Barbara Oosthuizen (1708-1713)
1708 – 1713 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Two Oosthuizen daughters die in the smallpox year (1713).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Barbara
- Given
- Barbara
- 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
- Mother
- Johanna Martens
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 1708 born Born
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1713
event
Two Oosthuizen daughters die in the smallpox year
[SRC-074] Barbara, five, and Jannetje, three, both die in 1713 - the year the smallpox epidemic brought ashore on a Company fleet killed roughly a quarter of the colony's people and devastated the Khoi far worse. The family loses two of its nine children in one year. Cause is inferred from the date
- 1713 died Died
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
- FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
Research notes
[SRC-074 + SRC-094] Child of Johannes Oosthuijsz (PER-000296) and Johanna MartensM (PER-000297), married Drakenstein about 1702 - sibling of Frans's 5x-great-grandfather Jacobus (PER-000230). DIED 1713, aged five, in the same year as her sister Jannetje - the year of the great Cape SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC, which killed a quarter of the colony's people. [TO VERIFY] cause is inferred from the date, not stated.
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
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The 1713 smallpox burials
priority 3 · LEAD-0005
Did Barbara and Jannetje Oosthuizen die in the 1713 Cape smallpox epidemic?
What would settle it Burial entries with dates and, if the register gives it, cause.
Elders
FamilySearch profile L43Q-53Y