Farm 222

222 on the cadastre · on record 1914–2003 · show on the map

Farm number: No. 222
On the cadastre: 222, whole farmregistered as FARM
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 6379,8578 hektaar
Modern surveyed area: 6354.6 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. 32 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Consolidated out of Farm 215
parcel Consolidated out of Zeekoegate
border Shares a boundary with Zeekoegate Zeekoegate
border Shares a boundary with Jansenskraal No. 104 Jansenskraal No. 104
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

1914 burial Tobias Johannes de Villiers
Moeite Verniet farm cemetery, by Zeekoegat
1936 burial Martha H.J de Villiers
Moeite Verniet farm cemetery, by Zeekoegat
2003 boundary change consolidation: from Farm 215
2003 boundary change consolidation: from Zeekoegate
September 2003 document SG diagram 4295/2003
CET 46191/2004

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

Buried on this ground

Moeite Verniet farm cemetery, by Zeekoegat 2 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.

N Leeukraal No. 24 (consolidated)
NE Antjiesfontein (Leeukraal No. 24 Ptn 1)
SE Modderdrift No. 106
SE Modderdrift No. 106 Ptn 4
SE Modderdrift No. 239
W Farm 241
W Farm 215 Ptn 3

Documents

catalogued, no scan held

Surveyor-General diagram, 4295/2003, September 2003
11368843 Farm 222.jpg

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-204/DOC-0170] A 2003 consolidation of two things: Gedeelte 2 of farm 215, and GEDEELTE 1 (ZEEKOEGAT) VAN ZEEKOEGATE NR 22 - our PAR-000013, the farm F.S. "Oom Frikkie" Oosthuizen built his church on (STO-0006, STO-0020). It gives that portion its diagram, KAART 3557/1910, written over a struck-out 1457/1910, and its grant, GRONDBRIEF NR P.A.Q. 6-6. Note how close that grant number is to Spreeufontein's P.A.Q. 6-1 on DOC-0168: the same grant volume, six entries apart. The Traka Rivier is the eastern boundary and an OPSTAL is drawn beside it. Neighbours include GEDEELTE 1 and RESTANT VAN MODDERDRIFT NR 106. These 1990-2018 consolidations are the MODERN successors of farms this project tracks. They are recorded because they say where the old farms went and because their neighbour lists corroborate our own; they are not themselves part of the family story.

[3 Aug 2026] RENAMED to the project's standard form for a farm that has no name. The cadastre publishes these as literally 'FARM' and their own diagrams call them 'Die Plaas Nr 215' / 'FARM NO. 241', so there is no name to lose - only a house style to settle. The diagram's own wording is kept above.

[SRC-327, 7 Aug 2026] A FARM CEMETERY IS RECORDED ON THIS GROUND BY eGGSA: 'Zeekoegate 22, Moeite Verniet', Cemetery ID 7517, at -33.031217, 22.466133. Photographs and captions at https://graveswcape.eggsa.org/PRINCE-ALBERT-Rural/0523002%20Moeite%20Verniet%20by%20Zeekoegat%20_Pieter%20Olckers/ - linked, not copied.

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

“Caroluspoort Nr 105” is named as a neighbour 4 times and we hold no parcel for it second order · B3 unheld-farm
4 separate surveys in this model put Caroluspoort Nr 105 on the boundary of ground we do hold (PAR-000134, PAR-000136, PAR-000184, PAR-000185). It has no parcel of its own here, so nothing is known about who held it or when, while it borders farms at the centre of the project.

What would settle it The Surveyor-General's farm index for the registration division will give it a farm number and a diagram; the cadastre pull in `data/fetch_cadastre.py` then places it on the map.
Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Farm 222 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.