Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4)

4/27 on the cadastre · on record 1924–2013 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 27
Portion: 4
Also recorded as: WelbedachtDIAGRAM, and the name this project has usedunnamedSRC-436, the 2023 valuation roll leaves this portion without a name
On the cadastre: 4/27, portionregistered as VARSCHE FONTEIN
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2536 morgen 291 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 2184.2 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

Maria Magritha van Rensburg held it, a blood relative of the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines, 1 step away. 58 km from Klaarstroom.

Maria Magritha van Rensburg
parent of Catharina van der Merwe

Each step is a recorded parentage or marriage in this model, and the shortest one the record supports, follow the names to check it.

parcel Cut out of Varsche Fontein
parcel Related to Varsche Fontein No. 27 Remainder
border Shares a boundary with Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26) Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)
border Shares a boundary with Groot Rivier (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 2) Groot Rivier (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 2)
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

November 1924 document SG diagram A4049/1924
2680/1925
17 November 1924 document surveyor report A4049/1924
1925 boundary change subdivision: from Varsche Fontein
24 March 1925 ownership C.M. Fourie
transfer · confidence high
1973 to 1997 ownership Maria Magritha van Rensburg (28 October 1928–3 April 2019)
purchase · confidence high
1997/ boundary change held_together: from Varsche Fontein No. 27 Remainder
6 November 1997 ownership a family trust
trust · transfer · confidence high
27 September 2013 document deeds report
T107406/1997

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

W Groot Rivier
E Spreeuw Fontein
N Varsche Fontein Remainder
SW Blaauw Krantz
S Klein Fontein
E Spreeuw Fontein

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, A4049/1924, November 1924

Surveyor-General diagram, A4049/1924, November 1924
10774364 (1).PDF

Scan of Surveyor's report, A4049/1924, 17 November 1924

Surveyor's report, A4049/1924, 17 November 1924
10774365 (1).PDF

held as pdf

Deeds report, deed T107406/1997, 27 September 2013
170857414.pdf

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

SG Dgm A4049/1924; deed 1925-60-2680. Sold to C.M. FourieH in 1925 and BACK in the family by 1973 - held with the Remainder by a family trustH under one title. Deeds extent 2172.5806 ha matches the diagram exactly.

[FAMILY, 6 Aug 2026] ONE FARM, TWO PARCELS. [FAMILY] Varschefontein 4 and restant go together... for all practical purposes its one farm, though 2 parcels. The Remainder (PAR-000019) and Welbedacht, Portion 4 (PAR-000018), have been held under ONE TITLE since 1997 and are worked as a single unit. The cadastre keeps them apart because title and working reality are different things - the same distinction 5 makes for vernacular names. Anything that counts farms here should count these two as one, and anything that maps them should show them together.

[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 "Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein Ptn 4)" before. Nothing about the ground changed.

[13 Aug 2026, FAMILY] Frans: on Varschefontein "two portions are considered one unit - so Varschefontein today is the portions 1 and 4, and the name Welbedacht is not used." THE DOCUMENTED POSITION IS KEPT, at his instruction, and the modern working arrangement is recorded beside it: Portions 1 and 4 are one farm in practice, known as Varschefontein, and Welbedacht is not in current use. Two things corroborate it independently - the 2023 valuation roll rates this portion at 2172.5810 ha and leaves it UNNAMED, matching this row's extent to four decimal places; and the roll has no Portion 1 row at all.

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

What the record is missing

48 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4), C.M. FourieH is the last owner recorded from 1925-03-24, and the next entry is Maria Magritha van RensburgH from 1973, 48 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0053 records the later arrival but not the 48 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1925 and 1973. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
24 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4), Maria Magritha van RensburgH is the last owner recorded from 1973, and the next entry is a family trustH from 1997-11-06, 24 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0053 records the later arrival but not the 24 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1973 and 1997. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
“Klein Fontein” is named as a neighbour 4 times and we hold no parcel for it second order · B3 unheld-farm
4 separate surveys in this model put Klein Fontein on the boundary of ground we do hold (PAR-000002, PAR-000018, PAR-000020). It has no parcel of its own here, so nothing is known about who held it or when, while it borders farms at the centre of the project.

What would settle it The Surveyor-General's farm index for the registration division will give it a farm number and a diagram; the cadastre pull in `data/fetch_cadastre.py` then places it on the map.

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.