Cornelis Andreas Oosthuizen
29 November 1840 – ? · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Names
- Given
- Cornelis Andreas
- 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
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1836Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1838Johanna Petronella Oosthuizen
- 1839~Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1840Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1840)
- 1840Roelof Daniel Jacobus Oosthuizen
- 1842Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1842)
- 1844Petrus Marthinus Lodewicus Oosthuizen
- 1847Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1847)
- 1849Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1849)
- 1852Anna Magdalena Oosthuysen
- 1855Roelof Daniel Jacobus Oosthuysen
- 1856Martha Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1861Johanna Elizabeth Eliza Oosthuizen
- 1865Anna Petronella Oosthuizen (b.1865)
- ·Adriana Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 29 November 1840 born Born
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- 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.
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.
Open questions
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Four same-day sibling pairs that are one child under two spellings
priority 2 · LEAD-0111
Four pairs of siblings share a mother and an exact birth date and carry names one or two letters apart. Are they twins given near-identical names, or one child recorded twice?
What would settle it The register entry, or a single FamilySearch profile behind both ids.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GHXS-JHC