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Person PER-000128

Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)

1828 – 24 April 1871 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up

  1. Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
  2. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Connection to the Koup

Lived on Middelwater in this district (1850~).

Names

Baptismal name
Cornelis Andries
Given
Cornelis Andries
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
Magdalena Maria van Wyk 10 June 1850
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1828 born Born
  2. 26 December 1842 witness Witnessed a baptism · Susara Johanna OOSTHUIZEN
  3. 10 June 1850 married Married Magdalena Maria van Wyk
  4. about 1850 land Lived on it, Middelwater
  5. 14 March 1869 event Maria Johanna Oosthuysen baptised at Beaufort
    Born 14 December 1868, baptised 14 March 1869. Witnesses Nicolaas Flok, Maria Johanna van Wyk and Hildje Susanna Maria Flok. The register spells the family Oosthuysen.
  6. 24 April 1871 event Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen dies on Middelwater
    [SRC-073] Joint will with Magdalena Maria van Wyk made on the farm two months earlier, 24 Feb 1871 (KAB: MOOC 7/1/316.5). His widow remarried in 1874.
  7. 24 April 1871 died Died

Ground they are on record on

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

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

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

  1. Family Group Record: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1787) x Adriana Cecilia Venter (1792) - posted to a genealogy list as "Oosthuizen X Venter"private (email, forwarded to Frans)Johan Jacob Pottas, Bloemfontein, 13 October 2005; compiled from South African Genealogies Vol 07: O-Ph, with KAB MOOC and VAB citations
  2. Baptism of Maria Johanna Oosthuysen, Beaufort, 14 March 1869FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"Doopregister, Beaufort, ff. 5-66/5-67, second entry in the left column
  3. 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/

Research notes

[SRC-073 + tree] DIED ON THE FARM MIDDELWATER, 24 Apr 1871, joint will with his wife dated 24 Feb 1871 at Prince Albert (KAB: MOOC 7/1/316.5). Married Magdalena Maria van WykH at Prince Albert 10 Jun 1850. A brother of Frans's direct ancestor, living and dying on the family farm - one more anchor for Middelwater (PAR-000001) between the 1841 grant and the 1884 quitrent. Pottas gives his birth as 4 Jul 1825 but the baptism as 3 Oct 1828; the tree says "about 1828" [TO VERIFY].

29 Jul 2026 FamilySearch L1GF-3FW gives 1828-1871, which settles the 1825-vs-1828 birth question in favour of 1828.

[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.

[6 Aug 2026] display_name CORRECTED from '(b.1825)' to '(b.1828)'. The parenthetical disambiguator contradicted this row's own birth_edtf, which is 1828, so the site printed one year in the name and another in the field beside it. A parenthetical exists to tell two same-named men apart and is worse than useless when it disagrees with the record it is disambiguating. Audit finding prose-15, 5 Aug 2026.

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

Elders

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