Frederick Simon Oosthuizen
23 February 1881 – 1963 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 3 generations up
Names
- Given
- Frederick Simon
- 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
- Father
- Frederik Simon Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Cornelia Magrieta de Beer
- Children
A life in the record
- 23 February 1881 born Born
- 1963 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.
- 2 other people 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 Frederik Simon OosthuizenM (PER-000006); father/mother Roy Don OosthuizenH (PER-000019). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch GHFD-VSH, 1881-1963; death year new, from FS.
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
FamilySearch profile GHFD-VSH