Baptism, 11 May 1786: Occert Almaro Oosthuijzen, child of Ocert Oosthuijsen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder
church register (original scan) · consulted 2026-07-29
- Type
- church register (original scan)
- Repository
- FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"
- Reference
- index entry ark 1:1:624P-3Y54; register page 34; born 25 April 1786, baptised 11 May 1786; image 3Q9M-CSV8-W9W5-D
- Consulted
- 2026-07-29
The citation as it was given
FULL CITATION supplied by [FAMILY] South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994., FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:624P-3Y54 : Thu Sep 26 21:01:19 UTC 2024), Entry for Occert Almaro Oosthuijzen and Susanna Catharina Van Tonder, 11 May 1786. The 1:1 ark is the INDEX entry; the page image is 3Q9M-CSV8-W9W5-D, filed as DOC-0057. THE COLLECTION IS HELD AT THE CAPE TOWN ARCHIVES - which confirms this is a Cape register, and stands in useful contrast to SRC-077, whose film FamilySearch attributes to Pietermaritzburg. A third spelling of the name appears here: the index reads OCCERT ALMARO OOSTHUIJZEN, against the register's "Ocert Almaro" and the 1859 death notice's "Okker Almero". STILL OPEN: the citation names the collection but not the CONGREGATION. Swellendam's congregation was only founded in 1798, so a Swellendam-district family baptising in 1786 would have gone to Roodezand (Tulbagh) or to Cape Town - and the Oosthuizens had married at Tulbagh in 1749 and would marry at Swellendam in 1783 and 1807. Tulbagh is the likely answer [TO VERIFY]. Settling it would place the family geographically thirty-five years before the first record of them in the Koup.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What has been transcribed from this source
7 occasions.
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11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Weijnant Bretenbach
Breytenbach -
11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Cornelia van Tonder
a van Tonder, so the mother's side -
11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Louis Pisaan
read as "Louijs Pisaan"; almost certainly the same man as the next entry [TO VER -
11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Johanna Magdalena Oosthuijsen -
11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Louij Almaro Pisanie, Baron de Felion van Venesia in Italia
THE MAN THE CHILD WAS NAMED FOR. Louis Almoro (Alvise Louis) Pisani of Venice. -
11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Alviese Almaro Pesanie Gieondan
Alvise Almoro Pisani - the godfather's father, per the Geneanet tree -
11 May 1786 · baptism
witnesses: Almaro g Celidator de Felion de Venesie
a third Almaro of Venice; the reading of this line is poor [TO VERIFY]
What rests on this source
Documents
- Baptism register, deed ark 1:1:624P-3Y54, 11 May 1786 3Q9MCSV8W9W5D.jpg
People
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 24 April 1786 – 26 February 1859
- Susanna Catharina van Tonder 1763-02-20/
- Alviso Louis Almoro Pisani about 1767