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Person PER-000136

Sophia Johanna Mocke

14 January 1820 – 3 December 1885 · Mocke line

Married into the family

  1. Sophia Johanna Mocke
  2. Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen (1847-06-14).

Names

Baptismal name
Sophia Johanna
Given
Sophia Johanna
Surname
Mocke

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
Frederik Simon Mocke
Mother
Aletta Catharina Roux
Brothers and sisters
Married
Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen 14 June 1847, Charles Frederick Hitge 25 October 1843
Children

A life in the record

  1. 14 January 1820 born Born
  2. 25 October 1843 married Married Charles Frederick Hitge
  3. 1846 occasion Baptism of their child, Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
  4. 29 July 1846 event Charles Frederick Hitge dies on Vrolykheid
    A farmer of 27, born in England, dies on Vrolykheid in the Zwartberg leaving moveable property and one child seven weeks old and not yet baptised. [CORRECTED 30 Jul 2026] This row previously read "dies at Oorlogs Kloof (PAR-000066)" on the family tree's authority, marked [TO VERIFY against a death n
  5. 14 June 1847 married Married Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
  6. 3 December 1885 event Sophia Johanna Mocke dies at the farm Ezelsfontein
    'Farmer's Wife', died at the farm Ezelsfontein, 'district Albert' (DOC-0087 - date as analysed there; the notice's 'June 1883' conflicts with its own age field). She left a will. Where Ezelsfontein is, is LEAD-0013.
  7. 3 December 1885 died Died

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. Death Notice: Sophia Johanna Oosthuizen born Mocke ("June 1883" as written; see date analysis)FamilySearch, Cape Archives death notice, attached to FamilySearch LC5D-JQ3image supplied by
  2. Death notice of Charles Frederik Hitge, d. 29 July 1846 at Vrolykheid, ZwartbergMaster of the High Court death notice, Cape - same series as SRC-077 (FamilySearch, "Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990")Death notice no. 8586, filed 3-4 Sep 1846Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone.

Research notes

[SRC-073] Married Jacobus Daniel Johannes OosthuizenH (PER-000004) at Prince Albert 14 Jun 1847. Daughter of FREDERIK SIMON MOCKE and Aletta Catharina RouxM - WHICH IS WHERE THE NAME COMES FROM. Their son Frederik Simon OosthuizenH (PER-000006), who built the Zeekoegat church, was named for his mother's father. Died at Cape Town.

29 Jul 2026 [TREE]: THE MOCKE BRIDGE - married (1) Charles Frederick HitgeL 1843 (UNI-000039), widowed Jul 1846; (2) J.D.J. Oosthuizen of Middelwater (UNI-000040). She carried the Hitge children into the Middelwater household, linking title-holder Hitge's line to the Oosthuizens a generation before Aletta's 1863 marriage.

30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch LC5D-JQ3, shown 1820-1883 - CONFLICTS with the tree's death 3 Dec 1885. Kept 1885-12-03 pending a register; FS user data loses to the more specific date [TO VERIFY].

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-127/DOC-0087] HER DEATH NOTICE READ: born in CAPE TOWN; parents FREDRICK SIMON MOCKE & ALETTE ROUX (primary confirmation); 'Farmer's Wife'; died AT THE FARM EZELSFONTEIN, 'DISTRICT ALBERT' [most plausibly clerk's shorthand for Prince Albert, but no Ezelsfontein survives in the Prince Albert cadastre - LEAD-0013]; and SHE LEFT A WILL ('Will, will shown') - her estate file exists and is findable. THE DEATH DATE: the notice writes 'June 1883' but its own age field (65y 10m 11d, from 14 Jan 1820) computes to ~25 Nov 1885 - eight days from the tree's 3 Dec 1885 - and John Peter (b.1863) is not marked among the minors, which fits a post-1884 death. death_edtf kept at 1885-12-03; FamilySearch's 1883 appears to be an indexing of this notice's slip [TO VERIFY: the will/estate file]. Children as listed: daughters Adriana Cecilia, Sophia Johanna [see PER-000373 date conflict], Fredrica Johanna, and ALETTA MARIA HELENA HITGE - her Hitge daughter counted among her children, THE MOCKE BRIDGE IN A PRIMARY DOCUMENT; sons Ockert Almero, Fredrick Simon, John Peter, Peter Marincowitz (minor).

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-128] HER GRANDPARENTS FOUND IN THE MOOC CORPUS: inventory MOOC8/36.35 (8 Oct 1821) is the estate of SOPHIA REBECCA PLAGMAN, widow of JOHAN GODFRIED MOCKE, and lists their son FREDRIK SIMON MOCKE - her father per her own death notice (DOC-0087). So she was named, by vernoeming, for her grandmother Sophia, who died the year after she was born. The inventory lists ten Mocke children and their spouses - a full generation of the Mocke line in one document [TO VERIFY the link by her father's baptism].

[2 Aug 2026, SRC-200] TWO MARRIAGES, AND THE FIRST IS NOW DOCUMENTED. The Beaufort West baptism register has her with CHARLES FREDERIK HITGES baptising a son NICOLAAS FREDERIK, born 3 Aug 1844, at BWB-299-06 - witnesses Nicolaas Hitjes, GEROLAMO MARINCOWITZ, Hester Carolina Hitges, ANNA MOCKE and CHRISTIAAN MOCKE. Hitge died 1846; she then married Jacobus Daniel Johannes OosthuizenH (PER-000004) and F.S. 'Oom Frikkie' Oosthuizen (PER-000006) was born to that marriage in 1856. NICOLAAS FREDERIK IS THEREFORE FRIKKIE'S HALF-BROTHER, twelve years older, and is not yet a person record here. The entry also puts Marincowitz in a Hitge baptism in the year our model says he married into that family.

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.

Elders

FamilySearch profile LC5D-JQ3