Bertram Henry Oosthuizen

22 December 1885 – 7 June 1964 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 3 generations up

Names

Given: Bertram Henry
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
Mother: Martha Maria Susanna Oosthuizen
Brothers and sisters: 1878Jacobus Daniel Abraham Oosthuizen

1879Anna Margaretha Oosthuizen

1881Frederick Simon Oosthuizen

1883Beatrix Annis Oosthuizen

1883Hendrik Oosthuizen (infant)

1885Sophia Johanna Mocke Oosthuizen

1894Ernest Albert Oosthuizen
Married: Petronella Jacoba Oosthuizen
Children: 1922Martha Margaretha Oosthuizen

·Aletta Oosthuizen

·Bertram Oosthuizen

·Sophia Oosthuizen

A life in the record

22 December 1885 born Born
7 June 1964 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 Frederik Simon OosthuizenM (PER-000006). Thin record; dates as in the tree.

30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch GHFD-PYY, 1885-1964, agrees.

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-PYY