Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen
7 February 1828 – 1852 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de Beer.
- event A de Beer marries an Oosthuizen at Prince Albert1851-01-27
Names
- Baptismal name
- Catharina Petronella
- Given
- Catharina Petronella
- Surname
- Oosthuizen
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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)
- 1813Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- 1816Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816)
- 1816Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1819Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen
- 1820Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1823Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
- 1828Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
- 1830Martha Jacoba Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1832Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1839Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1839)
- 1840~Hendrik Johannes Oosthuizen
- Children
- Matthys Andries De Beer, Ockert Almero De Beer
A life in the record
- 7 February 1828 born Born
- 12 July 1844 witness Witnessed a baptism
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27 January 1851
event
A de Beer marries an Oosthuizen at Prince Albert
Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen and Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de Beer. Their son was named OKKER ALMERO DE BEER. Ninety years after the de Beers took Kweekvallei and eighteen after a de Beer field cornet walked the Oosthuizen farm boundaries with the surveyor Stretch, the two families marry.
- 1852 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.
- they stood for [A]driana Hermina Cicilia baptism · 12 July 1844
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- 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
- 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] Married Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de BeerH at Prince Albert 27 Jan 1851 - son of Matthys Andries de BeerM, i.e. into the de Beer family that gave the Koup its field cornet. He remarried in Dec 1852, so she died young.
29 Jul 2026 [SRC-077]: dead by Feb 1859, leaving one minor son, Okker Almero de BeerM (PER-000268).
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Open questions
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Was Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer, who married an Oosthuizen about 1807, of the Kweekvallei de Beers?
priority 2 · LEAD-0217
Jacobus Johannes Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1789, d. 16 Feb 1874), son of Marthinus of Tulbagh and a first cousin of the brothers who took up ground in the Koup, married Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer (b. about May 1788, d. 12 Dec 1873) around 1807. Was she of the de Beer family that had held Kweekvallei in the Koup since 1762? If she was, this marriage is a channel by which an Oosthuizen household could have learnt what ground was open behind the Swartberg.
What would settle it A document naming Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer's father.
Elders
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