Anna Christina Oosthuizen
active 1839
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1844, because their spouse born 1819, within 25 years. 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.
Three generations around this person
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Immediate family
- Married
- Willem Venter before 1839
A life in the record
- before 1839 married Married Willem Venter
- 7 October 1839 witness Witnessed a baptism
- 25 December 1848 witness Witnessed a baptism
- 7 July 1850 witness Witnessed a baptism
- 2 October 1859 witness Witnessed a baptism
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.
- they stood for Maria Elizabeth Catharina Swanepoel baptism · 25 December 1848
- they stood for Willem Frederik Swanepoel baptism · 7 July 1850
- they stood for Dirk Jacobus Swanepoel baptism · 2 October 1859
- they stood for Maria Salomina baptism · 7 October 1839
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526
- 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
[9 Aug 2026] ADDED BY witness_scope_sweep.py UNDER SCOPE RULE R2, THE COMMUNITY. This person stood as a witness in this district and is here because the same name stands at more than one occasion, and the surname is one this project already holds. The register writes the name "Anna Christina OosthuizenH". OCCASIONS: 1839-10-07 baptism at Beaufort West; 1848-12-25 baptism at Beaufort West; 1850-07-07 baptism at Prince Albert; 1859-10-02 baptism at Prince Albert. SOURCE: SRC-072, SRC-200. flourished_edtf is the earliest of those occasion years and is the only date claimed for this person: the register attests them alive and adult on that day and says nothing else. No birth or death date is guessed. Sex is inferred from the given name where the name is unambiguous, and is left blank otherwise; it is an inference and not a record. THIS ROW IS A NAME IN A REGISTER, NOT A RESEARCHED PERSON. It carries no parentage, no ground and no tree id, and it exists so the witness seam can be walked in both directions. [TO VERIFY] IDENTITY ACROSS OCCASIONS: 4 occasions are linked to this one row on the strength of the name alone, spanning 1839 to 1859. 9 forbids matching a person by name alone and this is that risk, taken deliberately and marked. Two occasions a generation apart may be a man and his namesake nephew.
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.