Kweekvallei
· op rekord 1812 · wys op die kaart
- Distrik
- Prince Albert
Hierdie perseel het geen gepaste opmetingspoligoon nie, en kan dus nie op die kaart geteken word nie. Dit is 'n gaping in die kadasterpassing, nie 'n afwesigheid uit die rekord nie.
Waarom hierdie plaas hier is
Samuel de Beer (b.1762) het hier gewoon. Verbind aan die Oosthuizen, Marincowitz of Van der Merwe-lyne DEUR HUWELIK, nie deur bloed nie, 3 treë op die kortste pad. Nog nie op die kaart geplaas nie.
- Samuel de Beer (b.1762)
- ouer van Matthys Andries de Beer (b.1799)
- ouer van Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de Beer
- getroud met Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen
Elke tree is 'n aangetekende afkoms of huwelik in hierdie model, en die kortste een wat die rekord ondersteun; volg die name om dit na te gaan.
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis speel op hierdie grond af Frikkie Oosthuizen builds a church at Zeekoegat, 65 km from town, 1906
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond Oom Frikkie's eighty-one thousand morgen, 1856-1937
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond 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
- set here
Frikkie Oosthuizen bou 'n kerkie op Zeekoegat, 65 km van die dorp, 1906
Drie geslagte Oosthuizens in die Zwartberg-gemeente, en die welgestelde boer wat op sy eie grond, 65 km ver op die grondpad, vir honderd mense 'n kerkie gebou het.
- mentions this farm
Oom Frikkie se een-en-tagtig duisend morg, 1856–1937
Frederik Simon 'Oom Frikkie' Oosthuizen sterf in 1936 met, volgens een weergawe, 81 000 morg om Zwartkraal, omtrent 'n kwart van al die grond op hierdie kaart. Hierdie projek besit nie een akte op sy naam nie. Waarin die geld waarskynlik gesit het, waarin dit beslis nie gesit het nie, en watter een dokument die saak sou uitmaak.
- mentions this farm
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
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1812–1814
lived here
Samuel de Beer (b.1762) (voor 1762-11-02–?)
report
Navorsingsnotas
The loan farm on which the Zwartberg NG congregation was founded in 1842, and on which the town of Prince Albert was laid out. Ockert Almero OosthuizenL bought five erven of it for the church.
[3 Aug 2026] AND IT IS WHERE THE PROJECT ACTUALLY BEGINS, chronologically. Zacharias and Dina de Beer took this loan farm in 1762 - eighty years before the congregation was founded on it and the village laid out, and seventy-nine before the 1841 grants that set the rest of the district. Every other family in this history arrives after them. The de Beers then married outward: into the Venters (Wintervelt, 1833), the Oosthuizens (1851), the Mienies (Richmond, 1849), and they held the field cornetcy of the Koup in 1833-34.
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
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A story: the de Beers of Kweekvallei, the family the town of Prince Albert was built on
prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0073
Can the de Beer line be traced continuously from the 1762 loan farm Queeckvalleij to the families this project follows - and is that the earliest thread in the whole history?
Wat dit sou uitmaak The 1762 loan-farm grant naming Zacharias and Dina, and a line of descent from him to Matthys Andries de BeerM (b. 1799), the field-cornet candidate.
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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.
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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.
Wat die rekord kortkom
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Nobody is on record as ever having held this
third order · B8 never-held
Kweekvallei is in the model, 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.