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Where each line came from, and when it arrived. One road per family line, 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. The solid line follows the dwelling places the paper confirms; a dotted line runs out to a church or a drostdy that recorded the family while they lived elsewhere.

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. 1751 · Die Swellendam-distrik (op die rolle) · In the Swellendam district on the rolls
  6. 1783 · Swellendam · Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen marries Susanna Catharina van Tonder at Swellendam
  7. 1792 · Graaff-Reinet · Adriana Cecilia Venter baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  8. 1799 · Die suidelike Olifantsrivier (De Rust-Uniondale) · Okker Oosthuyzen writes from the Kammanassie as the rising of 1799 approaches
  9. 1805 · Die suidelike Olifantsrivier (De Rust-Uniondale) · The Oosthuizens on the southern Olifants River
  10. 1808 · Swellendam · A Swellendam baptism, and the register writes the home
  11. 1808 · Uitenhage · Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen marries Anna Magdalena Strydom at Uitenhage
  12. 1811 · George · Enrolled at the George drostdy
  13. 1812 · Stellenbosch · A year-old child is carried 331 km from the Olifants to be baptised at Stellenbosch
  14. 1812 · Stellenbosch · A Stellenbosch baptism from the George Drostdy
  15. 1815 · Graaff-Reinet · Jan de Bruin jr, son of the Rondabel household, baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  16. 1816 · Die suidelike Olifantsrivier (De Rust-Uniondale) · Modder Fontyn is held on loan in the George roll
  17. 1817 · Graaff-Reinet · Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  18. 1818 · Veldkornetskap Traka · A baptism from onder Traca, 1818
  19. 1821 · Beaufort West · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen appears in the Beaufort West opgaafrol
  20. 1821 · Middelwater · lived here: Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
  21. 1821 · Prince Albert · Oosthuizens established at Middelwater
  22. 1821 · Prince Albert · Daniel Jacobus Oosthuijzen baptised at Beaufort West, the direct-ancestor couple, at Kriedouw in 1821
  23. 1821 · Prince Albert · Three Oosthuijzen siblings on one register page
  24. 1822 · Vrolikheid · lived here: Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
  25. 1823 · Prince Albert · Estate inventory of Jan de Bruin, holder of the loan farm Rondabel
  26. 1829 · Prince Albert · Two Oosthuizen sisters of Middelwater marry two van Zyl brothers
  27. 1830 · Prince Albert · Jacobus van Zyl marries Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen at Beaufort West
  28. 1833 · Prince Albert · The loan farm Vrolykheid surveyed for Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen
  29. 1833 · Prince Albert · The loan farm Middelwater surveyed for Okert Oosthuizen
  30. 1836 · Middelwater · lived here: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  31. 1836 · Middelwater · lived here: Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
  32. 1836 · Prince Albert · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen born at Middelwater
  33. 1837 · Beaufort West · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
  34. 1838 · Prince Albert · Adriana Cecilia van Zyl baptised at Beaufort West
  35. 1838 · Prince Albert · Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list
  36. 1841 · Prince Albert · Five Karoo farms granted on perpetual quitrent on one day
  37. 1842 · Prince Albert · Zwartberg NG congregation founded on the farm Kweekvallei - and the town of Prince Albert with it
  38. 1856 · Prince Albert · Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen dies on Middelwater
  39. 1858 · Prince Albert · Adriana Cecilia Venter dies, six days after Meiringspoort opened
  40. 1859 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in his own house at Prince Albert
  41. 1863 · Prince Albert · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
  42. 1865 · Middelwater · lived here: Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  43. 1878 · Klein Valie No. 182 · lived here: Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen
  44. 1878 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
  45. 1885 · Klaarstroom · The first flood closes Meiringspoort
  46. 1892 · Prince Albert · A fourteen-year-old drives three teachers over the Swartberg Pass
  47. 1909 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
  48. 1919 · Prince Albert · Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen buys Hartebeest Voedpad on Rondabel
  49. 1921 · Prince Albert · Elandsfontein on Rondabel transferred to A. Oosthuizen
  50. 1922 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in Church Street, Prince Albert
  51. 1922 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  52. 1974 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Anna Tobia Jeanne Joubert
  53. 1979 · Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery · buried: Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen

Venter · 1792–1858 · Adriana Cecilia Venter's thirty-two years, 1808-1840

  1. 1779 · Tulbagh (Land van Waveren) · Two generations of Venters baptised at Tulbagh on one day
  2. 1783 · Swellendam · Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen marries Susanna Catharina van Tonder at Swellendam
  3. 1786 · Drakenstein · Petrus Jacobus Venter baptised at Paarl
  4. 1788 · Drakenstein · Jacobus Daniel and Maria Magdalena Venter baptised at Paarl
  5. 1790 · Drakenstein · The Venters' last Paarl baptism: two children together
  6. 1792 · Graaff-Reinet · Adriana Cecilia Venter baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  7. 1792 · Veldkornetskap Op Sneeuberg · The Venters on the Sneeuberg
  8. 1808 · Swellendam · A Swellendam baptism, and the register writes the home
  9. 1817 · Graaff-Reinet · Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
  10. 1821 · Beaufort West · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen appears in the Beaufort West opgaafrol
  11. 1822 · Middelwater · lived here: Jan Louis Venter
  12. 1829 · Prince Albert · Two Oosthuizen sisters of Middelwater marry two van Zyl brothers
  13. 1830 · Prince Albert · Jacobus van Zyl marries Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen at Beaufort West
  14. 1833 · Prince Albert · The loan farm Middelwater surveyed for Okert Oosthuizen
  15. 1837 · Beaufort West · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
  16. 1838 · Prince Albert · Adriana Cecilia van Zyl baptised at Beaufort West
  17. 1838 · Prince Albert · Jacobus Petrus van Zyl baptised, and both van Zyl households are in one witness list
  18. 1839 · Prince Albert · Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater
  19. 1842 · Prince Albert · Zwartberg NG congregation founded on the farm Kweekvallei - and the town of Prince Albert with it
  20. 1858 · Prince Albert · Adriana Cecilia Venter dies, six days after Meiringspoort opened
  21. 1859 · Prince Albert (Kweekvallei) · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in his own house at Prince Albert
  22. 1865 · Middelwater · lived here: Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen

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

  1. 1813 · Tygerhoek No. 689 · lived here: Jacobus Adriaan van der Merwe (1813-1855)
  2. 1833 · Oude Muur No. 619 · lived here: Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
  3. 1866 · Lokenburg No. 815 · lived here: Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1794-1866)
  4. 1897 · Oude Muur No. 619 · lived here: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
  5. 1904 · Calvinia main cemetery · buried: Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
  6. 1917 · Calvinia · Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn
  7. 1949 · Prince Albert · Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe marries Maria Magritha van Rensburg at Williston
  8. 1950 · Prince Albert · The van der Merwes come south to the Prince Albert district
  9. 1953 · Williston old town cemetery · buried: Catharina Isabella Bruijn
  10. 1956 · Brandvlei main cemetery · buried: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
  11. 1961 · Williston old town cemetery · buried: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
  12. 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

  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. 1968 · Rondabel · lived here: Maria Magritha van Rensburg
  6. 1971 · Williston, New main cemetery · buried: Petrus Gideon van Rensburg
  7. 1973 · Prince Albert · Maria Magritha Marincowitz buys Varsche Fontein