Part of Vrolikheid
Lot A (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 6)
6/177 on the cadastre · on record 1934 · show on the map
The farm's own history, the grant, the original survey, sits on that page.
- Farm number
- No. 177
- Portion
- 6
- On the cadastre
- 6/177, portionregistered as VROLYKHEID
- District
- Prince Albert
- Modern surveyed area
- 0.2 ha
Why this farm is here
Ground a written history is set on. 9 km from Klaarstroom.
- story A written history is set on this ground Vrolykheid No. 177: a farm history
- parcel Cut out of Vrolikheid
Stories
- about 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
- 1934 boundary change subdivision: from Vrolikheid
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.
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 4936/1934; deed 24.8.1936-8110
[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 "Lot A (Vrolykheid Ptn 6)" 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.
What the record is missing
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Nobody is on record as ever having held this
third order · B8 never-held
Lot A (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 6) is in the model and drawn on the map, 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.