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Person PER-000148

Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen

19 March 1801 – ? · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name
Susanna Johanna
Given
Susanna Johanna
Surname
Oosthuizen

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Three generations around this person

Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen 1801 Jan Hendrik Botha

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Immediate family

Father
Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1755)
Mother
Susanna Catharina van Tonder
Brothers and sisters
Married
Jan Hendrik Botha
Children

A life in the record

  1. 19 March 1801 born Born
  2. 6 December 1802 occasion Baptism at Swartland

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What we don't know

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Sources

  1. Swartland baptism register: the baptism of Susanna Johanna, daughter of Ockert Oosthuijzen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder, born 19 March 1801, baptised 6 December 1802FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994". Filmed under project S-AF 00532, roll 92.Film #008147789, ITEM 2 = SWARTLAND G5/3/3, BAPTISM, 1783-1809. Image 141 of 202; the opening carries pages 192 and 193 and the year band 1802. The film's item table (image 2) lists item 1 SWARTLAND G5/3/2 (p42, from 1762) baptism 1745-1782, 142 pages, and item 2 as above.

Research notes

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

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

*** [20 Aug 2026, SRC-517] HER BAPTISM IS FOUND, AT SWARTLAND. *** Swartland register G5/3/3, page 193: born 19 March 1801, baptised 6 DECEMBER 1802, parents Ockert Oosthuijzen and Susanna Catharina van TonderM, witnesses her brother Jacobus Johannes and her sister Dina Magdalena with Fredrick Smith and Johanna [?Katits]. Birth now exact where this row carried a bare 1801. TWENTY-ONE MONTHS FROM BIRTH TO FONT, which says something about the distance to a church.

AND PER-000352 IS ALMOST CERTAINLY THIS SAME CHILD, its 1802 being this baptism year read as a birth. Not merged - the two carry different FamilySearch ids. LEAD-0259.

[same day] THE 1809 INVENTORY CONFIRMS IT: eleven heirs, one Susanna Johanna, 'oud 8 jaren' - born about 1801. There is no second child of that name, so PER-000352 cannot be a sibling.

[20 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000352 into this row. Swartland register SRC-517 gives ONE Susanna Johanna, born 19 Mar 1801 and baptised 6 Dec 1802; PER-000352's 1802 was that baptism year taken for a birth year. The 1809 inventory SRC-092 names one Susanna Johanna, oud 8 jaren. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: birth_edtf: kept '1801-03-19', PER-000352 said '1802'; tree id: kept '', PER-000352 said ''; familysearch_id: kept 'LZ8N-SP5', PER-000352 said 'G6ZP-ZKZ'. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree, FamilySearch G6ZP-ZKZ - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.

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Elders

FamilySearch profile LZ8N-SP5