Sophia Johanna Oosthuizen
1850 – 26 September 1874 · Oosthuizen line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Abel Albertus Oosthuizen.
Names
- Given
- Sophia Johanna
- 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.
Three generations around this person
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Sophia Johanna Mocke
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1844Nicolaas Frederik Hitge
- 1846Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
- 1848Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen
- 1852Cornelia Francina Magdalena Elizabeth Oosthuizen (infant)
- 1852Fredrica Johanna Oosthuizen
- 1854~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
- 1856Frederik Simon Oosthuizen
- 1858Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen
- 1860Margaretha Appollonia Oosthuizen
- 1863John Peter Oosthuizen
- 1867Pieter Marincowitz Oosthuysen
- Married
- Abel Albertus Oosthuizen
A life in the record
- 1850 born Born
- 26 September 1874 died Died
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
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 Jacobus Daniel Johannes OosthuizenM (PER-000004). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch LZBD-9RM, 1850-1874, agrees.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-127/DOC-0087] DATE CONFLICT: she appears among the children on her mother's death notice (1883/1885), but the tree has her dying 26 Sep 1874. Either the 1874 death is wrong, or the notice listed a deceased daughter (its practice elsewhere was surviving-only) [TO VERIFY].
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Open questions
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Two children with two different sets of parents
priority 1 · LEAD-0037
PER-000373 Sophia Johanna OosthuizenL (b.1850) and PER-000443 Adriana Cecilia OosthuizenL (b.1848) each carry two parentage rows naming different couples. Which is right?
What would settle it A baptism entry. Nothing short of it - both rows are [TREE] and neither has a register behind it.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LZBD-9RM