Jan Adriaan 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 1884, because their father born 1814, at most 70 at the birth. That rests on an assumption about ordinary childbearing ages, not on a document. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

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 Andreas Oosthuijzen
Brothers and sisters: 1839~Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

1840~Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

1842Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

1850Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuysen

1850Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

1854Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen

1864Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen (b.1864)

·Adriana Cecelia Oosthuizen

·Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen

·Daniel Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen

·Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen

·Petrus 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 Andreas OosthuijzenM. 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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