Klein Valie No. 182

182 on the cadastre · on record 1833–2017 · show on the map

Farm number: No. 182
On the cadastre: 182, whole farmregistered as KLEIN VALIE
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 7215 morgen
Modern surveyed area: 6294.4 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

Christian Hatting Junior (Klein Valie, 1833) 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. 12 km from Klaarstroom.

story A written history names this ground The fifteenth of April, 1841
story A written history names this ground The men who drew the lines
parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Windwaai (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 9)
parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1)
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

Stories

mentions this farm The fifteenth of April, 1841
One surveyor works the Koup for two seasons. Eight years later, on a single day, the Crown turns a dozen loan farms into freehold - and the map of the district is set for a century.
mentions this farm The men who drew the lines
Every farm here passes through two officials: a veldkornet who knew the ground, and a surveyor paid by the sheet. Forty-two surveyor signatures over 172 years, a century of ward officers, and a ward boundary changing by hand on a 1934 diagram. The first surveyor, C. Lennox Stretch, was later dismissed for taking the Xhosa side.

What the record holds, in order

August 1833 document SG diagram B348/1833
Bf.W.Q.5-6
before 1833 ownership Christian Hatting Junior (Klein Valie, 1833)
loan farm · survey · confidence high
1912 boundary change subdivision: becomes Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1)
1912 boundary change subdivision: becomes Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
1912 boundary change subdivision: becomes Nieuwe Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 3)
1912 boundary change subdivision: becomes Gideon's Hoop (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 4)
1912 boundary change subdivision: becomes Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5)
30 July 1912 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (sketch)
30 July 1912 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p1)
30 July 1912 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p2)
1919 document SG diagram verso B348/1833 (verso)
1929 burial Abraham Petrus Muller
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
1929 burial Catherina Elizabeth Botha
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
1932–1933 boundary change subdivision: becomes Windwaai (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 9)
1941 burial Hester Maria Fouche
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
1971 burial Johannes Christian Ellis
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
1972 burial Johannes J.C Ellis
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
2009 burial Johanna F Koekemoer
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
2012 burial Johannes Christian Ellis
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
2014 burial Adriana Beatrix Lucas
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182
2017 burial Bennie Ellis
Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182

Ground cut out of this farm

Windwaai (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 9) 9/182 · 318.9 ha
Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1) 1/182 · 1793.1 ha
Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
Nieuwe Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 3) 3/182 · 825.8 ha
Gideon's Hoop (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 4) 4/182 · 2019.0 ha
Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5) 5/182 · 296.2 ha
Kouveld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 6) 6/182 · 389.6 ha
Groenkraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 7) 7/182 · 319.5 ha
Grootleegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 8) 8/182 · 322.5 ha
Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 10 (out of Oude Kraal) 10/182 · 9.9 ha

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

N Middle water and Government ground
S Zwarte Berg
E Wilga-mount (Wilgemond)

Buried on this ground

Kleinvlei farm cemetery, Klein Valie 182 9 graves recorded

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.

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, B348/1833, August 1833

Surveyor-General diagram, B348/1833, August 1833
SCAN498.jpg

Scan of Diagram verso, B348/1833 (verso), 1919

Diagram verso, B348/1833 (verso), 1919
SCAN499.jpg

Scan of survey_report, 2114-2118/1912 (sketch), 30 July 1912

survey_report, 2114-2118/1912 (sketch), 30 July 1912
10696183.pdf

Scan of survey_report, 2114-2118/1912 (report p1), 30 July 1912

survey_report, 2114-2118/1912 (report p1), 30 July 1912
10696184.pdf

Scan of survey_report, 2114-2118/1912 (report p2), 30 July 1912

survey_report, 2114-2118/1912 (report p2), 30 July 1912
10696185.pdf

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Two farms west of Vrolikheid, bounded east by Wilgamount. Loan farm surveyed Aug 1833 by Stretch for Christian Hatting JuniorH, with the annexed Government ground 'The Ape'; titled 15 Apr 1841 on Bf.W.Q.5-6 (DOC-0119). Wholly subdivided in 1919 into five named pieces that sum exactly to the 1833 extent - Oude Kraal 182/1 (1737 mrg), Koude Veld 182/2 (2222), Nieuwe Kraal 182/3 (408), Gideons Hoop 182/4 (2335), Groote Leegte 182/5 (513); deeds 11089 and 11090 of 1919 (DOC-0120). Those five are NOT given rows here - they are one hop beyond the land story and the detail is on this row and on SRC-150. AREA CHECK: 7215 morgen converts to 6,180 ha against a modern 6,297.2 - agreement to 1.9%, which is worth recording against LEAD-0007 because Middelwater's portions disagree by 25-29% and Klipfontein's by 20%. The discrepancy is clearly not universal.

[SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] LEAD-0026 largely answered: GIDEONSHOOP - the farm of the Langenhoven and Helena de Vries story, north of the Swartberg - 'today is the DE AAP GUEST FARM'. 'De Aap' is 'The Ape', the annexed Government ground on this farm's own 1833 diagram and on Wilgemond's; and Gideons Hoop is this farm's portion 182/4 on the 1919 verso (SRC-150). So The Ape was not a separate holding that vanished - the name survives on the ground to this day.

[SRC-317, 7 Aug 2026] A FARM CEMETERY IS RECORDED ON THIS GROUND BY eGGSA: 'Klein Valie 182, Kleinvlei', Cemetery ID 7650, at -33.351667, 22.449950. Photographs and captions at https://graveswcape.eggsa.org/PRINCE-ALBERT-Rural/Klaarstroom-Kleinvlei/ - linked, not copied.

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

Open questions

Wilgemond's diagram number: 150/1833, or 350 mis-transcribed in 1952? priority 2 · LEAD-0025
Every other farm in Stretch's August 1833 run carries a diagram number between 348 and 369, and their quitrent folios rise with them. Wilgemond is numbered 150/1833 yet holds folio 5-9, which falls exactly inside that run. Is the number wrong?

What would settle it The original diagram, or the SG's index of 1833 Prince Albert diagrams.
Who were the 'others' in the 1940 Klein Valie water transfer? priority 2 · LEAD-0106
A 12-morgen river parcel on Klein Valie carrying a weir, surveyed 1938, was transferred in 1940 to 'Lategan AND OTHERS', with conduit servitudes running across the neighbouring portion. Who were the others, and was this an irrigation syndicate?

What would settle it The deed's list of names.
Who was 'The Ape', and who ended up with it? priority 3 · LEAD-0026
Both the Wilgemond and Klein Valie surveys of 1833 annex a piece of Government ground called THE APE, and Wilgemond is bounded on the north by it. What is it, where is it, and is the name Die Aap?

What would settle it Any map or deed naming it.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1833 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Klein Valie No. 182 was worked as far as ../1833, with Christian Hatting JuniorH (Klein Valie, 1833) the last owner on record. 193 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.