Willem Marthinus Oosthuizen (1739-1776)
1739 – 1776 · Oosthuizen line · live
Names
- Given
- Willem Marthinus
- 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
- Jan Hendrik Oosthuijsen
- Mother
- Anna Botha (b.1718)
- Brothers and sisters
- Marthinus Oosthuizen (b.1743)
A life in the record
- 1739 born Born
- 1776 died Died
Stories
What we don't know
- 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.
Research notes
THE 1776 MODDER FENTEIJN MAN. MOOC8/16.11a-b, 7 December 1776 (SRC-467): the estate of WILLEM MARTEN OOSTHUIJSEN, widow SARA PRETORIUS, three children - Johannes Marthinus 10, Wessel 6, Willem 2. His opstal stands on 'de leening plaats genaamt de MODDER FENTEIJN gelegen aan de CAFFER KUIJLSRIVIER', taxed at Rd 10, and the inventory was taken by the SECRETARY OF SWELLENDAM, Menso Blankensteyn. That ground is titled as MODDERFONTEIN No. 417, Riversdale, by diagram 592/1831 (SRC-466).
HE IS A SON OF JAN HENDRIK OOSTHUIJSEN (PER-001828) and Anna BothaM, from the FamilySearch family view `[FS]` - which makes him a BROTHER of Marthinus of Welbedagt (PER-001851) and a FIRST COUSIN of Ockert (PER-000118). Two brothers, two farms, one on the Kafferkuils and one on the Olifants.
He is absent from the shared export (SRC-464) entirely, as are his widow and his son Wessel, so FamilySearch holds him where that file does not. LEAD-0224.
[2026-09-23, SRC-683] HIS ESTATE, MOOC8/16.11a-d, read in full: widow SARA PRETORIUS; sons Johannes Marthinus 10, WESSEL 6 (so born about 1770; the field cornet of MOOC8/37.48 in 1821 and the 1825 memorial) and Willem 2; the opstal on 'de Modder Fenteijn gelegen aan de Caffer Kuijlsrivier', which the neighbours call de Hectors / Hekdoors Craal, at Rd 10; 575 sheep, 53 cattle, 400 lb of aloe; Rd 381:2. DOC-0379, INV-0043.
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-0379 (MOOC8/16.11a, b, c and d, 1776-06-25) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It says “the loan place de Modder Fenteijn aan de Caffer Kuijlsrivier, also written de Hectors Craal / de Hekdoors Craall” 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
FamilySearch profile GQML-S3M