The estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude is inventoried

27 April 1802 · family

[SRC-093] MOOC8/24.27. Taken at the place of the son Pieter Cornelis, where the widow was living. The old couple owned no farm: 140 sheep, Rd:s 300 cash, one enslaved man named ANTHONY VAN DE KAAP, and Rd:s 1382:5 out on loan to their own eight surviving children. Their son OCKERT - heir no. 3, the man who would die at de Modder Fonteyn seven years later - owed 100 rixdollars. Eight orphaned grandchildren are listed with the household each had been placed in, and for six of them the clerk records "d'ouderdom niet bekend": nobody in the room could say how old they were. | [1 Aug 2026, date audit] CHECKED, NOT AN ERROR: PER-000241 Marthinus Oosthuizen died in 1799 and is named in this 1802 inventory. That is how these documents work - a predeceased child is named because his own children inherit by representation, and this inventory lists eight orphaned grandchildren. Left as it stands.

Who was there: 14 people

• 1722 Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722)
• 1732 Dina Carolina Britz
• 1755 Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
• 1764 Marthinus Oosthuizen
• 1767 Pieter Cornelis Oosthuizen
• 1784~ Hendrik Christoffel Marthinus Oosthuysen (b.c.1784)
• 1789~ Jacobus Ockert Oosthuysen (b.c.1789)
• · Andries Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)
• · Anthony van de Kaap
• · Catharina Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)
• · Dina Carolina Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)
• · Fredrik Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)
• · Marthinus Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)
• · Stephanus Oosthuysen (orphan 1802)

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

• MOOC8/24.27 - Inventory of the estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude and his widow Dina Carolina Brits, taken 27 April 1802 MOOC8/24.27, {18020427}

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