Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
11 June 1846 – 25 July 1933 · Hitge line
Connection to the Koup
Lived on Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1) in this district (1846-06-11).
- marriage Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1863-12-01
- event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge1863-12-01
Names
- Baptismal name
- Aletta Catharina Maria Helena
- Called
- Lettie
- Given
- Aletta Catharina Maria Helena
- Surname
- Hitge
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.
Photographs
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Immediate family
- Father
- Charles Frederick Hitge
- Mother
- Sophia Johanna Mocke
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1844Nicolaas Frederik Hitge
- 1848Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen
- 1850Sophia Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1852Cornelia Francina Magdalena Elizabeth Oosthuizen (infant)
- 1852Fredrica Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1854~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1856Frederik Simon Oosthuizen
- 1858Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
- 1860Margaretha Appollonia Oosthuizen
- 1863John Peter Oosthuizen
- 1867Pieter Marincowitz Oosthuysen
- Married
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1 December 1863
- Children
A life in the record
- 1846 occasion Baptism
- 11 June 1846 born Born
- 11 June 1846 land Lived on it, Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1)
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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
- 1 December 1863 married Married Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
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1 December 1863
event
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
[SRC-074] At Prince Albert. He was born on Middelwater in 1836; she brings the HITGE name, which then runs down the line as a given name for three generations.
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10 February 1878
event
Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
Born on 18 January 1878 and baptised three weeks later - by now the family is in the Prince Albert congregation, founded within living memory, and the church is close enough that a baptism no longer waits fourteen weeks as his father's did in 1837. Third son, so by the naming pattern he carries his
- 10 February 1878 occasion Baptism of their child, Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen at Prince Albert
- 1933 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 25 July 1933 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1) lived on it · 11 June 1846
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.
- stood for them
Aletta Katharina Roux baptism · 1846 · mother's mother
on Groot Sluitel Fontein No. 126
- stood for them
Nicolaas Hitges baptism · 1846 · father's father
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Maria Hunt baptism · 1846 · father's mother
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Johan Godfried Mocke baptism · 1846 · mother's family
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Hester Adriana Carolina Hitges baptism · 1846 · father's sister
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
George Joseph Hitges baptism · 1846 · father's brother
on Vondeling No. 139 · stood at 1 other occasion
- stood for them Christina Bleterwick baptism · 1846
- stood for them Johannes Cornelis Jansen van Vuren baptism · 1846
- stood for them Helena Geertruida Mostert baptism · 1846
Stories
- mentioned Middelwater's story since 1777
- mentioned Vrolykheid's story
- subject Who are the two people from the loft at Klueplaas, on old Middelwater, about 1875?
Sources
- FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
- Baptism, 10 February 1878: Almero Jacobus Hitge, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuizen and Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge, Prince Albert FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-T996-Z; cc=1478678; Doop Register, Prins Albert, page 458, entry 59
- 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.
- Baptism of Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, b. 11 June 1846Dutch Reformed Church register (congregation not identified on the image)Baptism register, pages 910-911, entry for Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, 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
DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 2x-great-grandmother, and she was MISSING from the model until now. Married Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (PER-000005) at Prince Albert, 1 December 1863. The HITGE name that runs through the family - Almero Jacobus HITGE Oosthuizen, and the Hitge who was granted Wit Plaats in 1841 (PER-000044) - comes in through her. Tree confirms 11 Jun 1846 - 25 Jul 1933.
29 Jul 2026 [SRC-088] Named in full on the 1878 baptism as "Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeH".
29 Jul 2026 [TREE]: her father is Charles Frederick HitgeL (PER-000327, b. Jul 1819 England, d. 29 JUL 1846 AT OORLOGS KLOOF, PAR-000066 - six weeks after her birth), son of Nicolaus HitgeM (PER-000328) and Mary Wright HuntM. See LEAD-0009.
29 Jul 2026 [TREE]: after her father died at Oorlogs Kloof (six weeks after her birth), her mother Sophia Johanna MockeM remarried J.D.J. OOSTHUIZEN of Middelwater (UNI-000040) - SHE GREW UP AS HIS STEPDAUGHTER ON MIDDELWATER, which explains the 1863 marriage to his nephew Ockert Almero: they were raised in one family orbit. Also why Oosthuizen-era portraits suspected to be her and her husband could surface on Middelwater/Klueplaas ground - the farm was her home twice over.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-127/DOC-0087] Listed on her mother's death notice as 'Aletta Maria Helena Hitches' among the children of the deceased - the Mocke bridge (her place inside the Oosthuizen household) confirmed in a primary document. [30 Jul 2026, baptism register pp.910-911] Register writes her "Aletta Katharina Mary Helena" and the surname "Hitges"; born "1846 / 11 Juny", which matches the birth date already held. Baptised after her father's death (he died 29 Jul 1846); the baptism date itself is given by ditto marks and is not readable from the image [TO VERIFY]. Both grandmothers and both grandfathers witness. Her first name follows the vernoemingspatroon exactly - mother's mother Aletta Catharina RouxM (PER-000473), who is herself a witness.
[31 Jul 2026 SRC-171] Named in her son Charles Frederick's 1930 death notice as 'Aletta Catharina OosthuizenL (born Hitge), WIDOW, Prince Albert' - so she was still at Prince Albert eight years after her husband died and three years before her own death.
