Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
14 May 1858 – ? · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
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
- Mother
- Sophia Johanna Mocke
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1844Nicolaas Frederik Hitge
- 1846Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
- 1848Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen
- 1850Sophia Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1852Cornelia Francina Magdalena Elizabeth Oosthuizen (infant)
- 1852Fredrica Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1854~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1856Frederik Simon Oosthuizen
- 1860Margaretha Appollonia Oosthuizen
- 1863John Peter Oosthuizen
- 1867Pieter Marincowitz Oosthuysen
A life in the record
- 14 May 1858 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.
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- 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 Jacobus Daniel Johannes OosthuizenM (PER-000004). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch GVZV-V7Y, b. 1858, agrees.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-126/DOC-0086] Not listed among the five surviving children on his father's 1903 death notice - probably predeceased his father; death date unknown [TO VERIFY].
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
FamilySearch profile GVZV-V7Y