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Persoon PER-000296

Johannes "Jan" Oosthuijsz (stamvader)

1665–1672 – voor 1730-11-04 · Oosthuizen line

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Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Johanna Martens (1702~).

Name

Baptismal name
Johannes
Called
Jan
Given
Johannes
Surname
Oosthuijsz

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

Married
Johanna Martens omstreeks 1702
Children

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  1. voor 1730-11-04 oorlede Died
  2. 1665–1672 gebore Born
  3. 31 Maart 1675 gebeurtenis Two Dutch baptisms are tested against the children, and both fail
    [SRC-101, SRC-102] Two candidate baptisms for the stamvader survive - Amsterdam, father Johannes Oosthuijsz and mother Catrina Bouwmans; and Leiden on this day, father Johannes Oosthuysen and mother Antonette de Rede. Both were tested against the names he gave his own nine children, using a pattern
  4. 13 Mei 1685 gebeurtenis Jan Oosthuijsz enlists as adelborst and sails from Texel
    [SRC-095, SRC-096] He signs on as an ADELBORST and the LAND VAN SCHOUWEN clears Texel the same day under Kornelis Klaasz - the VOC entered a man's service on the day his ship sailed, which is how we know he was aboard. He signed a SCHULDBRIEF and no maandbrief: the Company advanced his passage and k
  5. 17 September 1685 gebeurtenis The Land van Schouwen anchors at the Cape
    [SRC-096] 127 days out of Texel. She lay at the Cape until 13 October and then went on to Batavia, arriving 24 December 1685. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE IN THIS FAMILY SAW AFRICA. Whether he stayed ashore or sailed on with her is not recorded [TO VERIFY].
  6. 15 Augustus 1690 gebeurtenis He takes his discharge and becomes a free burgher
    [SRC-095] "Datum uit dienst 15-08-1690. Waar uit dienst: Kaap de Goede Hoop. Reden uit dienst: VRIJBURGER." Five years and three months in the Company's service, and then he stops being a servant and starts being a settler. EVERY PERSON IN THIS PROJECT DESCENDS FROM THAT DECISION. In the same year t
  7. 1691 gebeurtenis Settles at Drakenstein on the immigrant terms
    [SRC-097] SAG has him established at DRAKENSTEIN in 1691 as a free immigrant on the same conditions offered to the French Huguenots: SIXTY MORGEN RENT-FREE, passage paid, on condition that all produce - wheat, vegetables, wine - was sold to the Company, and that he stayed at least five years. So the
  8. omstreeks 1702 getroud Married Johanna Martens
  9. 1713 gebeurtenis Two Oosthuizen daughters die in the smallpox year
    [SRC-074] Barbara, five, and Jannetje, three, both die in 1713 - the year the smallpox epidemic brought ashore on a Company fleet killed roughly a quarter of the colony's people and devastated the Khoi far worse. The family loses two of its nine children in one year. Cause is inferred from the date
  10. 1722 gebeurtenis He makes his will, and says where he is from
    [SRC-100] CJ 2601. Reported to describe him as of WEERL - most likely WERL in Westphalia, which would make the stamvader a GERMAN rather than a Hollander and would overturn the WOERDEN in the muster index. It is his own account of himself, which no clerk's entry can match. The same year his youngest
  11. 22 November 1722 gebeurtenis Jacobus Oosthuysen baptised, with a single witness
    [SRC-094] "Jacobus, Zoon van JAN OOSTHUIJSEN en JANNETJE MARTENS. Getuijge SUSANNA GARDE." THE OLDEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IN THE PROJECT, and the deepest verified point on the Oosthuizen line. One witness, where his grandson's 1786 baptism would have seven - the family's network in the colony was stil
  12. 22 November 1722 geleentheid Baptism of their child, Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1722) at Drakenstein [TO VERIFY]

Stories

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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 22 November 1722: Jacobus, son of Jan Oosthuysen and Jannetje Martens FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-W944-B; cc=1478678; register pages 59-60, ANNO 1722
  3. OOSTHUIJSZ Johan - van Woerden, adelborst, 1685 Nationaal Archief, Den Haag (NL-HaNA), VOC Opvarenden; transcription published by the eGGSA Documents CollectionNL-HaNA 1.04.02 (VOC 1602-1811), inventarisnummer 5331, folio 215
  4. VOC-schip Land van Schouwen (1676) - voyage of 1685 De VOCsite (vocsite.nl), compiled from VOC shipping recordsschip 10948; outward voyage departing Texel 13 May 1685
  5. Suid-Afrikaanse Geslagregisters (SAG), Vol 7 (O-Ph), pp. 136-182 - OOSTHUYZEN, with the family biography and the 1946 coat of armsGISA - Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-AfrikaSAG Vol 7, pp. 136-182
  6. Will of Jan Oosthuysen, 1722Cape Archives (KAB), Court of JusticeCJ 2601
  7. Baptism of Johannes, son of Johannes Oosthuysen and Antonette de Rede - Leiden, 31 March 1675 Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken, Doop-, trouw-, begraaf- en geboorteboeken Leiden (DTB Leiden)DTB Leiden, Deel 239, 31 March 1675

