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Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff)
Documented 3 mentions
22 Sep 1932, Johannesburg deceased
Fifth child.
Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak)
Documented 3 mentions
12 Oct 1930 deceased
Fourth child.
Petrus Jacobus Booijsen of 1889
Documented 3 mentions
21 Jun 1889
Baptised at Rustenburg in 1889, son of Petrus Jacobus Booijsen and Anna Catharina Sofia Benadi. The fifth Petrus Jacobus, and the name has now run five generations without a break.
Ockert Johannes Stefanus Booysen of 1894
Documented 3 mentions
16 May 1894
Baptised at Rustenburg on 4 November 1894, son of Petrus Jakobus Booysen and Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie — named for his uncle, who was named for HIS mother’s father, Ocken Johannes Oliefier of the district of Cradock. Three generations of a name that came into this family with one marriage.
Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry
also written Booyzen, Catherine M.S. (1940 burial register)
Documented 13 mentions
1859 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760
His wife, married 22 Dec 1879. Recorded at her death as a Military Pensioner. Buried on 6 SEPTEMBER 1940 at the City of Johannesburg NEW CEMETERY — Brixton — aged 82, in the DUTCH REFORMED section, GRAVE 9760. An Irishman’s daughter out of Barkly East, in the Dutch Reformed ground on the Rand.
Cornelia Herculena Petronella Barry
Inferred 3 mentions
21 Dec 1909, Cherryville, Barkly East
Of CHERRYVILLE, Barkly East — a third named Barry farm, after Manorowen and Jerpoint. FROM THE INDEX.
Dorothea Regina Barry
Documented
Named on the 1915 death notice. A NIECE OF THE SAME NAME was baptised at Slang River on 3 April 1892 — daughter of her brother Hendrik Nicholaas and Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman — so the two have to be kept apart.
Ellen Hendrika Barry
Inferred 3 mentions
8 Dec 1899
Baptised 6 June 1900, daughter of Hendrik Nicholaas Barry and Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman. FROM THE INDEX.
Fred J. Barry
Open 7 mentions
Cape Rebel, plaasboer of Ivanhoe, district Barkly East / Wodehouse, tried June 1901 — the same month as Schoeman of Caerlaverock. Relationship to this family unproven; the middle initial does not match Frederick Fortunatus.
Frederick Fortunatus Barry
Documented 8 mentions
Carries the Kolbe given name Fortunatus.
George Augustus Barry
Documented 5 mentions
NEW. Named on his father's 1915 death notice and nowhere else this archive has looked. He carries his grandfather George Augustus Kolbe's names entire.
Harriet Louisa Barry
Inferred 8 mentions
1894 7 Sep 1912, Barkly East
Of MANOROWEN, Barkly East district — the farm where Richard Peter Barry signed his mother’s death notice in 1915. Dead at eighteen. FROM THE INDEX.
Hendrik Nicholaas Barry
Documented 10 mentions
Married Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman. The second Barry–Schoeman link.
James Henry Barry
Documented 7 mentions
c. 1847 23 Jun 1939, Barkly East
Named on the 1915 death notice, which he swore himself. The index now dates him: born about 1847, dead at Barkly East on 23 June 1939, having outlived his father by thirty-six years.
John Barry
Open
1796 1853
One profile holding two men — a Yorkshire farmer of Bilsdale and a man who died at de Bruins Poort in the Cape. Unresolved.
John Gerson Eliazer Barry
Inferred 3 mentions
1893 8 Mar 1941, Barkly East
Married Elizabeth Johanna Magdalena Botha. FROM THE INDEX.
Kathleen Mary Barry
Documented 7 mentions
Named on the 1915 death notice.
Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry
Documented 11 mentions
1880 1961
Her 1961 pension is ordinary, not military — the archive checked.
Richard Peter Barry
Documented 12 mentions
Kathleen's brother. Signed his mother's 1915 death notice as "Son in whose house deceased died", at Manorowen, Barkly East. A Richard Peter Barry, plaasboer of Jerpoint, is on the Cape Rebel roll — same name, right region, identity not proven.
Richard Pieter Kolbe Barry
Inferred 7 mentions
1899
CARRIES BOTH NAMES AT ONCE — Richard Pieter, for the Barry of Manorowen, and Kolbe, for the 1820 Settler family his great-grandmother married out of. Married Maria Magdalena Siebert. FROM THE INDEX; no image read.
Ruben Jacobus Hosea Barry
Inferred 3 mentions
7 Oct 1888
Baptised at Dordrecht, 25 November 1888, son of Hendrik Nicholaas Barry and Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman — and named for his uncle Ruben Jacobus Josuah. The Schoeman name Ruben, given twice in two generations. FROM THE INDEX.
Ruben Jacobus Josuah Barry
Open 5 mentions
WITHDRAWN AS A SON, for the same reason as Dorothea Regina: the 1915 death notice, read entire, does not name him. The register holds a RUBEN JACOBUS HOSEA baptised at Dordrecht in 1888, a grandson. The Schoeman name Ruben does come into this family — one generation later than this archive said.
Theunis Christoffel Barry
Inferred 3 mentions
1895, Barkly East 11 Jul 1963, East London
FROM THE INDEX.
Margaret Mary Bedford
Documented 5 mentions
Born Barry, and on the 1915 notice as married to Tom Bedford. The tree carries a Margaretha Louisa Maria who married Thomas Bedford in 1875; the notice gives her as Margaret Mary, and the archive has not reconciled the two.
Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer
also written Magdalena de Beer (1876)
Documented 17 mentions
1754 1843
Wife of Gerthardus Lodewikus. Her 1754 birth is what dates him at all — and her name, beside his, is what the 1876 notice puts on the record. That matters because a 1793 Cape will names a different “Jan Booysen, married to the late Magdalena de Beer”: the pairing was never unique, and now this line’s version of it is documented.
Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie
also written Benadi · Booysen
Documented 3 mentions
His wife, named with him on two baptisms at Rustenburg, in 1889 and 1894. Both entries are index-only.
Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg
also written born Booyzen
Documented 8 mentions
c. Aug 1860 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg
His daughter, and the first person in the western Transvaal this archive can attach to the line rather than merely set beside it. Her 1920 Sterfkennis — estate 44420, stamped Pretoria 16 August 1920 — names her parents as Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booyzen and Magdalena Susanna Maria, gives her age as 59 years 9 months, and lists seven children. Her son-in-law B. J. van den Berg signed it.
Anna Eliezabet Booijsen
Documented 4 mentions
Fourth on the 1876 notice.
Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen
Documented 3 mentions
Third of the seven children on the 1891 Sterfkennis, of age by then and not traced since. She is not the Anna Catharina Grobelaar of the 1908 notice — the forenames do not agree — and this archive has not settled whether they are the same woman.
Anna Maria Booijsen
Documented 4 mentions
Eighth and last on the 1876 notice, named for her mother Anna Maria van der Merwe.
David Schalk Booijsen
Documented 4 mentions
First on his father’s 1876 death notice, and a major. His nephew, born 1848, carries the same name — the two are told apart only by a generation.
Elesabettha Maria Cornelya Booijsen
Documented 3 mentions
Fourth of the seven children on the 1891 Sterfkennis. Of age by 1891, and absent from her father's 1908 notice, which names only four children — so she probably died in between.
Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen
Documented 4 mentions
Sixth on the 1876 notice.
Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen
also written Hendrik Stephanus Booysen (1908)
Documented 11 mentions
c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg
Seventh on the 1876 notice — and the man who signed it, four lines under his own name, beside the veldkornet. His own death notice, TAB estate 14380, names HIS mother as ELIZABETHA BOOYSEN, BORN VAN DER MERWE — which resolves this archive’s oldest “Serious” contradiction, because his father’s recorded wife Anna Maria van der Merwe died three years before he was born. A FARMER, “Dutch”, married twice — Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier, then Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl — and married last at ZEERUST, in the district of Marico. He died in his son-in-law’s house.
Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen
also written Hendrick Stefanes Booijsen (1891)
Documented 7 mentions
c. 31 Jan 1862, district Rustenburg 14 May 1891, Brakfontein, district Rustenburg
Dead at twenty-nine on his father's farm, FIVE DAYS AFTER HIS MOTHER, and unknown to this archive until his notice was read. Sterfkennis 6361: landbouwer, ongehuwd, movables only and not above £25, and line 3 names his parents — Hendrick Stefanus Booijsen and Anna Catrena gebooren Oliefier. He is the seventh child on his mother's list and the first Booysen this archive has documented as BORN in the Transvaal.
Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen
also written Jan Gerardus Lodewicus Booijzen (1885 estate)
Documented 12 mentions
1818, district Graaff-Reinet 25 May 1885, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg
Fifth on his father’s 1876 notice, and named for the man at the top of the line. HIS is the estate TAB MHG O/2899, which this archive had spent months attributing to his nephew of the same name born in 1855 — the Transvaal probate index gives him as the deceased, aged 67, born district Graaff-Reinet, died 25 May 1885 at Vaalbank in the district of Lichtenburg. His daughter Magdalena Susanna Maria died on the same farm in 1920, and her death notice names him. He is how this family reaches the western Transvaal.
Magdalena Johanna Booijsen
Documented
Second on the 1876 notice, named for her mother Magdalena de Beer. A niece born 1853 carries the name again.
Hendrik Stephanus Nicolaas Booyen
also written the nephew
Documented 5 mentions
4 Jan 1882, Rustenburg 8 Oct 1959, Kempton Park
Baptised at Rustenburg on 30 January 1882, son of Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen and Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh — and named for his uncle, who was then twenty and would be dead at Brakfontein before the boy turned ten. He outlived that uncle by sixty-eight years.
Anna Catharina Booysen
Documented 4 mentions
21 Sep 1842 bef. 1863
Baptised Graaff-Reinet, and absent from her mother's 1863 death notice — she died first.
Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen
also written Catherine Mary Sophia Daschner
Documented 9 mentions
22 Apr 1891 1946
Baptised at Barkly Oost 24 May 1891, entry 120, named for her mother entire, and fourteen when her father died at Indwe. She married Joseph Heinrich Daschner AT INDWE — the same village — and his 1942 death notice names her “born Booyzen”, with a z, in a Johannesburg typist’s hands. Eleven children, five of them carrying Booyzen and Barry forenames. She died in the Transvaal in 1946 — estate TAB MHG 3734/46, found only when this archive finally searched outside the Cape, and still to be read.
David Schalk Booysen
Documented 5 mentions
9 Jun 1848
Fourth on the 1863 list.
Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen · generation 7
also written Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen (1876)
Documented 18 mentions
The top of the male line — and, since the 1876 Sterfkennis was read, no longer a name held up by the family tree alone. His son’s death notice names him and his wife in line 3. He still has no birth date, no death date, and no parents: the oldest open question on this site is about him.
