De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm)

· op rekord 1777–1822 · wys op die kaart

Distrik: Prince Albert

Dit is dieselfde grond as De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom Nr. 178), hier aangeteken onder 'n vroeëre naam. Dit word nie afsonderlik op die kaart geteken nie, want daar is net een stuk grond, en daardie bladsy dra dit.

Waarom hierdie plaas hier is

Hermanus Carel du Preez (1760-1839) het dit gehou, en geen verwantskap met die Oosthuizen, Marincowitz of Van der Merwe-lyne is aangeteken nie. Hierdie grond het deur die grond ingekom, nie deur die familie nie. Nog nie op die kaart geplaas nie.

storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond Middelwater's story since 1777
storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond Vrolykheid's story
storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis speel op hierdie grond af From Modder Fonteyn to the Koup, 1809-1841
storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis speel op hierdie grond af The Koup before the grants, 1762-1841
…en nog 2, volledig gelys verder af op hierdie bladsy.

Stories

mentions this farm Middelwater se storie sedert 1777
Van 'n leningsplaas in die Swartberg tot agt kadastrale persele: die gedokumenteerde geskiedenis van Middelwater Nr. 169 - Stretch se opmeting van 1833 vir Okert Oosthuizen, die toekenningsdag van 1841, die heropmeting van 1883 en die kwitrent van 1884 aan J.D.J. Oosthuysen 'and another', die gedeeltes wat afgesny is vir 'n fontein genaamd Vaste Water en 'n plek genaamd Avondrust, en die kraglynopmeting van 1990 waarvan die koördinate die plaas uiteindelik op 'n kaart gesit het.
mentions this farm Vrolykheid se storie
Die plaas waar die papier en die mense verskil. Stretch se opmeting van 1833 dra al klaar die name van gedeeltes wat eers 'n eeu later gesny word; twee titels gaan op een dag in 1841 uit, een aan 'n Oosthuisen en een aan 'n 'N. Hitge' wie se akte deur vier latere gedeeltes aangehaal word; 'n Triëstenaar trou in 1844 met 'n Hitge en hou die plaas toe hy in 1890 sterf; en 'n sterfkennis sit die Hitges uiteindelik self op die grond.
set here Van Modder Fonteyn na die Koup, 1809–1841
A clerk from the Orphan Chamber rode out to de Modder Fonteyn on the Olifants River on 23 April 1809 and wrote down what was in the house, room by room, including a complete forge in a room called the winkel. The owner had died intestate and his wife before him. Eleven children are named with their ages, and the seven youngest were placed with their eldest brother, aged twenty-five, who had promised to raise and school them. He bought the farm for a thousand rixdollars; the other ten had to find ground elsewhere. Twenty-five years later Oosthuizen households held two of three adjoining farms along the north foot of the Swartberg; the middle one was a du Preez's.
set here Die Koup voor die grondbriewe, 1762–1841
The district in the Dutch East India Company's own minutes, from the Swartberg being taken as a jurisdictional wall in 1770 to more than a hundred places standing abandoned in 1791. The Koup is named, given an officer, bounded by rivers and emptied, all before the grants of 1841 that this record otherwise begins with.

Wat die rekord hou, in volgorde

1777–1860 boundary change subdivision: becomes Middelwater
1777–1860 boundary change same_as: becomes De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom Nr. 178)
1777 event De Claar Stroom loan farm granted
parent farm of Middelwater and Klaarstroom This is PAR-000097, Klaarstroom No. 178. The loan farm itself is PAR-000004.
1822 ownership Hermanus Carel du Preez (1760-1839) (4 Oktober 1760–14 Julie 1839)
loan farm · occupation · confidence high

Navorsingsnotas

1777 loan farm; parent of Middelwater + Klaarstroom

[31 Jul 2026, audit] RENAMED to distinguish it from PAR-000097. The two are NOT duplicates and the collision was a search that missed: PAR-000097 was added for cadastral farm 178 after a search of the model for 'Klaarstroom' and not for 'Claar', which never reached this row. They are the same GROUND at two scales - this is the 1777 loan farm as a whole, which the cameo has running from Middelwater to Vrolikheid, and PAR-000097 is the 7,259 ha modern farm 178 surviving out of it. The model already expresses that relationship for Middelwater (PLK-000001, subdivision), and PAR-000097 now has the same link. WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE ONE PARCEL is a real question and is recorded as a lead rather than decided here.

*** [4 Aug 2026, FRANS, FAMILY] DIE TWEE DE CLAAR STROOM-RYE IS EEN PLAAS. *** [FAMILY] De claar stroom 178 and the other overlapping farm is the same. So PAR-000004, recorded here as the 1777 LOAN FARM, and PAR-000097, KLAARSTROOM No. 178, are the same ground under two epochs of record - the loan farm before survey, and the registered farm after it. They are not two farms and must not be counted, mapped or linked as two. WHAT WAS CHECKED BEFORE ACTING: no polygon in this model actually overlaps 178 except at the shared edges of its neighbours, so 'overlapping' means the two RECORDS overlap, not two shapes. PAR-000004 carries no farm number, no polygon and no centroid; PAR-000097 carries farm 178, its polygon and 7 259,5 ha. THE ROW IS KEPT, NOT DELETED - ids are permanent - and PAR-000004 stays as the record of the loan-farm epoch, which is where the 1777 date and the descent of Middelwater hang. It must never be pinned: there is only one piece of ground here and PAR-000097 is the one that carries it. This closes the De Claar Stroom third of LEAD-0080.

Werknotas, hier gewys omdat dit 'n private navorsingsbou is.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders - die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak - is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

Who held De Claar Stroom between 1777 and 1833, and why did the Oosthuizens come to this ground? prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0216
The loan farm De Claar Stroom was granted in 1777 and ran from Middelwater to Vrolikheid. No holder is recorded for it before Petrus Oosthuizen in 1858. Who had it in between, and is there a tie between that household and the Oosthuizens of the Olifants River that would explain why they came to exactly this ground rather than anywhere else in the Karoo?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A named holder of De Claar Stroom in the 1810s, and any tie of marriage, witnessing or trade between that household and the Oosthuizens before 1818.
Three farms carry the same name twice or three times, and ten story links are held back because of it prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0080
Which Rietfontein, which De Claar Stroom, and is Sleutelfontein (Groot and Klein) a real parcel or a composite of two?

Wat dit sou uitmaak For each mention, which parcel the sentence means. For Sleutelfontein, whether PAR-000098 should exist at all given PAR-000071/072.
Was Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer, who married an Oosthuizen about 1807, of the Kweekvallei de Beers? prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0217
Jacobus Johannes Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1789, d. 16 Feb 1874), son of Marthinus of Tulbagh and a first cousin of the brothers who took up ground in the Koup, married Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer (b. about May 1788, d. 12 Dec 1873) around 1807. Was she of the de Beer family that had held Kweekvallei in the Koup since 1762? If she was, this marriage is a channel by which an Oosthuizen household could have learnt what ground was open behind the Swartberg.

Wat dit sou uitmaak A document naming Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer's father.
De Claar Stroom: one parcel or two? prioriteit 3 · LEAD-0039
PAR-000004 is the 1777 loan farm De Claar Stroom and PAR-000097 is cadastral farm 178, the ground Klaarstroom village stands on. Should they be one parcel row or two?

Wat dit sou uitmaak The extent on the 178 title, compared with the loan farm's described run. If they are the same ground, one row; if 178 is a part, two.