Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1839)
8 July 1839 – ? · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 1 generation up
Names
- Baptismal name
- Ockert Almero
- Given
- Ockert Almero
- 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)
- 1813Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- 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
- 1840~Hendrik Johannes Oosthuizen
- Children
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- 1869Ockert Andries Oosthuizen
- 1870Cornelis Almeroe Oosthuizen
- 1870Jacobus Janse van Rensburg Oosthuizen
- 1873Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen
- 1874Hendrik Jacobus Oosthuizen
- 1876Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuizen
- 1877Maria Fredrika Oosthuizen
- 1881Dorothea Catharina Wilhelmina Oosthuizen
- ·Cornelis Almero Oosthuizen
- ·Elizabeth Anna Johanna Oosthuizen
- ·Eva Catharina Oosthuizen
- ·Maria Gertruida Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 8 July 1839 born Born
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 Almero Oosthuizen
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1904)
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 7 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] Thirteenth child of the root couple, baptised 20 Aug 1839. A NAMESAKE TRAP: he is three years YOUNGER than his nephew Ockert Almero (PER-000005, b. 27 Nov 1836 at Middelwater), who is Frans's 2x-great-grandfather. Two men of the same name in the same district in the same decade. The tree carries him twice, as and - a duplicate to clean up. Unmarried as far as Pottas could establish.
29 Jul 2026 [SRC-077] DOUBT RAISED: the 1859 death notice lists THIRTEEN children of this couple and HE IS NOT AMONG THEM - not as living, not as "overleden". Pottas and the family-tree both place him here. Either he died before 1859 leaving no issue and was simply omitted, or he is not a child of this marriage at all. [TO VERIFY]
[31 Jul 2026 SRC-171] THE NAMESAKE TRAP HAS CAUGHT FAMILYSEARCH. Charles Frederick OosthuizenM's 1930 probate is attached on FamilySearch to OCKERT ALMERO b.1839 (GVZF-ZHH) - this row - when the death notice names the father as the husband of Aletta Catharina born Hitge, which is unambiguously PER-000005 (FS LDQC-R1B, b. 27 Nov 1836, d. 2 Jan 1922), his NEPHEW. The record belongs to the nephew, not to this man. See FIX-0003. This row's own note has warned about exactly this confusion since 29 July.
[5 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000364 into this row. Re-run through merge_person.py after the 5 Aug tombstoning was written by hand and left 12 parentage rows and UNI-000170 hanging on the tombstone (audit finding domain2-02). DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (b.1839)', PER-000364 said 'Ockert Almero OosthuizenL'; tree id: kept '', PER-000364 said ''; familysearch_id: kept 'GVZF-ZHH', PER-000364 said 'G6ZT-D65'. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree, FamilySearch G6ZT-D65 - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.
[5 Aug 2026] WHAT THE MERGE BROUGHT WITH IT, AND WHAT IT CONTRADICTS. PER-000364's side of this man carried a marriage (UNI-000170, Elizabeth Anna Janse van RensburgH, PER-001334, b. 29 Sep 1845) and TWELVE children, PER-001088 to PER-001099. Those rows now hang on this row, which is where they belong if the merge is right - but they disagree with two things already written here, and the disagreement is recorded rather than resolved. (1) Pottas has him 'unmarried as far as he could establish'; the tree has him married with twelve children. (2) A wife born in 1845 puts the marriage in the mid-1860s at the earliest, so he was alive well after 1859 - which SHARPENS the doubt already noted above, because SRC-077, the 1859 death notice, lists thirteen children and does not name him at all, living or dead. Either the death notice omits a living son, or the tree has attached this family to the wrong Ockert Almero. [TO VERIFY] - the test is the marriage register for the Janse van Rensburg marriage, which would name his parents. See LEAD-0033.
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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Are the two 1839 Ockert Almeros one man, or did the root couple really have two?
priority 2 · LEAD-0033
PER-000133 (FS GVZF-ZHH, b. 8 Jul 1839, baptised 20 Aug 1839) and PER-000364 (FS G6ZT-D65, b. 1839) are both Ockert Almero OosthuizenL and both children of the root couple. Different family-tree records, different FamilySearch ids. One man or two?
What would settle it The register page. Twins would be entered together, as the 1825 Swellendam page shows.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GVZF-ZHH