Jacoba Catharina Booysen
Documented 3 mentions
21 Sep 1857
Youngest on the 1863 list, five years old when her mother died.
Jacobus Nicholas Booysen
also written Jacobus Nichols Booyzen
Documented 6 mentions
bef. 1842 1923
The eldest of the eight children on the 1863 death notice, and the only one entered as a Major. Estate TAB MHG 52653 — he ended in the Transvaal.
Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen
Documented 7 mentions
4 Dec 1855
Seventh on the 1863 list, and carries the name of the man at the top of the line. THIS ARCHIVE HAD HIM DYING IN 1885 AND HAS TAKEN IT BACK: estate TAB MHG O/2899 belongs to his uncle of the same name, born 1818, and the death date was never anything but the estate’s year read backwards onto the wrong man. Nothing is known about what became of him.
Johanna Catharina Booysen
Documented 6 mentions
15 May 1844, Brak Rivier
Second on the 1863 list, named for her mother — and now dated. The Dutch Reformed index gives her born 15 May 1844 and baptised at BRAK RIVIER on 4 August 1844, which is the farm her father was still on nineteen years later when her mother died there.
Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen
Documented 3 mentions
16 Jul 1853
Sixth on the 1863 list.
Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen
also written Ceker Johannes Stephanus Booÿsen (1869) · Okker Johannis Stephanus Booysen (1921)
Documented 6 mentions
15 Sep 1852 16 Jan 1921, Klerksdorp
Signed his father’s 1908 death notice as “son of the deceased” — thirty-two years after his father had signed his own father’s at Brakfontein. Second of the seven children on his mother’s 1891 notice, and he carries HER father’s name: Ocken Johannes Oliefier. Confirmed at Rustenburg on 3 April 1869, the same day as his brother Petrus Jacobus. He died at Klerksdorp on 16 January 1921, aged 69 — a civil registration, which names no parents.
Petrus Jacobus Booysen · generation 6
also written Petrus Jacobus Booijsen (1876)
Documented
c. 21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg
Married at about seventeen; died a widower in the Transvaal, eighty-eight years old, on a farm called Brakfontein. His Sterfkennis — No. 678, written 14 September 1876 — is the oldest document about this family that this archive has read, it names his parents, and it lists eight children. Estate: NOTHING. “Niets nagelaten. Niets bekend.”
Petrus Jacobus Booysen · generation 5
also written Booyzen (1851 register), Booÿse, Bovysen
Documented
10 May 1812, Graaff-Reinet 1884 (probate)
Farmer at Zevenfontein, Brak River. Signed his wife's 1863 death notice. Died fifteen years before the war.
Petrus Jacobus Booysen
Documented
10 Sep 1839
Third child. Baptised Graaff-Reinet.
Catharina Willemina Levina Booyzen
Documented 4 mentions
8 Feb 1909
Baptised at Indwe 22 September 1910, entry 12, entered ONECHT and GRATIS — the fee waived. Named for her godmother Catharina Willemina Levina Buitendag, who stood at both of her father’s children’s fonts.
Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen · generation 2
Documented 17 mentions
25 Mar 1929 25 Dec 2013, Johannesburg
Orphaned at eighteen. The hinge to the Lerena archive, and the starting point of this one.
David Kolbe Booyzen
Documented 6 mentions
Carries the Kolbe name three generations after the 1820 Settler.
George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen · generation 3
Documented 18 mentions
1 Jun 1901, Cape Province 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill
Buried West Park three days later. Boomkweker, then Clerk, South African Railways. Married his first cousin once removed.
Gerhardus Jacobus Booyzen
Documented 4 mentions
15 May 1910
Youngest on his mother's 1943 notice. Baptised 10 July 1910, and named for his father — Gert is the short form of Gerhardus.
Gertrude Booyzen
Documented 7 mentions
11 May 1947 11 May 1947
Six hours old, Turf Club Nursing Home. Entry 3920, a different hospital and a different cemetery. Two children, one year apart, on the same date.
Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen
Documented 8 mentions
11 May 1946 15 May 1946
Four days old, Queen Victoria Hospital. Entry 4256 — not the same child as the Gertrude of 1947.
Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen
Documented 5 mentions
Daughter of Willem Hermanus and Kathleen Barry.
Henry James Booyzen
Documented 10 mentions
Son of Willem Hermanus and Kathleen Barry.
Johanna Booyzen
Documented 5 mentions
c. 20 Mar 1754, “this Colony” 16 Jun 1843, 28 Roze Street, Cape Town
NOT THIS FAMILY, and recorded here on purpose. Death notice 6167 — the oldest Booyzen estate paper in the Cape Master's series, and a generation older in form than anything else this archive has read. Widow of Charles du Plessis; one daughter, married to Benjamin Solomon; “no property whatever except a Bond amounting per balance to £15”. Line 3 answers “both dead”. She is here because she was born in 1754 and died in 1843 — the only two dates this archive has for Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer, both off the family tree with no source stated — and because somebody will one day find her and decide she is the same woman. She is not. Her name is not Magdelena, not Elisabeth, and not de Beer.
Johanna Catharina Booyzen
Documented 6 mentions
20 Jun 1889
Baptised at Barkly Oost 15 Sep 1889 with both maternal grandparents standing as godparents — and on the facing page of the same register, the Mountjoy baptism three weeks later.
John Barry Booyzen
Documented 11 mentions
c. 1884
Eldest son. Present at his father's death in 1905 and the informant — he signs Booyzen four lines under the clerk's Booysen.
Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen
Documented 4 mentions
14 Oct 1926 1966
Second child. Birth date corrected from 1 October on her mother’s 1944 death notice.
Petrus Jacobus Booyzen
also written Pieter Jacobus (1943 notice)
Documented 10 mentions
29 Dec 1904 7 Jun 1937, Middelburg
Baptised in the Dutch Reformed register with a Z, son of Gert Jacobus Booyzen and Isabella Frederika Coetzee — the second marriage's line, at Middelburg, spelled Booyzen a year before the Indwe sheet.
Petrus Jacobus “Piet” Booyzen
Documented 5 mentions
10 Jan 1934, Johannesburg 2003
Sixth child.
Stephanus Francois Booyzen
Documented 6 mentions
c. Oct 1874, Cape Province 14 May 1940, East Lynne, Pretoria
A son of the second marriage, and a MESSELAAR — a mason, like his half-brother Willem Hermanus at Indwe. His 1940 Sterfkennis was fetched because it should have named his mother; his widow wrote only “oorlede” for both parents. Married Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff at Mossel Bay; eleven children; left immovable property and a will.
Tersia Booyzen
Testimony 7 mentions
living
Recorded the name-change and Anglo-Boer War account on the MyHeritage tree, as told to her by her father.
Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen · generation 4
also written Booysen (1905 clerk)
Documented 8 mentions
4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg 13 Sep 1905, Indwe
Farmer in 1879, mason in 1905. Died of an ulcer of the stomach after fourteen months — he was not shot by the British.
Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen
Documented 5 mentions
15 Oct 1925 1996
Eldest of the Johannesburg family.
Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen
also written Gert Jacobus Booyzen
Documented 12 mentions
19 Jan 1870
The only child entered on his father's 1884 death notice, and born seven years after the first wife died — so a child of the second marriage. He married Isabella Frederika Coetsee at Middelburg on 23 March 1896, and his own son was baptised BOOYZEN, with a z, in 1904.
Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff
Documented 3 mentions
His widow, who signed the 1940 death notice at Pretoria on 26 July 1940 — and who could not name her husband's parents.
Anna Johanna Botha
also written Olivier
Documented 7 mentions
Named as her daughter's mother on the 1891 Sterfkennis. A fourth Botha marriage in this archive, and none of them yet joined to another.
Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha
Documented 6 mentions
c. Jul 1844, district Cradock 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht
Her mother, and Hercules Johannes Mountjoy’s mother-in-law — the only Cape probate hit that comes up under his name, because his name is written on her form. Aged 58 years 5 months. Parents Philip Rudolph Botha and a mother carrying the same four names. Eleven children, one of them called Hercules Johannes van Niekerk.
Jeannie Maria Catharina Botha
Documented 4 mentions
Richard Pieter Barry's wife, named on their son's 1898 baptism at Barkly West.
Magdalena Johanna Botha
Documented 6 mentions
Ruben Schoeman's wife.
Maria Sophia Botha
Documented 7 mentions
1827 1911
George Mountjoy's wife. Most likely the “Maria Sophia Mountjoy” standing witness at the 1889 font, aged 62.
Philip Rudolph Botha
Documented 4 mentions
Named in line 3 of the 1902 notice as the father of Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha, of the district of Cradock.
Magdalena Johanna Booijsen of Brakfontein
Documented 3 mentions
Sixth of the seven children on the 1891 Sterfkennis, carrying the name that comes down from Magdalena Elisabeth de Beer. Absent from the 1908 notice.
Catharina Willemina Levina Buitendag
Documented 3 mentions
Godmother at Indwe in 1908 and again in 1910, to two children of the same father by two different mothers — and the second child carries her whole name.
Isabella Frederika Coetsee
also written Coetzee · Isabella Fredrika Booyzen, born Coetzee
Documented 7 mentions
c. May 1874, Middelburg 31 Mar 1930, Church Street, Middelburg
Married Gerrit Jacobus at Middelburg, 23 March 1896. THIS ARCHIVE HAD HER DYING IN 1943 AND HAS TAKEN IT BACK: 1943 is when her husband finally filed, thirteen years after the death. Her notice — KAB 84992, spelled BOOYZEN throughout — names her parents Pieter Coetzee and Isabella Fredrika Coetzee, and three children.
Isabella Fredrika Coetzee
Documented 5 mentions
bef. 1930
Her mother, and her namesake entire.
Pieter Coetzee
Documented 5 mentions
bef. 1930
Her father, named in line 3 of the 1943 notice.
Albert Alfred Daschner
Documented 4 mentions
3 Mar 1927
A minor in 1942.
Catherine Mary Sophia Daschner
Documented 8 mentions
Eldest daughter, and the third of that name in three generations — Kathleen Barry, then her daughter, then her granddaughter. A major by 1942.
Edith Dorothy Daschner
Documented 4 mentions
20 Jan 1930
A minor in 1942.
George Downing Daschner
Inferred 5 mentions
1925 Jun 1925, Brixton, Johannesburg
A TWELFTH CHILD, and not on the 1942 death notice because he was already dead when it was written. The Johannesburg cemetery index has him buried at Brixton on 20 June 1925, the year he was born. He carries George Downing — the sixth Booyzen or Barry forename to cross into this family, and the one that makes the pattern impossible to read as coincidence. FROM AN INDEX, not from an image; the burial register has not been read.
