Trakas Kuilen No. 15

15 on the cadastre · on record 1955 · show on the map

Farm number: No. 15
On the cadastre: 15, whole farmregistered as TRAKAS KUILEN
District: Prince Albert
Modern surveyed area: 7443.6 ha

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 44 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1
border Shares a boundary with Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1 Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1
border Shares a boundary with Wit Poortje No. 16 Wit Poortje No. 16

What the record holds, in order

January 1955 boundary change subdivided_into: becomes Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1

Ground cut out of this farm

Trakas Kuilen No. 15 Ptn 1 1/15 · 3774.4 ha

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

Research notes

THE FARM THE PLACE WAS NAMED FROM. Trakas Kuilen entered this model on 7 Aug 2026 as a PLACE (PLC-000043), read off the Leeukraal consolidation diagram, before any sheet for the farm itself had been seen. This row is the farm. Its Portion 1 sheet (SG 1283/1955) cites an original diagram No. 764/1873 annexed to D/G P.A. Q.5.16, so a survey of 1873 exists and has not been read [TO VERIFY]. TRAKA AGAIN: the third document in two days to carry the name, after both Doorn Kraal diagrams placed that farm in the field cornetcy of Traka - see LEAD-0014.

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

Open questions

Which Rondabel - Tarka (east) or Traka (Koup)? priority 1 · LEAD-0014
Do the 1818 du Plessis and 1823 de Bruin inventories ('leeningsplaats Rondabel aan de Tarca / in Tarka') describe the Prince Albert Rondabel No. 124 (PAR-000009), or a namesake loan farm in the eastern-Cape Tarka?

What would settle it Placing Greyling's or van Wyk's veldkornetskap, or a loan-farm register entry locating the leeningsplaats Rondabel.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Trakas Kuilen No. 15 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.