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Person PER-000006

Frederik Simon Oosthuizen

29 May 1856 – 10 October 1936 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

  1. Frederik Simon Oosthuizen
  2. Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Connection to the Koup

Lived on Rondabel in this district (1936).

Names

Baptismal name
Frederik Simon
Called
Frikkie
Given
Frederik Simon
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.

Photographs

The grave of Frederick Simon Oosthuizen (1856-1936) beside the Zeekoegat church he built at his own expense: a...
The grave of Frederick Simon Oosthuizen (1856-1936) beside the Zeekoegat church he built at his own expense: a marble obelisk on a stepped base, GOD IS LIEFDE cut on the plinth. — Frans Oosthuizen

Immediate family

Father
Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
Mother
Sophia Johanna Mocke
Brothers and sisters
Married
Martha Maria Susanna Oosthuizen 5 June 1877
Children

A life in the record

  1. 29 May 1856 born Born
  2. 5 June 1877 married Married Martha Maria Susanna Oosthuizen
  3. 1885 event Frederik Simon Oosthuizen donates 150 pounds for the Prince Albert church organ
    In response to ds Adriaan Hofmeyr's appeal to the congregation.
  4. 1889 event Frederik Simon Oosthuizen elected deacon
    Elder in 1906, the year he built the Zeekoegat church.
  5. 1906 event Frederik Simon Oosthuizen builds the Zeekoegat church
    at his own expense; gave it to the NG Kerk
  6. February 1907 event The Zeekoegat church inaugurated
    Built at his own expense for the Traka ward, about a hundred members, 65 km of dirt road from Prince Albert.
  7. 23 February 1907 event The Zeekoegat church consecrated by Rev Wilcocks and Rev J.R. Albertyn
    Two eminent clerics for a farm chapel - a measure of what the place meant to the district. Wilcocks had been a field preacher to the Boer commandos and was jailed for high treason; Albertyn had visited Boer prisoners on St Helena and Bermuda.
  8. 1929 event Frederik Simon Oosthuizen builds the Zeekoegat church hall
  9. 1933 event Frederik Simon Oosthuizen gives 300 Afrikaans Bibles to the children of the congregation
    The year the Bible first appeared in Afrikaans.
  10. 1936 event Frederik Simon Oosthuizen gives the Zeekoegat land and buildings to the NG Gemeente Prince Albert
    The year he died.
  11. 10 October 1936 land Buried there, Zeekoegate
  12. 10 October 1936 event Frederik Simon "Oom Frikkie" Oosthuizen dies and is buried beside his church
    Aged 80, at the end of the year in which he made over the Zeekoegat land and buildings to the congregation. Buried in the Zeekoegat churchyard; his wife Martha Maria Susanna (d. 3 May 1918) and their small son Hendrik (d. 8 December 1884) were re-interred there from the Zwartskraal farm cemetery at
  13. 10 October 1936 buried Buried, Zeekoegat church
    In Liefdevolle Herinnering aan ONS LIEWE VADER FREDERICK SIMON OOSTHUIZEN, GEB. 29ste MEI 1856, OORL. 10de OKTOBER 1936, IN DIE OUDERDOM VAN 80 JAAR. On the base below: GOD IS LIEFDE.
  14. 10 October 1936 died Died
  15. undated land Lived on it, Rondabel
  16. undated land Lived on it, Zwartkraal

Ground they are on record on

Stories

Sources

  1. "Frederick Oosthuizen - die man wat die Zeekoegat Kerkie 100 jaar gelede gebou het", Lydia Barella Prince Albert Friend (blog)29 Sep 2007
  2. Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) Karoo Development Foundation38pp cameo

Research notes

"Frikkie". Wealthy farmer of ZWARTKRAAL. Deacon 1889, elder 1906. Built the Zeekoegat church at his own expense 1906 (inaugurated Feb 1907), the church hall 1929, and the mission church; gave the land and buildings to the congregation in 1936. Donated 150 pounds toward the Prince Albert organ in 1885, helped maintain a mission station in Mashonaland, and gave 300 Afrikaans Bibles to the children of the congregation in 1933. Buried beside the Zeekoegat church. [SRC-067]

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-073]: named for his maternal grandfather Frederik Simon MockeL.

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-068] THE SCALE OF THE WEALTH, per Judy Maguire in the Zeekoegat cameo: "Oom Frikkie was the senior family man, owned 81 000 morgen around the family farm Zwartzkraal. He also owned most of the farms from the N1 to the Traka and westwards too - Groot and Klein Sleutelfontein and Zeekoegat." 81,000 morgen is roughly 69,400 ha. Zeekoegat was still farmed by Piet du Plessis in 1891 (he identified the gold nugget, same source), so part of the buying falls in the 1890s-1900s - the rinderpest/war/drought decade. WHERE THE MONEY CAME FROM: LEAD-0012. || 30 Jul 2026 THE 1937 RHEMHOOGTE TRANSFERS ARE PROBABLY HIS ESTATE DIVISION: he died 10 Oct 1936; on 20.12.1937 his son Ernest Albert (PER-000424, deed 13525, Annex Modderdrift PAR-000069) and his daughter Anna Margaretha (PER-000176, deed 13528, Kareemoerhoek PAR-000070) each took a Rhemhoogte portion ON THE SAME DAY - 14 months after his death, classic estate-administration timing. Implies FSO himself held Rhemhoogte ground late in life, acquired somewhere after his brother John Peter's deed 341 of 1884 - a gap in the chain [TO VERIFY: the transferor named in deeds 13525/13528].

30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch GH8R-G1Q, 1856-1936, with portrait photograph.

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-126/DOC-0086] Listed fourth among the five surviving children on his father's 1903 death notice.

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-068 Zeekoegat cameo] THE EXTENT OF THE HOLDING, from Judy Maguire: about 81,000 MORGEN around the family farm Zwartskraal, and "most of the farms from the N1 to the Traka and westwards too". Groot and Klein Sleutelfontein (PAR-000098) and Zeekoegat. A large community grew up on Zeekoegat and that, as much as the distances, is why he built the church. He was fond of children: he bought 300 copies of the new Afrikaans Bible in 1933 for the local children, and every year he held a WATERMELON FESTIVAL in the forest on Zeekoegat to which every child in the district was invited. *** NAME WARNING, and it is Maguire's own: THERE WERE TWO MEN NAMED FREDERIK SIMON. This one is "the senior family man". Any Frederik Simon OosthuizenH fact from this district must be tested against dates and ground before it is attached here, see 9. ***

[GRAVE GRV-0002, 7 Aug 2026] HIS STONE SAYS 29 MAY, THE TREE SAYS 19 MAY, AND THE STONE IS ADOPTED. 'IN LIEFDEVOLLE HERINNERING AAN ONS LIEWE VADER FREDERICK SIMON OOSTHUIZEN, GEB. 29ste MEI 1856, OORL. 10de OKTOBER 1936, IN DIE OUDERDOM VAN 80 JAAR', with GOD IS LIEFDE cut on the base. The death date matches this row exactly, which is what identifies the stone. birth_edtf was 1856-05-19, taken from the private tree (, '19 May 1856'); FamilySearch gives years only. A 9 and a 1 transposed is the ordinary shape of this error, and a stone his children paid for and read before it was cut is the better witness than a compiled tree. THE AGE ON THE STONE DOES NOT SETTLE IT - 80 years is true either way. The tree's date is kept here rather than overwritten. [TO VERIFY] against a baptism register, which would end it.

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 GH8R-G1Q