Susanna Catharina Strydom

active 1837 · Strydom line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West (1837-03-05).

Names

Baptismal name: Susanna Catharina
Given: Susanna Catharina
Surname: Strydom

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

5 March 1837 event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
Born on Middelwater 27 November 1836, baptised at Beaufort West on 5 March 1837 - a fourteen-week wait, which is what distance did to these families. Both paternal grandparents stood as witnesses, with a Venter and a Strydom for the other two sides. Nineteen years earlier his father had been baptise
5 March 1837 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Almero 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 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptism · 5 March 1837
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, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing GISA, StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P; cc=1392488, wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701

Research notes

[SRC-083] Baptism witness at Beaufort West, 5 March 1837, for Ockert Almero OosthuizenL. A STRYDOM standing for the child of Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL, whose own mother was Johanna Machteld Petronella StrydomM (PER-000138) - so almost certainly kin on that side [TO VERIFY]. Another thread in the Oosthuizen-Strydom question that runs through Rondabel and Middelwater.

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