Nicolaas Cornelis van den Hoven
active 1878 · van den Hoven line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert (1878-02-10).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Nicolaas Cornelis
- Given
- Nicolaas Cornelis
- Surname
- van den Hoven
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.
A life in the record
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10 February 1878
event
Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
Born on 18 January 1878 and baptised three weeks later - by now the family is in the Prince Albert congregation, founded within living memory, and the church is close enough that a baptism no longer waits fourteen weeks as his father's did in 1837. Third son, so by the naming pattern he carries his
- 10 February 1878 witness Witnessed a baptism · Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptism · 10 February 1878
on Hartebeest Voedpad (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 5), Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 6), Drooge Kloof
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- 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
- Baptism, 10 February 1878: Almero Jacobus Hitge, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuizen and Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge, Prince Albert FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-T996-Z; cc=1478678; Doop Register, Prins Albert, page 458, entry 59
Research notes
[SRC-088] Baptism witness at Prince Albert, 10 Feb 1878, for Almero Jacobus Hitge OosthuizenL. VAN DEN HOVEN is a new surname for the project.
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