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Person PER-000135

Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)

31 May 1819 – 24 September 1856 · Oosthuizen line

Married into the family

  1. Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
  2. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Connection to the Koup

Lived on Middelwater in this district (1836).

Names

Baptismal name
Susanna Catharina
Given
Susanna Catharina
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
Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
Mother
Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom
Brothers and sisters
Married
Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen 7 February 1836
Children

A life in the record

  1. 31 May 1819 born Born
  2. 1836 land Lived on it, Middelwater
  3. 7 February 1836 married Married Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  4. 5 March 1837 event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at 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 baptise
  5. 5 March 1837 occasion Baptism of their child, Ockert Almero Oosthuizen at Beaufort West
  6. 24 September 1856 event Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen dies on Middelwater
    Frans's 3x-great-grandmother, aged 37. Her mother-in-law's generation and her own both end on this farm: her mother Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom died there in Feb 1860, her brother-in-law Cornelis Andries in Apr 1871.
  7. 24 September 1856 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Stories

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

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

Sources

  1. Family Group Record: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1787) x Adriana Cecilia Venter (1792) - posted to a genealogy list as "Oosthuizen X Venter"private (email, forwarded to Frans)Johan Jacob Pottas, Bloemfontein, 13 October 2005; compiled from South African Genealogies Vol 07: O-Ph, with KAB MOOC and VAB citations
  2. Baptism, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing GISA, StellenboschSouth 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

Research notes

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 3x-great-grandmother, and she DIED ON MIDDELWATER, 24 Sep 1856. [SRC-073 + tree] Daughter of Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (PER-000015) and Johanna Machteld Petronella StrydomM (PER-000138). Married her first cousin Johannes Adriaan OosthuizenH (PER-000003) at Beaufort West 7 Feb 1836 - Pottas says plainly "hulle is neef en niggie". Mother of Ockert Almero (PER-000005), born at Middelwater in 1836.

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.

Elders

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