Henry James Daschner
Documented 6 mentions
25 Feb 1932
Named for his uncle Henry James Booyzen.
John Frederick Daschner
Documented 4 mentions
A major by 1942.
Joseph Charles Daschner
Documented 4 mentions
A major by 1942.
Joseph Daschner
Documented 5 mentions
bef. 1942
His father, named on the 1942 death notice — “Deceased”, but named.
Joseph Heinrich Daschner
Documented 9 mentions
c. Nov 1883, Stutterheim 19 Apr 1942, Kenilworth, Johannesburg
Her husband. A PENSIONER (ELECTRICIAN) of 132 Sheffield Street, Kenilworth. Estate TAB MHG 1928/42, filed at Pretoria on 13 May 1942 — the first typewritten document in this archive, and one of only two whose question three names both parents. He had not been married before. She signed the notice: “Surviving Spouse — Saw body after death.”
Richard Peter Daschner
Documented 6 mentions
8 May 1922
Named for his great-uncle Richard Peter Barry. FamilySearch’s index gives 1923; the document reads 1922.
Sophia Daschner
also written Sophia Stoter
Documented 11 mentions
bef. 1942
His mother, entered on the 1942 death notice as “Sophia Daschner (Stoter)” — the maiden name in brackets, which is what a completed question three looks like.
William Herman Daschner
Documented 6 mentions
Named for his grandfather Willem Hermanus Booyzen — and so, at four removes, for a step-father with no blood tie to this family at all.
Yvonne Muriel Daschner
Documented 4 mentions
15 Jul 1935
The youngest — seven when her father died.
Martha Magdeline van Deventer
also written born Daschner
Documented 4 mentions
Married a van Deventer; a major by 1942.
Aubrey Diesel
Documented 4 mentions
Grandson, a minor in 1938; the other half, £10. 12. 2.
Gwendoline Diesel
Documented 4 mentions
Granddaughter, a major in 1938; half of her dead mother’s tenth, £10. 12. 2.
Louisa Elizabeth Diesel
also written born Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
11 Jun 1923
Daughter, married out of community of property to Evelyn Wilfred Diesel and dead fourteen years before her father. Her tenth share went to her two children. She is on her mother’s notice and not on her father’s — his was typed first and ran out of page.
Maria Sophia Diesel
also written born Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Daughter; married in community of property to Marthinus Frederick Diesel.
Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht
Inferred 3 mentions
23 Oct 1898
Baptised at Dordrecht 6 November 1898, named for her mother. FROM THE INDEX.
Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl
also written Charlotta Elizabeth Roos, geboren Dormehl (1892)
Documented 5 mentions
c. 1841, Graaff-Reinet bef. 1908
His second wife, married at Zeerust on 14 April 1892 and pre-deceasing him; they made mutual wills. The register calls her CHARLOTTA ELIZABETH ROOS, GEBOREN DORMEHL, condition WEDUWE, of Driefontein in Marico, and she signs C. E. Roos geb. Dormehl: Dormehl was her maiden name, Roos her first husband’s. She was FIFTY-ONE at the wedding, which is why the four children this archive once drew under her are not hers.
John Paul Downing
Documented 6 mentions
Margaret's father.
Margaret Downing
Documented 13 mentions
c. 1804, London
Married at fifteen in Shoreditch, signing with a mark. Died owning a house and a farm.
Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore
Documented 5 mentions
31 May 1908, Indwe
Baptised at Indwe 6 December 1908, entry 15, and entered ONECHT — born four months before his parents married. His godmother was his grandmother, Catharina Maria Sophia Barry. The fourth Willem Hermanus in four generations, and the name still comes from a step-relation with no blood tie.
George Mountjoy of Barkly East
Documented 3 mentions
Major son. He signed BOTH death notices on 19 February 1938 — his mother’s three and a half years late — as “son, present at place of death”, and took a tenth share of £21. 4. 4.
Lena Millie Frachet
also written born Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Daughter; married out of community of property to Eric Bernard Frachet.
Anna Catharina Grobelaar
also written born Booysen
Documented 3 mentions
Married in community of property to Willem Grobelaar, in whose house at Koedoesfontein her father died.
John Augustus Barry I
Documented 12 mentions
1819, “at sea (exact whereabouts unknown), British” 1903
His 1915 death notice types the birthplace as at sea and his mother as “born Neagle”. Cape Mounted Rifles.
John Augustus Barry II
Documented 4 mentions
The eldest son on the 1915 notice, carrying his father's name exactly — which is why this archive calls the father John Augustus Barry I. His own documents call him simply John Barry, and that is the third man in this family the name has to be shared out between.
Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Indwe
Documented 2 mentions
Jun 1911, Indwe
She joined the Dutch Reformed congregation at Indwe on 23 JULY 1907, arriving FROM BARKLY OOST — six weeks after Willem Hermanus Booijzen was confirmed in the same church — and the register’s last column records her dead there in June 1911. A Mountjoy and a Booyzen in one small colliery congregation, twenty-two years after the two families stood at the same font at Barkly Oost.
Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe
also written Booijzen (1907 lidmate register) · William Hermanus (1908 marriage) · William Herman Booyzen (1932)
Inferred 13 mentions
c. 1886 29 Jul 1932, Johannesburg Hospital — PROBABLY
AN EIGHTH CHILD, and one this archive did not have. Confirmed at Indwe on 31 May 1907, aged 21, entered “Booijzen”. A MIJNWERKER of DUGMORE MIJN when he married Susanna Adriana Roodt, 16, at Indwe on 21 September 1908 — the only miner in five generations of read occupations, and the answer to the last line of the family testimony. Two children in nine months by two women of the same surname, both entered “onecht”. His mother stood godmother at the first font, which is how this archive knows whose son he is. AND THEN JOHANNESBURG: a WILLIAM HERMAN BOOYZEN, 47, born Cape Province, married, EX MINER UNDERGROUND, of 62 Langford Street, Booysens, died at Johannesburg Hospital on 29 July 1932 of a perforated duodenal ulcer after about one day, and was buried at BRIXTON on 31 July. The occupation, the province, the age within a year and the cemetery all fit; no parents are named, because a civil registration does not ask. Marked INFERRED for that reason.
Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Jeanette van Jaarsveld
also written born Daschner
Documented 5 mentions
Married a van Jaarsveld and was a major by 1942. Her first three names are the Barry name, carried into a third surname.
Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys
Inferred 3 mentions
9 Feb 1897
Barkly West, and named for Herklaas — Hercules Johannes Mountjoy. FROM THE INDEX.
James Jonathan Keys
Inferred 3 mentions
18 Nov 1883
Baptised at Dordrecht, 2 December 1883, and named for James Jonathan Mountjoy. FROM THE INDEX.
William Henry Keys
Inferred 3 mentions
1854
Married a Johanna Catharina Mountjoy and had children baptised at Dordrecht, Burgersdorp and Barkly East between 1878 and 1897 — among them JAMES JONATHAN KEYS and HERKLAAS EDWARD JOHANNES KEYS. The Mountjoy forenames crossing into a third surname, exactly as the Barry names crossed into the Daschners. FROM THE INDEX.
Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe
Documented 6 mentions
The source of the Fortunatus name across three families.
George Augustus Kolbe
Documented 17 mentions
1802 1 Dec 1844, “Wurtemburg”, Colesberg
1820 Settler — the Nautilus, Owen's party, Algoa Bay 14 Apr 1820. Married at sixteen on a sworn falsehood. Preached across the Orange River. His grandson could not name him in 1915.
Johan Gottlieb Kolbe
Documented 8 mentions
1765 1845
Tailor. Died at 34 Conduit Street, Mayfair — not Lamb's Conduit Street; the tree's photograph is of the wrong building. Buried at the German Savoy Church, Strand.
John Gottlob Kolbe
Documented 7 mentions
Of the London Kolbes.
Julia Kolbe
Documented 5 mentions
One of the five Kolbe children whose death records are not yet read.
Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe
Documented 10 mentions
1826 1912
His wife, married 1846. Daughter of the 1820 Settler — and the reason the Kolbe name runs through the Booyzens.
Marian Kolbe
Documented 5 mentions
Of the London Kolbes.
Peter Benjamin Kolbe
Documented 4 mentions
Of the Kolbe children.
Ferdinand Kumm
Documented 4 mentions
20 Oct 1903, Stutterheim
Farmer, married Wilhelmina née Nass. Her father — and the man whose death notice an external source mistook for James Jonathan's.
Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm
also written Kuen · Kunn · Kum · Keem — five spellings across seven baptisms
Documented 4 mentions
c. Oct 1860, Cape Province 3 Jul 1934, Barkly East
His wife, married in community of property at Dordrecht. Her estate IS the file immediately after his, 58380 — as this archive predicted from the sequence — but for the reason that nobody filed at all until her husband died three and a half years later. His notice records it in four words: “death not reported.” Her age of 73 years 9 months is the only birth date this archive has for her.
Nuno Fernando Lerena
Documented 10 mentions
1924 1971
Her husband, married 15 Jan 1949 at St Joseph's, Mayfair.
Anna Maria van der Merwe
Documented 10 mentions
1785 bef. Mar 1825
His wife, married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet.
David Schalk van der Merwe
Documented 4 mentions
Married Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy at Cradock, 24 Mar 1838.
Elizabetha van der Merwe
Documented 8 mentions
The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this archive did not have until her son’s 1908 death notice was read. The first wife, Anna Maria van der Merwe, died before March 1825; this son was born about June 1828. Two van der Merwe wives, one after the other — which is why the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis cannot all be drawn under one marriage.
James Montjoy
also written Mountjoy, Montyoy
Documented 15 mentions
c. 1782, “Europe” Sep 1827, Cradock
Saddler. Owned a house and erf at Cradock worth £90. His 1840 death notice gives his parents as NOT KNOWN — the oldest document here, and the top of this line.
Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy
Inferred
15 Aug 1896 25 Oct 1897, Wodehouse
Baptised at Dordrecht on 6 September 1896, named for her mother's mother entire, and dead at fourteen months. Her name was given again to the next daughter but one. FROM THE INDEX.
Charles Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Major son, a tenth share.
Emma Jane Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Major daughter, entered on the distribution account as “spinster”.
Fritz Johannes Mountjoy
Inferred 3 mentions
5 Oct 1893
Baptised 5 August 1894. FROM THE INDEX, which mangles the place to “Barkly, Queensland, Australia” — it is Barkly East.
George Mountjoy
Documented
11 Jun 1823, Cradock
Saddle maker — his father's trade, learned after his father died when he was four. Married Maria Sophia Botha at Cradock, 20 Aug 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children.
George Mountjoy
Documented
1889 1963
The child baptised at Barkly Oost on 6 Oct 1889 — second cousin to the Booyzen daughter baptised in the same register three weeks earlier.
