Welcome to the
Oosthuizen-website!
This is where I'm planning to put the Oosthuizen family
history, or anything of family-interest for any Oosthuizen,
Oosthuyzen, Oosthuyse Oosthuisen of Oosthuysen. For
example, if you don't know what the family crest looks like, here it
is. I didn't know either, until I found it at Corrie
Oosthuizen's website in June 2004. In the
meantime, if you have anything family-related that you think
people would like to or should see (or if you only have
something to say about the website or the family), go ahead and
e-mail me. My address
is Jeremy at Oosthuizen.name*.
At
some point, I'll also add a guestbook, so people can see your
comments sooner. However, if you're bashful about your
comments, you may still e-mail me privately!
The
main reason I started this website, was to make the
Oosthuizen-history available to everyone. Whether it is in my
branch or not, doesn't really matter - there is a link somewhere in
the past. If you have a website with Oosthuizen-related family
history, please let me know and we can swap links.
What I've found out so far (except what I know about my
immediate family), is that every Oosthuizen, Oosthuyzen,
Oosthuysen and Oosthuisen comes from Johannes Oosthuyzen
(or Oosthuysen). He originally
came from Weert in the Netherlands and became a Cape burgher in
Drakenstein in 1691. Therefore, he must have arrived
some time before that. He was married to Johanna
Martens (from Grijpskerk, also in the Netherlands) and they had
seven children.
In
the meantime, here is the town in the Netherlands (this
link doesn't always work; if not, go look at the train station)
after which we were named, or maybe it was named after us. There is also a website with
pictures of the train station, which is
apparently not used anymore. Maybe I'll go there
sometime – I currently live in Paris, France -- and put a
picture or two here.
That's if I can drag my wife there. Let me know if you have a
picture in electronic format, which I can place
here.
Until later!
Jeremy
* I
know you're smart enough to figure it out, but of course the word
"at" has to be replaced by the “@”. I'm writing it like that
here, to "fool" the "spambots". In case you don't know
what a spambot is: It is a program that searches for
e-mail addresses on any websites on the Internet, after which
the spambots' owners will send those addresses spam – any garbage,
mainly advertisements for drugs and pornography. The word spambot comes from
the words “spam” (any junk e-mail) and “bot” (from “robot”, because
it does a menial task repetatively). The spambot's job is very
simple: it looks for an @-sign in each word. Of course an e-mail address
looks like a single word to a computer program, since it contains no
spaces. The bot then tries to
check if the word really is an e-mail address, which mostly means
that it would end in something like .com, .name, .co.za,
.edu. When it
finds one, it goes on a list and voila! the poor e-mail
address' owner gets more spam than they can delete. The lesson
from this: be careful with your e-mail address!
More spam-info: Some “spammers” (the people who
send out spam) secretly put spam-programs on the computers of
unsuspecting people.
Without the user knowing, the computer then sends spam to
other people. ISP’s
(Internet Service Providers) have started to cut these unsuspecting
people off from e-mail.
It may sound cruel, but it really is a good thing. The unsuspecting user is
informed that this program is on their computer, and told how to
remove it. They can
then continue sending e-mail undisturbed, while the spammer has to
look for another victim.
Click here if you want to know more about
spambots and junk e-mail - and it is a good thing, if
you don't want to be overwhelmed by
junk.