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Farm PAR-000055

Part of Wolwekraal No. 17

Venterskraal (Wolwekraal portion)

· on record 1857–1937 · show on the map

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

Farm number
No. 17
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
7251 morgen

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

Jan Adriaan Venter held it, a blood relative of the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines, 4 steps away. Not yet placed on the map.

  1. Jan Adriaan Venter
  2. child of Maria Catharina Venter
  3. child of Jan Louis Venter
  4. parent of Adriana Cecilia Venter
  5. parent of Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen

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

Stories

What the record holds, in order

  1. 10 March 1857 boundary change subdivision: from Wolwekraal No. 17
  2. 10 March 1857 boundary change subdivision: becomes Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg)
  3. 10 March 1857 ownership Jan Adriaan Venter (8 December 1823–23 November 1898)
    freehold · subdivision · confidence high
  4. 23 November 1898 burial Johanna Jacomina Louisa Visser (16 September 1876–23 November 1898)
    Kommetjieskraal (Venterskraal), gebore 16 September 1876 / oorlede 23 November 1898
  5. 31 December 1934 burial Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel "Freek Jood" (11 May 1871–31 December 1934)
    Kommetjieskraal (Venterskraal), gebore 11 Mei 1871 / oorlede 31 Desember 1934
  6. 31 March 1937 boundary change resurvey: becomes Leeuw Rivier (Venterskraal resurvey)

Buried on this ground

The burials also appear on this farm's timeline above, each at its own date.

Research notes

[SRC-072] Half of Wolwekraal, registered to Jan Adriaan VenterL 10 Mar 1857 (transport 149). Cut up piece by piece thereafter. Part of it is today called Kommetjieskraal, where a cemetery of about 25 graves holds Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelM "Freek Jood" (1871-1934) and his first wife Johanna Jacomina Louisa VisserH (1876-1898) - whose headstone carries a Star of David, unexplained.

[1 Aug 2026] PORTION NUMBER DELIBERATELY LEFT BLANK. checks.py asks for one, and it cannot be supplied honestly: the cadastre names every portion of this farm identically, so the polygons cannot be told apart by name and there is no diagram here that says which portion this is. Guessing a number to satisfy a check would be exactly the invented precision 3 forbids. [TO VERIFY] from the farm's deduction table or the CSG diagram index.

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

Open questions