Hercules Johannes Mountjoy
also written Herculas · Herklaas · Montjoy · Mondjoy
Documented 13 mentions
16 Jul 1866 12 May 1941, Wodehouse
Baptised 29 Jul 1866, parents George Mountjoy and Maria Sophia Botha. Married at Dordrecht 8 Oct 1888, aged 22. Father at the 1889 font. No estate file exists for him under any spelling.
Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy
Inferred 4 mentions
16 Feb 1904
Baptised at Barkly Oost, 17 April 1904, his father's namesake. FROM THE INDEX.
Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy
Documented 5 mentions
1820 1842
A sibling our tree lacked entirely. Married David Schalk van der Merwe at Cradock, 24 Mar 1838.
James Jonathan Mountjoy
also written James John · Jakobus Jonathan
Documented 12 mentions
c. Jun 1854, Cape Province 22 Dec 1937, Barkly East
Witness at the 1889 font. A RETIRED BUILDER, married at Dordrecht, of a dwelling house at Barkly East. His estate — KAB MOOC 6/9/5047 ref 58379 — has now been read to the last shilling: £664 in the Post Office Savings Bank, a house on Lot 380 let at £2 10s a month, £400 out on note at six per cent. His death notice says he left a joint will; his executors’ account says he died intestate. Ten children and two grandchildren took £21. 4. 5. each.
James Mountjoy
Documented 8 mentions
1826
Listed alive, a minor, at his father's death in Sept 1827 — so the tree's “1826–1826” infant death is wrong.
Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy
Inferred 4 mentions
3 Sep 1891
Baptised at Barkly Oost, 8 November 1891, and named for his mother's father Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk of Dordrecht. FROM THE INDEX; the register page has not been read.
Johanna Catharina Mountjoy
also written Montjoy, Montjoÿ
Documented
30 Apr 1819, Graaff-Reinet 19 May 1863, Zevenfontein, Brak River
The Mountjoy–Booysen junction. Married 4 Nov 1838 at Cradock. Her death notice gives her age to the day and names her parents.
Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy
Inferred 3 mentions
1818 1827
Absent from the four children listed at his father's death in Sept 1827, which supports a death that year rather than in infancy.
Willem Hermanus Mountjoy
Inferred 4 mentions
10 Apr 1915
Baptised 27 June 1915 — and the Booyzen name crossing into the Mountjoys, twenty-six years after the two families stood at the same font. FROM THE INDEX.
Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh
also written Booysen
Documented 5 mentions
c. 1862
His wife, named with him on their son’s 1882 baptism at Rustenburg. The register entry is indexed and the image is not available, so this archive has her name and nothing else.
Annie Louisa Nepgen
also written born Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Daughter; married in community of property to Arnoldus Fredeman Nepgen.
Benjamin Jacobus van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Ninth, and a minor in 1902.
Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk
Documented 5 mentions
Eldest, and named for her mother entire. The notice enters her as married to an Edward Huskins.
Christiaan Jacobus van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Seventh on the 1902 list.
Cornelius van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Second on the 1902 list.
Hercules Johannes van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Sixth on the list — and his sister married a man of exactly the same two names. This archive notes the coincidence and does nothing with it, because there is no document behind any story it invites.
Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk
Documented
Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December 1902 as “nablyvende echtgenoot”.
Maria Sophia van Niekerk
Documented 10 mentions
1868 1961
His wife, married at Dordrecht 8 Oct 1888 aged 20 — and now documented from her mother’s side. Her mother’s 1902 death notice lists her fifth of eleven children: “Maria Sophia van Niekerk, getrouwd met Hercules Johannes Mountjoy.”
Philip Rudolph van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Eleventh and last, named for his mother's father.
Pieter Jacobus van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Tenth, and a minor in 1902.
Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier
Documented 8 mentions
bef. 1908
His first wife, named on his 1908 death notice as pre-deceased.
Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier
also written Anna Johanna Booijzen, gebooren Oliefier (1891) · Anna Catrena (1891) · born Olivier (1908)
Documented 8 mentions
c. 8 Sep 1823, district Cradock 9 May 1891, Brakfontein, district Rustenburg
THE FIRST WIFE OF HENDRIK STEFANUS BOOIJSEN, and for a week this archive had her filed as a stranger. Her own Sterfkennis 6332 gives her parents as OCKEN JOHANNES OLIEFIER and ANNA JOHANNA BOTHA, her age as 67 years 8 months and 1 day, her farm as BRAKFONTEIN — which this archive read as Boekfontein — and her surname as OLIEFIER, which this archive read as Alberts. She was still married when she died: her husband outlived her by seventeen years and remarried at Zeerust eleven months later. Seven children, all of age: Petrus Jacobus, Ocken Johannes, Anna Johanna Maria, Elesabettha Maria Cornelya, Alettha Catrina Johanna, Magdalena Johanna, Hendrick Stefanus Nicolaas. Her father is where OCKERT JOHANNES came into this family.
Maria Francina Cecilia Olivier
also written born van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Third on the 1902 list, and already a widow when her mother died — the notice calls her “weduwe van Gert Olivier”.
Ocken Johannes Olivier
Documented 3 mentions
Named with his wife Anna Johanna Botha on line 3 of their daughter's 1891 Sterfkennis, and the reason a Booysen grandson was called OCKERT JOHANNES STEPHANUS. He is the head of a line this archive has not worked at all.
Hendrik Stefanus Palm
Inferred 4 mentions
Married the second Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta. FROM THE INDEX.
