Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl
5 June 1838 – ?
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list (1838-08-19).
Names
- Surname
- Van Zyl
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
- Wynand van Zyl
- Mother
- Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1829Caspar Cornelis Van Zyl
- 1831Adriana Cecilia Van Zyl
- 1833Ocker Almero Van Zyl
- 1834Susanna Catharina Abigael Van Zyl
- 1836Wynand Johannes Van Zyl
- 1839Jan Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1841Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl
- 1841Wynand Casper Van Zyl
- 1842Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl
- 1844Petrus Cornelis Marthinus van Zyl
- 1846Gerrit Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1846Gert Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1848Cornelis Andreas Van Zyl
- 1850Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl
- 1852Cornelia Janette van Zyl
- 1852Isaak Daniel De Vries van Zyl
- 1854~Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl
A life in the record
- 5 June 1838 born Born
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19 August 1838
event
Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list
Born 5 June 1838, son of Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuisen - THIRTEEN DAYS before his cousin Adriana Cecilia. Among the witnesses: JACOBUS VAN ZEYL AND SUSANNA CATARINA OOSTHUISEN, the other brother and the other sister, standing for their nephew. Also Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen and An
- 19 August 1838 occasion Baptism at Beaufort West
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- stood for them
Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen baptism · 19 August 1838
on De Modder Fonteyn (Olifants River)
- stood for them
Anna Magdalena Strydom baptism · 19 August 1838
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Jacobus van Zeyl baptism · 19 August 1838 · uncle - the child's father's brother
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Susanna Catarina Oosthuisen baptism · 19 August 1838 · aunt - the child's mother's sister
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Cornelis Petrus van Zyl baptism · 19 August 1838 · uncle - the child's father's younger brother
dates known, no other trace here
- stood for them
Geertruida Gouws baptism · 19 August 1838
stood at 1 other occasion
Stories
- mentioned The brother-in-law who founded a town
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- 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
- Beaufort West baptisms 1838. Adriana Cecilia van Zyl (11 Jul) and Jacobus Petrus van Zyl (19 Aug), the two van Zyl x Oosthuizen households FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GLX, cc=1392488; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 212 of 302; register pages 210-211
Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Johanna Jacomina 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.
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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