Adriana Cecilia Van Zyl
18 June 1838 – about 1864
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Adriana Cecilia van Zyl baptised at Beaufort West (1838-07-11).
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
- Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 18 June 1838 born Born
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11 July 1838
event
Adriana Cecilia van Zyl baptised at Beaufort West
Born 18 June 1838, baptised three weeks later. Daughter of Jacobus van Zeyl and Susanna Chatarina Oosthuisen. NAMED FOR HER MOTHER'S MOTHER, Adriana Cecilia Venter (PER-000002) of Middelwater - the first daughter, exactly as the vernoemingspatroon predicts. Witnesses: Hester Elisabet Strydom, Jan Lo
- 11 July 1838 occasion Baptism at Beaufort West
- about 1864 died Died
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
Hester Elisabet Strydom baptism · 11 July 1838
no other trace in this model
- stood for them
Jan Louies Venter baptism · 11 July 1838
no other trace in this model
- stood for them
Siena van W[ij]k baptism · 11 July 1838
no other trace in this model
- stood for them
Dabid Jacobus Strydom baptism · 11 July 1838
no other trace in this model
- stood for them Susara Oosthuisen baptism · 11 July 1838
Stories
- mentioned The brother-in-law who founded a town
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.
- 1 other person 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.
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 Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL (b.1811). 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
FamilySearch profile LHZQ-K93