Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen

12 July 1813 – 6 June 1856 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name: Ockert Jacobus
Given: Ockert Jacobus
Surname: Oosthuizen

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Three generations around this person

Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1755) 1755 Susanna Catharina van Tonder 1763

Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1786

Jan Louis Venter 1754 Johanna Jacomina Smit 1760

Adriana Cecilia Venter 1792

Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen 1813 Cornelia Susanna Smit 1816

Susanna Isabella Cathrina Oosthuizen 1838 Johannes Marthinus Oosthuizen 1850 Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

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Immediate family

Father: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
Mother: Adriana Cecilia Venter
Brothers and sisters: 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
Children: 1838Susanna Isabella Cathrina Oosthuizen

1850Johannes Marthinus Oosthuizen

·Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

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.

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
5 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.

*** [21 Aug 2026] *** NAAIRS holds MOOC 7/1/228 ref 126 (SRC-538): the will of CORNELIA SUSANNA SMIT, 'wife of Ockert Jacobus OosthuizenL', drawn 1835 and FILED 1856 - the year he died, 1856-06-06. The marriage is UNI-000084 here. The filing year is what closes the identification; the name alone could not, there being several men of this name in the model. Unread. LEAD-0263.

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Open questions

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.
The will of Cornelia Susanna Smit, wife of Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen - filed the year he died priority 2 · LEAD-0263
NAAIRS holds MOOC 7/1/228 ref 126: 'SMIT, CORNELIA SUSANNA. WIFE OF OCKERT JACOBUS OOSTHUIZEN. WILL.', 1835, filed 1856. The model holds that marriage as UNI-000084 and gives Ockert Jacobus as PER-000124, 1813-07-12 to 1856-06-06. The filing year IS his death year, so the identification is not a name match - the dates close it.

What would settle it The farm named in the will, and the children listed - which would test the parentage rows the model already holds.

Elders

FamilySearch profile LZ1Q-G32