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Person PER-000243

Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1769)

8 October 1769 – ? · Oosthuizen line

Names

Baptismal name
Jacobus
Given
Jacobus
Surname
Oosthuizen

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Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1769) 1769

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Immediate family

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

A life in the record

  1. 8 October 1769 born Born

Stories

Others of the same name

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What we don't know

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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-000664 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry LHLG-352; 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: birth_edtf 1769 -> 1769-10-08. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Jacobus OosthuizenL (b.1769)', PER-000664 said 'Jacobus OosthuizenL'.

*** [20 Aug 2026, SRC-093] HE IS NOT AMONG THE NINE HEIRS OF 1802, SO HE DIED BEFORE APRIL 1802 AND WITHOUT ISSUE. *** The inventory lists eight living children by name and, as the ninth heir, the children of the one who had died - which is how a Cape estate represents a predeceased child. A son who had died leaving children would therefore appear the way Marthinus does. This one appears not at all. THE DEATH DATE IS STILL UNKNOWN; what the document fixes is the LATEST it can be. Recorded as an inference from an heir list, not as a reading. [TO VERIFY]

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Open questions

Elders

FamilySearch profile LHLG-352