Wilgemond Nr. 179
179 op die kadaster · op rekord 1833–1841 · wys op die kaart
- Plaasnommer
- Nr. 179
- Op die kadaster
- 179, heel plaasgeregistreer as WILGEMOND
- Distrik
- Prince Albert
- Grootte, soos die kaart dit stel
- 4503 morgen 125 roods
- Moderne opgemete oppervlakte
- 3285.6 ha
Die historiese grootte en die moderne opgemete oppervlakte is twee aparte metings en word hier nie aangebied asof hulle mekaar bevestig nie. Die eerste is wat 'n landmeter op 'n kaart geskryf het, gewoonlik in morg. Die tweede is wat die moderne kadaster teken.
Waarom hierdie plaas hier is
Martinus van Veuren (Wilgamount, 1833) 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. 4 km van Klaarstroom.
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond The fifteenth of April, 1841
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond The men who drew the lines
- storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis speel op hierdie grond af The van Vuurens of Wilgemond
- grens Deel 'n grens met Vrolikheid Vrolikheid
- …en nog 2, volledig gelys verder af op hierdie bladsy.
Stories
- mentions this farm
Die vyftiende April 1841
Een landmeter meet die Koup twee seisoene lank op. Agt jaar later, op een dag, maak die Kroon 'n dosyn leningsplase titelgrond - en die distrik se kaart lê vir 'n eeu vas.
- mentions this farm
Die manne wat die lyne getrek het
Elke plaas hier kom deur twee manne se hande: 'n veldkornet wat die grond en die mense geken het, en 'n landmeter wat per blad betaal is. Twee-en-veertig landmetersname oor 172 jaar, 'n eeu se wyksbeamptes, en 'n wyksgrens wat met die hand op 'n 1934-kaart verskuif word. Die eerste landmeter, C. Lennox Stretch, is later deur sy eie regering afgedank omdat hy die Xhosa se kant gekies het.
- about this farm
Die van Vuurens van Wilgemond
Wilgemond No. 179 was surveyed in 1833 for a "Martinus van Veuren" and granted in 1841 to a "J.M.J. van Vuuren" - two sets of initials on Vrolikheid's western boundary. Four documents later they are a family, and on 22 December 1838 one of them married an Oosthuizen.
Wat die rekord hou, in volgorde
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Augustus 1833
document
SG diagram 150/1833
Bf.W. 5-9
- Augustus 1833 document SG diagram verso 150/1833 (verso)
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voor 1833
ownership
Martinus van Veuren (Wilgamount, 1833)
loan farm · survey · confidence high
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15 April 1841
ownership
J.M.J. van Vuuren (Wilgemond, 1841)
Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
Begrens deur, soos die kaart hulle noem
- N The Ape (Government ground)
- S Zwarte Berg
- E Vrolikheid
- E Klaarwater
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.
- N Middelwater
- NE De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom Nr. 178)
- E Faans Kraal (Vrolikheid Nr. 177 Gdlt 4)
- SE Witberg Nr. 180
- W Klein Valie Nr. 182
- W Groote Leegte (Klein Valie Nr. 182 Gdlt 5)
- W Drie Punt Nr. 181
- NW Avondrust (Middelwater Nr. 169 Gdlt 6)
- NW Groenkraal (Klein Valie Nr. 182 Gdlt 7)
Dokumente
Kadaster
Die Landmeter-generaal se kaartindeks vir hierdie perseel
Navorsingsnotas
[31 Jul 2026 inbox] VROLIKHEID'S WESTERN NEIGHBOUR - the 1833 diagram is bounded 'East by Vrolikheid and Klaarwater'. Loan farm Wilgamount, surveyed Aug 1833 by C. Lennox Stretch for Martinus van VeurenH, granted 15 Apr 1841 to J.M.J. van VuurenH on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9 (DOC-0117). The 1833 extent converts to 3,857 ha against a modern 3,286.8 - the difference is roughly Portion 2's 840.6 morgen, cut off in 1952. Recorded, not reconciled.
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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Is Minnies Kraal No. 112 named for the MINNE family - who married into the Janse van Vuuren of Wilgemond?
prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0071
Does the farm name Minnies Kraal come from the Mienie/Minnie surname, and if so which member of that family held or occupied the ground?
Wat dit sou uitmaak A grant, quitrent or early diagram of farm 112 naming a MINNE as occupier or grantee - the spelling on the document is itself part of the answer. Failing that, a Minne recorded on or beside that ground before the name appears on a map.
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Wilgemond's diagram number: 150/1833, or 350 mis-transcribed in 1952?
prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0025
Every other farm in Stretch's August 1833 run carries a diagram number between 348 and 369, and their quitrent folios rise with them. Wilgemond is numbered 150/1833 yet holds folio 5-9, which falls exactly inside that run. Is the number wrong?
Wat dit sou uitmaak The original diagram, or the SG's index of 1833 Prince Albert diagrams.
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"[?Hoeagus]" is HAGGAS No. 145 - RESOLVED by the widow's own death notice
prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0072
What is the place written as the residence in field 8 of death notice No. 682 of 1863, and where is it?
Wat dit sou uitmaak A clearer image of field 8, or the estate inventory naming where his stock and ground lay.
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Who was 'The Ape', and who ended up with it?
prioriteit 3 · LEAD-0026
Both the Wilgemond and Klein Valie surveys of 1833 annex a piece of Government ground called THE APE, and Wilgemond is bounded on the north by it. What is it, where is it, and is the name Die Aap?
Wat dit sou uitmaak Any map or deed naming it.
Wat die rekord kortkom
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The record stops in 1841 and never resumes
second order · B2 trail-ends
Wilgemond Nr. 179 was worked as far as 1841-04-15, with J.M.J. van VuurenH (Wilgemond, 1841) the last owner on record. 185 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?
What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.
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“Klaar Water” 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 Klaar Water on the boundary of ground we do hold (PAR-000001, PAR-000087). 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.
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.