Part of Middelwater

Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4)

4/169 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: 4
On the cadastre: 4/169, portionregistered as MIDDLEWATER
District: Prince Albert
Modern surveyed area: 846.1 ha

Why this farm is here

Ground a written history is set on. 5 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 4/169, 1015.2 ha. Attested as 'Gedeelte 4' on the 1989 Eskom servitude map (DOC-0040), which lists the farm's parts as 'Gedeelte 4, Gedeelte 5 (Vaste Water), Gedeelte 6 (Avondrust), Restant' - so it was still reckoned part of Middelwater then. Name and transfer history not known. [TO VERIFY]

[13 Aug 2026, SRC-436] NAMED FROM THE 2023 VALUATION ROLL, which gives this portion as "Ebeneser" (841.5427 ha). This row previously read "Middelwater Portion 4", which was a farm-and-portion label rather than a name. The roll is a rates document and good evidence for what the ground is called now; it says nothing about what it was called when the portion was cut.

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

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4) 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.