Catharina Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)

No dates recorded · 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: Catharina
Given: Catharina
Surname: Oosthuysen

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

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

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

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-093] Grandchild of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude; child of the late Marthinus OosthuizenM (PER-000241, d.1799) and orphaned before April 1802, when the estate inventory lists the eight of them and where each had been placed. Age not known to the clerk. The record does not say where she was living - the only one of the eight for whom no household is named.

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