Matjesfontein Nr. 601

Plaasnommer: Nr. 601
Grootte, soos die kaart dit stel: Grazing Ground 8778 Morgen 189 Square Roods; Government Ground 5784 Morgen 193 Square Roods

Hierdie perseel het geen gepaste opmetingspoligoon nie, en kan dus nie op die kaart geteken word nie. Dit is 'n gaping in die kadasterpassing, nie 'n afwesigheid uit die rekord nie.

Waarom hierdie plaas hier is

Beskryf deur 'n dokument in hierdie versameling. Nog nie op die kaart geplaas nie.

dokument 'n Dokument in die versameling beskryf hierdie grond DOC-0288

Wat die rekord hou, in volgorde

1823 document SG diagram 124/1823
Clw. Q. 1-37

Begrens deur, soos die kaart hulle noem

NW waste government ground
NE Wid. Johs Louw J.G. Son (government ground requested for)
E E. A. Nel A son (government ground requested for)
SE Sybrand Straus J.M. Son (government ground requested for)
S Johannes Matts Straus K. Senior (ground requested for)
W David Josephus Straus J.M. Son (government ground requested for)

Dokumente

Skandering van SG diagram, 124/1823, 1823

SG diagram, 124/1823, 1823
10054381 601.jpg

Navorsingsnotas

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-387] ENTERED AS A CANDIDATE, NOT AS FAMILY GROUND. This is the nearest of the seven Calvinia farms called Matjesfontein to the ground this family actually held - 14.9 km from Oude Muur - and LEAD-0151 asks whether one of them is the farm PER-000762 was born on in 1863. NOTHING ON THE DIAGRAM CONNECTS IT TO THIS FAMILY. The boundary annotations name three Strausses, a Nel and a Louw widow, and no van der Merwe. That is evidence but not a disproof: the sheet describes the 1820s and 1830s and the birth is forty years later. THE DIAGRAM ALSO WARNS AGAINST ITSELF. A road leaving the south-west corner is labelled "Road to the place Matjes fontein of J. M. Straus", so a SECOND Matjesfontein lay within a few kilometres of this one and was not this one. Two more of the fountain notes point at a third, "Naresie Matjesfontein". The name was local currency here. Centroid from the CSG cadastre, not from the diagram.

Werknotas, hier gewys omdat dit 'n private navorsingsbou is.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

The Hantam ground has no basemap under it prioriteit 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?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A re-cut basemap covering the Hantam, and a sourced coordinate for each town cemetery.

Wat die rekord kortkom

“E. A. Nel A son (government ground requested for)” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them first order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Matjesfontein Nr. 601 names E. A. Nel A son (government ground requested for), a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. No one of that surname holds a single ownership span anywhere in this model.

What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.
“Wid. Johs Louw J.G. Son (government ground requested for)” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Matjesfontein Nr. 601 names Wid. Johs Louw J.G. Son (government ground requested for), a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Louw tenure elsewhere, but none on this boundary and none at this date.

What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.
Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Matjesfontein Nr. 601 is in the model, 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.