Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

No dates recorded · Oosthuizen line

No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1857, because their father died 1856. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

Names

Surname: Oosthuizen

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: Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
Mother: Cornelia Susanna Smit
Brothers and sisters: Susanna Isabella Cathrina Oosthuizen, Johannes Marthinus Oosthuizen

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 birth date is recorded.
No death date is recorded.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
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 Ockert Jacobus OosthuizenL. 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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