Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen

14 June 1792 – 1860 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Middelwater (1821~).

residence Middelwater 1821~
marriage Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom 1813-04-11
event Oosthuizens established at Middelwater1821~

Names

Baptismal name: Cornelis Andries
Given: Cornelis Andries
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 Oosthuizen (b.1755)
Mother: Susanna Catharina van Tonder
Brothers and sisters: 1784Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)

1784~Susanna Elizabeth OOSTHUIZEN

1784Susanna Elizabeth Oosthuyzen

1786Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

1787Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen (b.1787)

1789Diena Magdalena Oosthuizen

1790Catherina Jacoba Oosthuizen

1791Cornelia Petronella Oosthuizen

1794Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen

1796~Pieter Marthinus Oosthuijzen

1799Roelof Adolph Oosthuizen

1801Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen

1802Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen

1803Susanna Maria Oosthuizen

1807Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuijzen

·Roelof Oosthuyzen

·Susanna Johanna Oosthuyzen
Married: Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom 11 April 1813
Children: 1814Ockert Andreas Oosthuijzen

1816Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen

1819Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)

1821Daniel Jacobus Oosthuizen

1824Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen

1827Johanna Maggel Petronella Oosthuizen

1830Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

A life in the record

14 June 1792 born Born
11 April 1813 married Married Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom
19 August 1821 event Daniel Jacobus Oosthuijzen baptised at Beaufort West, the direct-ancestor couple, at Kriedouw in 1821
Register entry 382. Born 26 July 1821 AAN KRIEDOUW, baptised 19 August 1821 in huijs. Father CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIJZEN, mother JOHANNA MAGDALENA PETRONELLA STRIJDOM. Witnesses: Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen, Petronella Catharina Schoeman, Petrus Jacobus Venter, Cornelia Petronella Oosthuijzen. IDENT
19 August 1821 event Three Oosthuijzen siblings on one register page
Not an event so much as a shape the page makes, and it is the kind of thing this project exists to find. On 19 August 1821 the Beaufort West register carries two baptisms back to back: ENTRY 381 - Petrus Jacobus Venter and CORNELIA PETRONELLA OOSTHUIJZEN's son. ENTRY 382 - CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIJZ
19 August 1821 occasion Baptism of a child at Beaufort West
about 1821 land Held it, Middelwater
about 1821 land Lived on it, Middelwater
about 1821 event Oosthuizens established at Middelwater
Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen & Johanna Strydom
1860 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Middelwater held it · about 1821 to the 1880s
Middelwater lived on it · about 1821

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.

stood for them Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen baptism of a child · 19 August 1821 · brother of the father
stood at 1 other occasion
stood for them Petrus Jacobus Venter baptism of a child · 19 August 1821 · husband of the father's sister
dates known, no other trace here
stood for them Cornelia Petronella Oosthuijzen baptism of a child · 19 August 1821 · sister of the father
dates known, no other trace here
stood for them Petronella Catharina Schoeman baptism of a child · 19 August 1821
no other trace in this model

Stories

subject Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
mentioned The Oosthuizens of the Koup

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

What we don't know

7 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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

Sources

Beaufort West baptisms, August 1821, entries 377–385 (image S3HY-6573-X8X) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6573-X8X; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844; register entries 377-385

Research notes

Middelwater anchor ~1821

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-073 + tree]: DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 4x-great-grandfather on a second line into the same family. Married Johanna Machteld Petronella StrydomH (PER-000138) at Graaff-Reinet 11 Apr 1813. Father of Susanna Catharina (PER-000135), who married the son of PER-000001 - PEDIGREE COLLAPSE: Frans descends from both couples. Absorbed PER-000137, which I created today in error before checking this row.

29 Jul 2026 FamilySearch GCZ4-2WS: he is a SON of Ockert Oosthuijzen (1755) and so a BROTHER of the root ancestor PER-000001. That is what makes the 1836 marriage first-cousin: his daughter Susanna Catharina married his brother's son Johannes Adriaan. NOT to be confused with his nephew and namesake Cornelis Andries (PER-000128, 1828-1871), who also died on Middelwater.

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

Where is Kriedouw, and were the Oosthuizens there in July 1821? priority 1 · LEAD-0052
The Beaufort West register puts the direct-ancestor couple's son born 'aan KRIEDOUW' on 26 July 1821. Most entries on the page say the same. Where is it, and how does it sit against the belief that the family established at Middelwater about 1821?

What would settle it A gazetteer or a map fixing Kriedouw, or an opgaafrol entry putting the couple on a named farm in 1820-22.

Elders

FamilySearch profile GCZ4-2WS