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Source SRC-545

Stellenbosch baptism register 1812, pages 400-401: the baptism of Daniel Johannes, entry No 54, with the household's residence given as GEORGE DROSTDY

church register · an original record · consulted 2026-08-23

Type
church register
Repository
Stellenbosch Dutch Reformed congregation; supplied via FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"
Reference
Opening headed 1812, left leaf page 400 'Namen der', right leaf page 401 'Gedoopten'. Entry No 54.
Consulted
2026-08-23

The citation as it was given

Supplied by [FAMILY] Stellenbosch. | THE ENTRY, transcribed: 'No 54 | Daniel Johannes geb: 17 Nov 1811 ged 27 Nov | / GEORGE DROSTDY / Vad: Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen | Maed: Anna Magdalena Strydom | Gett: Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen, Anna Magdalena Petronella Strydom, Anna [?Henneke]'. | *** THIS IS THE CLEAREST INSTANCE IN THE PROJECT OF 5's THIRD RULE, BECAUSE ONE ENTRY CARRIES BOTH HALVES. *** The register states the household's district as GEORGE DROSTDY and the baptism happened at STELLENBOSCH, 331 km away. No inference is needed and none is possible in the wrong direction: the clerk wrote the home down, and it is not the church. A baptism names a church, not a home - and here the same page proves it. | IT ALSO CORROBORATES SRC-522 FROM A DIFFERENT ARCHIVE. The 1811 George opgaafrol enrolled this household in the brand-new George district; a Stellenbosch clerk independently wrote GEORGE DROSTDY against them in late 1812. Two record types, two repositories, one answer. | THE CHILD IS ALREADY HERE: PER-000212, Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen, born 1811-11-17 - the register's date to the day - died 1892-11-09, FamilySearch LZFG-RJV. Born 17 November 1811 and baptised 27 November 1812: A FULL YEAR, which is what a 331 km journey costs. | THE WITNESS IS HIS UNCLE. Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (PER-000015, b. 14 June 1792) is a son of Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen of Modderfonteyn and therefore the father's younger brother, aged twenty. Anna Magdalena Petronella Strydom is a Strydom kinswoman of the mother and is NOT in this model; she is recorded here and gets no person row, because 6's witness rule admits only occasions IN THIS DISTRICT and Stellenbosch is not. The third name does not resolve: '[?Henneke]'. | AND THEY WERE NOT ALONE. Entry No 56 on the same opening ALSO reads '/ George Drostdy /' - Pieter Willem Adriaan, born 17 Dec 1811, baptised 29 Nov 1812, father Hendrik Johannes Nel, mother Machteld Bekker, witness ANDRIES VAN TONDER. So two George-district households brought year-old children to Stellenbosch within two days of each other. That looks like a party travelling together rather than two coincidences, and it is the shape of evidence this project's migration layer has least of. [TO VERIFY] as a reading of intent; the two entries themselves are plain. | Note also that the mother was herself baptised at PAARL in 1790 (SRC-543), 23 km from Stellenbosch. Whether that is why the family came west is exactly the question of LEAD-0271 and is not answered here.

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