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Person PER-000213

Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen (b.1818)

14 August 1818 – ? · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: A baptism from onder Traca, 1818 (1818-11-05).

Names

Baptismal name
Anna Magdalena
Given
Anna Magdalena
Surname
Oosthuizen

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Three generations around this person

Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen (b.1818) 1818

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Immediate family

Father
Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
Mother
Anna Magdalena Strijdom
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 14 August 1818 born Born
  2. 5 November 1818 event A baptism from onder Traca, 1818
    Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen, born 14 August 1818, baptised from 'aan onder Traca' - the lower Traka - with her uncle Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen among the witnesses. The family's first dated trace north of the mountains: between the Olifants they left and the Beaufort registers they appear in the next
  3. 5 November 1818 occasion Baptism at aan onder Traca

Who stood with them

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Stories

Others of the same name

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What we don't know

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Sources

  1. Graaff-Reinet baptism register, blad 266 - Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen, baptised "aan onder Traca" 5 November 1818Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Graaff-Reinet, doopregister [TO VERIFY - supplied as a photograph of the opening; no collection breadcrumb, film or DGS number has been seen, per 5a-ii]Bladz 266, the entry under the heading "Den 5 November aan onder Traca gedoopt"; the facing page is bladz 265, headed "Den 25 October 18[18] Georgs"

Research notes

[SRC-074] Daughter of PER-000208, named for her mother.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000574 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry GK37-31H; 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 1818 -> 1818-08-14. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Anna Magdalena OosthuizenL (b.1818)', PER-000574 said 'Anna Magdalena OosthuizenL'.

[17 Aug 2026, SRC-454] BAPTISED "aan onder Traca" on 5 NOVEMBER 1818 by A. Faure, on the Graaff-Reinet register, bladz 266. The register gives her birth as 1 AUGUST 1818 where this row carried 14 August; both are kept and neither is corrected away. Witnesses: Martinus van Vooren and Adriana [Z/K]oek; her uncle CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIZEN (PER-000015) and Anna Magdalena Petronella Strydom. She is the earliest dated trace of this household in the Traka field cornetcy.

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Open questions

Elders

FamilySearch profile GK37-31H