Elsje Oosthuizen (b.1744)
1744 – before 1788-10-10 · Oosthuizen line · live
Names
- Given
- Elsje
- 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
- Brothers and sisters
- Johanna Magdalena Oosthuizen (b.1742), Nicolaas Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1754)
A life in the record
- before 1788-10-10 died Died
- 1744 born Born
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.
Research notes
MOOC8/50.40a, 10 October 1788 (SRC-467). Her estate holds three loan places: ELANDS JAGT 'gelegen in 't Nieuwe Veld aan de Kromme Rivier' at Rd 200; a place actually NAMED OLIPHANTS RIVIER 'gelegen aan de Bosjesmans Rivier' at Rd 200; and WELGELEGEN 'aan de Kromme Rivier aan de andere zyde van 't Goede G[eloof]'.
Daughter of GERHARDUS OOSTHUIJZEN (PER-000298) by Magdalena Neef, who is not in this model - so a first cousin of Ockert. Death date is the inventory date. [TO VERIFY]
[2026-09-23, SRC-687] HER ESTATE READ IN FULL, MOOC8/50.40a-b: seven children named; 614 cattle, 1010 sheep, 26 horses; eight enslaved people named on the sheet; net Rd 7626:36, the largest Oosthuizen estate held here. Her brother Gerhardus and a Marthinus Oosthuijzen appraised. The three places are on the Kromme Rivier 'in 't Nieuwe Veld' and the Bosjesmans Rivier east of the Gamtoos, not the Beaufort West Nieuweveld. DOC-0384, INV-0048.
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.
What the record is missing
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An estate taken on ground we cannot place
second order · B6 loose-doc
DOC-0384 (MOOC8/50.40a and 50.40b, 1788-10-10) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It says “three loan places: de Elands Jagt in 't Nieuwe Veld aan de Kromme Rivier; a place named de Oliphants Rivier aan de Bosjesmans Rivier; Welgelegen aan de Kromme Rivier 'aan de andere zyde van 't Goede Geloof'” and no more. No parcel is attached, so the family it describes sits nowhere on the map.
What would settle it The inventory's own heading usually names the farm and the field-cornetcy; where it does not, the deceased's quitrent or opgaaf entry for that year will. This is the shape that produced the de Bruin/Rondabel find.
Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand,
each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data.
The whole set is on the
questions page.
Elders
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