Aletta Catharina Oosthuizen
1908 – 1996 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 4 generations up
Names
- Baptismal name
- Aletta Catharina
- Given
- Aletta Catharina
- 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
- Mother
- Johanna Fredricka Malherbe
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Johannes Daniel Rossouw 18 December 1948
- Children
- Johannes Daniel Rossouw
A life in the record
- 1908 born Born
- 18 December 1948 married Married Johannes Daniel Rossouw
- 1996 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 1996 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
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person 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] Sister of PER-000017, named for their grandmother Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeM.
29 Jul 2026: linked to tree (matched on name + birth year during the farm-relatives pull).
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.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GHX9-RCR