De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm)

District: Prince Albert

This is the same ground as De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178), recorded here under an earlier name. It is not drawn separately on the map because there is only one piece of ground, and that page carries it.

Why this farm is here

Ground a written history is set on. Not yet placed on the map.

story A written history names this ground Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
story A written history names this ground Vrolykheid No. 177: a farm history
parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Middelwater
parcel Related to: De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)

Stories

mentions this farm Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
From a loan farm on the Zwartberg to eight cadastral parcels: the full documented history of Middelwater No. 169 - Stretch's 1833 survey for Okert Oosthuizen, the twelve-farm grant day of 1841, the 1883 resurvey and the 1884 quitrent to J.D.J. Oosthuysen 'and another', the portions cut off for a spring called Vaste Water and a place called Avondrust, and the 1990 power-line survey whose coordinates finally put the farm on a map.
mentions this farm Vrolykheid No. 177: a farm history
The farm where the paper and the people disagree: Stretch's 1833 survey already carrying the names of portions not cut for another century, two titles granted on one day in 1841 - one to an Oosthuisen and one to an 'N. Hitge' whose deed four later portions cite instead - a Trieste immigrant who married a Hitge in 1844 and died holding the farm in 1890, and the death notice that finally put the Hitges on the ground.

What the record holds, in order

1777–1860 boundary change subdivision: becomes Middelwater
1777–1860 boundary change same_as: becomes De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
1777 event De Claar Stroom loan farm granted
parent farm of Middelwater and Klaarstroom This is PAR-000097, Klaarstroom No. 178. The loan farm itself is PAR-000004.

Research notes

1777 loan farm; parent of Middelwater + Klaarstroom

[31 Jul 2026, audit] RENAMED to distinguish it from PAR-000097. The two are NOT duplicates and the collision was mine: I added PAR-000097 for cadastral farm 178 after searching the model for 'Klaarstroom' and not for 'Claar', so I never saw this row. They are the same GROUND at two scales - this is the 1777 loan farm as a whole, which the cameo has running from Middelwater to Vrolikheid, and PAR-000097 is the 7,259 ha modern farm 178 surviving out of it. The model already expresses that relationship for Middelwater (PLK-000001, subdivision), and PAR-000097 now has the same link. WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE ONE PARCEL is a real question and is recorded as a lead rather than decided here.

*** [4 Aug 2026, FRANS, FAMILY] DIE TWEE DE CLAAR STROOM-RYE IS EEN PLAAS. *** [FAMILY] De claar stroom 178 and the other overlapping farm is the same. So PAR-000004, recorded here as the 1777 LOAN FARM, and PAR-000097, KLAARSTROOM No. 178, are the same ground under two epochs of record - the loan farm before survey, and the registered farm after it. They are not two farms and must not be counted, mapped or linked as two. WHAT WAS CHECKED BEFORE ACTING: no polygon in this model actually overlaps 178 except at the shared edges of its neighbours, so 'overlapping' means the two RECORDS overlap, not two shapes. PAR-000004 carries no farm number, no polygon and no centroid; PAR-000097 carries farm 178, its polygon and 7 259,5 ha. THE ROW IS KEPT, NOT DELETED - ids are permanent - and PAR-000004 stays as the record of the loan-farm epoch, which is where the 1777 date and the descent of Middelwater hang. It must never be pinned: there is only one piece of ground here and PAR-000097 is the one that carries it. This closes the De Claar Stroom third of LEAD-0080.

The research behind this page, kept separate from it: dated working notes, open questions, and what is not yet settled.

Open questions

Three farms carry the same name twice or three times, and ten story links are held back because of it priority 2 · LEAD-0080
Which Rietfontein, which De Claar Stroom, and is Sleutelfontein (Groot and Klein) a real parcel or a composite of two?

What would settle it For each mention, which parcel the sentence means. For Sleutelfontein, whether PAR-000098 should exist at all given PAR-000071/072.
De Claar Stroom: one parcel or two? priority 3 · LEAD-0039
PAR-000004 is the 1777 loan farm De Claar Stroom and PAR-000097 is cadastral farm 178, the ground Klaarstroom village stands on. Should they be one parcel row or two?

What would settle it The extent on the 178 title, compared with the loan farm's described run. If they are the same ground, one row; if 178 is a part, two.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm) 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.