Maria Elisabeth Selie

1802 – ? · Selie line · uncertain

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Johannes Petrus Oosthuizen (b.1798) (1824-07-03).

• event Susanna Elisabeth Carolina Oosthuisen baptised at Swellendam1825-08-14

Names

Given

Maria Elisabeth

Surname

Selie

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

Married

Johannes Petrus Oosthuizen (b.1798) 3 July 1824

A life in the record

1. 1802 born Born
2. 3 July 1824 married Married Johannes Petrus Oosthuizen (b.1798)
3. 14 August 1825 event Susanna Elisabeth Carolina Oosthuisen baptised at Swellendam
   Born 14 April 1825. Witnesses Willem Johannes Holt, Susanna Catharina Oosthuisen - the father's sister - Jacobus Oosthuisen and Carolina Verbo[?]. She died in 1831, aged six.

What we don't know

• No death date is recorded.
• Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
• 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.

Sources

1. Baptism of Susanna Elisabeth Carolina Oosthuisen, Swellendam, 14 August 1825FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"Swellendam doopregister, pp. 261-262, first entry

Research notes

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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