Susanna Garde
No dates recorded · Garde line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Jacobus Oosthuysen baptised, with a single witness (1722-11-22).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Susanna
- Given
- Susanna
- Surname
- Garde
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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22 November 1722
event
Jacobus Oosthuysen baptised, with a single witness
[SRC-094] "Jacobus, Zoon van JAN OOSTHUIJSEN en JANNETJE MARTENS. Getuijge SUSANNA GARDE." THE OLDEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IN THE PROJECT, and the deepest verified point on the Oosthuizen line. One witness, where his grandson's 1786 baptism would have seven - the family's network in the colony was stil
- 22 November 1722 witness Witnessed a baptism · Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722)
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
Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722) baptism · 22 November 1722
dates known, no other trace here
Stories
- mentioned The muster roll
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 22 November 1722: Jacobus, son of Jan Oosthuysen and Jannetje Martens FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-W944-B; cc=1478678; register pages 59-60, ANNO 1722
Research notes
[SRC-094] THE SOLE WITNESS at the baptism of Jacobus Oosthuysen, 22 November 1722 - and therefore the earliest named person in the family's witness network. Surname read as GARDE from the register hand; could be Gardé or Garden [TO VERIFY]. Nothing further known.
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.