J.D.J. Oosthuyson / O.A. Oosthuysen (reading uncertain)

active 1884 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) (1884-03-24).

Names

Baptismal name: J.D.J. / O.A.
Given: J.D.J. / O.A.
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

24 March 1884 land Held it, Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5)

Ground they are on record on

Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) held it · 24 March 1884

Stories

mentioned Middelwater No. 169: a farm history

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.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[TO VERIFY] [SRC-112, SRC-113] Held Vaste Water (a portion of the Remainder of Middelwater, PAR-000040) by amended quitrent title, granted with an unnamed co-holder "24 Mar 188X" per the 1923 SG diagram (DOC-0076) - which reads the name as "J.D.J. Oosthuyson" - while the companion 1923 beacon report (DOC-0077) cites "Vide LT plan 1884" and names the grantee "O.A. Oosthuysen" alongside J.N. BothaM (PER-000325). Two different readings of what may be the same person from two documents written days apart by different hands - not resolved, both kept. Not yet identified against any other Oosthuizen already in this model.

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.

What the record is missing

39 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5), J.D.J. Oosthuyson / O.A. OosthuysenH (reading uncertain) and J.N. BothaM is the last owner recorded from 1884-03-24, and the next entry is Susanna Maria KlueM from 1923-04-26, 39 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0076 records the later arrival but not the 39 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1884 and 1923. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.