Klein Waterval (consolidated)

District: Prince Albert

This parcel has no matched survey polygon, so it cannot be drawn on the map. That is a gap in the cadastre match, not an absence from the record.

Why this farm is here

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

story A written history is set on this ground The Prince Albert gold rush

Stories

set here The Prince Albert gold rush
An aardvark turns up a nugget on Spreeuwfontein in 1871; twenty years later a shepherd finds a second one and five hundred people arrive. 1,042 claims yield 504 ounces. The diggers' village was called Gatsplaas.

What the record holds, in order

No dated record on this parcel yet. It is on the map because the Surveyor-General has a polygon for it; the history is not transcribed.

Research notes

[SRC-068] Toornitzkraal, granted to C.F.J. Meyer April 1841, was consolidated with portions of adjacent Spreeuwfontein into KLEINWATERVAL - which explains the compound name "Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal" on the diagrams. Central to the goldfields; its diggings were shallow bedrock excavations in quartz-veined strata, unlike the alluvial workings at Spreeufontein.

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

Open questions

141 people are on this site linked to nothing priority 1 · LEAD-0074
Which parcels and people exist on the site as dead ends - reachable by a list, but linked to no document, story, owner or neighbour?

What would settle it For the 106 tree-derived rows, a parentage pass merged from the family-tree on tree id - which 6 already names as the direction of travel and which would connect them wholesale rather than one at a time. For the three floating names, find the document each came from and link it.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Klein Waterval (consolidated) 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.