Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert

12 September 1909 · family · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei)

Born 17 August 1909, baptised four weeks later by ds David Wilcocks. Six witnesses, four of them MALHERBES - the mother's people had come. Among them stood HENDRIK LODEWIJK MALHERBE himself, the man the child was named for. The fifth generation of this family read from an original register, and the naming pattern is still running: eldest son for the father's father, second son for the mother's father, eldest daughter for the mother's mother.

Who was there: 6 people

• 1837 Isabella Johanna Jacoba Zulch
• 1867 Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe (b.1867)
• 1875 Johanna Fredricka Malherbe
• 1878 Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen
• 1909 Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen
• · ds David Wilcocks

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, 12 September 1909: Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen, Prince Albert ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKX-97ZS-3; image 166 of 406; Image Group Number 008150240; register page 481, entry 128

Told in

• mentioned The ground cut, and then stitched back together
• evidence The Oosthuizens of the Koup