Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuijzen

1807 – 1890 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Ockert Oosthuijzen dies and his youngest is taken in by his eldest son (1809-04~).

Names

Baptismal name

Daniel Jacobus Johannes

Given

Daniel Jacobus Johannes

Surname

Oosthuizen

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Immediate family

Father

Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1755)

Mother

Susanna Catharina van Tonder

Brothers and sisters

• 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
• 1799Roelof Adolph Oosthuizen
• 1801Susanna Johanna Oosthuizen
• 1803Sara Maria Oosthuizen
• ·Roelof Oosthuyzen
• ·Susanna Johanna Oosthuyzen

Married

Martha Maria Elisabeth Erasmus

Children

• 1829Ockert Daniel Oosthuysen
• 1833Cornelia Jacoba Susanna Oosthuizen
• 1835~Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen
• ·Ockert Daniel Oosthuizen

A life in the record

1. 1807 born Born
2. 1808 event A Swellendam baptism, and the register writes the home
   Daniel Jacobus Johannes is brought to the Swellendam font and the clerk writes 'woonende aan Oliphants Rivier' against the family's name - the register itself separating where they worshipped from where they lived, which is exactly the split this map draws as a dotted line.
3. 20 March 1808 occasion Baptism at Swellendam
4. about 1809-04 event Ockert Oosthuijzen dies and his youngest is taken in by his eldest son
   [SRC-074] Ockert Oosthuijzen (1755-1809) died on de Modder Fonteyn about April 1809, leaving thirteen children. FamilySearch records the youngest, Daniel Jacobus Johannes (b.1807), as a FOSTER child of his eldest married brother Jacobus Johannes and Anna Magdalena Strijdom - who had married at Uiten
5. 1890 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 Jacobus Johannes Oosthuise baptism · 20 March 1808 · brother
  on Vrolikheid, De Modder Fonteyn (aan d'Olifants rivier) · stood at 2 other occasions
• stood for them Anna Magdalena Strydom baptism · 20 March 1808 · brother's wife
  on Vrolikheid · stood at 1 other occasion

Stories

• mentioned From Modder Fonteyn to the Koup, 1809-1841

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

1. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
2. Swellendam baptism register: the baptism of Daniel Jacobus Johannes, son of Ockert Oosthuijse and [?] van Tonder, 'woonende aan Oliphants Rivier'FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994". Filmed by the DRC Centre, Cape, operator Tinus Berry 6179, 13 October 2000; project S-AF 00532, roll 119, film emulsion 5033005, camera Model-E 34492.Film #008148300, ITEM 4 = SWELLENDAM G7/4/2, BAPTISM, 1807-1817. Image 31 of 246. The film's own item table (image 2) lists: item 1 Graaff-Reinet G6/8/1 death 1808-1848 (109 pp); item 2 Graaff-Reinet G6/8/2 death 1846-1860 (40 pp); item 3 SWELLENDAM G7/4/1 BAPTISM 1798-1807 (270 pp); item 4 Swellendam G7/4/2 baptism 1807-1817.

Research notes

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Open questions

• Two children with two different sets of parents priority 1 · LEAD-0037

  PER-000373 Sophia Johanna OosthuizenL (b.1850) and PER-000443 Adriana Cecilia OosthuizenL (b.1848) each carry two parentage rows naming different couples. Which is right?

  What would settle it A baptism entry. Nothing short of it - both rows are [TREE] and neither has a register behind it.

• 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.

Elders

FamilySearch profile KZ96-749