Enkelde Wilgenboom No. 768

Farm number: No. 768
District: Calvinia (division)
Modern surveyed area: 3563.9 ha

Why this farm is here

Ground a written history is set on. 336 km from Klaarstroom.

story A written history is set on this ground The van der Merwes of the Hantam

Stories

set here The van der Merwes of the Hantam
The maternal line, from Paarl in 1735 to Vredendal in about 1950, with every kinship spelled out. The crossing from the Piketberg district into the Hantam is dated to a fourteen-year window by two death notices; three farms were surveyed for the Commissie van Inspectie by one man in 1820 and 1823; a man called Kwaai Koos is named after his farm; and twice in three generations the family is standing on ground that came in through a woman.

What the record holds, in order

No dated record on this parcel yet. It is on the map because the Surveyor-General has a polygon for it; the history is not transcribed.

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.

Research notes

[10 Aug 2026] WHERE IZAAK JOHANNES VAN DER MERWE DIED on 11 May 1839, aged 30 years 11 months 26 days, a boeren arbeider who left no property the informant knew of [SRC-347]. He was born on TYGERHOEK about May 1808, and the two farms are 5.8 KM APART - which is the 1823 diagram's own statement made measurable. That sheet marks a strong fountain 'gem. drinking der plaatsen Tygerhoek en Enkelde Wilgeboom' [SRC-359]: one spring watering both places. A man born on one and dead on the other lived his whole life inside six kilometres. THREE SPELLINGS, ONE PLACE, ALL KEPT. The cadastre registers it ENKELDE WILGENBOOM, the 1823 diagram writes Enkelde Wilgeboom, and the 1839 death notice writes 'Inkelde wilgeboom'. The parcel takes the registered form because a parcel is a cadastral object; PLC-000057 keeps the diagram's. Neither is a correction of the other, 5a.

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

Open questions

The Hantam ground has no basemap under it priority 3 · LEAD-0167
The Calvinia farms are on the map as polygons but sit over blank canvas, and the four Northern Cape cemeteries have no pins at all. What is missing, and is it worth fetching?

What would settle it A re-cut basemap covering the Hantam, and a sourced coordinate for each town cemetery.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Enkelde Wilgenboom No. 768 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.