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Persoon PER-001263

Wynand van Zyl

3 Junie 1808 – 1870

Married into the family

  1. Wynand van Zyl
  2. Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Verbinding met die Koup

Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen.

Name

Given
Wynand
Surname
van Zyl

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.

Naaste familie

Father
Casper van Zyl (1781-1863)
Mother
Susanna Abigaël Breytenbach (Bredenbach)
Brothers and sisters
Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl
Married
Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
Children

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 3 Junie 1808 gebore Born
  2. 6 Desember 1809 gebeurtenis Wijnand van Zijl baptised
    Born 3 June 1808. Baptised with his younger brother Jacobus on the same day. Witnesses on his mother's side: Weijnand Bredenbach the elder and the younger, with their wives - the source of his name.
  3. 1829–1840 gebeurtenis Two Oosthuizen sisters of Middelwater marry two van Zyl brothers
    Johanna Jacomina (b. 14 Dec 1808), the root couple's eldest, married Wynand van Zyl; her sister Susanna Catharina (b. 17 Nov 1811) married Jacobus van Zijl (20 Sep 1809 - 10 Apr 1906). Johanna Jacomina's marriage is recorded at Beaufort West on 1 Feb 1829. REPORTED BY Fred van Zyl, a descendant, and
  4. 19 Augustus 1838 gebeurtenis Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list
    Born 5 June 1838, son of Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuisen - THIRTEEN DAYS before his cousin Adriana Cecilia. Among the witnesses: JACOBUS VAN ZEYL AND SUSANNA CATARINA OOSTHUISEN, the other brother and the other sister, standing for their nephew. Also Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen and An
  5. 19 Augustus 1838 geleentheid Baptism of their child, Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl at Beaufort West
  6. 1839 gebeurtenis Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater
    His own death notice gives his birthplace as 'MIDDELWATER, C.C.' - so Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen were ON HER FATHER'S FARM when this son was born, four years after their marriage. It is the first documentary placing of a van Zyl household on Middelwater itself. DATE: the model ca
  7. 1870 oorlede Died

Stories

Wat ons nie weet nie

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

Bronne

  1. Fred van Zyl to [FAMILY] Van Zyl/Oosthuizen descent, Vrolikheid birth tradition, and the Marico Klaarstroom.private (message to Frans, via the Klueplaas Facebook thread)Message of 29 Jul 2026
  2. Baptism register, 6 December 1809. Wijnand and Jacobus van Zijl, sons of Casper van Zijl and Susanna Abigaël Bredenbach FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-CS1D-T, cc=1478678, image 1 of 1; register pages 148-149
  3. Beaufort West baptisms 1838. Adriana Cecilia van Zyl (11 Jul) and Jacobus Petrus van Zyl (19 Aug), the two van Zyl x Oosthuizen households FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GLX, cc=1392488; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 212 of 302; register pages 210-211
  4. Sterfkennis of Jan Adriaan van Zijl, d. 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R.Z.A.R. Weeskamer (Orphan Chamber) death notice, on the printed form 'Overeenkomstig de Wet op de Weeskamer, 10 November 1869'. Supplied by

Navorsingsnotas

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

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-179 - handwritten van Zyl family history, page 2] The sheet says Wynand and Jacobus were TWINS, both born 6/12/1809. This row carries 1808. One of the two is wrong and it is not settled here. See LEAD-0048. (PER-001263 and PER-001264 are also probably each other's duplicate - two Wynands, both 1808, both recorded as spouse of Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenH.)

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-180 - the baptism register] The register gives Wijnand van Zijl born 3 June 1808 - which is PER-001264's date to the day. This row carries a bare 1808 and a death in 1870. PROBABLE DUPLICATE OF PER-001264, not merged yet because the 1870 death date exists only here and would be lost. NOT twins with Jacobus; that claim is disproved.

[FS, 1 Aug 2026] GJB6-H9Z, 1808-1870, and FamilySearch lists him as Casper van ZylM's son and Jacobus's brother - so THIS is the good Wynand row. Birth date refined to 3 JUNE 1808 from the baptism register (SRC-180), which agrees with FS's 1808 and adds the day. PER-001264 (FS GW6V-FT8) carries the same birth date and no death and is very probably an unmerged FamilySearch duplicate of this man; NOT merged here because the two ids are distinct on FS and that is a decision for FamilySearch, not for this model.

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-183 - his own death notice] Named as the father on his son Jan Adriaan's death notice - 'Wijnand van Zijl' - with the son's birthplace given as MIDDELWATER, C.C. First documentary evidence of this van Zyl household living on the Oosthuizen farm.

[4 Aug 2026] PROBABLE DUPLICATE OF PER-001264, and the duplication is in the PRIVATE TREE, not introduced here: both rows carry the same name and the same birth date (3 June 1808) and both are recorded as spouse of Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenH (PER-000122), the root couple's eldest daughter - but they hold DIFFERENT family-tree ids ( /) and DIFFERENT FamilySearch ids (GJB6-H9Z / GW6V-FT8). NOT MERGED HERE: deciding which FamilySearch id is the right one is a FamilySearch question, and 10 says report rather than silently correct. WHAT IT COSTS WHILE IT STANDS: witness and deed matching refuses to link either row, because one real person plus an undetected twin reads as ambiguity - so this duplicate is actively withholding connections. [TO VERIFY]

[14 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-001264 into this row. One person duplicated in the private tree: the same wife, Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenH, and the same 1808 birth - one row giving the day and place (3 June 1808, Oudtshoorn) and the other the parents and the 1870 death. The survivor is the row this model has built on: father of seventeen children here and named in two stories. Moved across: given=Wynand. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Wynand van ZylH', PER-001264 said 'Wynand Van Zyl'; surname: kept 'van Zyl', PER-001264 said 'Van Zyl'; tree id: kept '', PER-001264 said ''; familysearch_id: kept 'GJB6-H9Z', PER-001264 said 'GW6V-FT8'. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree, FamilySearch GW6V-FT8 - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.

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.

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FamilySearch-profiel GJB6-H9Z