Two Oosthuizen daughters die in the smallpox year
1713 · regional · Drakenstein
[SRC-074] Barbara, five, and Jannetje, three, both die in 1713 - the year the smallpox epidemic brought ashore on a Company fleet killed roughly a quarter of the colony's people and devastated the Khoi far worse. The family loses two of its nine children in one year. Cause is inferred from the date and is NOT stated in the record [TO VERIFY]; the burial registers would settle it.
Who was there: 4 people
- 1665 Johannes "Jan" Oosthuijsz (stamvader)
- 1679 Johanna Martens
- 1708 Barbara Oosthuizen (1708-1713)
- 1710 Jannetje Oosthuyzen (1710-1713)
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
- FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line person pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
Told in
- subject The muster roll