Voorbaat 42, Voorbaat cemetery (Ladismith district)

0 graves recorded · Voorbaat No. 42 (Ladismith)

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-458] A REFERENCE BURIAL GROUND, NOT A FAMILY ONE. Nobody in this record lies here, so far as it knows. It is here because It was empty because only three Western Cape collections had ever been pulled. THE MAP SAYS WHICH KIND IT IS: grounds with nobody of ours draw a PALE cross, family grounds a dark one. Coordinate and cemetery id are eGGSA's own, off the album page, converted out of the degrees and decimal minutes that page carries. Nothing here has been visited. eGGSA album "Voorbaat district Ladismith in the Cape" in the Ladismith_Rural collection. GGSA cemetery id 1800. | *** [20 Aug 2026] THIS GROUND CAN BE PLACED IN THE FAMILY, AND NOT THROUGH ITS OOSTHUIZEN STONES. *** They cannot: OOSTHUIZEN Adriaan W.R. 1874-1961 is in neither this model nor the 44,143-person private tree, and OOSTHUIZEN Margaretha carries no dates at all, which puts her beyond any test. | THE STASSENS ARE THE ROUTE. Forty-eight captions here and more than half are Stassen. The private tree holds exactly ONE Oosthuizen-Stassen marriage in 44,143 people: FRANS JOHANNES NICOLAAS STASSEN (b. about 1789) and PETRONELLA HERMINA JACOBA HENDRIKA OOSTHUIZEN (25 Sep 1793 - 1873), married about 1814. Her father is PIETER CORNELIS OOSTHUIZEN (PER-000242, 1767-1836), son of Jacobus Oosthuizen (PER-000230) and Dina Carolina Britz - so she is a GRANDDAUGHTER of that couple and a FIRST COUSIN of Ockert Almero (PER-000001). | AND THIS GROUND REPEATS HER HUSBAND'S FULL NAME THREE TIMES: Stassen Frans Johannes Nicolaas 1852-1939, Stassen F.J.N. 1904-1984, Stassen F.J.N. 1935-2000. On the vernoemingspatroon that is what a family does with a founder's name. 5b: THE PATTERN GENERATES THE HYPOTHESIS AND CANNOT PROVE IT. No descent is asserted. LEAD-0255. | The two families went on intermarrying: STASSEN Pieter Jacobus 1870-1944 & CATHARINA HENDRINA OOSTHUIZEN 1879-1957, and STASSEN J.J.P. 1868-1954 & M.F.E. OOSTHUIZEN. Craffords are here too - Jan L.F. 1889-1954, Maria Magdalena nee Stassen, Johanna Dorithea nee Crafford 1851-1920, and STASSEN DINA CAROLINA NEE CRAFFORD 1896-1933, which is Dina Carolina Britz's name surfacing in a Crafford a century on. | *** AND VOORBAAT IS ON THE 1805 ROLL. *** The farm column of the Swellendam opgaafrol of 1805 reads '1. Voorbaat' on the same opening that carries the Oosthuizen entries (SRC-497, image 42). | [20 Aug 2026] TIED TO PAR-000292. The album title gives the farm outright - 'LADISMITH district, VOORBAAT 42' - and this ground's coordinate falls inside Ladismith farm 42 on the cadastre.

Where it is: -33.48620, 21.08507 · GGSA cemetery 1800 · Show it on the map

Photographed here, not yet read

49 photographs of this ground carry a caption on eGGSA that nothing in this project has yet matched to a person. The words are eGGSA's transcription of the stone, kept exactly as written; nobody here has read the photograph. Each one links to its own page on their site.

The album

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