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Person PER-000145

Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen

1794 – 8 June 1849 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet (1817-06-16).

Names

Baptismal name
Gerrit Adriaan
Given
Gerrit Adriaan
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 Oosthuizen (b.1755)
Mother
Susanna Catharina van Tonder
Brothers and sisters
Married
Petronella Catharina Schoeman

A life in the record

  1. 1794 born Born
  2. 16 June 1817 event Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
    Born 20 November 1816, baptised 16 June 1817, with four witnesses in two couples - his uncle Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen with Petronella Schoonman, and Adriaan van Deventer with Maria Sophia Venter. THE LAST TIME THIS FAMILY APPEARS IN THE GRAAFF-REINET ENTRIES GATHERED HERE (the register itself has
  3. 16 June 1817 witness Witnessed a baptism · Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  4. 19 August 1821 event Daniel Jacobus Oosthuijzen baptised at Beaufort West, the direct-ancestor couple, at Kriedouw in 1821
    Register entry 382. Born 26 July 1821 AAN KRIEDOUW, baptised 19 August 1821 in huijs. Father CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIJZEN, mother JOHANNA MAGDALENA PETRONELLA STRIJDOM. Witnesses: Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen, Petronella Catharina Schoeman, Petrus Jacobus Venter, Cornelia Petronella Oosthuijzen. IDENT
  5. 19 August 1821 event Three Oosthuijzen siblings on one register page
    Not an event so much as a shape the page makes, and it is the kind of thing this project exists to find. On 19 August 1821 the Beaufort West register carries two baptisms back to back: ENTRY 381 - Petrus Jacobus Venter and CORNELIA PETRONELLA OOSTHUIJZEN's son. ENTRY 382 - CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIJZ
  6. 19 August 1821 witness Witnessed a baptism of a child · Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
  7. 8 June 1849 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.

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. Baptism, 16 June 1817: Jan Adriaan, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuijzen and Adriana Cicilia Venter FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"index entry ark 1:1:6VBS-163C; register pages 198-199, entries of June 1817; congregation Graaff-Reinet [TO VERIFY]
  2. Beaufort West baptisms, August 1821, entries 377–385 (image S3HY-6573-X8X) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6573-X8X; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844; register entries 377-385

Research notes

[FamilySearch, 29 Jul 2026] Brother of the root ancestor.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-082] Stood as baptism witness for his nephew Jan Adriaan at Graaff-Reinet, 16 June 1817, aged about 23. THE FIRST DIRECT EVIDENCE that the root ancestor's siblings were in the same district at the same time - which makes the move to the Koup two years later look like a family movement, not a lone trek.

29 Jul 2026: linked to tree (matched on name + birth year during the farm-relatives pull).

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 KCHR-Y7H