Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 3

3/112 on the cadastre · on record 1955 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 112
Portion: 3
On the cadastre: 3/112, portionregistered as MINNIES KRAAL
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2067,7147 morge
Modern surveyed area: 1775.7 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. 31 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Minnies Kraal No. 112
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0185

What the record holds, in order

1955 boundary change subdivision: from Minnies Kraal No. 112
August 1955–September 1955 document SG diagram 8734/1955
T/A 2301/1956

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

catalogued, no scan held

Surveyor-General diagram, 8734/1955, August 1955–September 1955
SCAN286 112 3.jpg

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

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-219] The largest of the eight 1955 portions of Minnies Kraal 112, and THE TRAKA RIVIER RUNS THROUGH IT - which is worth noting, because the Traka veldkornetskap is where most of the farms this project follows sit. Minnies Kraal came in only to settle a farm number (see PAR-000138); its position on the Traka is the first thing that argues it might belong here for its own sake.

[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 "Minnies Kraal Portion 3 (No. 112 Ptn 3)" 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

Is Minnies Kraal No. 112 named for the MINNE family - who married into the Janse van Vuuren of Wilgemond? priority 1 · LEAD-0071
Does the farm name Minnies Kraal come from the Mienie/Minnie surname, and if so which member of that family held or occupied the ground?

What would settle it A grant, quitrent or early diagram of farm 112 naming a MINNE as occupier or grantee - the spelling on the document is itself part of the answer. Failing that, a Minne recorded on or beside that ground before the name appears on a map.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 3 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.