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Person PER-000215

Anna Magdalena Oosthuysen (b.1847)

21 November 1847 – 1895 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name
Anna Magdalena
Given
Anna Magdalena
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
Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
Mother
Anna Helena Roscher
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 21 November 1847 born Born
  2. 1895 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

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[SRC-074] Daughter of PER-000208 and Anna Helena RoscherM.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000576 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry GLWM-C5N; 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 1847 -> 1847-11-21. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Anna Magdalena OosthuysenL (b.1847)', PER-000576 said 'Anna Magdalena Oosthuÿsen or Oosthuijsen'.

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.

Elders

FamilySearch profile GLWM-C5N