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South African Eksteen family descendant from Heinrich Oswald Eckstein (changed to Eksteen) who settled in the Cape Colony in 1702

Rondebosch Eksteen Farm 1807

The properties marked on the mountainside of this map are the Newlands Headquarters going right down to the Liesbeeck, with Mr. E. L. Truter’s farm Zorg en Rust on the lower side of it; the Schuur (the “Fiskall’s Country House”) on the upper bank; the Rondebosch Farm (Rustenburg); Eksteen’s farm, below that of Mr. van Reenen (Welgelegen); and the holdings of Messrs. Breda, Smuts, Maude, Blankenberg, Kelter and Robinson extending east along the upper banks of the Liesbeeck; while on the lower banks westward from Colonel Baird’s Valkenberg there were those of Huyser, Groenewald, de Vos, John Munnik, Mr. Hopley’s Myrtle Grove, Col. McLean’s, and John Truter’s. J. A. van Reenen’s farm stretched into the dunes (now Pinelands) and so did Mr. Veyll’s with a Mr. Barn’s holding above it.