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Person PER-000148

Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen

1801 – ? · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name
Susanna Johanna
Given
Susanna Johanna
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 Oosthuizen (b.1755)
Mother
Susanna Catharina van Tonder
Brothers and sisters
Married
Jan Hendrik Botha
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1801 born Born

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.

Research notes

[FamilySearch, 29 Jul 2026] Sister of the root ancestor.

29 Jul 2026: linked to tree (matched on name + birth year during the farm-relatives pull).

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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