Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

active 1868 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Rondabel (1868-01-21).

event Rondabel granted on perpetual quitrent to Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen and Stephanus Johannes Theron1868-01-21

Names

Baptismal name: Jan Adriaan
Given: Jan 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.

A life in the record

21 January 1868 land Held it, Rondabel
21 January 1868 event Rondabel granted on perpetual quitrent to Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen and Stephanus Johannes Theron
Title P.A.Q.1-21. The farm passes from Strydom to Oosthuizen hands.

Ground they are on record on

Rondabel held it · 21 January 1868

Stories

subject Rondabel No. 124: a farm history

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

No birth date is recorded.
No death date is recorded.
Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
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

SG Dgm 922/1872 - Portion 1 of the farm Rondable No. 124, Prince AlbertLandmeter-Generaal, KaapstadNo. 922/1872 (written over a struck 161/1872); framed from actual survey 6 June 1872 by J.W. du T. Melvill, Govt. Surveyor; examiner L. Marquard; deducted 29 June 1872, Fred Ruysch, Govt. Sur.; copied from the diagram relating to Transfer Deed No. 208 dated 17.7.1872; Sheet BL-2

Research notes

Granted Rondabel on perpetual quitrent with S.J. Theron, 21 Jan 1868.

29 Jul 2026: ALMOST CERTAINLY THE SAME MAN AS PER-000003, Frans's direct ancestor Johannes (Jan) Adriaan OosthuizenM (1816-1882). His co-grantee S.J. Theron (PER-000047) married his sister in 1851 [SRC-073]. Kept as a separate id until the 1868 deed is read; merge then.

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.

What the record is missing

27 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Rondabel, David Jan StrydomM (Daniel son) is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL and Stephanus Johannes TheronL from 1868-01-21, 27 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0186 records the later arrival but not the 27 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1868. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.