Willem Hermanus Pieterzen
also written Harmanus Pieterze (1817) · William Pietersen (1840)
Inferred 16 mentions
bef. 1817
Anna Catharina Slier's FIRST husband, and the origin of the name Willem Hermanus in this family — which therefore comes from a step-relation with no blood tie to the Booyzens. Three documents name him differently; the 1851 godfather, his son, carries both forms in full.
Willem Hermanus Pieterzen
Documented 16 mentions
Godfather at the 1851 font and the boy's namesake — Johanna Catharina's half-brother by her mother's first marriage. His surname, spelled with a z by the same clerk, is what emptied this archive's name argument.
Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen
Documented 3 mentions
Third witness at the 1851 baptism. The given name is not certain.
Isabella Fredrika du Plessis
also written born Booyzen
Documented 4 mentions
Eldest on the 1943 notice, and the third of her name in three generations.
Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter
Documented 3 mentions
Second witness at the 1851 baptism.
Andries Gottlieb Pretorius
Documented 3 mentions
Third witness at the 1870 font, and presumably the bride's people — the only trace the archive has of Johanna Margaritha Pretorius's own family.
Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius
Documented 13 mentions
3 Oct 1906 1944
His wife, married 30 Dec 1924 at Vereeniging aged eighteen, with parental consent. Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905.
Dirk Jacobus Pretorius
Documented 4 mentions
Of the Pretorius family.
Isaak Pretorius
Documented 5 mentions
Of the Pretorius family.
Johanna Margaritha Pretorius
Documented 10 mentions
The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen, named at last from the 1870 baptism of her son Gert Jacobus — not from any death notice, none of which would give her. Mother of Gert Jacobus (1870) and, with the tree's misattributions corrected, of Izak (1864) and Stephanus Francois (1874).
Petrus Jacobus Pretorius
Documented 11 mentions
Anna's father. Gave consent to her marriage at eighteen.
Dorothea Regina Barry of Slang River
Inferred 3 mentions
11 Jan 1892
Baptised at Slang River, 3 April 1892, daughter of Hendrik Nicholaas Barry and Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman — and named for her aunt. FROM THE INDEX.
Catharina Maria Elizabeth Roodt
Documented 6 mentions
c. 1890
Seventeen at the same confirmation, number 25 on the page to Susanna Adriana’s 26. Mother of the girl born 8 February 1909 — four and a half months after he married the other one. The register names her plainly and this archive does no more than repeat it.
Cornelis Philippus Roodt
Documented 3 mentions
Godfather at both Indwe fonts. A Cornelis de Klerk Roodt, 21, is number 29 in the same 1907 confirmation class; whether they are the same man is not established here.
Susanna Adriana Roodt
Documented 7 mentions
c. 1892
Fifteen at her confirmation at Indwe on 31 May 1907, sixteen at her marriage on 21 September 1908 — her parents had to consent. Mother of the boy born 31 May 1908.
Cornelia Elizabeth Gertruida Ross
also written born van Niekerk
Documented 3 mentions
Eighth on the list, married to James Ross.
Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg
Documented 4 mentions
20 Apr 1851 bef. 1908
Eldest on his father’s 1908 notice, and already dead when it was written; eldest of the seven on his mother’s 1891 notice too. The fourth Petrus Jacobus in the male line. Confirmed at Rustenburg on 3 April 1869, aged seventeen, on the same day as his brother Ockert.
Ellen Sophia Schmidt
also written born Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Daughter; married out of community of property to John William Schmidt.
Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman
Documented 7 mentions
The Schoeman who married into the Barrys — and the reason the 1924 marriage was between cousins.
Daniel Willem Schoeman
Documented 6 mentions
Plaasboer of Caerlaverock, tried as a Cape Rebel in June 1901 — the month before the family married in his house, where he signed the register.
Ruben Schoeman
Documented 7 mentions
Of Barkly Oost. Father of Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman.
Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second
Inferred 3 mentions
8 Nov 1901
Baptised at Aberdeen, 13 April 1902 — four years after the first of the name died. She married Hendrik Stefanus Palm, and a granddaughter born in 1920 carries the name again. FROM THE INDEX.
Mathilda Elizabeth Shooter
also written born Mountjoy
Documented 4 mentions
Daughter; married out of community of property to Douglas Gilmore Shooter.
Anna Catharina Sleer
also written Slier · Schleher · Sher · Hier — five renderings, five sources
Documented 9 mentions
1787 1885
Lived to ninety-eight. Married James Montjoy 9 Mar 1817 at Graaff-Reinet, having first been the widow of William Pietersen.
Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter
also written born Booysen
Documented 4 mentions
Married in community of property to Stephanus Andries Venter.
James John Mountjoy the younger
Documented 3 mentions
30 May 1895, Barkly East 20 Jul 1948, East London
The second of the name — son of the man who died in 1937, and a major heir in his estate. His own estate is KAB MOOC 6/9/15220: 3786/48.
Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk the younger
Documented 3 mentions
Fourth on the list, and his father's namesake.

Who is not here

Living people are omitted. David Defranceski, for whom this archive was made, and his mother Cheryl Anne Lerena (b. 1955) are both living and are left out of this build, as are living descendants of the Johannesburg family.

People the records name only once — a witness, a neighbour, an official — are on The Documents in the transcription of the record that names them, rather than here.

The people who should be here and are not are the point of Open Questions: the parents of Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen, and the parents of James Montjoy, which a relative in 1840 recorded as Not Known.