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Person PER-000054

Okert Oosthuizen

active 1833–1841 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Middelwater (1833).

Names

Baptismal name
Okert
Given
Okert
Surname
Oosthuizen

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

A life in the record

  1. 1833 land Held it, Middelwater
  2. August 1833 event The loan farm Middelwater surveyed for Okert Oosthuizen
    8,843 morgen including the Government ground Drooge Kloof, in the Zwarte Berg, Field Cornetcy of C. Hatting. C.L. Stretch again. This is the parent survey behind the 1883 resurvey.

Ground they are on record on

Stories

What we don't know

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

  1. Middelwater No.169 original loan-farm diagram (1833)Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 349/1833

Research notes

The loan farm MIDDELWATER, including the Government ground Drooge Kloof, was surveyed for him in Aug 1833 and titled 15 Apr 1841. Almost certainly Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (1786-1859), PER-000001, who would have been 47 - but the diagram gives no patronymic. [TO VERIFY]

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Open questions