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Farm PAR-000061

Antjesfontein No. 14

14 on the cadastre · on record 1866–1929 · show on the map

Farm number
No. 14
On the cadastre
14, whole farmregistered as ANTJES FONTEIN
District
Prince Albert
Modern surveyed area
6736.9 ha

Why this farm is here

Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) lived on this ground. Connected to the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines BY MARRIAGE, not by blood, 6 steps on the shortest path. 46 km from Klaarstroom.

  1. Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)
  2. child of Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7)
  3. married to Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter
  4. child of Maria Catharina Venter
  5. child of Jan Louis Venter
  6. parent of Adriana Cecilia Venter
  7. 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.

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1866 lived here Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) (16 April 1827–8 September 1909)
    farming
  2. 1868-09-25 to 1875-10-18 ownership Matthys Booyens
    quitrent · grant · confidence high
  3. 1929 burial Marthinus Jacobus van Wijk
    Kookfontein farm cemetery, Antjesfontein 14

Buried on this ground

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

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

Research notes

[SRC-072] East of Prince Albert, near the N12 (formerly R29) between Beaufort West and Meiringspoort. Surveyed and granted to Matthys BooyensH 25 Sep 1868 (AK: Qts 1-23). Transferred to a Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelH on 18 Oct 1875 and on to Constant Wilsnach the same day. A school stood here - Miss Florrie Forsyth taught at Antjesfontein and played piano at the Zeekoegat CJV concerts.

[SRC-311, 7 Aug 2026] A FARM CEMETERY IS RECORDED ON THIS GROUND BY eGGSA: 'Antjes Fontein 14, Kookfontein', Cemetery ID 7590, at -32.930950, 22.401417. Photographs and captions at https://graveswcape.eggsa.org/PRINCE-ALBERT-Rural/Kookfontein/ - linked, not copied.

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