Witteboomen Property1

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Last Edited05/07/2017
Property TransactionsIn 1678 Witteboomen was sold to Jan Coenraad Visser, the original transfer documents have not been located. Witteboomen is adjacent to Constantia, the estate granted to Simon van der Stel in 1685. Grof only relocates to the property after 1688.2
Circa 1697 Witteboomen was sold by Jan Coenraad Visser to Simon van der Stel, and is incorporated into Constantia.3
In 1712 following the death of Simon van der Stel, Constantia was subdivided into three properties known as Bergvliet, Groot Constantia and Klein Constantia. At the same time Witteboomen reverted to its former, separate state.
In 1714 following the death of Simon van der Stel, and after Witteboomen reverted to its former separate state, and it was purchased by Jan Gerritz: Stoos.4
In 1716 a portion of Witteboomen was sold by Jan Gerritz: Stoos to Johannes Franke, who names it Frankengift.5
In 1724 Witteboomen was sold by Jan Gerritz: Stoos, to Jan Hendrik van Helsdingen, subsequently, it changes hands as follows:
1778:
inherited by Johannes Guilliam van Helsdingen
Aan Jan Guilliam word ook die plaats Witte Boomen bemaak op voorwaarde dat hy 6000 "Caabse guldens" in die boedel inbetaal. Indien dit nie gebeur nie, moet die plaas op 'n openbare veiling verkoop word."
1800:
wife enlarges & runs property
1824:
sold to W.F. van Rheede van Oudtshoorn
1833:
sold to J.A. Dreyer
sold to J.W. Brunt
sold to W. Crozier van Rheede van Oudtshoorn
sold to D.J. de Kock
1875:
sold to W.A. van der Byl

Original U-shaped homestead ravaged by fire & altered / renovated & one wing given 2nd storey & woodwork replaced; house is difficult to date but thickness of walls & what is still visible of original ground floor plan suggest not later than 1824; house probably built by elder Van Helsdingen, possibly even Stoots; present front facade was originally one of side wings.6

Citations

  1. [S821] Mansell Upham, "Constantia Subdivisions", February 2015 (Tokyo). This breakdown of the Constantia subdivisions from Mansell Upham is based on his research in the title deeds, Wittebomen - previously incorporated into Groot Constantia.... Hereinafter cited as "Constantia Subdivisions."
  2. [S657] Mansell Upham 'Hell and Paradise... Hope on Constantia / De Hel en Het Paradijs... De Hoop op Constantia: Jan Grof (died ante 1700) and his extended family at the Cape of Good Hope', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), February 2012. "Grof finally purchased (c. 1678) a farm Wittebomen relocating (after 1688) to the valley near Constantia Kloof with its two forests De Hel and Het Paradijs."
  3. [S657] Mansell Upham 'UL04 Hell and Paradise', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Footnote 65: 1697: S. van der Stel buys out Simonsz ("Witteboomen becomes part of the farm "Constantia")."
  4. [S821] Mansell Upham, "Constantia Subdivisions", This breakdown of the Constantia subdivisions from Mansell Upham is based on his research in the title deeds, 1712: subdivided from original farm Constantia - bought by Pieter de Meijer & sold immediately to J.J. Kotze; Kotze's widow, Elsabe marries Johannes Colyn.
  5. [S821] Mansell Upham, "Constantia Subdivisions", This breakdown of the Constantia subdivisions from Mansell Upham is based on his research in the title deeds, 1716: bought by J. Franke (smaller half of original farm Witteboomen).
  6. [S821] Mansell Upham, "Constantia Subdivisions", This breakdown of the Constantia subdivisions from Mansell Upham is based on his research in the title deeds, 1724: sold to Jan Hendrik van Helsdingen.
 

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