Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen
1 April 1819 – ? · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up
Names
- Baptismal name
- Petrus Marthinus
- Given
- Petrus Marthinus
- 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
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- 1808Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
- 1811Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1811)
- 1813Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- 1816Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816)
- 1816Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1820Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1823Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
- 1828Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen
- 1828Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
- 1830Martha Jacoba Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1832Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1839Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1839)
- 1840~Hendrik Johannes Oosthuizen
- Married
- Suzanna Margaretha Liebenberg
A life in the record
- 1 April 1819 born Born
- 26 December 1842 occasion Baptism of their child, Susara Johanna OOSTHUIZEN at Beaufort West
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 3 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-073] Baptised Beaufort West 3 Oct 1819 - the first of the children baptised there rather than at Graaff-Reinet, which dates the family's move west. No marriage found; one of the three sons Pottas was asking the list about in 2005, and still open.
[3 Aug 2026, SRC-200] Named as father at BWB-273-07, the baptism of his daughter Susara Johanna (PER-000843) on 26 December 1842, veldkornetskap Hatting. Two of his brothers stood witness.
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.
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