Matjesfontein Nr. 791 (Onder Bokkeveld, Calvinia)

Plaasnommer: Nr. 791
Distrik: Calvinia (division)
Grootte, soos die kaart dit stel: 2649 morgen 105 sq roods, with 2859 morgen 77 sq roods of adjoining government ground
Moderne opgemete oppervlakte: 4408.4 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

Slegs uit die kadastertrek in die model; niks in die rekord sê nog wie hierdie grond gehou het of waarom dit hier hoort nie. 376 km van Klaarstroom.

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

A CANDIDATE FOR THE BIRTHPLACE OF FRANS JACOBUS WILHELMUS VAN DER MERWE, 24 March 1863 - one of three Calvinia farms of this name that LEAD-0151 asks about, and the only one whose diagram has been read.

S.G. 421/1834 (SRC-477, DOC-0310): 'the figure of the LOANPLACE MATJESFONTEIN contg. 2649 Morgen & 105 Sqr. Roods with 2859 Morgen & 77 Sqr. Roods of adjt. govt. ground... situated in the SUBDISTRICT OF CLAN WILLIAM, DISTRICT WORCESTER, FIELDCORNETCY OF UNDER BOKKEVELD', surveyed for DANIEL JACOBUS LOUW SENIOR by J.W. Wentzel of Clanwilliam on 13 January 1834. Title Clw.Q.3-16 of 1 November 1838.

WHY IT IS ON THIS MAP AND NOT SIMPLY A LOUW FARM. Lokenburg, where Anna Jacoba LouwM died in 1868 and where her mother's estate was inventoried in 1823, is in THE SAME FIELD CORNETCY AND THE SAME DROSTDY (SRC-368). And that inventory's debtor list holds 'DANIEL JACOBUS LOUW D:Z:' for rd 2,000, among bonds to Anna Jacoba's own brothers and to her husband Schalk Willem van der MerweL. The D:z: is Danielszoon, so he is NOT her brother - a Louw of another line, a neighbour, and a debtor of this household.

NOT ESTABLISHED AS THE BIRTHPLACE. What would settle it is the transfer history between 1838 and 1863, or a Calvinia baptism entry naming the farm. Calvinia 601 and 679 carry the same name and are unread.

Calvinia is in as ancestry and not as a community, and this is not core.

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
Matjesfontein Nr. 791 (Onder Bokkeveld, Calvinia) 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.