Dina Carolina Britz

1732 – 1802 · Brits line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722) (1749-04-10).

• event Ockert Oosthuizen baptised as "Ocker"1755

Names

Baptismal name

Dina Carolina

Given

Dina Carolina

Surname

Britz

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 Brits

Mother

Catharina Bastijaans Pyl

Brothers and sisters

Martha Elisabeth Botha

Married

Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722) 10 April 1749

Children

• 1751Catharina Oosthuizen
• 1753Johannes Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1753)
• 1755Jacobus Nicolaas Oosthuizen
• 1755Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
• 1757Jacobus Petrus Oosthuizen
• 1760Gerrit Johannes Oosthuizen
• 1762Dina Johanna Oosthuizen
• 1764Marthinus Oosthuizen
• 1767Pieter Cornelis Oosthuizen
• 1769Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1769)
• 1771Dina Johanna Magdalena Oosthuizen
• 1774Adriaan Oosthuizen
• 1777Jacoba Cornelia Oosthuizen

A life in the record

1. 1732 born Born
2. 10 April 1749 married Married Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722)
3. 1755 event Ockert Oosthuizen baptised as "Ocker"
   [SRC-091] Son of Jacobus Oosthuijsen and Diena Carola Brits, with OCKER BRITS and Johanna Botha as witnesses. Second son, so by the naming pattern he takes his mother's father's name - and that grandfather is standing at the font. No Almero: the family name at this point is simply Ocker, and it came
4. 1755 occasion Baptism of their child, Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
5. 1802 died Died
6. 27 April 1802 event The estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude is inventoried
   [SRC-093] MOOC8/24.27. Taken at the place of the son Pieter Cornelis, where the widow was living. The old couple owned no farm: 140 sheep, Rd:s 300 cash, one enslaved man named ANTHONY VAN DE KAAP, and Rd:s 1382:5 out on loan to their own eight surviving children. Their son OCKERT - heir no. 3, the

Stories

• mentioned What the dates do
• subject Forty-six things
• mentioned The Oosthuizens of the Koup

What we don't know

• No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

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

Sources

1. Baptism 1755: Ocker, child of Jacobus Oosthuijsen and Diena Carola Brits FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WT5C; cc=1478678; register pages 30-31, ANNO 1755, entry 9
2. MOOC8/24.27 - Inventory of the estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude and his widow Dina Carolina Brits, taken 27 April 1802 Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)MOOC8/24.27, {18020427}

Research notes

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

• Is Jacobus Nicolaas Oosthuizen (PER-000659) a real thirteenth child? priority 2 · LEAD-0114

  FamilySearch lists twelve children for Jacobus OosthuizenL b.1722 (LHLG-SXG). This model holds thirteen. Is PER-000659, born 12 November 1755, a real child, another row for one of the twelve, or somebody else's son?

  What would settle it A 1755 baptism entry, or Ockert's exact birth date. If Ockert turns out to be born within about ten months of 12 November 1755, one of the two rows is wrong.

What the record is missing

• An estate taken on ground we cannot place second order · B6 loose-doc

  DOC-0066 (MOOC8/24.27, 1802-04-27) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It says “ter plaatse van Pieter Cornelis Oosthuysen (farm not named)” and no more. No parcel is attached, so the family it describes sits nowhere on the map.

  What would settle it The inventory's own heading usually names the farm and the field-cornetcy; where it does not, the deceased's quitrent or opgaaf entry for that year will. This is the shape that produced the de Bruin/Rondabel find.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.

Elders

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