Fred van Zyl on the b7c3d2/b7c3d3 distinction, Jan Adriaan van Zyl's Middelwater birth, and the Casper van Zyl of De Cango
correspondence (family testimony) · consulted 2026-08-06
- Type
- correspondence (family testimony)
- Repository
- Private family correspondence
- Reference
- Letter of 6 Aug 2026, in Afrikaans, with one same-day correction
- Consulted
- 2026-08-06
The citation as it was given
SECOND LETTER from the same correspondent; the first is SRC-119 (29 Jul 2026). FAMILY TESTIMONY, not a document, and Frans's own instruction on receiving it was "lets not assume his info is correct, but hopefully it expands our knowledge". Recorded on that footing: what it CONFIRMS is noted as independent corroboration, what it ADDS is [FAMILY][TO VERIFY], and what rests on an argument from absence is said to. | WHAT IT CONFIRMS, and this is the substantial part: the namesake distinction this project made on its own. Fred writes that several websites wrongly make Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen a son of Ockert Almero and a brother of Johanna Jacomina, and that he was in fact the son of Jacobus Johannes - adding that Almero's son Ockert Jacobus had only THREE children where the cousin had fourteen. This model already separates the two men (PER-000124 and PER-000211, the Marico Klaarstroom on the latter) and already records exactly three children for PER-000124. Two independent routes to the same distinction. | THE DE VILLIERS CODES ARE NEW AND USEFUL: b7c3d2 = Jacobus Johannes (1785-1867), b7c3d3 = Ockert Almero (given as 11-05-1787), both sons of Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1754/55-1809). | AND THE DATE IDENTIFIES THE MAN BEYOND DOUBT. Fred's '11-05-1787' for b7c3d3 is the BAPTISM day and month of this project's root ancestor exactly - SRC-076 has him born 25 April 1786 and baptised 11 May 1786 - with the year one out. A baptism date quoted as a birth date, which is the commonest slip in compiled genealogy and here is the thing that proves Fred and this project are talking about the same man. | [6 Aug 2026] The citation was reworded the hour it was written, because the leak suite's conversation check failed the build on it: the repository field ended with a personal name and the reference opened with a full dateline, so the exported JSON carried the name and the date adjacent. That is the attribution shape the check bans - it does not ban the name, it bans the dateline against it - and it was right. A source row is a citation, not a record of who sent what to whom on which day; the recipient is not part of the reference.
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 rests on this source
Farms
People
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 24 April 1786 – 26 February 1859
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen (Almero's son)
- Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen 14 December 1808 – 1884
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784) 1784 – 29 October 1867
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1809) 1809 – 23 March 1876
- Casper van Zyl (1781-1863) 1781 – 1863