Surveyor-General cadastre: every farm named Modderfontein in the 27 Western Cape registration divisions
cadastre query · 'n afskrif, indeks of transkripsie · geraadpleeg 2026-08-17
- Soort
- cadastre query
- Bewaarplek
- Western Cape spatial data warehouse, SG_PlanningCadastre MapServer, layers 3 (Farms) and 2 (Farm Portions)
- Geraadpleeg
- 2026-08-17
Die sitasie soos dit gegee is
QUERIED 17 Aug 2026 to test the Modder Fonteyn identification. UPPER(P_FARMNAME) LIKE MODDER%FONTEIN across all 27 divisions the service serves: 19 farms and 128 farm portions. | THE ANSWER IS AT CITRUSDAL. MODDERFONTEIN A No. 459, Clanwilliam, 2,571 ha, centroid about -32.60, 18.98 - FOUR KILOMETRES from Citrusdal. Also MODDERFONTEIN No. 225, Clanwilliam, in two polygons of 1,631 and 4,608 ha about 60-65 km up the valley, and heavily subdivided: some forty portions carry the name, which is the ordinary shape of an old loan farm cut up over two centuries. | AND NOTHING IN THE KOUP. The query returned NO Modderfontein at all in Prince Albert, Beaufort West, Oudtshoorn, Ladismith, Calitzdorp or Uniondale - the divisions along the Southern Cape Olifants that rises on the Traka. The nearest to this district is Laingsburg No. 7. | The "A" on farm 459 normally marks a piece cut from an older parent of the same name, so which modern parcel answers to the 1809 loan place is a further question. What this settles is the READING: "gelegen aan d'Olifants rivier" is the Boland Olifants, and the family memory of Citrusdal is independently corroborated by the cadastre. | *** [20 Aug 2026] THIS ROW'S QUERY CANNOT BE REPRODUCED AND ONE OF ITS NEGATIVES IS WRONG. *** It describes a search on UPPER(P_FARMNAME) LIKE 'MODDER%FONTEIN' against the provincial warehouse. P_FARMNAME on that service holds an INTEGER id and not a name, so that search cannot return farm names, and re-running it today returns nothing. The Chief Surveyor-General's own national gazetteer was queried instead on 20 Aug 2026 (SRC-510). It AGREES that there is no Modderfontein in Prince Albert, Oudtshoorn, Ladismith, Calitzdorp or Uniondale, and it DISAGREES about Beaufort West, which holds MODDERFONTEIN No. 114 - a farm this row says does not exist. That farm turns out to be a 1954 name over a consolidation whose 1830 core is OSFONTEIN (SRC-511), so the CONCLUSION of this row survives and its EVIDENCE does not. Cite SRC-510 and SRC-511, not this row, for the absence. | *** [20 Aug 2026] AND THE CITRUSDAL CONCLUSION IS NOW CONTRADICTED BY AN ORIGINAL. *** SRC-514, the Swellendam baptism register, has this household 'woonende aan Oliphants Rivier' and bringing a child to SWELLENDAM. Citrusdal belonged to Roodezand and then to Clanwilliam. Nothing in this row may be cited for Citrusdal any longer.
Woordeliks gehou. Hierdie projek weerspreek gepubliseerde genealogieë en stel 'n familie se eie mondelinge oorlewering reg, so elke bewering moet nagegaan kan word deur iemand wat nie in die vertrek was nie.