Toponymic surnames: the village Oosthuizen (Noord-Holland), and the Westphalian -hues / -huis farm-name pattern
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Die sitasie soos dit gegee is
Recorded because Frans made the point that OOSTHUIZEN IS A PLACE - a village in Noord-Holland near Edam - and that a toponymic surname is POLYPHYLETIC: it arises independently wherever people live by the place, so unrelated families carry it and most of them never left the Netherlands. The Amsterdam and Leiden baptisms are the proof of that, not leads. AND IT CUTS THE OTHER WAY TOO. The same wiki documents the Westphalian pattern in which a farm's name becomes the family's, built on West Low German -HUES / -HUIS for house, clustering in Muenster, Coesfeld, Steinfurt, Recklinghausen, Borken and Unna - the country that contains WERL and WERDEN. A Low German OSTHUES or OSTHAUS, east house, written down by a Dutch clerk as OOSTHUYSEN is the same mechanism that turned Werden into Woerden. So the surname does NOT establish a Dutch origin, and the 1946 armorial's gloss of it as a North Holland village is an assumption, not evidence.
Woordeliks gehou. Hierdie projek weerspreek gepubliseerde genealogieë en stel 'n familie se eie mondelinge oorlewering reg, so elke bewering moet nagegaan kan word deur iemand wat nie in die vertrek was nie.