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
Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe "Hennie" Oosthuizen (1909-1979) kneeling on the grass with three of his children: FRANCES stands at his left in a white dress with a bow in her hair, ALMERO stands at his right in a jersey and shorts, and the baby JOUBERT lies across his arms. A child's tricycle and a pole fence behind, a windpump on the skyline.
— Family collectionThe same photograph of Hennie Oosthuizen and three of his children, colourised.
— Family collectionThe four children of Hennie Oosthuizen and Anna Joubert, on the werf. FRANCES stands in the middle in a tartan skirt holding the baby HENDRIK; ALMERO is at the left in a dark jersey and shorts, JOUBERT at the right in a lighter one. A pepper tree and the corner of a whitewashed outbuilding behind.
— Family collectionThe same photograph of the four Oosthuizen children, colourised.
— Family collectionHennie Oosthuizen in a hat and dark glasses pulling a home-made box cart with a small girl sitting in it, laughing; a baby stands holding the side of the cart, and ANNA TOBIA JEANNE JOUBERT kneels behind them in a print dress and glasses. A stone wall, young trees and open ground behind.
— Family collectionThe same photograph with the box cart, colourised.
— Family collectionA seesaw on the sand at Herolds Bay, a plank over a drum. A girl leans on the low end holding a baby; two small boys sit astride the high end; a man in a shirt and trousers stands behind them and a second man in swimming trunks steadies the boys. Surf, rocks and the wooden steps up to the houses behind.
— Family collectionThe same photograph on the beach at Herolds Bay, colourised.
— Family collection
Click any name and the same three generations are drawn around that person instead. There is no first couple here and no top to the tree: it is only ever the family standing closest to whoever you are reading about, and a blank is a gap in the record rather than a statement about anybody.
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] Frans's aunt - eldest child of PER-000017 and PER-000078.
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.
This is a private family-history research project, not an official record. It changes as new documents arrive, and parts of it are argued rather than proven.
The farm outlines are for illustration and are not a survey.
They may not be used to determine a boundary, an extent or any right in land. For that, the approved diagram and the title deed govern.
Living people are withheld. If you are named here, or a relative of yours is, you may ask to have it corrected or removed.
