A Stellenbosch baptism from the George Drostdy

27 November 1812 · family · Stellenbosch

Daniel Johannes, a year old, is carried 331 km to the Stellenbosch font, and the register writes '/ George Drostdy /' in its residence column - the home and the church on one line, nothing to infer.

Who is on record here

• 1784 Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)

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

• A year-old child is carried 331 km from the Olifants to be baptised at Stellenbosch

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.