Jacobus Oosthuysen baptised, with a single witness

22 November 1722 · family · Drakenstein

[SRC-094] "Jacobus, Zoon van JAN OOSTHUIJSEN en JANNETJE MARTENS. Getuijge SUSANNA GARDE." THE OLDEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IN THE PROJECT, and the deepest verified point on the Oosthuizen line. One witness, where his grandson's 1786 baptism would have seven - the family's network in the colony was still thin. The register writes the parents by their spoken names, Jan and Jannetje; the tree carries them as Johannes and Johanna. Congregation not printed on the page [TO VERIFY]; the surrounding names are Huguenot and Drakenstein is the expectation.

Who was there: 4 people

• 1665 Johannes "Jan" Oosthuijsz (stamvader)
• 1679 Johanna Martens
• 1722 Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722)
• · Susanna Garde

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 22 November 1722: Jacobus, son of Jan Oosthuysen and Jannetje Martens ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-W944-B; cc=1478678; register pages 59-60, ANNO 1722

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• subject The muster roll