Maria Johanna Oosthuizen

14 December 1868 – ? · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Michiel Josias Botes (1895-07-01).

event Maria Johanna Oosthuysen baptised at Beaufort1869-03-14

Names

Given: Maria Johanna
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: Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
Mother: Magdalena Maria van Wyk
Brothers and sisters: 1848Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

1851Magdalena Maria OOSTHUIZEN

1855Ocker Almalo Oosthuisen

1857Abraham Petrus Oosthuizen

1878Hendrika Helena van der Westhuizen

·Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen

·Gabriel Jacobus van der Westhuizen
Married: Michiel Josias Botes 1 July 1895
Children: Christina Johanna Koen, Gabriel Stefanus Botes

A life in the record

14 December 1868 born Born
14 March 1869 event Maria Johanna Oosthuysen baptised at Beaufort
Born 14 December 1868, baptised 14 March 1869. Witnesses Nicolaas Flok, Maria Johanna van Wyk and Hildje Susanna Maria Flok. The register spells the family Oosthuysen.
1 July 1895 married Married Michiel Josias Botes
1 July 1895 event Maria Johanna Oosthuizen marries Michiel Josias Botes at Prince Albert
Entry 1094. He is 21, a Boer at Zevenfontein; she is given as 25 and of Prince Albert. Consent from his mother J.C. Botes and from her stepfather N. van der Westhuizen - the first sign in this model that her mother remarried after Cornelis Andries died in 1871.

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.

Sources

Baptism of Maria Johanna Oosthuysen, Beaufort, 14 March 1869FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"Doopregister, Beaufort, ff. 5-66/5-67, second entry in the left column
Marriage of Michiel Josias Botes and Maria Johanna Oosthuizen, Prince Albert, 1 July 1895FamilySearch, "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974"Duplicaat Origineel Register, Prins Albert, 1895, entry no. 1094, p. 381

Research notes

[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule, via her father Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (b.1825), PER-000128, who is on Frans's direct line - she is his great-great-aunt.

[31 Jul 2026 SRC-142] BIRTH CORRECTED, 1870 -> 14 December 1868, baptised Beaufort 14 March 1869. WE were the stale party, not FamilySearch: the change log shows 1870 entered 24 Sep 2020 and corrected to 14 Dec 1868 on 23 Oct 2024 with this register attached. Our family-tree record was created 4 Dec 2022, never modified since, and exported 31 May 2026 still carrying 1870. The register names her parents as Cornelis Andries OosthuysenM and Magdalena Maria van WykM, matching PER-000128 x PER-000129 already in this model - so the parentage moves from [TREE]/medium to documented.

[31 Jul 2026] DEATH DATE WITHDRAWN, and the FamilySearch change log shows exactly how it was manufactured. On 24 September 2020 one editor, in a single session, attached a probate record, created a custom event 'Probate, FROM 1976 TO 1979', and changed the death from blank to '6 Apr' and then to '6 April 1976'. A probate date range became a death date. Two further checks: her husband Michiel Josias BotesH (PER-000491) died in 1947, and her son Andrew Oosthuizen BotesM died 22 July 1976 - an estate running 1976-1979 fits HIS file, and it names her as his mother. Born 14 Dec 1868 she would have been 107. Death is now UNKNOWN rather than wrong. She still publishes on route 2, born before 1936. See LEAD-0020.

[31 Jul 2026, later] The withdrawn death date was ACCIDENTALLY REFILLED from the tree by kin_sweep --fill-names and is withdrawn again. checks.py caught it within the minute (age 108 at death). fill_names now skips any row carrying a correction annotation: a field emptied on purpose is indistinguishable from one nobody has reached, and 'never overwrite' does not protect a deliberate blank.

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

The local tree does not pull FamilySearch corrections down priority 1 · LEAD-0021
MacFamilyTree records freeze at the date they were pulled. How much of the model rests on FamilySearch data that has since been corrected upstream, and can a genuine re-sync be made to happen before the next family-tree export?

What would settle it A fresh export whose CHAN dates move. If they do not move, the local tree is an archive rather than a mirror, and every fact taken from it needs its pull date treated as an as-at date.
When did Maria Johanna Botes born Oosthuizen actually die? priority 2 · LEAD-0020
Her 1976 death is withdrawn as manufactured from a probate date range. She was born 14 Dec 1868 and married Michiel Josias BotesH on 1 Jul 1895. When did she die, and under what surname was her estate filed?

What would settle it A death notice or estate file under Botes. Failing that, the wording of Andrew's 1976 file on whether his mother predeceased him.

Elders

FamilySearch profile L1GF-H9H