Abel Albertus Oosthuizen
5 October 1849 – 22 June 1918 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Rhemhoogte No. 125 (1879-07-01).
Names
- Given
- Abel Albertus
- 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
A life in the record
- 5 October 1849 born Born
- 1 July 1879 land Held it, Rhemhoogte No. 125
- 22 June 1918 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Rhemhoogte No. 125 held it · 1 July 1879
What we don't know
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
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 Jacobus Daniel Johannes OosthuizenM (PER-000004). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
30 Jul 2026, PROBABLE IDENTIFICATION [SRC-123][TREE]: he is the "(J.)A.A. Oosthuysen" granted RHEMHOOGTE No.125 with a co-holder on 1.7.1879, deed P.A.Q.2-20 (OWN-000060) - the only adult A.A. Oosthuizen in the tree (aged 29), son of J.D.J. and Sophia Johanna MockeM of Middelwater: the farm north of Middelwater taken by a Middelwater son. TREE CONFLICT noted: the tree also attaches him to a second parent-couple (Ockert Jacobus Johannes OosthuizenM x M.M.J. Pienaar) - one of the two is wrong upstream [TO VERIFY]. Deed itself would confirm the grantee name.
30 Jul 2026 [FS]: NOTE - FamilySearch's 11-child list for J.D.J. x Mocke does NOT include him, consistent with the parent-couple conflict already flagged (the tree also attaches him to Ockert Jacobus Johannes O. x Pienaar). His parentage stays PROBABLE, not proved.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-126/DOC-0086] PARENTAGE NOW DOUBTED: J.D.J.'s own 1903 death notice lists his five surviving children and ABEL ALBERTUS IS NOT AMONG THEM, though he lived to 1918. Together with FamilySearch's child-list omission, the balance tips to the OTHER parent-couple the tree carries: OCKERT JACOBUS JOHANNES OOSTHUIZEN x M.M.J. PIENAAR. His identification as the 1879 Rhemhoogte grantee (OWN-000060) stands - only the 'son of J.D.J.' reading falls; he was other kin, likely a nephew of the same circle.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-127/DOC-0087] Now absent from BOTH parents' death notices - Sophia's (1883/85) as well as J.D.J.'s (1903) - while alive both times. As settled as it gets without a baptism: NOT a child of J.D.J. x Sophia Johanna MockeM.
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.
What the record is missing
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The record stops in 1879 and never resumes
second order · B2 trail-ends
Rhemhoogte No. 125 was worked as far as 1879-07-01, with Abel Albertus OosthuizenH the last owner on record. 147 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?
What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.
Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand,
each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data.
The whole set is on the
questions page.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LC5Y-58X