Oorlogs Kloof No. 175 (1940 consolidation)

175 on the cadastre · on record 1940–1941 · show on the map

Farm number

No. 175

On the cadastre

175, whole farmregistered as OORLOGS KLOOF

District

Prince Albert

Extent, as the diagram states it

4981.5038 morgen

Modern surveyed area

4267.5 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

Government of the Union of South Africa held it, and no kinship to the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines is recorded, this ground entered through the land, not the family. 18 km from Klaarstroom.

• parcel Consolidated out of Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof)
• document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0080
• document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0081

What the record holds, in order

1. 1940 boundary change consolidation: from Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof)
2. January 1940 document SG diagram 1177/1940
   3262
3. 16 April 1941 ownership Government of the Union of South Africa
   amended-title · confidence high
4. 16 April 1941 ownership owner not named in the record
   freehold · consolidation · confidence high
5. undated document SG diagram verso 1177/1940 (verso)

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.

• N Klipfontein A No. 174
• N Klipfontein A No. 174 Remainder
• NE Klipfontein Oost (Klipfontein A No. 174 Ptn 1)
• E Haggas No. 145
• E Karee Rivier No. 143
• S De Vlei No. 176
• W Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof)

Documents

Surveyor-General diagram, 1177/1940, January 1940
10JS4901.TIF

Diagram verso, 1177/1940 (verso)
10JS4801.TIF

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

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

Open questions

• match_cadastre.py no longer reproduces the geometry on disk priority 1 · LEAD-0017

  Re-running match_cadastre.py against the current CSVs changes 11 parcels and does not reproduce what is in parcels.csv. Which is right?

  What would settle it Deciding per parcel whether the script's match or the hand entry is correct, then either fixing the script's name-matching or recording the hand values as deliberate.

• Why did the State take Oorlogs Kloof in 1941? priority 2 · LEAD-0062

  What was the Government of the Union of South AfricaH consolidating Oorlogs Kloof No. 175 for in April 1941?

  What would settle it The consolidation certificate itself names the purpose, or the Lands file does. Either turns a striking fact into a story.

What the record is missing

• A tenure with no one in it second order · B7 no-owner

  OWN-000092 records a consolidation on Oorlogs Kloof No. 175 (1940 consolidation) from 1941-04-16 and names no party. Either the holder was never read off the document, or the publishing rule withheld them, the page cannot tell you which, and neither can this.

  What would settle it Re-read DOC-0080.

• The record stops in 1941 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Oorlogs Kloof No. 175 (1940 consolidation) was worked as far as 1941-04-16, with Government of the Union of South AfricaH the last owner on record. 85 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

  What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

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.