Petronella Schoonman
active 1817 · Schoonman line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet (1817-06-16).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Petronella
- Given
- Petronella
- Surname
- Schoonman
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.
A life in the record
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16 June 1817
event
Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
Born 20 November 1816, baptised 16 June 1817, with four witnesses in two couples - his uncle Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen with Petronella Schoonman, and Adriaan van Deventer with Maria Sophia Venter. THE LAST TIME THIS FAMILY APPEARS IN THE GRAAFF-REINET ENTRIES GATHERED HERE (the register itself has
- 16 June 1817 witness Witnessed a baptism · Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen baptism · 16 June 1817
on Middelwater
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- Baptism, 16 June 1817: Jan Adriaan, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuijzen and Adriana Cicilia Venter FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"index entry ark 1:1:6VBS-163C; register pages 198-199, entries of June 1817; congregation GRAAFF-REINET, confirmed 20 Aug 2026 by the register's own index (see notes) | *** THE REGISTER IMAGE ITSELF, 20 Aug 2026: FamilySearch film #008147799, ITEM 2, 'Graaff-Reinet. Baptism Registers 1815-1822', IMAGE 130 of 275. The page number 199 is written in the top right corner of the leaf. ***
Research notes
[SRC-082] Baptism witness at Graaff-Reinet, 16 June 1817, paired with Gerrit Adriaan OosthuijzenM - probably his wife [TO VERIFY]. SCHOONMAN is a new surname for the project.
*** [20 Aug 2026, SRC-082] PROBABLY THE SAME WOMAN AS PER-001270, AND DELIBERATELY NOT MERGED. *** PER-000277 'Petronella SchoonmanH' comes from the witness line of the 1817 Graaff-Reinet baptism; PER-001270 'Petronella Catharina SchoemanM' is the wife of Gerrit Adriaan OosthuijzenM (PER-000145, UNI-000091). Same given name, and Schoonman is Schoeman written another way. The baptism's four witnesses stand in two couples, one pair from each side, so the man's partner on that line should be his wife.
WHY IT IS NOT MERGED YET: THERE IS A THIRD READING OF HER NAME. The 1816 George opgaafrol (SRC-459) gives Gerrit Adriaan's wife as 'ANNA Cath: Schoeman', and that reading was itself recorded there as a correction of an earlier match. Petronella, Petronella Catharina and Anna Catharina are three names for one position, from three documents, in two years. One of them is misread and the model should not pick a winner by merging.
WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: the marriage record of PER-000145, or the 1816 roll page re-read at size.
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.