Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1811)
17 November 1811 – 9 November 1892 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: A year-old child is carried 331 km from the Olifants to be baptised at Stellenbosch (1812-11-27).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Daniel Johannes
- Given
- Daniel 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.
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Anna Magdalena Strijdom
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1809Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1809)
- 1818Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen (b.1818)
- 1842Jacobus Johannes Oosthuysen (b.1842)
- 1847Anna Magdalena Oosthuysen (b.1847)
- 1848Ockert Jacobus Oosthuijsen (b.1848)
- 1849Jacobus Johannis Oosthuÿsen (b.1849)
- 1850Hester Cornelia Catharina Oosthuysen
- ·Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 17 November 1811 born Born
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27 November 1812
event
A year-old child is carried 331 km from the Olifants to be baptised at Stellenbosch
Daniel Johannes, born 17 November 1811, baptised at Stellenbosch a full year later. The register writes the household's district in its own column - GEORGE DROSTDY - so the same entry gives the home and the church, 331 km apart. His uncle Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen, then twenty, stood witness. A se
- 9 November 1892 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.
- 3 other people 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.
Sources
- Stellenbosch baptism register 1812, pages 400-401: the baptism of Daniel Johannes, entry No 54, with the household's residence given as GEORGE DROSTDYStellenbosch Dutch Reformed congregation; supplied via FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"Opening headed 1812, left leaf page 400 'Namen der', right leaf page 401 'Gedoopten'. Entry No 54.
Research notes
[SRC-074] Son of PER-000208 and Anna Magdalena StrijdomM.
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000573 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry LZFG-RJV; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1811 -> 1811-11-17; death_edtf 1892 -> 1892-11-09. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Daniel Johannes OosthuizenL (b.1811)', PER-000573 said 'Daniel Johannes OosthuizenL'.
*** [23 Aug 2026, SRC-545] HIS BAPTISM ENTRY IS THE BEST SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE THIS PROJECT HOLDS FOR WHERE HIS PARENTS LIVED. *** Born 17 November 1811 - the date this row already carried, now from the register itself - and baptised at STELLENBOSCH on 27 November 1812, a full year later. The residence column reads '/ GEORGE DROSTDY /', 331 km away. His uncle Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (PER-000015), then twenty, stood witness.
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
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Duplicate candidates from the one-degree pull, settled on FamilySearch ids
priority 2 · LEAD-0035
38 people added on 31 Jul 2026 share a name AND a birth YEAR with somebody already in the model, and 32 share a name with no date at all. Are they the same people?
What would settle it A full birth or baptism date on either side of a pair. Name plus YEAR is not enough here and must not be treated as enough.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LZFG-RJV