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Person PER-000919

Aletta Catharina Oosthuizen

No dates recorded · Oosthuizen line

No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1920, because their mother born 1878, at most 42 at the birth. That rests on an assumption about ordinary childbearing ages, not on a document. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

Descends from the root couple, 4 generations up

  1. Aletta Catharina Oosthuizen
  2. Charles Frederick Wright Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  4. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  5. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

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
Charles Frederick Wright Oosthuizen
Mother
Martha Maria Visser
Brothers and sisters

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.

What we don't know

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Charles Frederick Wright OosthuizenM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

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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