Ockert Andreas Oosthuijzen

8 April 1814 – 16 May 1884 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Given: Ockert Andreas
Surname: Oosthuijzen

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Three generations around this person

Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1755) 1755 Susanna Catharina van Tonder 1763

Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen 1792

Daniel Jacobus Strydom 1754~ Anna Magdalena Calitz 1771

Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom 1792

Ockert Andreas Oosthuijzen 1814 Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816) 1816

Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen 1839~ Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1840~ Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen 1842 Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuysen 1850 Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen 1850 Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen 1854 Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1864) 1864 Adriana Cecelia Oosthuizen Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

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Immediate family

Father: Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
Mother: Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom
Brothers and sisters: 1816Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen

1819Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)

1821Daniel Jacobus Oosthuizen

1824Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen

1827Johanna Maggel Petronella Oosthuizen

1830Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
Married: Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816)
Children: 1839~Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

1840~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

1842Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

1850Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuysen

1850Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

1854Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

1864Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1864)

·Adriana Cecelia Oosthuizen

·Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

·Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

·Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

·Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

A life in the record

8 April 1814 born Born
16 May 1884 died Died

What we don't know

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.

Research notes

[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: child Cornelis Andries OosthuizenL (PER-000015); child Johanna Machteld Petronella StrydomM (PER-000138). Thin record; dates as in the tree.

[17 Aug 2026] CHECKED against Klaarstroom and found NOTHING. No ownership, residence, person_place, witness row, grave or event ties him to any ground here. He was briefly proposed as the "brother Ockert" of the Petersburg years and the proposal is withdrawn: the tree has him dying at CALEDON in 1884, and his only documented tie to this district is a child baptised at Beaufort West on 30 October 1842. He married Adriana Cecila Oosthuizen (b. 13 May 1816), an Oosthuizen marrying an Oosthuizen, which is worth a look on its own account. [TO VERIFY]

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Open questions

Two Jan Adriaan Oosthuizens, one wife: are PER-000163 and PER-000398 one man? priority 2 · LEAD-0098
PER-000163 (tree, FS GQKX-JX7) and PER-000398 (tree, FS GHXS-ZVD) carry the same name and the same wife, Johanna Susanna De VilliersM born 3 August 1867. Are they one man duplicated upstream, or two men the tree has confused? And whose dates does PER-000163's row actually hold?

What would settle it A death notice. The two candidate deaths are fourteen years and a province apart, so one notice decides it outright.

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