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Person PER-000153

Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1842)

1842 – 1878 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

  1. Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1842)
  2. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

Baptismal name
Jan Adriaan
Given
Jan 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
Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
Mother
Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
Brothers and sisters
Married
Catharina Maria Botha, Catharina Maria Botha
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1842 born Born
  2. 1878 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.

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.

Research notes

[FamilySearch, 29 Jul 2026] Brother of PER-000005, and a namesake of their father.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000367 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id LZ1Q-G2J, so they are one person. Kept PER-000153 ('Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL (b.1842)'); merged PER-000367 ('Jan Adriaan 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 LZ1Q-G2J on FamilySearch before assuming the upstream tree needs anything - it is usually the LOCAL tree that is stale (LEAD-0021). Moved across: tree id=. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL (b.1842)', PER-000367 said 'Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL'; birth_edtf: kept '1842', PER-000367 said '1840~'.

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Elders

FamilySearch profile LZ1Q-G2J