Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West

5 March 1837 · family · Beaufort West

Born on Middelwater 27 November 1836, baptised at Beaufort West on 5 March 1837 - a fourteen-week wait, which is what distance did to these families. Both paternal grandparents stood as witnesses, with a Venter and a Strydom for the other two sides. Nineteen years earlier his father had been baptised at Graaff-Reinet with his own uncle standing; the family has moved, but the pattern of who turns up has not.

Who was there: 7 people

• 1754 Jan Louis Venter
• 1786 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
• 1792 Adriana Cecilia Venter
• 1816 Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
• 1819 Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
• 1836 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
• · Susanna Catharina Strydom

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• Baptism, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P; cc=1392488, wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701

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• mentioned Thirty-two years