Isabella Zulch Oosthuizen

1906 – 1995 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name: Isabella Zulch
Called: Belle
Given: Isabella Zulch
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.

Photographs

Johanna Fredricka Oosthuizen, born Malherbe (1875-1959), seated with her five children in a photographer's studio... — Johanna Fredricka Oosthuizen, born Malherbe (1875-1959), seated with her five children in a photographer's studio against a painted backdrop. Standing behind her, the eldest, Ockert Almero; at her right, Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe; beside her in a sailor suit, Almero Jacobus Hitge; seated to the right, Isabella Zulch; on the floor at her left, Aletta Catharina. Her husband, Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (1878-1961), is not in the frame. Inscribed in ink on the mount, bottom right: “M.F Swanepoel P.A.” — Family collection

The same studio portrait of Johanna Fredricka Malherbe and her five children, colourised. — Family collection

Three children in a studio, 1908: a boy standing in a buttoned jacket, a girl seated in a white bonnet and dress,... — Three children in a studio, 1908: a boy standing in a buttoned jacket, a girl seated in a white bonnet and dress, and a baby in a christening gown on the chair - Ockie, Belle and Ette. — Family collection / Frans's genealogy archive

Three generations around this person

Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1836 Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge 1846

Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen 1878

Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe 1828 Isabella Johanna Jacoba Zulch 1837

Johanna Fredricka Malherbe 1875

Isabella Zulch Oosthuizen 1906 Johannes Lodewyk de Lange 1902 Abraham Oberholzer Rossouw 1886 A O Rossouw

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Immediate family

Father: Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen
Mother: Johanna Fredricka Malherbe
Brothers and sisters: 1904Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1904)

1908Aletta Catharina Oosthuizen

1909Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen

1912Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (b.1912)
Married: 1902Johannes Lodewyk de Lange

1886Abraham Oberholzer Rossouw

·A O Rossouw

10 further children are not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.

A life in the record

1906 born Born
1995 died Died

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.

Research notes

[FamilySearch, 29 Jul 2026] Sister of PER-000017.

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

[15 Aug 2026, SRC-442] CALLED BELLE. Named by her niece in 2011: "The three children in the photo were called Ette (Aletta Catharina), Ockie and Belle (Isabella Zulch)." She is the girl in the bonnet in that photograph, the second of five children.

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Open questions

Three photographs named in the 2011 Onse Rus correspondence that this project does not hold priority 1 · LEAD-0203
The January 2011 exchange about Onse Rus names photographs the model has no file for: (1) the broken MARBLE original of Ockert Almero OosthuizenL's gravestone, lying on Vischat, which Frans attached to his own email; (2) a studio photograph of three of the grandchildren - Ette, Ockie and Belle - on the guesthouse website; (3) whatever else that website carries. Can they be got?

What would settle it The files, and permission for anything that is not Frans's own.

Elders

FamilySearch profile GHX9-LXN