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Person PER-000283

George Joseph Roy Hitge

25 November 1821 – 14 June 1899 · Hitge line

Connection to the Koup

Lived on Vondeling No. 139 in this district (1892).

Names

Baptismal name
George Joseph Roy
Given
George Joseph Roy
Surname
Hitge

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
Nicolaus Hitge
Mother
Mary Wright Hunt
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 25 November 1821 born Born
  2. 1846 witness Witnessed a baptism · Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
  3. 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
  4. 10 February 1878 witness Witnessed a baptism · Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen
  5. 14 June 1899 died Died
  6. undated land Lived on it, Vondeling No. 139

Ground they are on record on

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.

Sources

  1. 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
  2. Baptism of Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, b. 11 June 1846Dutch Reformed Church register (congregation not identified on the image)Baptism register, pages 910-911, entry for Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, 1846Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone.

Research notes

[SRC-088] Baptism witness at Prince Albert, 10 Feb 1878 - a Hitge, so the mother's side. CARRIES THE NAME ROY, which recurs much later in Roy Don OosthuizenM (1923-1999). English given names - George, Joseph, Roy - inside an Afrikaans farming family, as with Charles Frederick WRIGHT Oosthuizen (PER-000164). Where the English comes in is an open question.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000692 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry L1MB-VB8; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: birth_edtf=1821-11-25; death_edtf=1899-06-14; tree id=. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'George Joseph Roy HitgeH', PER-000692 said 'George Joseph Roye Hitge'.

[5 Aug 2026, SRC-290/289] HE WAS LIVING ON VONDELING IN 1892. His sister's death notice (SRC-290) says she died 'at the residence of her brother, George Joseph Roy HitgeH, at Vondeling, div. Willowmore'. That is PAR-000127, Vondeling No. 139 - a farm this model had only ever seen as a boundary name on the Haggas and Uitnood diagrams. This is the first person the record places ON it, and he is a Hitge, brother-in-law of Gerolm Marincowitz.

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

Elders

FamilySearch profile L1MB-VB8