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MOOC8/24.27 - Inventory of the estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude and his widow Dina Carolina Brits, taken 27 April 1802

estate inventory (transcription) · consulted 2026-07-29

Type
estate inventory (transcription)
Repository
Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)
Reference
MOOC8/24.27, {18020427}
Consulted
2026-07-29

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THE GENERATION ABOVE THE 1809 INVENTORY. Ockert Oosthuysen (PER-000118) is heir no. 3 here, so this document names his parents outright and closes the line one step further back. Three things it settles: (1) the mother is a BRITS, which is where the name Ockert comes from - the 1755 baptism witness Ocker Brits is her kin; (2) the vernoemingspatroon runs perfectly across the first three sons - Johannes for the father's father, Ockert for the mother's father, Jacobus for the father himself; (3) the old couple owned NO FARM by 1802 - the estate is 140 sheep, Rd:s 300 cash and Rd:s 1382:5 lent out to their own children, and the inventory was taken at the place of the son Pieter Cornelis, with whom the widow was living. Eight orphaned grandchildren are placed among an uncle, two neighbours and a stepfather, six of them with ages nobody in the room could give. One enslaved man is listed - Anthony van de Kaap. | [6 Aug 2026] CHECKED AGAINST THE ORIGINAL. Frans sent photographs of the three manuscript openings of MOOC8/24.27 - the head of the inventory, the money account with the heirs, and the closing formula. Until today this project held only the TANAP TRANSCRIPTION, and a transcription is somebody else's reading. WHAT THE SHEETS CONFIRM, word for word: the heading 'ter plaatse van Piet Cornelis Oosthuijsen'; item 43 'een ploeg met zyn toebehooren'; item 44 'een oude slaave jonge, gen:d ANTHONY VAN DE KAAP'; item 45 'eenhondert en veertig schaapen, zo klein als groot'; the eight named grandchildren of the late Marthinus with their households; and the closing formula with Theodorus Muller and Johannes Hendrik Crous as witnesses and A. Stockenstrom's signature twice. WHAT THEY CORRECTED: the Somma of Rd:s 1382:5 is the WHOLE MOVABLE ESTATE, not the lending. The manuscript carries the Rd:s 300 cash and the first loan of 130 across the page together as 'Transporteere Rd:s 430', so the loans alone come to Rd:s 1082:5. This file had been reading the Somma as the loan total and overstating the lending by exactly the cash in the house. The figures close to the schilling either way. THE IMAGES ARE NOT IN THE REPOSITORY: they came by message, not as files, and nothing here should be read as this project holding the scans.

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