Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

30 October 1842 – 3 July 1940 · Oosthuizen line

Names

Surname: Oosthuizen

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Three generations around this person

Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen 1792 Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom 1792

Ockert Andreas Oosthuijzen 1814

Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1786 Adriana Cecilia Venter 1792

Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816) 1816

Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen 1842

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Immediate family

Father: Ockert Andreas Oosthuijzen
Mother: Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816)
Brothers and sisters: 1839~Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

1840~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

1850Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuysen

1850Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

1854Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

1864Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1864)

·Adriana Cecelia Oosthuizen

·Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

·Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

·Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

·Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

·Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

A life in the record

30 October 1842 born Born
3 July 1940 died Died

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
7 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Adriana Cecilia OosthuizenL (b.1816). Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

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Open questions

Which J. A. Oosthuizen held land in the Field Cornetcy of Traka in 1891? priority 1 · LEAD-0239
The 1929 diagram of Brakrivier No. 148 (SRC-492) describes part of the farm as 884 morgen 214 sq rds 'portion of the land transferred to J. A. OOSTHUIZEN on the 29th of May 1891'. Who was he?

What would settle it The 29 May 1891 transfer deed, which gives his full names. Failing that, an estate file or death notice for one of the four grandsons that names ground in the Willowmore division or the Field Cornetcy of Traka - all four have dates of death, so all four have a death notice to find.
Duplicate candidates from the one-degree pull, settled on FamilySearch ids priority 2 · LEAD-0035
38 people added on 31 Jul 2026 share a name AND a birth YEAR with somebody already in the model, and 32 share a name with no date at all. Are they the same people?

What would settle it A full birth or baptism date on either side of a pair. Name plus YEAR is not enough here and must not be treated as enough.

Elders

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