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The roads in

Where each line came from, and when it arrived. Four family lines, one road each, drawn only from records that pin a place and a date.

The stories tell each road in full. This map shows only the pins: where a road looks short, that is the placed record being thin, not the journey.

Oosthuizen · 1685–1979 · The Oosthuizens of the Koup

  1. 1685 · Texel (off this map) · Jan Oosthuijsz enlists as adelborst and sails from Texel
  2. 1691 · Drakenstein · Settles at Drakenstein on the immigrant terms
  3. 1713 · Drakenstein · Two Oosthuizen daughters die in the smallpox year
  4. 1722 · Drakenstein · Jacobus Oosthuysen baptised, with a single witness
  5. 1809 · Citrusdal (Olifants River valley) · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen the elder dies at Citrusdal
  6. 1809 · Citrusdal (Olifants River valley) · The estate at de Modder Fonteyn is inventoried
  7. 1815 · Graaff-Reinet · Jan de Bruin jr, son of the Rondabel household, baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  8. 1817 · Graaff-Reinet · Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  9. 1821 · Beaufort West · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen appears in the Beaufort West opgaafrol
  10. 1821 · Middelwater · lived here: Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
  11. 1821 · Prince Albert · Oosthuizens established at Middelwater
  12. 1821 · Prince Albert · Daniel Jacobus Oosthuijzen baptised at Beaufort West, the direct-ancestor couple, at Kriedouw in 1821
  13. 1821 · Prince Albert · Three Oosthuijzen siblings on one register page
  14. 1823 · Prince Albert · Estate inventory of Jan de Bruin, holder of the loan farm Rondabel
  15. 1829 · Prince Albert · Two Oosthuizen sisters of Middelwater marry two van Zyl brothers
  16. 1830 · Prince Albert · Jacobus van Zyl marries Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen at Beaufort West
  17. 1836 · Middelwater · lived here: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  18. 1836 · Middelwater · lived here: Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
  19. 1836 · Prince Albert · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen born at Middelwater
  20. 1837 · Beaufort West · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
  21. 1838 · Prince Albert · Adriana Cecilia van Zyl baptised at Beaufort West
  22. 1838 · Prince Albert · Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list
  23. 1842 · Prince Albert · Zwartberg NG congregation founded on the farm Kweekvallei - and the town of Prince Albert with it
  24. 1856 · Prince Albert · Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen dies on Middelwater
  25. 1859 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in his own house at Prince Albert
  26. 1863 · Prince Albert · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
  27. 1878 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
  28. 1892 · Prince Albert · A fourteen-year-old drives three teachers over the Swartberg Pass
  29. 1909 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
  30. 1919 · Prince Albert · Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen buys Hartebeest Voedpad on Rondabel
  31. 1921 · Prince Albert · Elandsfontein on Rondabel transferred to A. Oosthuizen
  32. 1922 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in Church Street, Prince Albert
  33. 1922 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  34. 1974 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Anna Tobia Jeanne Joubert
  35. 1979 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen

van der Merwe · 1735–1950 · The van der Merwes of the Hantam

  1. 1904 · Calvinia main cemetery · buried: Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
  2. 1917 · Calvinia · Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn
  3. 1949 · Prince Albert · Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe marries Maria Magritha van Rensburg at Williston
  4. 1950 · Prince Albert · The van der Merwes come south to the Prince Albert district
  5. 1953 · Williston old town cemetery · buried: Catharina Isabella Bruijn
  6. 1956 · Brandvlei main cemetery · buried: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
  7. 1961 · Williston old town cemetery · buried: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
  8. 1968 · Prince Albert · Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe dies at 44, on his own birthday

Joubert & Duminy · 1691–1975 · The Jouberts and Duminys of the winelands

  1. 1909 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
  2. 1916 · Prince Albert · Maria Johanna van Oosterzee Duminy dies at Prince Albert
  3. 1957 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Jacobus Daniel Abraham Oosthuizen
  4. 1974 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Anna Tobia Jeanne Joubert
  5. 1979 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen
  6. 1987 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Tokkie Marincowitz writes for the Landbougenootskap's commemorative book
  7. 1995 · Prince Albert · The Swartberg Angora stud no. 242 changes hands

van Rensburg · 1717–2019 · The van Rensburgs of the dry north

  1. 1949 · Prince Albert · Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe marries Maria Magritha van Rensburg at Williston
  2. 1950 · Prince Albert · The van der Merwes come south to the Prince Albert district
  3. 1968 · Prince Albert · Maria Magritha van Rensburg buys the Varschefontein Remainder
  4. 1968 · Prince Albert · Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe dies at 44, on his own birthday
  5. 1973 · Prince Albert · Maria Magritha Marincowitz buys Varsche Fontein