Marthinus Jacobus Oosthuizen (b1c4d7e3)
14 October 1818 – 2 April 1897 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Marthinus Oosthuizen rides through the impi at Van Rensburg's laager (1838-02-16).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Marthinus Jacobus
- Given
- Marthinus Jacobus
- Surname
- Oosthuizen
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
- 14 October 1818 born Born
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16 February 1838
event
Marthinus Oosthuizen rides through the impi at Van Rensburg's laager
[SRC-098, SRC-097] Days after Piet Retief's party was killed and the Bloukrans and Weenen attacks, a small group was holding Van Rensburg's laager and ran out of powder. Marthinus Jacobus Oosthuizen rode through an estimated 1,500 Zulu warriors to a wagon, took powder and ball, and rode back through
- 2 April 1897 died Died
Stories
- subject The muster roll
What we don't know
- 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
- Marthinus Jacobus Oosthuizen (1818-1897) Wikipedia
Research notes
NOT AN ANCESTOR - A COUSIN, and the join is the stamvader himself. His de Villiers code is b1c4d7e3, so he descends from the progenitor's eldest son GERHARDUS (b1); Frans descends from the youngest, JACOBUS (b8, PER-000230). The two lines part at the founder's children and do not meet again. [SRC-098] On 16 FEBRUARY 1838, at Van Rensburg's laager, days after Piet Retief's party was killed and the Bloukrans and Weenen attacks, the defenders ran out of powder. He rode straight through an estimated 1,500 Zulu warriors, took powder and ball off a wagon and rode back through them again. [SRC-097] SAG names PAUL NAUDE and ABRAHAM DE BEER with him - and a de Beer turning up beside an Oosthuizen is a pattern this project keeps meeting.
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