INFORMATION RELATING TO FARMS MENTIONED IN VARIOUS DOCUMENTS IN RELATION TO THE FAMILY KOTZEE (KOTZé) OF WINBURG : including present day landmarks, registration numbers and magisterial districts
To-day,
Kareeboomfontein No.196 district Winburg (MR1)(MR2) and diminished in size.
In the Estate
of Salomon Jacobus Petrus Erasmus
(E.771)
First distribution 9 January
1903; final and last 29 January 1906.
·
Allermanskraal No. 46 district Winburg (3095 morgen)
Allermanskraal No.46 district Winburg (MR2) today forms the
western sector of the Willem Pretorius National Park, that sector that lies
west north and south of the dam Allermanskraal Dam wall (built 1960).
·
Lekkerlewen No. 560 district
Winburg (2900 morgen). Inherited half by Abel Hermanus Christiaan Erasmus and
half by Johannes Marthinus Andries Erasmus E 381 (died 19 February 1900 in
Laager Gen. Cronje, Battle of Paardenberg) and wife Catharina Elizabeth Erasmus
(neé Oosthuÿhuizen) [O.310], both of Erf 186,
Ventersburg
Lekkerlewen No.3 district
Ventersberg (MR2). Its consolidation with Ventersrust and Mainreef formed a
sizable continuum.
Mainreef No.376 district
Ventersburg (MR2). Inherited by Salomon Jacobus Petrus Erasmus, to be passed on
to his six children. A application to the Supreme Court dated 9 April 1907 asks
for this bequest to be waived and permission granted for a sale as the property
as “useless” and “without water”, for the Orphan Chamber to hold the money
until a better property could be identified for purchase. From MR2 it is
evident that the viability of running this farm diminished immensely once
access to the Rietspruit was denied by its separation from Ventersrust
To-day,
Taaibosch No.43 district Winburg, now
broken into Nos. 43, 1691 and Désirée 1653 (MR2) and originally continuous with
Allermanskraal to the east. Diamond-bearing reef present.
Ventersrust
No.325 district Ventersberg, later farmed by Jacobus Nicholas Potgietor (sic),
husband of Hester Magdaline Erasmus and who, together with his mother-in-law Hester
Susanna Erasmus (neé Oosthuÿhuizen) who had life-long usufruct on the farm,
agreed to sell this with Mainreef to make a viable purchase for a future owner.
Kleinfontein, neighbouring farm
to Ventersrust and Lekkerlewen. Land exchanged between JJ vd B and S J P
Erasmus with regard to “London” (see below) to facilitate efficiencies, with a
portion of “London” belonging to the estate and later needing consolidation
with Ventersrust and Lekkerlewen.
To-day, Kleinfontein
No.210 district Ventersberg (MR2), now Nos. 134 and 210(sic), neighbouring farm
to Ventersrust and Lekkerlewen. Land exchanged between JJ vd B and S J P
Erasmus (cadastral lines 36(6) London, 61 New York, 3 Paris, 136 unnamed) to
facilitate efficiencies. These portions of the farms belonging to the estate
later needed formal consolidation with Ventersrust and Lekkerlewen.
“Nooitgedacht in
district Winburg”
Nooitgedacht
No.2 in district Winburg (MR2), owned by Gerhardus Cornelius
Oosthuÿhuizen, northerly
neighbour of Taaibosch, is now broken into No. 2 and No. 1483.
Owned jointly by Johannes Albertus Kotzee
and Johanna Aletta Erasmus
* Afgunspan (1891) district Winburg
* Bultpan (1901) No. 336 district Hoopstad (1200 morgen)
To-day, Bultpan
No.336 district Wesselbron (MR3) and very much smaller in comparison to MR1.
Johannes Albertus Kotzee living here when
declared insolvent in 1911/12
*
Vrijheid : P O Klippan district
Hopetown
To-day,
Vrijheid No.199 district Hopetown (MR3). Klippan No.410 district Hopetown,
north of Doornbult and westerly subdivision of Doornplaat No.30. The
post-office (post-restante) was open between 1904 and 1922 (MR1)(MR3).
Map references used
in research at the offices of the Surveyors-General, Cape Town and Bloemfontein :
MR1 Hopetown, Boshoff,
Winburg, Military Field Intelligence Dept, Cape Town 1900
MR2 No.2826 Winburg :
Pretoria 1959
MR3 No.2726 Kroonstad :
Pretoria 1966
MR4 No.2826 Winburg :
Pretoria 1986