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Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

27 November 1836 – 2 Januarie 1922 · Oosthuizen line

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

  1. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  2. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  3. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Verbinding met die Koup

Het op Middelwater in hierdie distrik gewoon (1836-11-27).

Name

Baptismal name
Ockert Almero
Given
Ockert Almero
Surname
Oosthuizen

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Naaste familie

Father
Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
Mother
Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819)
Brothers and sisters
Married
Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge 1 Desember 1863
Children

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 27 November 1836 gebore Born
  2. 27 November 1836 grond Lived on it, Middelwater
  3. 27 November 1836 gebeurtenis Ockert Almero Oosthuizen born at Middelwater
  4. 5 Maart 1837 gebeurtenis Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
    Born on Middelwater 27 November 1836, baptised at Beaufort West on 5 March 1837 - a fourteen-week wait, which is what distance did to these families. Both paternal grandparents stood as witnesses, with a Venter and a Strydom for the other two sides. Nineteen years earlier his father had been baptise
  5. 5 Maart 1837 geleentheid Doop te Beaufort West
  6. 1 Desember 1863 getroud Married Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
  7. 1 Desember 1863 gebeurtenis Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
    [SRC-074] At Prince Albert. He was born on Middelwater in 1836; she brings the HITGE name, which then runs down the line as a given name for three generations.
  8. 10 Februarie 1878 gebeurtenis Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
    Born on 18 January 1878 and baptised three weeks later - by now the family is in the Prince Albert congregation, founded within living memory, and the church is close enough that a baptism no longer waits fourteen weeks as his father's did in 1837. Third son, so by the naming pattern he carries his
  9. 10 Februarie 1878 geleentheid Baptism of their child, Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen at Prince Albert
  10. Januarie 1922 begrawe Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
    TER GEDACTENIS AAN OCKERT ALMERO OOSTHUIZEN, GEB. 27 NOV. 1836, OVERL. 2 JAN. 1922. Below a rule: ZALIG ZYN DE DOODEN DIE IN DEN HEERE STERVEN.
  11. 2 Januarie 1922 gebeurtenis Ockert Almero Oosthuizen dies in Church Street, Prince Albert
    A retired farmer of 85, dead of gastro enteritis after a month, attended by Dr P.C. Luttig, and buried in the DR church cemetery at Prince Albert. His son signed the form from DROOGEKLOOF - the piece of annexed Government ground that sat inside the Middelwater loan farm when Stretch surveyed it in 1
  12. 2 Januarie 1922 oorlede Died
  13. 3 Januarie 1922 geleentheid Death registration te Prince Albert

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Wie by hulle gestaan het

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

Stories

Ander van dieselfde naam

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

Wat ons nie weet nie

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Bronne

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
  2. Baptism, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing GISA, StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P; cc=1392488, wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701
  3. Form of Information of a Death, 2 January 1922: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen, Prince Albert FamilySearch, "South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972"ark 1:1:W46D-53W2; registered 3 Jan 1922, district Prince Albert, entry no. 5; form B.&D.2 under Act 7 of 1894 (Cape)
  4. Baptism, 10 February 1878: Almero Jacobus Hitge, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuizen and Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge, Prince Albert FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-T996-Z; cc=1478678; Doop Register, Prins Albert, page 458, entry 59

Navorsingsnotas

born Middelwater; Frans 2x-great-grandfather

29 Jul 2026: son of PER-000003 and PER-000135, born on Middelwater. NOTE THE NAMESAKE: his uncle Ockert Almero (PER-000133) was born in 1839, three years AFTER him.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-083] BAPTISM REGISTER READ, Beaufort West: born 27 November 1836, baptised 5 March 1837; parents "Jan Adriaan Oosthuise" and "Susanna Catharina Oosthuise". FOUR WITNESSES, and they are exactly the two sides: his paternal grandparents OCKERT ALMERO OOSTHUISE and ADRIANA CECILIA VENTER, plus JAN LOUIES VENTER and SUSANNA CATHARINA STRIJDOM - a Venter for his grandmother's line and a Strydom for his mother's mother's line. The left margin of the entry reads "ldg: C. HATTING" - see SRC-083 and PER-000055.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-084] DEATH REGISTRATION READ. Died 2 January 1922 at CHURCH STREET, PRINCE ALBERT, aged 85 1/12 years, a RETIRED FARMER - so like his own grandfather (PER-000001, who died in his own house in the village in 1859) he came off the land into the town at the end. Cause: gastro enteritis after a month's illness; attended by DR P.C. LUTTIG - the same doctor later named executor in the Swanepoel estate (SRC-072). Buried in the DR CHURCH CEMETERY, PRINCE ALBERT, which means the grave should be findable. THE INFORMANT WAS HIS SON, "A.J. Oosthuizen", present at death, LIVING AT DROOGEKLOOF - see PER-000016.

29 Jul 2026, death record read in full [SRC-084/DOC-0061]: he did NOT die on Middelwater - "Retired Farmer", usual residence and place of death CHURCH STREET, PRINCE ALBERT, 2 Jan 1922, gastro-enteritis after a month (Dr P.E. Luttig); informant his son A.J. Oosthuizen (PER-000016), "present at death", of DROOGEKLOOF; intended burial DR Church cemetery, Prince Albert; registered 3 Jan 1922, entry 5. The old man had retired to town; the son farmed Droogekloof (PAR-000007), the ground annexed to Middelwater in the 1833 survey.

[31 Jul 2026 SRC-171] CONFIRMED AS THE FATHER of Charles Frederick Wright OosthuizenH (PER-000164) by that son's 1930 death notice, which names 'Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (deceased)' and 'Aletta Catharina OosthuizenL born Hitge, widow, Prince Albert'. FamilySearch has the record attached to the WRONG Ockert Almero - his uncle GVZF-ZHH, b.1839. FIX-0003.

[SRC-303] PROBABLY CONFIRMED AT PRINS ALBERT ON 31 MARCH 1856, aged 18. The ledematenregister lists OCKERT ALMERO OOSTHUYZEN among fifteen young people taken into membership that church year. He was born 27 November 1836, so he was 19 years 4 months on that date and the register says 18. Register ages are commonly a year out and this project has just seen the same thing on a death notice. [TO VERIFY], AND THE WARNING IS THE USUAL ONE: 6 records that OCKERT ALMERO OOSTHUIZEN as a bare string matches NINE people in this model. The age and the date make this one the best candidate and not a certainty.

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Elders

FamilySearch-profiel LDQC-R1B