Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842)
28 November 1839 – 9 October 1842 · Oosthuizen line
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Connection to the Koup
Buried in this district, at Uitnood 147 farm cemetery, Swartberge (1842-10).
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
- Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 28 November 1839 born Born
- 16 February 1840 occasion Baptism at Beaufort West
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October 1842
buried
Buried, Uitnood 147 farm cemetery, Swartberge
OOSTHUISEN Okkert Jacobus - died 9 October 1842, aged 2 years and 10 months
- 9 October 1842 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
Cornelis Petrus Janse van Ve[uren] baptism · 16 February 1840 · mother's brother
on Haggas No. 145
- stood for them
Maria van der Westhui[zen] baptism · 16 February 1840 · mother's brother's wife
on Haggas No. 145
- stood for them
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptism · 16 February 1840 · father's father
stood at 2 other occasions
- stood for them
Adriana Cicilia Venter baptism · 16 February 1840 · father's mother
stood at 1 other occasion
- stood for them
Christiaan Hatting baptism · 16 February 1840
no other trace in this model
- stood for them
Margaretha Botha baptism · 16 February 1840
no other trace in this model
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.
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1809)
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 4 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.
Sources
- Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/
Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Gert Adriaan 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.
[7 Aug 2026] HE IS THE CHILD ON THE UITNOOD STONE, and the identification is arithmetic rather than a name match. Born 28 November 1839, he was two years and ten months old to the month on that day. The model holds ELEVEN men called Ockert Jacobus OosthuizenL and only one of them was that age in October 1842, which is what makes this safe under 9 - name AND date, never name alone. His death date was blank until now. HE IS THE EARLIEST DATED OOSTHUIZEN BURIAL THIS PROJECT HAS FOUND ON THE GROUND - seventeen years before Ockert Almero OosthuizenL died in 1859 - and he puts his father Gert Adriaan OosthuizenM's household in the Swartberge, 23 km from Klaarstroom, in 1842.
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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