The estate at de Modder Fonteyn is inventoried
23 April 1809 · family · Citrusdal (Olifants River valley)
MOOC8/28.63. Ockert Oosthuijzen died intestate on the Olifants River leaving eleven children, the youngest two years old. The inventory walks the house room by room and then out to the yard, where it finds an ox wagon, yellowwood planks, WAGONMAKER'S WOOD and a broken chaise - and in the winkel a bellows, two sledgehammers, tongs and a screw. THIS FAMILY WERE SMITHS AND WAGONMAKERS as well as stock farmers, and that is the skill they carried east. Two hundred sheep, forty-eight goats, eight oxen, five breeding cattle, one old riding horse, and one silver watch. The eldest son, 25, bought the farm for 1,000 rixdollars and took in the seven minors, having promised at his parents' death to keep them and have them schooled until they came of age.
Who was there: 4 people
- 1755 Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
- 1784 Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
- 1786 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1786 Petrus Jacobus Venter
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
- MOOC8/28.63 - Inventory of the estate of Ockert Oosthuijzen, taken at de Modder Fonteyn on the Olifants River, 23 April 1809 MOOC8/28.63, {18090423}
Told in
- evidence Thirty-two years
- evidence The Oosthuizens of the Koup