Groot Rivier (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 2)

2/27 on the cadastre · on record 1922 · show on the map

The farm's own history, the grant, the original survey, sits on that page.

Farm number: No. 27
Portion: 2
On the cadastre: 2/27, portionregistered as VARSCHE FONTEIN
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 3003 morgen 284 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 2565.2 ha

The historic extent and the modern surveyed area are two separate measurements and are not presented here as confirming each other. The first is what a surveyor wrote on a diagram, usually in morgen. The second is what the modern cadastre draws.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 62 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Varsche Fontein
border Shares a boundary with Lot A (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 1) Lot A (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 1)
border Shares a boundary with Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 3) Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 3)
border Shares a boundary with Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4) Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4)
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

1922 boundary change subdivision: from Varsche Fontein
March 1922 document SG diagram 1056/1922
4934/1922
26 July 1922 ownership owner not named in the record
transfer · confidence high

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

Also bordered by, as the modern cadastre draws it

Ground that touches this farm on the Surveyor-General's current polygons and that none of the diagrams held here names. Derived from the geometry, not read off a document.

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, 1056/1922, March 1922

Surveyor-General diagram, 1056/1922, March 1922
10506413 (2).TIF

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Surveyor-General diagram index for the whole farm — where the original survey of this ground sits.

Research notes

a portion of Portion 1; SG Dgm 1056/1922; deed 1922-112-6276

[13 Aug 2026] Renamed to the one form this model uses for every portion - the portion's own name, then the parent farm, its number and the portion in brackets - so that a name is legible in a list, a search result and a map popup without the reader having to know which farm number is which. It read "Groot Rivier (Varsche Fontein Ptn 2)" before. Nothing about the ground changed.

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

Open questions

Morgen or hectares? extent_text may be inconsistent priority 1 · LEAD-0007
Are the figures in parcels.extent_text really morgen, or are some of them hectares mislabelled as morgen?

What would settle it Reading the figure and its unit directly off the diagrams for the nine flagged parcels.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1922 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Groot Rivier (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 2) was worked as far as 1922-07-26, with an unnamed holder the last owner on record. 104 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.
A tenure with no one in it second order · B7 no-owner
OWN-000011 records a transfer on Groot Rivier (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 2) from 1922-07-26 and names no party. Either the holder was never read off the document, or the publishing rule withheld them, the page cannot tell you which, and neither can this.

What would settle it Re-read DOC-0006.

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.