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Person PER-000127

Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen

31 December 1820 – 30 November 1879 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up

  1. Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen
  2. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

Baptismal name
Gert Adriaan
Given
Gert 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.

Immediate family

Father
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
Mother
Adriana Cecilia Venter
Brothers and sisters
Married
Catharina Adriana Janse Van Vuuren 22 December 1838
Children

A life in the record

  1. 31 December 1820 born Born
  2. 22 December 1838 married Married Catharina Adriana Janse Van Vuuren
  3. 16 February 1840 witness Witnessed a baptism
  4. 16 February 1840 occasion Baptism of their child, Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842) at Beaufort West
  5. 26 December 1842 witness Witnessed a baptism · Susara Johanna OOSTHUIZEN
  6. 1 February 1876 witness Witnessed a baptism · Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz
  7. 30 November 1879 died Died

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.

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. Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/
  2. Baptism of Gert Jan Oosthuisen Marincowitz, born 9 September 1875, baptised Prins Albert 1 February 1876FamilySearch, "Cape Province. Baptism Record Indexes 1875-1882" (the finding aid) and the Dutch Reformed Church register it indexesINDEX: film #008147542 item 1, image 212 of 1006, surname MARINCOWITZ, entry 'Gert Jan Oosthuisen 9.9.1875 Prins Albert 53 119'. REGISTER: boek 53, bladsy 119-120.

Research notes

[SRC-073] Married Catharina Adriana van Vuuren at Beaufort West 25 Dec 1838.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-200] STOOD WITNESS at his niece's baptism, BWB-273-07, 26 December 1842 - Susara Johanna, daughter of his brother Petrus Martinus. He appears twice more in this register as a FATHER, at BWB-232-09 (1840) and BWB-299-10 (1844), both times with Catharina Adriana Janse van Veuren.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-249] His wife's brother, Cornelis Petrus Janse van VuurenL, named a son GERT ADRIAAN - this man's own name - and that boy is listed as a minor on his father's 1863 death notice. Naming a son for an uncle-by-marriage is what the Cape pattern does with later sons, and it is independent evidence that the Oosthuizen-van Vuuren marriage was a close connection.

[SRC-250] THE MARRIAGE IS NOW DATED: 22 December 1838 at Beaufort, from the Cape Town Archives DRC registers via FamilySearch ark 62ZC-16FH. It had been inferred from the baptism of their first child; it is now a record in its own right, and the eleven months to that birth on 28 November 1839 fit exactly.

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Elders

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