Part of Middelwater

Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 1

1/169 on the cadastre · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 169
Portion: 1
On the cadastre: 1/169, portionregistered as MIDDLEWATER
District: Prince Albert
Modern surveyed area: 2351.7 ha

Why this farm is here

Ground a written history is set on. 8 km from Klaarstroom.

story A written history is set on this ground Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
parcel Cut out of Middelwater

Stories

about this farm Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
From a loan farm on the Zwartberg to eight cadastral parcels: the full documented history of Middelwater No. 169 - Stretch's 1833 survey for Okert Oosthuizen, the twelve-farm grant day of 1841, the 1883 resurvey and the 1884 quitrent to J.D.J. Oosthuysen 'and another', the portions cut off for a spring called Vaste Water and a place called Avondrust, and the 1990 power-line survey whose coordinates finally put the farm on a map.

What the record holds, in order

undated boundary change subdivision: from Middelwater

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

[30 Jul 2026] Cadastre label 1/169, 2822.1 ha. Attested on the 1883 diagram's verso deduction table (DOC-0039) as '169/1, part marked pink' - a deduction with no name given there. The largest single piece off the farm after Portion 3. NAME AND HISTORY NOT KNOWN: re-reading DOC-0039's verso and pulling the portion's own diagram would supply both. [TO VERIFY]

[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 "Middelwater Portion 1" 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.

Open questions

Who was the "and another" who took 86% of Middelwater in June 1884 priority 1 · LEAD-0136
The 1884 quitrent title to Middelwater No. 169 issued to "J. D. J. Oosthuysen, and another", and the co-grantee is not named on the diagram. Three months later 9,264 morgen 180 roods - 86% of the farm - transferred away under transfer 304 of 26 June 1884. Who was the second grantee, and was that transfer a sale out of the family or a partition between the two of them?

What would settle it The grant P.A.Q.3-3 or transfer 304, either of which names the second party.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 1 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.