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Person PER-000555

Martha Margaretha Jacomina Oosthuizen

26 March 1873 – 1 November 1951 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Surname
Oosthuizen

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Photographs

Martha Margaretha Oosthuizen (1873-1951), probably: an elderly woman in a dark high-collared dress, seated before a...
Martha Margaretha Oosthuizen (1873-1951), probably: an elderly woman in a dark high-collared dress, seated before a tapestry backdrop, holding open an album leaf of mounted photographs. — Family collection

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Martha Margaretha Jacomina Oosthuizen 1873

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Immediate family

Father
Abel Albertus Oosthuizen
Mother
Sophia Johanna Oosthuizen
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 26 March 1873 born Born
  2. 1 November 1951 died Died

Others of the same name

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What we don't know

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Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Abel Albertus OosthuizenM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

FS LTPB-RK9: born 26 March 1873, died 1 November 1951 - correcting this row's tree-only '1952', and FS's profile image is her HEADSTONE, so the exact date has stone behind it. FS writes her MARTHA MARGARETHA without the Jacomina; the tree's fuller form is kept as display, the difference recorded. She is the probable sitter of MED-000113. NOTE THE NAMESAKE: PER-000554 (L174-N9D) carries the same name and the same father Abel Albertus - two sisters or one person twice, unresolved.

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Elders

FamilySearch profile LTPB-RK9