Baptism, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West
church register (original scan) · consulted 2026-07-29
- Type
- church register (original scan)
- Repository
- FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing GISA, Stellenbosch
- Reference
- South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P; cc=1392488, wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701
- Consulted
- 2026-07-29
The citation as it was given
FULL CITATION supplied by [FAMILY] South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011,. database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape > BEAUFORT WEST > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), Stellenbosch. THIS ONE NAMES THE CONGREGATION - Beaufort West - which neither of the Cape Town Archives citations did. Note also that the register itself BEGINS IN 1819: the volume is "Baptisms 1819-1844", the congregation was founded 16 May 1820, and this family's first Beaufort West baptism is October 1819. They are in at the very start of the book. The page is ruled in columns: Kind / Gebooren / Gedoop / Ouders / Getuigen, with a left margin carrying the birth year and an abbreviation read as "ldg:" followed by a name.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What has been transcribed from this source
4 occasions.
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5 March 1837 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Ockert Almero Oosthuise
the root ancestor, aged 50, standing for his grandson -
5 March 1837 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Adriana Cecilia Venter -
5 March 1837 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Jan Louies Venter
possibly Jan Louis Venter (b.1754), father of Adriana Cecilia - he would be 82, -
5 March 1837 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Susanna Catharina Strijdom
a Strydom, as the child's maternal grandmother was
What rests on this source
Documents
- Baptism register, deed ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P, 5 March 1837 S3HY68TWG3P.jpg
People
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 27 November 1836 – 2 January 1922
- Christian Hatting Senior
- Susanna Catharina Strydom