Oude Muure
121 op die kadaster · op rekord 1859–1863 · wys op die kaart
- Plaasnommer
- Nr. 121
- Op die kadaster
- 121, heel plaas
- Distrik
- Prince Albert
- Moderne opgemete oppervlakte
- 84.4 ha
Waarom hierdie plaas hier is
Grond waarop 'n geskrewe geskiedenis afspeel. 24 km van Klaarstroom.
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond Kopjes Kraal: a farm that lost a quarter of itself, and a road nobody uses
- grens Deel 'n grens met Kopjes Kraal Kopjes Kraal
- dokument 'n Dokument in die versameling beskryf hierdie grond DOC-0049
- …en nog 1, volledig gelys verder af op hierdie bladsy.
Stories
- mentions this farm
Rondabel Nr. 124: 'n plaasgeskiedenis
Van 'n weduwee wat met 'n merk geteken het tot die Marincowitz-plaas van vandag: die gedokumenteerde geskiedenis van Rondabel Nr. 124 - die Venter-huishouding van 1829, die toekenningsdag van 1841, die Oosthuizen-Theron-vennootskap van 1868, die onderverdelings van 1910-34, en die twee grafte by die opstal wat niemand nog gelees het nie.
- mentions this farm
Kopjes Kraal: 'n plaas wat 'n kwart van homself verloor het, en 'n pad wat niemand gebruik nie
Crown land surveyed in 1859 at 6,325 morgen and resurveyed four years later at 4,982 - about 1,343 morgen fewer, unexplained. Granted in 1871 to Gerolm Marincowitz of Trieste, whose surname reaches the Karoo from the Adriatic and not from the Netherlands. A stock route across it was ended by a line in a provincial gazette in 1926, and half of what was left became Kromrivier in 1934.
Wat die rekord hou, in volgorde
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November 1859
document
SG diagram 1923/1860
P.A.Q.1-15
- November 1863 document SG diagram 1059/1871
Begrens deur, soos die kaart hulle noem
- W Kopjes Kraal
- N Minies Kraal
- E Government Land
- S Klip Kraal
Ook begrens deur, soos die moderne kadaster dit teken
Grond wat aan hierdie plaas raak op die Landmeter-generaal se huidige poligone en wat geen kaart wat hier gehou word, noem nie. Afgelei uit die meetkunde, nie van 'n dokument afgelees nie.
Dokumente
Kadaster
Die Landmeter-generaal se kaartindeks vir hierdie perseel
Navorsingsnotas
Marincowitz farm (Tokkie; later Gerhard Jan Marincowitz on the Prince Albert valuation roll). Eastern neighbour of Kopjes Kraal. [29 Jul 2026] THE 84.7 ha PUZZLE RESOLVED: DOC-0050 carries a CANCELLED stamp - the Remainder of Oude Muure was re-titled under Certificate of Uniform Title 1956-2300 as part of the NEW FARM 112 (vide dgm 8731/1955, 2.3.1956). Only two residual pieces still carry number 121 in the modern cadastre: the 84.7 ha remainder record this row is matched to, and Ptn 2/121 (101.2 ha, the triangle on the Traka - see PAR-000046/Driehoek). The historic 3,245-morgen farm largely lives on inside farm 112; extent_text and sg_area_ha are therefore incomparable BY DESIGN here.
[10 Aug 2026] NOT THE VAN DER MERWE OUDE MUUR. This is farm 121 in the PRINCE ALBERT division. There is a second Oude Muur in the CALVINIA division, PLC-000053, which is where Schalk Willem Burger van der MerweM was born in 1833 and died in 1904 and where his son was resident in 1897. Same name, two districts, two families - Marincowitz here, van der Merwe there. Never conflate them, and note that only THIS one has a cadastral polygon, so a name match will always land here.
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.
Wat die rekord kortkom
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“Minies Kraal” is named as a neighbour 2 times and we hold no parcel for it
third order · B3 unheld-farm
2 separate surveys in this model put Minies Kraal on the boundary of ground we do hold (PAR-000026, PAR-000029). It has no parcel of its own here, so nothing is known about who held it or when, while it borders farms at the centre of the project.
What would settle it The Surveyor-General's farm index for the registration division will give it a farm number and a diagram; the cadastre pull in `data/fetch_cadastre.py` then places it on the map.
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Nobody is on record as ever having held this
third order · B8 never-held
Oude Muure is in the model and drawn on the map, and carries no ownership record of any kind, not a grant, not a transfer, not an occupation.
What would settle it The Surveyor-General's diagram for the farm number names the grantee and the date; the deed reference on it opens the transfer chain.
Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand,
each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data.
The whole set is on the
questions page.