 114: on 15 July 1804 General Janssens named the district between the provisional line, the northern boundary and the Gamka river 'Tulbagh' - so a paper placing a farm 'in de Coup onder 't district van Tulbagh' (MOOC8/45.72, SRC-655, Dolfs Kraal) dates between 1804 and the founding of Beaufort in 1818. (3) VOL. XII pp. 61-62: the Beaufort subdrostdy of 1818, its western line running 'to the spot where the Dwika River cuts through the Ghoup's Tafelberg, and from thence the course of the said Dwika River'. (4) VOL. IX p. 85: a proposed high road to Graaff-Reinet 'either to the Koup to the field commandant Abraham de Klerk, and from thence to the Sneeuwberg, or along the Swarteberg through the Bear Valley' (1812-14); VOL. X pp. 61-62: a commission's route of 1814 across the Bloed River, the Dwyka, Paarde Bosch 'the uitspan place at the Dwyka', to Christian de Klerk's Groote Fontein and Abraham de Klerk's Twee Fonteinen on the Gamka - the Koup as travelled. (5) VOL. VI p. 349 (1809, Collins): 'a farmer named Klerk, an inhabitant of the Koup, whose family employ a great number of Bosjesmen'. VOL. V p. 78: a memorial 'signed by the best men of the Sneeuwberg, Gouph, and Nieuwveld'. (6) VOL. VII p. 49: in the 1799 rising the Lange Kloof veld cornet 'John Terblans' abandoned his post - the Terblans family of the later Modder Fontyn. NOT OURS, noted to avoid a false match: Gerrit Oosthuizen of the Zwartkops in the Graaff-Reinet rebellion of 1799 (vols III-IV); Marthinus Oosthuysen Senior and Barbara Janse van Rensburg, Uitenhage, in the 'Black Circuit' cases of 1812 (vols VII, IX); Johannes Oosthuizen of the Zuurveld, 1819 (vol. XII p. 132); O. Oosthuysen and T. de Bruyn at the Tarka / Baviaans River frontier c.1820 (vol. XXXI p. 4); Jacobus Johannes Oosthuyzen 'Wessel's son' (1826). WORDS: 'Caffres/Kaffirs' in these papers means the amaXhosa, 'Hottentots' the Khoikhoi, 'Bosjesmen' the San; quotations keep the original words, this site's own prose uses the names the peoples use.

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