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Person PER-000157

Anna Magdalena Oosthuysen

1852 – 1936 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

  1. Anna Magdalena Oosthuysen
  2. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

Baptismal name
Anna Magdalena
Given
Anna Magdalena
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
Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
Mother
Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
Brothers and sisters
Married
Jan Adriaan Gideon Mocke
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1852 born Born
  2. 1936 died Died

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 PER-000005.

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

FamilySearch profile GP46-ZRV