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Person PER-000122

Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen

14 December 1808 – 1884 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up

  1. Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
  2. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Wynand van Zyl.

Names

Baptismal name
Johanna Jacomina
Given
Johanna Jacomina
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.

Immediate family

Father
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
Mother
Adriana Cecilia Venter
Brothers and sisters
Married
Wynand van Zyl
Children

A life in the record

  1. 14 December 1808 born Born
  2. 1829–1840 event Two Oosthuizen sisters of Middelwater marry two van Zyl brothers
    Johanna Jacomina (b. 14 Dec 1808), the root couple's eldest, married Wynand van Zyl; her sister Susanna Catharina (b. 17 Nov 1811) married Jacobus van Zijl (20 Sep 1809 - 10 Apr 1906). Johanna Jacomina's marriage is recorded at Beaufort West on 1 Feb 1829. REPORTED BY Fred van Zyl, a descendant, and
  3. 19 August 1838 event Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list
    Born 5 June 1838, son of Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuisen - THIRTEEN DAYS before his cousin Adriana Cecilia. Among the witnesses: JACOBUS VAN ZEYL AND SUSANNA CATARINA OOSTHUISEN, the other brother and the other sister, standing for their nephew. Also Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen and An
  4. 19 August 1838 occasion Baptism of their child, Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl at Beaufort West
  5. 1839 event Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater
    His own death notice gives his birthplace as 'MIDDELWATER, C.C.' - so Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen were ON HER FATHER'S FARM when this son was born, four years after their marriage. It is the first documentary placing of a van Zyl household on Middelwater itself. DATE: the model ca
  6. 25 August 1839 witness Witnessed a baptism
  7. 26 August 1839 witness Witnessed a baptism
  8. 1884 died Died

Who stood with them

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

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. Fred van Zyl to [FAMILY] Van Zyl/Oosthuizen descent, Vrolikheid birth tradition, and the Marico Klaarstroom.private (message to Frans, via the Klueplaas Facebook thread)Message of 29 Jul 2026
  2. Beaufort West baptisms 1838. Adriana Cecilia van Zyl (11 Jul) and Jacobus Petrus van Zyl (19 Aug), the two van Zyl x Oosthuizen households FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GLX, cc=1392488; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 212 of 302; register pages 210-211
  3. Sterfkennis of Jan Adriaan van Zijl, d. 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R.Z.A.R. Weeskamer (Orphan Chamber) death notice, on the printed form 'Overeenkomstig de Wet op de Weeskamer, 10 November 1869'. Supplied by
  4. Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/

Research notes

[SRC-073] Eldest child of the root couple; born on a farm in the Graaff-Reinet district, baptised there 13 Aug 1809. Married Wynand van ZylH at Beaufort West 1 Feb 1829.

29 Jul 2026 FamilySearch GM42-9CH gives her death as 1884.

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-181 - Beaufort West baptisms 1838] Named as a mother - 'Johanna Jacomina Oosthuisen', wife of Wynand van ZylH - at the baptism of their son JACOBUS PETRUS at Beaufort West on 19 August 1838. Her sister Susanna Catharina and her brother-in-law Jacobus stood as witnesses. The two sisters' children were born thirteen days apart.

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-183 - his own death notice] HER SON'S DEATH NOTICE NAMES HER as 'Johanna Jacomina van Zyl, gebore Oosthuizen' and gives his birthplace as MIDDELWATER - so she and Wynand were on her father's farm in 1839, four years after their marriage. It also shows the family did NOT simply stay in the Koup: that son died in the Marico in 1895.

[SRC-294, Fred van Zyl, 6 Aug 2026] [FAMILY] HER MARRIED HOUSEHOLD WAS ON MIDDELWATER. Her son Jan Adriaan van Zyl was born on the farm on 9 November 1839, so she and Wynand van ZylH were living on PAR-000001 after their marriage - a van Zyl household on the Oosthuizen home farm, in the years between the 1833 survey and the 1841 grant. This model had the marriage (LEAD-0082 records the duplicate Wynand rows) and not the residence. [TO VERIFY - the baptism entry would state the farm]. See LEAD-0110.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Open questions

Elders

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