Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (b.1912)

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

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000428 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id GHX9-12X, so they are one person. Kept PER-000168 ('Almero Jacobus Hitge OosthuizenL (b.1912)'); merged PER-000428 ('Almero Jacobus Hitge 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 GHX9-12X 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 1912 -> 1912-06-28; death_edtf 2001 -> 2001-01-21. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Almero Jacobus Hitge OosthuizenL (b.1912)', PER-000428 said 'Almero Jacobus Hitge OosthuizenL'.

[15 Aug 2026, SRC-442] THE SPRINGBUCK SUIT, AND A CAPTION HE WAS WRONGLY GIVEN. A photograph on the Onse Rus website carried a story that a boy had a suit made with money earned by selling his tame springbuck, and named the boy as him. His own niece corrected it in 2011: the story is his, the boy in the photograph is not. He was the YOUNGEST of the five children and the three in that picture are the three eldest.

HE WAS NAMED FOR HIS FATHER, Almero Jacobus Hitge OosthuizenL [PER-000016], while his elder brother took the grandfather's names Ockert Almero - which is the vernoemingspatroon running exactly as 5b describes, and the confusion the letter exists to clear up. *** [7 Sep 2026, SRC-172 p.38 and FRANS] HE IS THE ALMERO OOSTHUIZEN IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR BOOK, AND HE WAS BORN AT DROOGEKLOOF. *** Helena MarincowitzM interviewed him for her 1999 history: 'Almero Oosthuizen: Retired headmaster living at La Gratitude, Durbanville. Almero was born at Droogekloof in the Prince Albert district.' Frans identified him the same day: 'that almero ooshtuizen, was my grandfather, hennie's brotehr', and 'he is my father's uncle'. THE DATES AGREE AND THEY ALSO EXCLUDE HIS BROTHER. This man lived from 28 June 1912 to 21 January 2001, so he was alive and retired when the book went to press. His eldest brother PER-000165 is also an Almero - Ockert Almero OosthuizenL - and he died on 17 January 1975, twenty-four years before the interview. Two brothers carrying the name is exactly the trap 9 warns about, and here the date settles it rather than the name. WHAT HE CONTRIBUTES TO THE RECORD. His account is of Koppieskraal, where Khakis slaughtered more sheep than they could carry and left the rest, and where 'two bachelor brothers, Boy and Oosthuizen Marincowitz, were farming'. He had it from his own father. It is second-hand and he says so. DROOGEKLOOF IS THE FINDING, AND IT REACHES BACK A GENERATION FURTHER THAN THIS PROJECT HELD. PLC-000035 is the werf inside Middelwater that Frans's father grew up in, and 5's second rule was written about it after this project first pinned it to the wrong farm and then argued it out of existence. Here is a published sentence treating it as an ordinary birthplace in 1912, forty years before Frans's father. The same house, two generations apart. A vernacular name with no cadastral polygon, standing in print. LEAD-0064. [FAMILY, ] HE WAS A HEADMASTER AND FRANS REMEMBERS HIM. Frans recalls him from growing up and thinks he was headmaster of Jan van Riebeeck and lived in Pinelands, while saying plainly that he is not sure of either. The book has him at Durbanville in 1999, which is a late address and does not contradict an earlier Pinelands. BOTH ARE RECORDED AS UNCERTAIN AND NEITHER GOES ON A PAGE AS FACT. [TO VERIFY] LEAD-0346. [FAMILY, [FAMILY] He wanted to farm, why my grandfather woudl have prefered to teach. That 'why' is 'while', which Two brothers off one Karoo werf, each spending a life the other wanted. Neither of them is on record anywhere saying so, and it is the kind of thing that leaves no record at all: it survives because a grandson remembered it. [FAMILY, ] THE NAME IS SAID TWO WAYS IN ONE FAMILY. His Almero carried the stress on the opening A; a living member of the family who carries the name today is said with the stress on the E. Nobody corrected anybody. 5b is about the difference between the name on the register and the name in the mouth, and this is that difference surviving inside a single household across three generations. S008 is the story about this name and should carry it.