Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

10 April 1830 – 19 October 1886 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Given: Jacobus Johannes
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: Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
Mother: Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom
Brothers and sisters: 1814Ockert Andreas Oosthuijzen

1816Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen

1819Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)

1821Daniel Jacobus Oosthuizen

1824Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen

1827Johanna Maggel Petronella Oosthuizen
Married: Adriana Hermina Janse Van Vuuren
Children: 1857Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen

1859Susanna Sophia Oosthuizen

·Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Johannes Marthinus Oosthuizen

A life in the record

10 April 1830 born Born
19 October 1886 died Died

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
6 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: child Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (PER-000015); child Johanna Machteld Petronella StrydomM (PER-000138). Thin record; dates as in the tree.

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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