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Source SRC-537

Will of Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen, drawn 1817, filed 1847 - NAAIRS catalogue entry

archival index · a copy, index or transcription · consulted 2026-08-21

Type
archival index
Repository
KAB (Western Cape Archives and Records Service), via National Archives of South Africa (NARSSA), NAAIRS - National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System
Reference
DEPOT KAB, SOURCE MOOC, TYPE LEER, VOLUME_NO 7/1/188, SYSTEM 01, REFERENCE 55, PART 1. STARTING 18170000, ENDING 18170000. REMARKS: FILED 1847.
Consulted
2026-08-21

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Catalogue entry only - the document is UNREAD. DESCRIPTION as the index gives it: 'OOSTHUIZEN, JACOBUS JOHANNES. WILL.' | *** THE FILING DATE CARRIES A FINDING THE DESCRIPTION DOES NOT STATE. *** Drawn 1817, filed 1847. This model holds Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784), PER-000208, married to Anna Magdalena Strijdom at Uitenhage on 1808-03-06 (UNI-000031) and married again to Anna Helena Roscher on 1847-02-08 (UNI-000032). A joint will is lodged when the first spouse dies and the estate is wound up, and the widower remarries. So this entry dates Anna Magdalena Strijdom's death to c.1846-47. [TO VERIFY] - it is an inference from two dates and a filing convention, not a reading of the will. | Why the document matters beyond that: PER-000208 held land at De Modder Fonteyn in 1809/1810 (SRC-092) and stood witness at the 1808 Swellendam baptism whose register writes 'woonende aan Oliphants Rivier' (SRC-514). A loan place has no deed and no diagram, so a will of 1817 by the man who was standing on it is among the few papers that could name the ground. LEAD-0262.

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