Biesies (Williston district)

Ook aangeteken as: BiesiesFAMILY, the form Frans usesBiesesas first given
Distrik: Calvinia (division)

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 speel op hierdie grond af The van der Merwes of the Hantam

Stories

set here Die van der Merwes van die Hantam
Van Frans se vier grootouerlyne was die van der Merwes die laaste om die Prins Albert-distrik te bereik, en hulle het van die verste af gekom. Agt geslagte van 'n doop op die Paarl in 1735 tot Vredendal omstreeks 1950, met 'n opmeting van 1823 wat die trekker self by die naam noem.

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

[14 Aug 2026, FAMILY] THE FARM FRANS JACOBUS WILHELMUS VAN DER MERWE (PER-000030) CAME FROM - Frans's mother's father. Held as a PLACE row since(PLC-000036) and given a parcel row here on 14 Aug, because it is a farm and belongs in the farm list beside the others, not only as a dot on the map. NO POLYGON, AND THERE WILL NOT BE ONE: no farm is registered as Biesies anywhere in South Africa. The Chief Surveyor-General's own property index, searched on BIES across every division, returns Biesiewater, Biesiebult, Biesjeskuil and eighty more, and no Biesies. It is a farm the family names and the register does not - the same standing as Drooge Kloof and Vischat under 5's second rule. INDEPENDENTLY ATTESTED THREE TIMES ALL THE SAME: Janet Melville's report puts a brother of PER-000030 as 'boer op Biesies, 'n plaas in Williston distrik op die grens van Boesmanland' [SRC-374]; the IEC's Northern Cape voting station list for 20 April 2011 carries a permanent station BIESIES FARM at Williston, voting district 66020059 [SRC-375]; and John Irish's 1996 Karoo Lepismatidae survey lists collecting locality 384 as Biesies, two entries from Daskop which he places in the Williston district [SRC-376]. THE COORDINATE IS THE NORTHERN OF TWO CANDIDATES 85 km APART, written on Frans's own decision that the farm lies north-east of Williston towards Boesmanland - where Melville and Irish independently point. It is [FAMILY] and not a survey. LEAD-0156 holds the last check, Irish's numbered gazetteer.

*** [14 Aug 2026, FRANS - THE PIN COMES OFF.] *** "ok, so that just means we dont know where the biesies farm was or is... lets not add landmarks we dont know." He is reversing his own 13 Aug decision, and reversing it the right way: that decision picked the northern of two candidates 85 km apart on the reasoning that the farm lies north-east of Williston towards Boesmanland, which is an argument about DIRECTION and not a location. 5 fails closed for exactly this - an unresolved place gets no map pin, because a wrong pin is worse than a missing one and a map makes a claim look authoritative. THE FARM STAYS, the coordinate goes. What is known is unchanged and is a good deal: three independent records name it, in the Williston district, on the edge of Boesmanland. Where it stands is not among them. LEAD-0156.

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

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Biesies (Williston district) 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.