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Person PER-000003

Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen

20 November 1816 – 11 August 1882 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up

  1. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  2. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819) (1836-02-07).

Names

Baptismal name
Jan Adriaan
Called
Jan
Given
Johannes Adriaan
Surname
Oosthuizen

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Immediate family

Father
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
Mother
Adriana Cecilia Venter
Brothers and sisters
Married
Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819) 7 February 1836, Anna Petronella Janse van Rensburg 9 February 1858
Children

A life in the record

  1. 20 November 1816 born Born
  2. 16 June 1817 event Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
    Born 20 November 1816, baptised 16 June 1817, with four witnesses in two couples - his uncle Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen with Petronella Schoonman, and Adriaan van Deventer with Maria Sophia Venter. THE LAST TIME THIS FAMILY APPEARS IN THE GRAAFF-REINET ENTRIES GATHERED HERE (the register itself has
  3. 16 June 1817 occasion Baptism at Graaff-Reinet
  4. 7 February 1836 married Married Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
  5. 5 March 1837 event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
    Born on Middelwater 27 November 1836, baptised at Beaufort West on 5 March 1837 - a fourteen-week wait, which is what distance did to these families. Both paternal grandparents stood as witnesses, with a Venter and a Strydom for the other two sides. Nineteen years earlier his father had been baptise
  6. 5 March 1837 occasion Baptism of their child, Ockert Almero Oosthuizen at Beaufort West
  7. 9 February 1858 married Married Anna Petronella Janse van Rensburg
  8. 9 February 1858 event Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen remarries at George
    [SRC-074] Anna Petronella Janse van Rensburg, eighteen months after his first wife died on Middelwater. He was 41 with ten children; she was 27.
  9. 11 August 1882 died Died

Who stood with them

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

Stories

What we don't know

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
  2. Baptism, 16 June 1817: Jan Adriaan, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuijzen and Adriana Cicilia Venter FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"index entry ark 1:1:6VBS-163C; register pages 198-199, entries of June 1817; congregation Graaff-Reinet [TO VERIFY]
  3. Baptism, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing GISA, StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P; cc=1392488, wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701

Research notes

Frans direct ancestor

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-073]: identified as the "Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL" who took RONDABEL on perpetual quitrent with S.J. Theron on 21 Jan 1868 (see PER-000046). Theron married his sister Dina Magdalena (PER-000132) in 1851, so the two co-grantees were brothers-in-law. Name, district, period and relationship all fit. HIGH CONFIDENCE, not yet proved from the deed itself [TO VERIFY]. He married his first cousin Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL (PER-000135) at Beaufort West, 7 Feb 1836.

29 Jul 2026 FamilySearch LZ1Q-GDF: marriage to Susanna Catharina given as 17 January 1836 at Beaufort West; Pottas and the family-tree both say 7 February 1836. One of the two is wrong [TO VERIFY]. FS also shows a SECOND marriage, to Anna Petronella Janse van RensburgH (PER-000161) at George, 9 Feb 1858, with two daughters.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-082] BAPTISM REGISTER READ. Born 20 Nov 1816, baptised 16 June 1817. The register, the index, the 1859 death notice and FamilySearch all write JAN ADRIAAN; the family-tree writes Johannes Adriaan. I FIRST CALLED THAT A CORRECTION AND IT IS NOT: JAN IS THE EVERYDAY FORM OF JOHANNES, and both are the same name. In this case Jan is very likely what was actually meant, because by the vernoemingspatroon the SECOND SON is named for the MATERNAL GRANDFATHER - and hers was JAN Louis Venter (PER-000120), who then stood witness at this child's own son's baptism in 1837. Recorded as doopnaam Jan Adriaan, noemnaam Jan, with Johannes Adriaan kept as the family-tree's expansion. Four witnesses in two couples: his uncle GERRIT ADRIAAN OOSTHUIJZEN with Petronella SchoonmanM, and ADRIAAN VAN DEVENTER with Maria Sophia VenterM - one pair from each side, which is the conventional pattern.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000454 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id LZ1Q-GDF, so they are one person. Kept PER-000003 ('Johannes Adriaan OosthuizenH'); merged PER-000454 ('Jan Adriaan Oosthuijzen'). Exposed by the _FID backfill of 31 Jul 2026, which gave nearly every person an id to collide on; before that these had no shared key. Check LZ1Q-GDF on FamilySearch before assuming the upstream tree needs anything - it is usually the LOCAL tree that is stale (LEAD-0021). DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Johannes Adriaan OosthuizenH', PER-000454 said 'Jan Adriaan Oosthuijzen'; given: kept 'Johannes Adriaan', PER-000454 said 'Jan Adriaan'; surname: kept 'Oosthuizen', PER-000454 said 'Oosthuijzen'; tree id: kept '', PER-000454 said ''. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Open questions

Elders

FamilySearch profile LZ1Q-GDF