The fifteenth of April 1841
One day the ground in this district was held by permission, and the next it was property. These are the same farms, a year apart.
Before the grants no farm here had a surveyed boundary. A loan farm was a place and a water source, and the edges came with the survey - so 1840 is drawn as points and 1841 as ground. The shapes are the modern cadastre, which is the closest this record can come to the lines the grants drew.
- A holder this record can name
- On record by then, holder unknown
- No evidence here yet
What changed in a day
In 1840 this record can name a holder on 8 of the district parcels it can place; in 1841 on 16. The difference is not that the district filled up. It is that a survey turned occupation into title, and a title has a name on it.
| Farm | Held in 1841 by | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Klaarstroom No. 184 (Klaarstroom A) | Christian Hatting Senior | Perpetual Quitrent |
| Klein Sleutlefontein No. 127 | not named here | Perpetual Quitrent |
| Rietkuil No. 119 (Kouka) | Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7) | quitrent |
| Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26) | Cornelis Floris Johannes Meyer | Perpetual Quitrent |
| Varsche Fontein | Charl du Toit | Perpetual Quitrent |
| Vrolikheid | Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen (Almero's son) | Perpetual Quitrent |
| Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1) | N. Hitge | Perpetual Quitrent |
| Wolwekraal No. 17 | Johannes Hendrik Venter | quitrent |
This page counts only parcels this project can put on a map, so it is a floor and not a total. A farm with no coordinate gets no mark, the same rule the main map follows: a wrong pin is worse than a missing one.