John Peter Oosthuizen

1863 – 1955 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4) (1884-01-25).

Names

Given: John Peter
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: Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
Mother: Sophia Johanna Mocke
Brothers and sisters: 1844Nicolaas Frederik Hitge

1846Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge

1848Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

1850Sophia Johanna Oosthuizen

1852Cornelia Francina Magdalena Elizabeth Oosthuizen (infant)

1852Fredrica Johanna Oosthuizen

1854~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

1856Frederik Simon Oosthuizen

1858Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

1860Margaretha Appollonia Oosthuizen

1867Pieter Marincowitz Oosthuysen

A life in the record

1863 born Born
25 January 1884 land Held it, Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4)
1955 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4) held it · 25 January 1884 to 20 December 1937

Stories

mentioned Three farms in one deed: Anna Margaretha, 1937

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, PROBABLE IDENTIFICATION [SRC-124][TREE]: he is the "J.P. Oosthuizen" who took Lot A ("that portion of portion of Rhemhoogte", Kareemoerhoek's parent) by Transfer Deed 341, 25.1.1884 (OWN-000062) - J.D.J. and Mocke's son, brother of Abel Albertus the 1879 grantee. The tree also holds an undated-orphan duplicate "John Peter OosthuizenH" b.1861 (aged 23 in 1884, fits) - probably the same man twice [TO VERIFY].

30 Jul 2026 [FAMILY]: Frans - born 1863, and BROTHER OF FREDERIK SIMON OOSTHUIZEN of Zwartkraal (PER-000006); the tree confirms the brotherhood (both sons of J.D.J. x Sophia Johanna MockeM). Birth year conflict: tree orphan duplicate says 1861,

30 Jul 2026 [FS]: FamilySearch GN66-3MP, 1863-1955 - CONFIRMS Frans's 1863 [FAMILY] against the orphan-duplicate's 1861; birth set 1863, death 1955 new. He outlived the 1937 estate transfers by 18 years.

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-126/DOC-0086] Listed fifth among the five surviving children on his father's 1903 death notice.

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.

Open questions

Nine people carry a different FamilySearch id here and in the tree priority 2 · LEAD-0036
For nine people the model records one FamilySearch id and the family-tree's _FID records another. Which is the live profile, and are the two ids two profiles for one person that want merging on FamilySearch itself?

What would settle it Loading each id and seeing whether it redirects.
Seven people carry a hand-entered FamilySearch id that the family-tree disagrees with priority 3 · LEAD-0019
Backfilling familysearch_id from the family-tree's _FID tag agreed with the hand-entered value on 103 of 110 people and disagreed on 7. Which id is current for each - or do both resolve to the same person after a merge?

What would settle it A redirect proves a merge and the survivor id is the one to keep. Two live, distinct profiles means one of them is the wrong person, and the vitals decide which.

What the record is missing

53 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4), John Peter OosthuizenH is the last owner recorded from 1884-01-25, and the next entry is Anna Margaretha OosthuizenM from 1937-12-20, 53 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0085 records the later arrival but not the 53 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1884 and 1937. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
The record stops in 1937 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends
Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4) was worked as far as 1937-12-20, with John Peter OosthuizenH the last owner on record. 89 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.

Elders

FamilySearch profile GN66-3MP