NAAIRS searches of the Cape Town Archives Repository on the farm names MODDERFONTEIN and WANHOOP
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- archival index
- Bewaarplek
- National Archives of South Africa (NARSSA), NAAIRS, database KAB (Cape Town Archives Repository)
- Verwysing
- Queries run 21 Aug 2026: (MODDERFONTEIN) = 138 documents; (MODDERFONTEIN) and (Ending Date =< 1850) = 10 documents; (WANHOOP) = 3 documents.
- Geraadpleeg
- 2026-08-21
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Run - 'search KAB for modderfontein and wanhoop' - after LEAD-0264 argued that the description field, not the surname, is where this project's question lives. It is a search of an INDEX: an absence here is an absence from the CATALOGUE, never from the archive. 10, no unqualified absolutes. | *** MODDERFONTEIN: 138 IN KAB, 10 BEFORE 1850, AND NOT ONE OF THE TEN IS IN THE GEORGE OR UNIONDALE COUNTRY. *** Every one is Boland or Eastern Cape: NCD 2/11 ref 57 (1796) Modderfontein 'situated at the KOEBERGEN'; NCD 1/39 ref 251 (1798) Modderfontein 'on the banks of the SMALL FISH RIVER', transferred out of an insolvent estate; CO 3896 ref 117 (1806) 'a piece of land called MODDERFONTEIN IN THE DISTRICT OF TULBAGH ON LOAN'; CO 3871 ref 86 (1809) Modderfontein, Drakenstynfontein, TYGERBERG; CO 3872 ref 150 (1809) Modderfontein, KLEINE RIETRIVER; CO 3872 ref 151 (1809) Modderfontein, STELLENBOSCH DISTRICT; CO 3873 ref 343 (1809) Houtbay; then LG 549/395 (1838), LG 554/855 (1842) and LG 569/291 (1847), memorials of Beukes, Engelbrecht and Beukes. No Oosthuizen in any of them. | *** WANHOOP: THREE DOCUMENTS IN THE WHOLE OF KAB, AND ALL THREE ARE UNIONDALE. *** PAE 1207 ref U164/397/ER, 1930-1935, and PAE 1126 ref U164/397 twice, 1930-1934 and 1935-1941 - inspection reports and personnel files of the UNIONDALE WANHOOP PRIMARY SCHOOL. | WHAT THE PAIR ESTABLISHES, and it is a district finding rather than a ground finding: Wanhoop is a real and rare Uniondale place-name that was still carrying a school 120 years after the roll that named it, which corroborates the reading of SRC-525 from a completely independent series. Modderfontein is a common name that the catalogue does not place anywhere near the Olifants before 1850. | AND AN OBSERVATION ON COVERAGE: no RLR row appeared in either result set. Suggestive that the loan-farm registers are not in the online index, not proof of it - two farm-name queries are a thin test. LEAD-0264.
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.
Niks in die model haal hierdie bron nog aan nie.