Elsje Oosthuizen (b.1719)
1719 – before 1740-12-29 · Oosthuizen line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Elsje
- Given
- Elsje
- Surname
- Oosthuizen
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Johanna Martens
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Pieter du Plessis (1716-1777) 9 October 1735
A life in the record
- before 1740-12-29 died Died
- 1719 born Born
- 9 October 1735 married Married Pieter du Plessis (1716-1777)
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Research notes
[SRC-074 + SRC-094] Child of Johannes Oosthuijsz (PER-000296) and Johanna MartensM (PER-000297), married Drakenstein about 1702 - sibling of Frans's 5x-great-grandfather Jacobus (PER-000230).
[23 Sep 2026, SRC-691] HER ESTATE. MOOC8/6.41a-b, 29 December 1740: she died intestate, 'huijsvrouw van den landbouwer Pieter du Plaisir Charlsz' (PER-002087), on the loan place KRUIJSVALLEIJ AAN 'T ROODE SANT, leaving two living children - Charl Johannes aged 3 and Elsje Petronella aged about two months. She was twenty-one, and the newborn is the likely reason: mother and baby daughter Johanna Elisabeth both die in 1740. DEATH DATE now '../1740-12-29', the date of the inventory; the private tree and FamilySearch say November 1740. Married at Paarl on 9 October 1735 [FS].
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Elders
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