Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1840)
29 November 1840 – 1876 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Names
- Baptismal name
- Cornelis Andries
- Given
- Cornelis Andries
- 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
- Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1836Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1838Johanna Petronella Oosthuizen
- 1839~Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1840Cornelis Andreas Oosthuizen
- 1840Roelof Daniel Jacobus Oosthuizen
- 1842Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1842)
- 1844Petrus Marthinus Lodewicus Oosthuizen
- 1847Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1847)
- 1849Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1849)
- 1852Anna Magdalena Oosthuysen
- 1855Roelof Daniel Jacobus Oosthuysen
- 1856Martha Magdalena Oosthuizen
- 1861Johanna Elizabeth Eliza Oosthuizen
- 1865Anna Petronella Oosthuizen (b.1865)
- ·Adriana Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 29 November 1840 born Born
- 1876 died Died
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
- Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 7 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[FamilySearch, 29 Jul 2026] Brother of PER-000005. A THIRD Cornelis Andries in three generations - cf. PER-000015 (1792) and PER-000128 (1828).
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000366 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id GPGB-K2W, so they are one person. Kept PER-000152 ('Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (b.1840)'); merged PER-000366 ('Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL'). Exposed by the _FID backfill of 31 Jul 2026, which gave nearly every person an id to collide on; before that these had no shared key. Check GPGB-K2W on FamilySearch before assuming the upstream tree needs anything - it is usually the LOCAL tree that is stale (LEAD-0021). Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1840 -> 1840-11-29. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (b.1840)', PER-000366 said 'Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL'.
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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Four same-day sibling pairs that are one child under two spellings
priority 2 · LEAD-0111
Four pairs of siblings share a mother and an exact birth date and carry names one or two letters apart. Are they twins given near-identical names, or one child recorded twice?
What would settle it The register entry, or a single FamilySearch profile behind both ids.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GPGB-K2W