Roelof Adolph Oosthuizen
1799 – 1883 · Oosthuizen line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Roelof Adolph
- Given
- Roelof Adolph
- Surname
- Oosthuizen
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Susanna Catharina van Tonder
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1784Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
- 1784Susanna Elizabeth Oosthuyzen
- 1786Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1787Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen (b.1787)
- 1790Catherina Jacoba Oosthuizen
- 1791Cornelia Petronella Oosthuizen
- 1792Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
- 1794Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen
- 1795Pieter Marthinus Oosthuijzen
- 1801Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1803Sara Maria Oosthuizen
- 1807Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuijzen
- ·Roelof Oosthuyzen
- ·Susanna Johanna Oosthuyzen
- Married
- Hester Maria Catharina Strydom
- Children
A life in the record
- 1799 born Born
- September 1799 occasion Baptism at Graaff-Reinet
- 1883 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.
- stood for them Roelof van Tonder baptism · September 1799 · mother's kin
- stood for them Maria Magdalena van den Berg baptism · September 1799
- stood for them Piet Bekker baptism · September 1799
- stood for them Christina Mulder baptism · September 1799
Stories
- mentioned Two weddings, five months apart
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
- Graaff-Reinet baptism register, September 1799, pages 116-117: the baptism of Roelof, son of Ockert Oosthuijsen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder, and the same couple standing witnessFamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"Film #008121018, ITEM 1 = GRAAFF-REINET, BAPTISM, 1792-1805. Image 82 of 176; the opening carries 'Bladzy 119/120' in the header and '116' and '117' as page numbers against the entries. Month band reads September 1799.
Research notes
[FamilySearch, 29 Jul 2026] Brother of the root ancestor.
29 Jul 2026: linked to tree (matched on name + birth year during the farm-relatives pull).
*** [20 Aug 2026, SRC-515] HIS BAPTISM IS FOUND. *** Graaff-Reinet, September 1799, page 116: "'T Kind. Roelof. Waar van de Ouders Zijn: Ockert Oosthuijsen en Susanna Catharina van TonderM. Getuijgen: Roelof van Tonder en Maria Magdalena v.d. Berg. Verder: Piet Bekker en Christina Mulder." THE REGISTER NAMES HIM ROELOF ONLY - 'Adolph' is not on the page and comes from the tree and FamilySearch. Both are kept; neither is normalised away. The day does not resolve at the size supplied. [TO VERIFY]
[20 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000294 into this row. PER-000294 was created from the 1809 inventory's heir no. 8, 'Roelof, oud 10 jaren', and its own note has said since 29 Jul 2026 that it matches PER-000147. SRC-515 confirms the register names him Roelof. Moved across: flourished_edtf=1809. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Roelof Adolph OosthuizenH', PER-000294 said 'Roelof OosthuizenM (b.c.1799)'; given: kept 'Roelof Adolph', PER-000294 said 'Roelof'; doopnaam: kept 'Roelof Adolph', PER-000294 said 'Roelof'.
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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Which Oosthuizens came to the Koup, and where did the ones who did not go?
priority 2 · LEAD-0214
Ockert (1755) x Susanna Catharina van TonderM had eighteen children. One of them, Ockert Almero (1786), is the root of everything this project holds. What happened to the other seventeen - who stayed in the western Cape, who went to Hanover and the northern frontier, who joined the emigration of 1838?
What would settle it A branch-by-branch destination for each of the eighteen, each one resting on a dated record - a baptism, a death notice, a grave - rather than on a family-tree place string, which 5 says is systematically wrong and must not be used as evidence.
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The Strydoms: married into this family at least four times and enrolled beside them in 1816
priority 2 · LEAD-0225
[FAMILY] Might be worth looking into the strydoms as well - seems they were close to oosthuizens. How close, and does the Strydom connection predate the Koup?
What would settle it Whether the Strydoms held loan places in the same veldcornetcy, and whether the Oosthuizen-Strydom marriages predate 1809.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LRN1-F2H