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Person PER-000363

Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen

about 1839 – ? · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

  1. Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen
  2. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

Given
Anna Magdalena
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
Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
Mother
Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
Brothers and sisters
Married
Jan Adriaan Gideon Mocke
Children
Pieter Hendrik Mocke

A life in the record

  1. about 1839 born Born

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

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 Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL (b.1819) (PER-000135). 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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