Sleutelfontein (Groot and Klein)

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

Grond waarop 'n geskrewe geskiedenis afspeel. Nog nie op die kaart geplaas nie.

storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond Eighty-one thousand morgen
storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond The church at Zeekoegat
storie 'n Geskrewe geskiedenis noem hierdie grond De Claar Stroom: the farm the town stands on

Stories

mentions this farm Een-en-tagtig duisend morg
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 Die kerkie op Zeekoegat
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 De Claar Stroom: die plaas waarop die dorp staan
Die leningsplaas De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom Nr. 178), in 1777 toegeken, is die grond waarop die dorpie Klaarstroom staan - moenie dit verwar met Klaarstroom Nr. 184 nie, Christian Hatting se toekenning 19 km wes. Meiringspoort gaan in 1858 oop; sewe-en-twintig erwe word op Petrus Oosthuizen se grond uitgelê en die dorpie word Petersburg na hom genoem. Die erwe is SONDER oewerregte verkoop. Wie Petrus was, is steeds onbekend, en die een toetsbare ding oor hom is 'n broer met die naam Ockert.

Wat die rekord hou, in volgorde

Nog geen gedateerde inskrywing op hierdie perseel nie. Dit staan op die kaart omdat die Landmeter-generaal 'n poligoon daarvoor het; die geskiedenis is nie oorgeskryf nie.

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-068] Two farms, Groot and Klein Sleutelfontein, in the Traka ward west of Prince Albert. Named as part of Frederik Simon "Oom Frikkie" Oosthuizen's holding, which Judy Maguire puts at 81,000 morgen around Zwartskraal and "most of the farms from the N1 to the Traka and westwards". Groot and Klein Sleutelfontein and Zeekoegat. Sleutelfontein is also where PAT AND HELENA MARINCOWITZ farmed in the twentieth century (PER-000179, PER-000945). NO CADASTRAL MATCH ATTEMPTED and no geometry: the source gives a name and a district, not a farm number, and a wrong pin is worse than none. See 5.

*** [3 Aug 2026] THIS ROW IS A DUPLICATE, AND THE FARMS WERE HERE ALL ALONG. *** It was created from the Zeekoegat cameo's mention of 'Groot and Klein Sleutelfontein' with the note that no cadastral match had been attempted because the source gave a name and a district, not a farm number. The 1971 Rhemhoogte diagram (SRC-212) supplies the numbers - GROOT SLUITEL FONTEIN NR. 126 and KLEIN SLEUTELFONTEIN NR. 127 - and this model has held both of them PINNED AND DRAWN ON THE MAP since long before: PAR-000071 (126, 4 199,1 ha) and PAR-000073 (127, 14 398,3 ha), with their portions PAR-000072 Noorsdoringkop and PAR-000074 Kleinbotterkraal. So one holding was represented twice, once by name and once by number, and nothing joined them. THIS ROW IS KEPT, NOT DELETED - ids are permanent and it carries the Maguire citation and the Pat and Helena MarincowitzM fact. It is now a COLLECTIVE REFERENCE that resolves to PAR-000071 and PAR-000073, and should never be pinned: there is no single parcel called 'Sleutelfontein'. sg_farm_key set to NO-POLYGON so a name match cannot re-derive one.

[4 Aug 2026, FRANS, FAMILY] TWO DISTINCT FARMS, CONFIRMED, AND THE SPELLING IS THE ONLY THING THAT EVER VARIED: "Klein and Groot sleutel fonteint had various spellings over the years. sleutel, sluitel, etc but seems it was always 2 distinct farms - at least since surveyd." That closes the question this row's own note left open and matches the cadastre independently: two farm numbers (126 and 127), two drawn polygons, and the two touch. The spellings recorded here are Sleutelfontein, Sluitel Fontein, Sleutlefontein, Sleutle fontein and Sluitelfontein - kept as they were written, per 5a, and never normalised into one. AND AN ODDITY WORTH KNOWING BEFORE ANYONE REASONS FROM THE NAMES: KLEIN SLEUTELFONTEIN IS THE FAR BIGGER FARM - 16 916 morgen / 14 398,3 ha against Groot's ~4 870 morgen / 4 199,1 ha, a ratio of about 3,4 to 1. Both figures check against their own diagrams. The likeliest reading is that groot and klein name the SPRINGS rather than the farms, which is how these names usually work, but that is a reading and not established 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.

Oop vrae

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.

Wat die rekord kortkom

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Sleutelfontein (Groot and Klein) 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.