Pieter Cornelis Oosthuizen (1788-1842)
18 February 1788 – 7 December 1842 · Oosthuizen line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Pieter Cornelis
- Given
- Pieter Cornelis
- 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
- Pieter Cornelis Oosthuizen
- Married
- Magdalena Susanna Swanepoel (1787-1839) October 1807
A life in the record
- before 1808 land Held it, Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district)
- before 1808 land Lived on it, Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district)
- 18 February 1788 born Born
- October 1807 married Married Magdalena Susanna Swanepoel (1787-1839)
- 7 December 1842 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district) held it · before 1808
- Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district) lived on it · before 1808
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
- 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
[2026-09-23, SRC-690] ENTRY 439 OF THE SWELLENDAM OPGAAFROL OF 1808: 'oosthuizen / P: Corn: Jun: / M: Swanepoel', one loan place, 'de Buffelsvallij gel: als boven' (aan de Zwartberg), 14 uuren from the drostdy, Veeteelt. The 'Jun:' is what LEAD-0232 could not read: he is the SON of Pieter Cornelis (PER-000242, b. 1767), Ockert's brother, not the brother himself. [FS LH2T-JRD] born 18 Feb 1788, Cape of Good Hope; married Magdalena Susanna SwanepoelH (PER-002085) at Swellendam in October 1807 - the same church and month as the root couple, UNI-000001; second wife Hester Catharina du Plessis (1789-1842, FS LZFG-G4M), not yet a row here; died 7 Dec 1842. [TREE] agrees on the dates. A nephew's son of the direct line on the prequel ground: a thin row, tied to the roll and to Buffelsvlei (RES-000054, OWN-000130).
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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20 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow
second order · B1 succession
On Buffelsvlei (aan de Groote Swarteberg, Swellendam district), Pieter Cornelis OosthuizenL (1788-1842) is the last owner recorded from ../1808, and the next entry is Johannes Jacobus OosthuizenM (b.1753) from 1828-01-27, 20 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0369 records the later arrival but not the 20 years before it.
What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1808 and 1828. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
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 LH2T-JRD