The Booyzen Archive
40 households · 132 children placed in one

The households

Every family group this archive has assembled, with the document that records the marriage and the document that puts each child in it. A household here is a claim with a source, not a box on a chart.

What counts as a household

A marriage, or a pairing the records treat as one, together with the children a document places under it. 37 of the 40 rest on a record this archive has read; the rest come from the family tree and say so.

Two of these are not marriages at all and are drawn anyway, because the register names the parents and this archive does not tidy that away. Where a household carries a caveat — a mother the document does not name, a profile holding two men — the caveat is printed with it.

Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk & Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha

Carolina c. Jul 1844 – 18 Dec 1902

On whose word

a record read here

He signed her death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December 1902 as “nablyvende echtgenoot”. It lists eleven children.

The 1902 van Niekerk notice

11 children

Joseph Heinrich Daschner & Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen

Joseph c. Nov 1883 – 19 Apr 1942 · Catharina 22 Apr 1891 – 1946

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Indwe — the same village where her father died in 1905. His 1942 notice enters her as “born Booyzen”, with a z.

The 1942 Daschner notice

11 children

James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm

James c. Jun 1854 – 22 Dec 1937 · Maria c. Oct 1860 – 3 Jul 1934

On whose word

a record read here

Married in community of property at Dordrecht. Their two death notices were written on the same afternoon in February 1938, hers three and a half years late.

Barkly East, 1938

10 children

Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Catharina Mountjoy

Petrus 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) · Johanna 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Cradock 4 November 1838. He signed her death notice in 1863; it names her parents and their eight surviving children.

The 1863 death notice

9 children

John Augustus Barry I & Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe

John 1819 – 1903 · Margaretha 1826 – 1912

On whose word

a record read here

Married about 1850 at BURGHERSDORP — “probably”, says their own son on the 1915 notice, who did not know. His 1903 registration says they had ELEVEN children; the 1915 notice names EIGHT. Three are missing and this archive cannot name one of them.

The Barrys

9 children

Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe

Petrus c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 · Anna 1785 – bef. Mar 1825

On whose word

the family tree

Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet, on the family tree. She died before March 1825 and he died a widower in 1876, so at least one later marriage is missing from this row.

The 1876 Sterfkennis

8 children

The 1876 notice lists eight children and names no mother for any of them. They are drawn under this marriage because it is the only one recorded — not because the document says so.

Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry

Willem 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 · Catherine 1859 – 1940

On whose word

a record read here

Married 22 December 1879 — the marriage register that carries the disputed signature.

The name

8 children

George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen & Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius

George 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 · Anna 3 Oct 1906 – 1944

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Vereeniging, 30 December 1924 — a tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed.

The cousin marriage

8 children

Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk

Hercules 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 · Maria 1868 – 1961

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Dordrecht, 8 October 1888, aged 22 and 20.

Two grandparents at a font

8 children

Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen & Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier

Hendrik c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 · Anna d. bef. 1908

On whose word

a record read here

His first marriage, and the one that produced every child. She died on 9 May 1891 at BRAKFONTEIN, district Rustenburg — the family farm — still married, aged 67 years 8 months and 1 day, and her own Sterfkennis 6332 lists SEVEN children, all of age. Her husband remarried at Zeerust eleven months later. The four on his 1908 notice are the four of these seven who were still alive in 1908.

The 1891 notices

7 children

This archive filed her for a week as a stranger called Anna Johanna Booijzen BORN ALBERTS who died at BOEKFONTEIN. Both readings were wrong, and together they kept a documented wife and two documented children off this family.

James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer

James c. 1782 – Sep 1827 · Anna 1787 – 1885

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Graaff-Reinet, 9 March 1817 — on a page where the clerk recorded everyone else's origin and left his blank.

The 1817 marriage register

5 children

Hendrik Nicholaas Barry & Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman

On whose word

a record read here

The second Barry–Schoeman link, and part of why the 1924 marriage was between cousins. Four of their children are in the baptism registers at Dordrecht, Slang River and Barkly West between 1888 and 1900, and he signed his eldest daughter's death registration in 1912 as “Father present when died”.

Harriet's registration, 1912

5 children

George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing

George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c. 1804

On whose word

a record read here

Married 1819 — both were sixteen, and the Nautilus passenger roll of 1820 overstates both their ages by four years.

The Kolbes

5 children

Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen & Isabella Frederika Coetsee

Gerrit b. 19 Jan 1870 · Isabella c. May 1874 – 31 Mar 1930

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Middelburg, 23 March 1896.

3 children

Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg & Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie

Petrus 20 Apr 1851 – bef. 1908

On whose word

a record read here

Named together on two baptisms at Rustenburg, in 1889 and 1894. Both entries are indexed and neither image is available.

The Rustenburg register

2 children

Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Margaritha Pretorius

Petrus 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate)

On whose word

a record read here

The second marriage, unnamed on his own 1884 death notice and finally named by a christening: the 1870 Doop Register enters the parents as “Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius”.

The second wife, named at last

2 children

unnamed Louisa Elizabeth Diesel

Louisa d. 11 Jun 1923

On whose word

a record read here

Married out of community of property to Evelyn Wilfred Diesel and dead fourteen years before her father. Her two children took her tenth share between them.

The distribution account

2 children

Johan Gottlieb Kolbe

Johan 1765 – 1845

On whose word

a record read here

A tailor of Conduit Street, Mayfair. Four independent documents call him John Gottlob; the family tree calls him Johan Gottlieb, and this archive follows the documents.

The Kolbes

2 children

Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen & Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer

Magdelena 1754 – 1843

On whose word

a record read here

Named together in line 3 of their son's 1876 Sterfkennis — the oldest document this archive has read.

