Baptism 1755: Ocker, child of Jacobus Oosthuijsen and Diena Carola Brits

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"; State Archives, Cape Province

Reference

ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WT5C; cc=1478678; register pages 30-31, ANNO 1755, entry 9

Consulted

2026-07-29

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The citation as it was given

Entry 9 of 1755: "t kint OCKER / Vader Jacobus Oosthuijsen / Moeder Diena Carola Brits / Get: OCKER BRITS en JOHANNA BOTHA." THE CHILD IS BAPTISED SIMPLY "OCKER" - there is no Almero. The name Ockert comes from his mother's side, and the man it comes from, OCKER BRITS, is standing right there as a witness - the vernoemingspatroon and the witness list agreeing again. ALMERO IS NOT ADDED UNTIL 1786, by the Venetian. So "Ockert Almero" is a two-stage construction: a Brits grandfather plus a Pisani godfather, thirty-one years apart.

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

2 occasions.

• 1755 · baptism
  witnesses: Ocker Brits
  THE SOURCE OF THE NAME - the child is called Ocker after him
• 1755 · baptism
  witnesses: Johanna Botha

What rests on this source

Documents

• Baptism register, deed ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WT5C, 1755 3Q9MCSV8WT5C.jpg

People

• Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755) 1755 – about 1809-04
• Ocker Brits
• Johanna Botha