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About Johannes Jacobus Oosthuizen, d3e3

Birth and baptism

VAB MHG O78 JJ Oosthuizen 1876

Beaufort West was the first town to be established in the central Karoo. The town was founded in 1818 and initially named Beaufort after Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, who was the father of Lord Charles Henry Somerset, then governor of the Cape Colony.
The town was renamed Beaufort West in 1869 to avoid confusion with Port Beaufort in the Cape Colony as well as Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.Colony

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