Navorsingsnotas

THE STAMVADER - the first of this family at the Cape, Frans's 7x-GREAT-grandfather, and the head of everything in this project. [SRC-095] The VOC muster has him enter service as an ADELBORST on 13 May 1685, sail with the LAND VAN SCHOUWEN, and leave the Company's service at the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE on 15 AUGUST 1690, reason: VRIJBURGER. He sailed on a SCHULDBRIEF - passage and kit advanced against wages - so he left with nothing. [SRC-096] The ship left Texel 13 May 1685 and anchored at the Cape on 17 SEPTEMBER 1685, 127 days out. ORIGIN DISPUTED, five ways. The VOC index says WOERDEN (Utrecht). The soldijboek behind it is reported to say WERDEN - now part of Essen, Germany. HIS OWN WILL OF 1722 (CJ 2601) is reported to say WEERL, most likely WERL in Westphalia [SRC-100]. Hoge and Zoellner both list him as a German from Werden [SRC-099]. Published registers variously say Weert, and the 1946 armorial says Wierden. On the weight of it he was probably a GERMAN in Dutch service, one of thousands the Thirty Years' War pushed west - but this is NOT SETTLED [TO VERIFY]. BIRTH YEAR: the compiled sources give 1665, c.1670, 1672 and 1675 and cannot all be right. An adelborst in May 1685 was in his mid-teens at the youngest, which makes 1675 impossible and 1672 a stretch. Recorded here as the range 1665/1672 rather than a false precision. [SRC-097] SAG has him settling at DRAKENSTEIN IN 1691 as a free immigrant on the same terms offered the Huguenots - sixty morgen rent-free, passage paid, all produce to be sold to the Company, five years' minimum stay. That is one year after his discharge and reconciles cleanly: burgher in August 1690, on the land in 1691. Married Johanna Maartens; the register of 22 Nov 1722 [SRC-094] writes them JAN and JANNETJE. Died before 4 November 1730. WHICH DUTCH BAPTISM IS HIS? NEITHER, ON THE NAMING EVIDENCE. Two candidate records exist: AMSTERDAM [SRC-101], Johannes son of Johannes Oosthuijsz x Catrina Bouwmans (the one Frans's tree follows, dated 1672); and LEIDEN, 31 March 1675 [SRC-102], Johannes son of Johannes Oosthuysen x Antonette de Rede (which is probably where FamilySearch's 1675 comes from). was to test them against the children's names, and it works. THE FAMILY DEMONSTRABLY FOLLOWED THE VERNOEMINGSPATROON. Of the six naming slots, three can be checked independently and all three hold: the 2nd son should take the mother's father's name and is MARTINUS - and the mother is Johanna MAARTENS, a patronymic meaning daughter of Maarten; the 3rd son should take the father's own name and is JAN Hendrik; the 3rd daughter should take the mother's own name and is JANNETJE. Three for three. THAT MAKES THE REMAINING TWO SLOTS PREDICTIONS. The 1st son takes the father's father's name and is GERHARDUS. The 2nd daughter takes the father's mother's name and is BARBARA. So the stamvader's own parents should be GERHARDUS OOSTHUYSEN and BARBARA. BOTH CANDIDATES FAIL, AND FAIL THE SAME WAY: each has a father named JOHANNES, which would require the first son to be Johannes, and neither mother is Barbara. If either record were his, the eldest son would be Jan, not Gerhardus. AND THE PREDICTED NAMES POINT WHERE THE WILL DOES. Gerhardus and Barbara are Rhineland and Westphalian names - Barbara, patroness of miners, far commoner in the Catholic Ruhr than in Holland. That is a SECOND, COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT LINE OF EVIDENCE pointing at Werden or Werl rather than Woerden or Leiden [SRC-099, SRC-100]. This is a hypothesis, not a finding - the pattern generates leads, it never proves parentage. But it gives a specific thing to look for: A GERHARDUS (GERRIT/GERARDUS) OOSTHUYSEN MARRIED TO A BARBARA, WITH A SON JOHANNES BORN ABOUT 1665-1672, in or near Werden (Essen), Werl, or Woerden - and if the German reading is right, in a CATHOLIC register, not a Dutch Reformed one. As a by-product the same test names the stammoeder's parents: MAARTEN x ANNA. PATERNAL CHAIN VERIFIED 29 Jul 2026 by walking the male line in Frans's own tree: Frans (1979) < Christiaan Johannes Joubert (1952) < Hendrik Lodewyk MalherbeL (1909) < Almero Jacobus Hitge (1878) < Ockert Almero (1836) < Johannes Adriaan (1816) < Ockert Almero (1786) < Ockert (1755) < Jacobus (d.1802) < JOHANNES THE STAMVADER. NINE FATHER-TO-SON STEPS, and the middle five are each corroborated by an original baptism or death record already in this model (1755, 1786, 1817, 1837, 1878, 1909, 1922). This is an unbroken documented Y-line.

[6 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000559 into this row. FamilySearch merged GW32-G7M into LCJN-657 on 19 October 2024, and Frans sent the deleted-person screen that says so: 'This person was deleted by merge. Surviving person: Johannes Oosthuijsz. ID numbers: GW32-G7M and LCJN-657.' The stamvader was in this model twice. PER-000559 was made on 31 Jul 2026 by the kin_sweep one-degree pull, which matched on tree id alone, and the stamvader carries none - so the root of this project was duplicated by the very rule meant to extend it. Identical death, same wife, same son. The surviving id is the one PER-000296 already held. LEAD-0113. Moved across: tree id=. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Johannes "Jan" Oosthuijsz (stamvader)', PER-000559 said 'Johannes Oosthuizen'; given: kept 'Johannes', PER-000559 said 'Oosthuysen van Weert'; surname: kept 'Oosthuijsz', PER-000559 said 'Oosthuizen'; birth_edtf: kept '1665/1672', PER-000559 said '1672'; familysearch_id: kept 'LCJN-657', PER-000559 said 'GW32-G7M'. Retired ids kept for the trail: FamilySearch GW32-G7M - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

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FamilySearch-profiel LCJN-657