Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
12 July 1813 – 6 June 1856 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up
Names
- Baptismal name
- Ockert Jacobus
- Given
- Ockert Jacobus
- 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
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- 1808Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
- 1811Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1811)
- 1816Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816)
- 1816Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1819Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen
- 1820Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1823Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
- 1828Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen
- 1828Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
- 1830Martha Jacoba Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1832Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1839Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1839)
- 1840~Hendrik Johannes Oosthuizen
- Married
- Cornelia Susanna Smit
A life in the record
- 12 July 1813 born Born
- 6 June 1856 died Died
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.
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1809)
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842)
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 4 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.
Research notes
[SRC-073] Married Cornelia Susanna SmitH at Beaufort West 31 Mar 1833, daughter of Francois Petrus Smit and Susanna Isabella Breytenbach.
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000457 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id LZ1Q-G32, so they are one person. Kept PER-000124 ('Ockert Jacobus OosthuizenL'); merged PER-000457 ('Ockert Jacobus 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-G32 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 'Ockert Jacobus OosthuizenL', PER-000457 said 'Ockert Jacobus Oosthuijzen'; surname: kept 'Oosthuizen', PER-000457 said 'Oosthuijzen'; tree id: kept '', PER-000457 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
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Fourteen children of Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1809) are missing from this model
priority 2 · LEAD-0109
Fred van Zyl states that PER-000211, born on Vrolikheid in 1809 and the man who named the Marico Klaarstroom, had fourteen children - one of them Susara Cornelia Oosthuizen, who married Fred's great-grandfather Jan Adriaan van Zyl. This model records none of them. Who were they?
What would settle it A register or the descendant compilation Fred already holds. Susara Cornelia is the one to start with, because her marriage to Jan Adriaan van Zyl dates and places the family.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LZ1Q-G32