Marthinus Oosthuizen
1764 – 1799 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: The estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude is inventoried (1802-04-27).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Marthinus
- Given
- 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
- Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722)
- Mother
- Dina Carolina Britz
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1751Catharina Oosthuizen
- 1753Johannes Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1753)
- 1755Jacobus Nicolaas Oosthuizen
- 1755Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
- 1757Jacobus Petrus Oosthuizen
- 1760Gerrit Johannes Oosthuizen
- 1762Dina Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1767Pieter Cornelis Oosthuizen
- 1769Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1769)
- 1771Dina Johanna Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1774Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1777Jacoba Cornelia Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 1764 born Born
- 1799 died Died
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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 Forty-six things
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
- 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
[SRC-074] Child of Jacobus OosthuizenL (PER-000230) and Dina Carolina BritzM, Tulbagh 1749 - sibling of the root ancestor's father.
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000662 into this row. Duplicate created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull: kin_sweep.py matched on tree id only, so a person already in the model WITHOUT a tree id was added a second time. Same display name AND same full birth date - name plus date, not name alone. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the research. Moved across: sex=M; tree id=.
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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