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Person PER-000119

Susanna Catharina van Tonder

1763-02-20/ – ? · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755) (1783-01-26).

Names

Baptismal name
Susanna Catharina
Given
Susanna Catharina
Surname
van Tonder

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
Cornelis van Tonderen
Mother
Susanna van Wyk
Married
Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755) 26 January 1783
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1763-02-20/ born Born
  2. 26 January 1783 married Married Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
  3. 11 May 1786 event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised, with Venetian noblemen as witnesses
    [SRC-076] Born 25 April 1786, baptised 11 May as "Ocert Almaro". Seven witnesses, three of them Venetian: "Louij Almaro Pisanie Baron de Felion van Venesia in Italia", "Alviese Almaro Pesanie", and a third Almaro of Venice. ALMORO is a Venetian patrician name of the Pisani house. This is the moment
  4. 11 May 1786 occasion Baptism of their child, Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  5. 19 August 1821 occasion Baptism of a child of their child, Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen at Beaufort West

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. Baptism, 11 May 1786: Occert Almaro Oosthuijzen, child of Ocert Oosthuijsen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"index entry ark 1:1:624P-3Y54; register page 34; born 25 April 1786, baptised 11 May 1786; image 3Q9M-CSV8-W9W5-D

Research notes

[SRC-073 + tree] Mother of PER-000001. Pottas gives b.1762; the tree has "before 20 Feb 1763", i.e. a baptism date.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-076, SRC-077]: BOTH originals spell her VAN TONDER, not van Tonderen. Corrected.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-092] The 1809 inventory refers to "het afsterven van zijne ouders" - plural - so she had died by April 1809 [TO VERIFY].

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.

Elders

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