Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen
30 August 1864 – 11 December 1950 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 3 generations up
Names
- Given
- Jan Adriaan
- 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
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
- Charles Frederick Wright Oosthuizen, Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 30 August 1864 born Born
- 1950 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 11 December 1950 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.
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1842)
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1864)
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen
- Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 7 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 Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (PER-000005). 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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Two Jan Adriaan Oosthuizens, one wife: are PER-000163 and PER-000398 one man?
priority 2 · LEAD-0098
PER-000163 (tree, FS GQKX-JX7) and PER-000398 (tree, FS GHXS-ZVD) carry the same name and the same wife, Johanna Susanna De VilliersH born 3 August 1867. Are they one man duplicated upstream, or two men the tree has confused? And whose dates does PER-000163's row actually hold?
What would settle it A death notice. The two candidate deaths are fourteen years and a province apart, so one notice decides it outright.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GHXS-ZVD