Nieuwe Dam (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 6)

6/114 on the cadastre · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 114
Portion: 6
Also recorded as: Nieuwe DamDIAGRAM, deduction table on SG dgm 1200/1911, DOC-0159NuwedamSRC-436, 2023 valuation roll
On the cadastre: 6/114, portionregistered as KLIPGAT
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2,138 morgen 8 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 1825.8 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

A piece of a farm already in this model. 33 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Klipgat No. 114
border Shares a boundary with Aschkop (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 10) Aschkop (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 10)
border Shares a boundary with Voelfontein No. 213 Voelfontein No. 213

What the record holds, in order

undated boundary change subdivision: from Klipgat No. 114

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

[1 Aug 2026 inbox] One of TEN near-equal subdivisions cut from Klipgat No. 114 and all registered in 1916 on consecutive deeds, from the deduction table on the reverse of SG Dgm 1200/1911 (DOC-0159). Named Nieuwe Dam on that table, 2,138 morgen 8 square roods, deed 1916-142-8827. THE SHAPE OF IT: nine of the ten are within four morgen of 2,137, and the tenth is a 10-morgen Lot A that is almost certainly a water or building site. Ten near-equal shares registered together, on an amended title issued to the ESTATE of the late Lucas Daniel Fromon van Zyl, is an estate being divided among heirs. The same pattern as Spreeufontein's three-way 1909 split, at ten times the width. [TO VERIFY] against the 1916 transfer deeds, which would name the heirs. The portion number comes from the order of the deed numbers (8820 to 8831 against portions 1 to 10), which agrees with the legible handwritten annotations; two of those annotations are not cleanly legible and rest on the order alone. The block also appears on the FACE of the 1911 diagram as a coloured internal division, so the ten were laid out before they were registered. MODERN EXTENT WILL NOT MATCH: the cadastre's ten Klipgat polygons total about 21,717 ha against the parent's 21,379 morgen (18,312 ha), and the cadastre also carries a 15/114 that is not on this sheet. Historic morgen and modern hectares are never quoted here as confirming each other. [1 Aug 2026]

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
Nieuwe Dam (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 6) 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.