A year-old child is carried 331 km from the Olifants to be baptised at Stellenbosch
27 November 1812 · family · Stellenbosch
Daniel Johannes, born 17 November 1811, baptised at Stellenbosch a full year later. The register writes the household's district in its own column - GEORGE DROSTDY - so the same entry gives the home and the church, 331 km apart. His uncle Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen, then twenty, stood witness. A second George household baptised a child of the same age two days later.
Who was there: 3 people
- 1784 Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
- 1790 Anna Magdalena Strijdom
- 1811 Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1811)
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
- Stellenbosch baptism register 1812, pages 400-401: the baptism of Daniel Johannes, entry No 54, with the household's residence given as GEORGE DROSTDY Opening headed 1812, left leaf page 400 'Namen der', right leaf page 401 'Gedoopten'. Entry No 54.
The same day
Other events this model records on the same date. Sometimes coincidence, sometimes, as with the five farms granted on 15 April 1841, one act of administration seen from several farms at once.