Abraham Petrus Oosthuizen
12 February 1857 – 9 July 1882 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Names
- Given
- Abraham Petrus
- 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.
Immediate family
- Mother
- Magdalena Maria van Wyk
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 12 February 1857 born Born
- 9 July 1882 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 (b.1825) (PER-000128). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
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.
Elders
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