Frans van der Merwe Oosthuizen
21 September 1979 – ? · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 6 generations up
Names
- Given
- Frans van der Merwe
- 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
- Catharina van der Merwe
- Brothers and sisters
- Almero Hendrik Oosthuizen, Mia Magriet Oosthuizen
- Married
- Christa Gelderblom 21 March 2009
2 further children are not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.
A life in the record
- 21 September 1979 born Born
- 21 March 2009 married Married Christa Gelderblom
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 Catharina van der MerweM (PER-000031). 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.
Elders
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