Beaufort West baptisms 1838. Adriana Cecilia van Zyl (11 Jul) and Jacobus Petrus van Zyl (19 Aug), the two van Zyl x Oosthuizen households
church register (original scan) · consulted 2026-08-01
- Type
- church register (original scan)
- Repository
- FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenbosch
- Reference
- ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GLX, cc=1392488; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 212 of 302; register pages 210-211
- Consulted
- 2026-08-01
The citation as it was given
Citation as supplied by , verbatim per 5a. Columns: Kind | Geboren | Gedoop | Ouders | Getuigen. | TWO ENTRIES, TRANSCRIBED AS WRITTEN: (1) 'ADRIANA CECILIA | Den 18 Juny | Den 11 July 1838 | JACOBUS VAN ZEYL / SUSANNA CHATARINA OOSTHUISEN | Getuigen: Hester Elisabet Strydom, Jan Louies Venter, Siena van W[ij]k, Dabid Jacobus Strydom, Susara Oosthuisen'. (2) 'JACOBUS PETRUS | Den 5 Juny | Den 19 August 1838 | WYNAND VAN ZYL / JOHANNA JACOMINA OOSTHUISEN | Getuigen: Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen, Anna Magdalena Strydom, JACOBUS VAN ZEYL, SUSANNA CATARINA OOSTHUISEN, Cornelis Petrus van Zyl, Geertruida gouws'. | WHAT IT PROVES OUTRIGHT: the two-brothers-two-sisters marriage, from a PRIMARY record rather than from family testimony plus inference. Both couples appear as parents on one page, thirteen days apart in their children's births, AND EACH COUPLE STANDS WITNESS AT THE OTHER'S BAPTISM. | WHAT IT COMPLICATES: see EVT and LEAD-0047. Jacobus van Zeyl is at BEAUFORT WEST on 19 AUGUST 1838, in the Cape Colony, as a named witness. | The model needed no correction on either child: PER-000834 already carried 18 Jun 1838 and PER-000626 already carried 5 Jun 1838, both to the day.
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
10 occasions.
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11 July 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Hester Elisabet Strydom
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] Linked to PER-001706, a row crea -
11 July 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Jan Louies Venter
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] Linked to PER-001717, a row crea -
11 July 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Siena van W[ij]k
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] Linked to PER-001755, a row crea -
11 July 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Dabid Jacobus Strydom
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] Linked to PER-001683, a row crea -
11 July 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Susara Oosthuisen
Name as written in the register. -
19 August 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] LINKED to PER-000208 on name and -
19 August 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Anna Magdalena Strydom
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] LINKED to PER-000209 on name and -
19 August 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Jacobus van Zeyl, Susanna Catarina Oosthuisen
Name as written in the register. THE CROSS-WITNESSING IS THE POINT: the other va -
19 August 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Cornelis Petrus van Zyl
Name as written in the register. [FS, 1 Aug 2026] Identified as LCV6-F3R (1817-1 -
19 August 1838 · baptism · Beaufort West
witnesses: Geertruida Gouws
Name as written in the register. | [9 Aug 2026] Linked to PER-001698, a row crea
What rests on this source
Documents
- church_register, 1838 S3HY-68TW-GLX.jpg
People
- Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen 14 December 1808 – 1884
- Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1811) 17 November 1811 – 1840
- Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl 20 September 1809 – 10 April 1906
- Cornelis Petrus Jacobus van Zyl (1817-1906) 1817 – 1906
- Dabid Jacobus Strydom
- Geertruida Gouws
- Hester Elisabet Strydom
- Jan Louies Venter
- Siena van Wijk