Marriage of Gert Adriaan Oosthuisen and Catharina Adriana Janze van Veuren, Beaufort, 22 December 1838
church register · consulted 2026-08-03
- Type
- church register
- Repository
- FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"
- Reference
- ark:/61903/1:1:62ZC-16FH; entry for Gert Adriaan Oosthuisen and Catharina Adriana Janze Van Veuren, 22 Dec 1838; Event Place "Beaufort West, Cape Colony, South Africa", Event Place (Original) "Beaufort"; indexed entry, image unavailable; attached in the FS tree to Catharina Adriana Janse Van Vuuren 1820-1890, FS 972T-DPM
- Consulted
- 2026-08-03
The citation as it was given
VERBATIM CITATION AS GIVEN: '"South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:62ZC-16FH : Thu Sep 26 23:30:17 UTC 2024), Entry for Gert Adriaan Oosthuisen and Catharina Adriana Janze Van Veuren, 22 Dec 1838.' THIS IS THE MARRIAGE THE WHOLE VAN VUUREN CONNECTION RESTS ON, and until now it was inferred from a baptism register rather than dated. It is the join between this project's anchor family and the van Vuurens who hold Wilgemond No. 179. IT ALSO CHECKS OUT ARITHMETICALLY. The couple's first recorded child, Ockert Jacobus, was born 28 November 1839 - eleven months and six days after the wedding - and that birth is independently held twice over, in the Beaufort West baptism register as entry BWB-232-09 and in the private tree to the day. NOTE THE ARK TYPE. This is a 1:1 ark, which is an INDEX ENTRY, not an image, and FamilySearch reports the image as unavailable. So the marriage date is taken from an index of the register rather than from the register page itself, and the original entry should still be sought. The place is worth reading carefully too: the index normalises "Beaufort" to "Beaufort West, Cape Colony", which is very probably right - it is the parish whose baptism register this project holds - but the record itself says only Beaufort.
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 rests on this source
People
- Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen 31 December 1820 – 30 November 1879
- Catharina Adriana Janse Van Vuuren 12 November 1820 – 13 March 1890