Johannes Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1753)

1753 – 26 June 1828 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name: Johannes Jacobus
Given: Johannes Jacobus
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.

Three generations around this person

Johannes "Jan" Oosthuijsz (stamvader) 1665 Johanna Martens 1679

Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722) 1722

Ockert Brits 1705 Catharina Bastijaans Pyl 1692

Dina Carolina Britz 1732

Johannes Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1753) 1753

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Immediate family

Father: Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722)
Mother: Dina Carolina Britz
Brothers and sisters: 1751Catharina Oosthuizen

1755Jacobus Nicolaas Oosthuizen

1755Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1755)

1757Jacobus Petrus Oosthuizen

1760Gerrit Johannes Oosthuizen

1762Dina Johanna Oosthuizen

1764Marthinus Oosthuizen

1767Pieter Cornelis Oosthuizen

1769Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1769)

1771Dina Johanna Magdalena Oosthuizen

1774Adriaan Oosthuizen

1777Jacoba Cornelia Oosthuizen

A life in the record

1753 born Born
27 January 1828 land Held it, Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district)
27 January 1828 land Lived on it, Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district)
26 June 1828 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district) held it · 27 January 1828 to 26 June 1828
Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district) lived on it · 27 January 1828

Stories

subject The Oosthuizens of Swellendam, 1749-1811

Research notes

[SRC-074] Child of Jacobus OosthuizenL (PER-000230) and Dina Carolina BritzM, Tulbagh 1749 - sibling of the root ancestor's father.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000658 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry LHVZ-9ZH; 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: sex=M; tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: death_edtf 1828 -> 1828-06-20. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Johannes Jacobus OosthuizenH (b.1753)', PER-000658 said 'Johannes Jacobus OosthuizenH'.

[23 Sep 2026, SRC-467] *** HIS OWN ESTATE: MOOC8/44.45, 28 October 1828. *** 'Johannis Jacobus Oosthuijsen zinior', aged 79 years 7 months, 'in dese Uijthoek gebooren', DIED 26 JUNE 1828 ON THE LOAN PLACE BUFFELS VALEIJ AAN DE GROOT SWARTBERG (the tree said 20 June; the inventory's own date is kept). Widow CATRINA GEESIE GOUWS. Eight heirs: Johannes Jacobus (x Anna Opperman); Jacoba Catrina (x Andries de Jager, 'residing in the Beaufort district'); Stephanus Jacobus Adriaan (x Engela van der Berg, deceased, minor children); Johannes Jacobus (x Johanna Dorothea le Grange); Andries Pieter Cornelis Lodewijk (x Jacoba Hendrika Oosthuysen); Catrina Johanna (x Gerrit van Zyl); DINA CAROLINA (x Louis Nel - see MOOC8/45.139, the Nieuweveld murders of 1828); Maggel Susara (x Johannes Steyn). He had bought a THIRD of the Buffelsvlei opstal from 'Martienis Oostheuijsen M:s zoon' on 27 January 1828. The age makes his birth about March 1749 against the baptism-based 1753 [TO VERIFY]. Buffelsvlei is very probably the farm of that name on the south side of the Groot Swartberg, Calitzdorp division (CEM-487 is its burial ground), not the Prince Albert side [TO VERIFY].

[2026-09-23] The 1828 sheet is transcribed in full with a reading in both languages (DOC-0369, INV-0034); Buffelsvlei is PAR-000339 (RES-000050, OWN-000129). His son's 1823 estate at de Riet Fontijn with Beaufort-district debtors is MOOC8/38.53 (DOC-0373) [TO VERIFY] which son.

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

The patronymic column - the one thing that will separate the nine Ockert Oosthuizens priority 1 · LEAD-0230
An index page (SRC-482) carries a PATRONYMIC against each Oosthuizen: Ockert Marthinuszoon, Johannes Jacobus Jacobszoon, Marthinus Marthinuszoon. Which of the seven entries are this project's people, and which are the namesakes it keeps colliding with?

What would settle it The page read at a scale where the patronymic flourishes resolve, with the collection and year read off the breadcrumb. That would give this project a documented way of telling the Jacobszoon line from the Marthinuszoon line in every roll of the period, which is worth more than any single entry on the page.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1828 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district) was worked as far as 1828-06-26, with Johannes Jacobus OosthuizenH (b.1753) the last owner on record. 198 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.
20 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district), Pieter Cornelis OosthuizenL (1788-1842) is the last owner recorded from ../1808, and the next entry is Johannes Jacobus OosthuizenH (b.1753) from 1828-01-27, 20 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0369 records the later arrival but not the 20 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1808 and 1828. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
An estate taken on ground we cannot place second order · B6 loose-doc
DOC-0370 (MOOC8/45.139, 1831-03-12) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It says “Konkasfontein in the Nieuweveld, Beaufort district; the widow 'residing at Zwarteberg, this district' in 1831” and no more. No parcel is attached, so the family it describes sits nowhere on the map.

What would settle it The inventory's own heading usually names the farm and the field-cornetcy; where it does not, the deceased's quitrent or opgaaf entry for that year will. This is the shape that produced the de Bruin/Rondabel find.
An estate taken on ground we cannot place second order · B6 loose-doc
DOC-0373 (MOOC8/38.53, 1823-03-29) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It says “de Riet Fontijn; the debtors live in the Beaufort district” and no more. No parcel is attached, so the family it describes sits nowhere on the map.

What would settle it The inventory's own heading usually names the farm and the field-cornetcy; where it does not, the deceased's quitrent or opgaaf entry for that year will. This is the shape that produced the de Bruin/Rondabel find.

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 LHVZ-9ZH