Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised, with Venetian noblemen as witnesses

11 May 1786 · family

[SRC-076] Born 25 April 1786, baptised 11 May as "Ocert Almaro". Seven witnesses, three of them Venetian: "Louij Almaro Pisanie Baron de Felion van Venesia in Italia", "Alviese Almaro Pesanie", and a third Almaro of Venice. ALMORO is a Venetian patrician name of the Pisani house. This is the moment the name enters the family, and it is still in use a hundred and seventy years later.

Who was there: 3 people

• 1755 Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
• 1763 Susanna Catharina van Tonder
• 1786 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• Baptism, 11 May 1786: Occert Almaro Oosthuijzen, child of Ocert Oosthuijsen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder index entry ark 1:1:624P-3Y54; register page 34; born 25 April 1786, baptised 11 May 1786; image 3Q9M-CSV8-W9W5-D

Told in

• subject Almero
• evidence The Oosthuizens of the Koup