Johannes Oosthuisen

about 1736 – 1782/

Names

Given: Jan
Surname: Oosthuisen

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Three generations around this person

Johannes Oosthuisen 1736 Maria Anna Coetzer m. 29 April 1759

Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen 1775~

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Immediate family

Married: Maria Anna Coetzer 29 April 1759
Children: Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen

A life in the record

about 1736 born Born
about 1753 land Held it, Welbedagt No. 150 (Attaquaskloof, Oudtshoorn)
29 April 1759 married Married Maria Anna Coetzer
1782/ died Died

Ground they are on record on

Welbedagt No. 150 (Attaquaskloof, Oudtshoorn) held it · about 1753 to April 1778

Stories

mentioned On 15 April 1841 loan ground becomes property
mentioned The Oosthuizens of the Koup
mentioned The Koup before the grants, 1762-1841
mentioned The Oosthuizen stamvader, entered in the VOC ledger, 1685

What we don't know

Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.

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: parent of Aletta Johanna OosthuizenH. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

Superseded: answered below [22 Sep 2026, SRC-665] APPEL: a 'Jan Oosthuysen (jr.)' farmed 'Webedagt aan die Rietfontein' for almost a quarter century and by April 1778 was so poor he could not pay 13 years and 11 months of arrears on the loan farm; the government let him suspend payment (RLR 18 p. 19). WHICH JAN IS OPEN (LEAD-0362). The LABEL fits this man, 'Jan Oosthuijsen d'jonge' on the Swellendam rolls of 1760 and 1770. The DATES fit his father (PER-001828) better: this Jan was about 17 in 1753.

Superseded: answered below [22 Sep 2026, FRANS] MOST LIKELY APPEL'S 'Jan Oosthuysen (jr.)' of Welbedagt (PAR-000277), farming with his brother Marthinus: he dies in 1782, which is the year Marthinus's arrears begin. LEAD-0362.

[22 Sep 2026, He is Appel's 'Jan Oosthuysen (jr.)' who farmed Welbedagt (PAR-000277) almost a quarter century and was ruined in April 1778, owing 13 years 11 months of recognitiepenninge (SRC-665, RLR 18 p. 19). He died in 1782 and his brother Marthinus (PER-001851) took the farm on in the same year. LEAD-0362 closed.

[22 Sep 2026] AND THE FARM IS NOW IN DOUBT, THOUGH THE MAN IS NOT. Ockert Olivier holds Welbedagt aan die Olifantsrivier from 1772 (SRC-669), inside the years Appel's Jan is in arrears on 'Webedagt aan die Rietfontein'. So this man's Welbedagt may be a different farm from PAR-000277. See OWN-000122 and PAR-000277.

[23 Sep 2026] THE FARM IS NOT IN DOUBT AFTER ALL: Welbedagt west of Oudtshoorn is the only one on the Olifants, and Appel's 'aan die Rietfontein' names it by its neighbour. See PAR-000277. What is open is when he left, since his payments stopped about 1764 and Ockert Olivier had a permit on the ground from 1772.

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What the record is missing

19 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow first order · B1 succession
On Welbedagt No. 150 (Attaquaskloof, Oudtshoorn), Johannes OosthuisenH is the last owner recorded from 1753~, and the next entry is Ockert Olivier d'oude from 1772, 19 years later, with no person in common. No document records the handover at all.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1753 and 1772. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

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

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