[5 Aug 2026, SRC-291/292] HER DEATH NOTICE SAYS WHERE SHE WAS BORN, AND IT IS WIT PLAATS. SRC-292, notice 386 of 1933, gives her geboorteplaats as 'WITPLAATS, Dist. Prins Albert' - PAR-000031, the portion of Vrolykheid granted to 'N. HitgeM' in 1841. Her father is named in full as CHARLES FREDERICK WRIGHT HITJE, which carries his own mother's name Wright (Mary Wright HuntM) as a middle name and ties the Uitenhage family to this ground by name as well as by place. Age at death 87 years 1 month against a death of 25 July 1933 back-computes to about June 1846, matching the 11 June 1846 already held. Her three children are named: Jan Adrian, Charles Frederick Wright (deceased by 1933) and Almero Jacobus Hitje Oosthuizen - the last of whom signed the notice as 'Seun van oorledene'.
[15 Aug 2026] NOEMNAAM RECORDED: Lettie. [FAMILY] Tokkie, lettie, babie - those are noemname. Recorded in `noemnaam` rather than left in a filename, which is where it had been sitting - the photograph arrived as "lettie LV6B-NWH.JPG". 5b keeps the doopnaam and the noemnaam as two fields, neither derived from the other: she is Aletta Catharina Maria Helena on paper and Lettie in the house.
[15 Aug 2026, SRC-442] HER NOEMNAAM IS CONFIRMED FROM OUTSIDE THE FAMILY FILENAMES. Her great-granddaughter, in 2011: "Ockie Oosthuizen and his wife Lettie were my great-grandparents." Lettie was already recorded here from Frans's own instruction the same day; this is a second, independent source for it, written fifteen years earlier.
[16 Aug 2026] A CANDIDATE FOR THE 1925 NEGATIVE, not an identification. She was seventy-nine on 4 December 1925 and had been a widow for nearly four years, and Frans proposes her as the old woman in MED-000068 and in a second frame of the same strip. Nothing on the film names anybody. LEAD-0209. [TO VERIFY]
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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Three photographs named in the 2011 Onse Rus correspondence that this project does not hold
priority 1 · LEAD-0203
The January 2011 exchange about Onse Rus names photographs the model has no file for: (1) the broken MARBLE original of Ockert Almero OosthuizenL's gravestone, lying on Vischat, which Frans attached to his own email; (2) a studio photograph of three of the grandchildren - Ette, Ockie and Belle - on the guesthouse website; (3) whatever else that website carries. Can they be got?
What would settle it The files, and permission for anything that is not Frans's own.
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Who are the two women on the negative of 4 December 1925?
priority 1 · LEAD-0209
A strip of negatives inscribed "P.A. Dec. 4, 1925" holds at least three frames: two women in a garden, an old woman feeding fowls in a farmyard, and a third Frans has shown but not yet filed. Who is the old woman, and who is the younger one standing behind her?
What would settle it A frame from the same strip that carries a name, or a second photograph of Lettie Hitge after 1920 to compare a face against.
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N. Hitge's true footprint on Vrolykheid - and his relationship to Frans's own Hitge ancestors
priority 2 · LEAD-0009
Did N. HitgeM's 1841 title (B.W.Q.5.18) actually cover more of Vrolykheid than the ~2,177-morgen Wit Plaats portion recorded for him - and how is N. HitgeM (PER-000044) related to Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeH (PER-000139, Frans's own direct 2x-great-grandmother) and to Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeM (PER-000178, who married into the Marincowitz line)?
What would settle it A record giving N. HitgeM's full given name and naming his children, matched against Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeH (b.1846) and Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeM (b.1826) - if both are his daughters, or one his daughter and the other a niece or cousin, that settles the family relationship and gives a documented reason one 1841 title could legitimately be cited across multiple later Vrolykheid portions, subdivided within the Hitge family before ever reaching Marincowitz hands
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Two Jan Adriaan Oosthuizens, one wife: are PER-000163 and PER-000398 one man?
priority 2 · LEAD-0098
PER-000163 (tree, FS GQKX-JX7) and PER-000398 (tree, FS GHXS-ZVD) carry the same name and the same wife, Johanna Susanna De VilliersM born 3 August 1867. Are they one man duplicated upstream, or two men the tree has confused? And whose dates does PER-000163's row actually hold?
What would settle it A death notice. The two candidate deaths are fourteen years and a province apart, so one notice decides it outright.
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Are the Klueplaas attic sketches Ockert Almero and Lettie Hitge? The woman does not fit.
priority 2 · LEAD-0201
Two framed portrait sketches found in a Klueplaas attic have been SUSPECTED since July 2026 of showing Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (1836-1922) and his wife Aletta Catharina Maria Helena "Lettie" Hitge (1846-1933), on dress-dating and provenance alone. Photographs of both have now arrived. The man is consistent; the woman is not - the sketch shows an elderly woman in a bonnet of the 1860s-70s, and Lettie was twenty-four in 1870. Who is she?
What would settle it A name on the backing, or a costume date that fits a woman born in 1846.
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Which A.F. Hitge took Spitskop in 1939?
priority 3 · LEAD-0055
Who is the A.F. HitgeM named in Deed of Partition No. 3399 of 5 April 1939 over Karee Rivier No. 143 Portion 11?
What would settle it Reading Deed of Partition 3399, which names every party to it in full. The diagram recites only one of them.
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