The 1876 Sterfkennis

1 child

Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe

Petrus c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876

On whose word

a record read here

A second marriage, and a second van der Merwe. Named as the mother on their son Hendrik Stephanus's 1908 death notice — his age puts his birth about June 1828, three years after the first wife died. It resolves the contradiction this archive had marked Serious, and it means the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis cannot all belong to one mother.

The 1908 death notice

1 child

Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen & Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh

Ockert 15 Sep 1852 – 16 Jan 1921 · Elisabetta b. c. 1862

On whose word

a record read here

Named together as the parents on their son's baptism at Rustenburg, 30 January 1882. The entry is indexed and the image is not available, so this household rests on an index and says so.

The Rustenburg register

1 child

Ocken Johannes Olivier & Anna Johanna Botha

On whose word

a record read here

Named together on line 3 of their daughter's 1891 Sterfkennis, and that is the whole of what this archive holds on them. Their forename is why a Booysen grandson in the Transvaal was called Ockert Johannes Stephanus.

The 1891 notices

1 child

Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen

Jan 1818 – 25 May 1885

On whose word

a record read here

Named as her father on her 1920 Sterfkennis at Vaalbank — the same farm in the district of Lichtenburg where he had died thirty-five years earlier.

The 1885 estate, corrected

1 child

Pieter Coetzee & Isabella Fredrika Coetzee

Pieter d. bef. 1930 · Isabella d. bef. 1930

On whose word

a record read here

Named together in line 3 of their daughter's 1943 death notice, both already dead.

The 1943 notice

1 child

Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe & Susanna Adriana Roodt

Willem c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 · Susanna b. c. 1892

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Indwe on 21 September 1908, certificate 13 — he 22 and a mijnwerker, she 16 and her parents consenting, both living at Dugmore Mijn.

Indwe, 1907–1910

1 child

Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe & Catharina Maria Elizabeth Roodt

Willem c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 · Catharina b. c. 1890

On whose word

a record read here

Not a marriage. She is named as the mother on the Indwe baptism of 22 September 1910, and the entry is marked onecht. She was confirmed in the same class as him and as Susanna Adriana Roodt on 31 May 1907.

Indwe, 1907–1910

1 child

Petrus Jacobus Pretorius & Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry

Margarietha 1880 – 1961

On whose word

a record read here

Named together as parents in the 1906 Gereformeerde Kerk baptism register, and again on their daughter's 1944 Sterfkennis with their address — 96 James Street, Germiston.

1944, the parents line filled in

1 child

Willem Hermanus Pieterzen & Anna Catharina Sleer

Willem d. bef. 1817 · Anna 1787 – 1885

On whose word

a record read here

Her first husband. The 1817 marriage register calls her “widow of Harmanus Pieterze”; the 1840 death notice calls him “William Pietersen”.

Where the blank begins

1 child

George Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha

George b. 11 Jun 1823 · Maria 1827 – 1911

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Cradock, 20 August 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children.

1 child

Philip Rudolph Botha

On whose word

a record read here

Named in line 3 of his daughter's 1902 death notice at Dordrecht, with her mother, who carried the same four names as she did.

The 1902 van Niekerk notice

1 child

Ferdinand Kumm

Ferdinand d. 20 Oct 1903

On whose word

the family tree

Entered as her father on the family tree. His own 1903 death notice at Stutterheim is the document an external source mistook for James Jonathan's.

1 child

Joseph Daschner & Sophia Daschner

Joseph d. bef. 1942 · Sophia d. bef. 1942

On whose word

a record read here

Both named, and both “Deceased”, in line 3 of their son's 1942 death notice.

The 1942 Daschner notice

1 child

John Barry

John 1796 – 1853

On whose word

the family tree

Entered on the family tree as the father. This archive does not accept the profile: it holds a Yorkshire farmer buried at Bilsdale on 3 January 1853 and a man who died at de Bruins Poort in the Cape five days later.

Disputed

1 child

This is the archive's clearest example of two men merged into one profile. The link below him is drawn because the tree draws it, and for no other reason.

Richard Peter Barry & Jeannie Maria Catharina Botha

On whose word

a record read here

Named together on their son's baptism at Barkly West, 26 April 1898.

The 1903 registration

1 child

John Paul Downing

On whose word

a record read here

Margaret's father.

1 child

Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen & Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl

Hendrik c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 · Charlotta c. 1841 – bef. 1908

On whose word

a record read here

His second marriage: entry 13 at ZEERUST in the district of Marico, 14 April 1892. He was 63 and a widower of Brakfontein, Rustenburg; she was 51 and a widow of Driefontein, Marico, and both were born at Graaff-Reinet. They made mutual wills, and she died before him.

The 1892 marriage register

No children recorded

No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.

NO CHILDREN. This archive drew his four children here for a month because it could name this marriage and not the other. She was fifty-one at the wedding and every one of the four was an adult by 1908.

Nuno Fernando Lerena & Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen

Nuno 1924 – 1971 · Catherine 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013

On whose word

a record read here

Married 15 January 1949 at St Joseph's, Mayfair — the hinge to the Lerena archive.

No children recorded

No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.

Stephanus Francois Booyzen & Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff

Stephanus c. Oct 1874 – 14 May 1940

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Mossel Bay. She signed his 1940 Sterfkennis and could not name his parents.

No children recorded

No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.

David Schalk van der Merwe & Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy

Jacoba 1820 – 1842

On whose word

a record read here

Married at Cradock, 24 March 1838 — eight months before her sister married Petrus Jacobus Booysen in the same town.

The women

No children recorded

No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.

Ruben Schoeman & Magdalena Johanna Botha

On whose word

a record read here

Named together on the 1901 marriage record kept in a rebel's house under martial law.

The documents

No children recorded

No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.

35 of the 40 households have a child placed in them. Everyone → · The line → · The register →