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Person PER-000208

Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)

1784 – 29 October 1867 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Anna Magdalena Strijdom (1808-03-06).

Names

Baptismal name
Jacobus Johannes
Given
Jacobus Johannes
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
Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
Mother
Susanna Catharina van Tonder
Brothers and sisters
Married
Anna Magdalena Strijdom 6 March 1808, Anna Helena Roscher 8 February 1847
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1784 born Born
  2. 6 March 1808 married Married Anna Magdalena Strijdom
  3. 23 April 1809 event The estate at de Modder Fonteyn is inventoried
    MOOC8/28.63. Ockert Oosthuijzen died intestate on the Olifants River leaving eleven children, the youngest two years old. The inventory walks the house room by room and then out to the yard, where it finds an ox wagon, yellowwood planks, WAGONMAKER'S WOOD and a broken chaise - and in the winkel a be
  4. about 1809-04 event Ockert Oosthuijzen dies and his youngest is taken in by his eldest son
    [SRC-074] Ockert Oosthuijzen (1755-1809) died at Citrusdal about April 1809, leaving thirteen children. FamilySearch records the youngest, Daniel Jacobus Johannes (b.1807), as a FOSTER child of his eldest married brother Jacobus Johannes and Anna Magdalena Strijdom - who had married at Uitenhage the
  5. 1809/ land Held it, De Modder Fonteyn (Olifants River)
  6. 19 August 1838 witness Witnessed a baptism · Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl
  7. 8 February 1847 married Married Anna Helena Roscher
  8. 29 October 1867 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Who stood with them

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

Stories

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.

Sources

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
  2. MOOC8/28.63 - Inventory of the estate of Ockert Oosthuijzen, taken at de Modder Fonteyn on the Olifants River, 23 April 1809 Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)MOOC8/28.63, {18090423}
  3. Beaufort West baptisms 1838. Adriana Cecilia van Zyl (11 Jul) and Jacobus Petrus van Zyl (19 Aug), the two van Zyl x Oosthuizen households FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GLX, cc=1392488; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 212 of 302; register pages 210-211

Research notes

[SRC-074] Elder brother of the root ancestor PER-000001 - second of the thirteen children of Ockert Oosthuijzen (PER-000118) and Susanna Catharina van TonderMen. Married (1) ANNA MAGDALENA STRIJDOM at Uitenhage, 6 Mar 1808, four children; (2) Anna Helena RoscherH at Colesberg, 8 Feb 1847, five children - two of whom were born before that marriage, in 1842 and 1847. NOT to be confused with PER-000043, the "Jacobus Johannes OosthuisenM (Andries son)" of the 1833 Vrolykheid survey: same name, but this man's father was Ockert and his life ran through Uitenhage and Colesberg.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-092] MOOC8/28.63: at 25 he was the eldest heir, and the seven minor children were placed with him because "bij het afsterven van zijne ouders heeft belooft dezelve te zullen nazigneemen en doen onderwijzen tot dat zij hunne mondige jaren zullen hebben bereykt" - he promised to take them in AND HAVE THEM EDUCATED until they came of age. All ten surviving siblings were living with him. He also bought the farm de Modder Fonteyn out of the estate for 1,000 rixdollars. This is the FamilySearch "foster" relationship, in the original words.

29 Jul 2026, LOCKED AS PROBABLE: he is the "Jacobus Johannes OosthuisenM, As. [Almero's] son" for whom Vrolykheid was surveyed in Aug 1833 (PER-000043) - reading and reasoning on that row; kept as two rows until a document confirms [TO VERIFY]. His son Ockert Jacobus (PER-000211) was born on Vrolikheid per family tradition [SRC-119].

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000343 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id KFRS-SCK, so they are one person. Kept PER-000208 ('Jacobus Johannes OosthuizenL (b.1784)'); merged PER-000343 ('Jacobus Johannes OosthuysenH'). 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 KFRS-SCK 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: death_edtf 1867 -> 1867-10-29. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Jacobus Johannes OosthuizenL (b.1784)', PER-000343 said 'Jacobus Johannes OosthuysenH'; surname: kept 'Oosthuizen', PER-000343 said 'Oosthuysen'; birth_edtf: kept '1784', PER-000343 said '1785~'.

[SRC-294, Fred van Zyl, 6 Aug 2026] [FAMILY] Given as b7c3d2 and dated 1785-1867. This row reads 1784-1867-10-29: the death year matches exactly and the birth is one year apart, which is the ordinary distance between a birth and a baptism year in compiled sources. Fred also states that his son Ockert Jacobus was born ON VROLIKHEID in 1809, so THIS man's household was already on that ground a generation before the 1833 survey - and that he is therefore the 'Jacobus Johannes OosthuizenL' named on the Vrolikheid diagram. That last is a correction Fred sent within the hour of his own letter. It is a claim this project can test against the diagram itself. [TO VERIFY] See LEAD-0110.

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.

Open questions

What the record is missing

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.

Elders

FamilySearch profile KFRS-SCK