Elizabetha van der Merwe
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.
The record
| Name | Elizabetha van der Merwe |
| Born | — |
| Died | — |
| Line | Booyzen |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
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.
What changed
…It also gives Petrus Jacobus a different father — Jan Booysen, the same man as the 1793 will this archive declined to adopt — against line 3 of an 1876 death notice this archive has read. Nothing was changed. The disagreement was written down. Three closed routes, and two names the notices never gave · Method Elizabetha van der Merwe was put to the index three ways — her daughter, her children as a class, and her son's own baptism — and came back empty all three times, which leaves her where she started: one document, the 1908 death notice of her son. Then the same method that failed her worked on the Barrys.…
The line
…21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet — DOCUMENTED 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg — DOCUMENTED Anna Maria van der Merwe (1785 – bef. Mar 1825), m. 1805 Graaff-Reinet and Elizabetha van der Merwe — DOCUMENTED, named as the mother on their son Hendrik Stephanus’s 1908 death notice 5 Petrus Jacobus Booysen died fifteen years before the war began; signed his wife's death notice 10 May 1812, Graaff-Reinet 1884 (probate) Johanna Catharina Mountjoy (30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863) — DOCUMENTED, m.…
The documents
…The same pattern one generation earlier: an unrecorded second marriage." The second marriage is no longer unrecorded. The mother is Elizabetha van der Merwe , and the son's own age on the form — seventy-nine years eleven months at 11 May 1908 — puts his birth at about June 1828, three years after the first wife died. Two van der Merwe wives, one after the other. The contradiction was never a contradiction; it was a missing row. And it repairs something this page has been apologising for.…
The households
…The daughter is ANNA MARIA, called after his own mother — the naming ran up the female line in this generation as it did in the Oliviers'. The 1806 baptism 1 child Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835 · b. 7 Aug 1835 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.…
The marriages
…The 1817 register → 1819 London George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing a record read here Both were sixteen. The Nautilus passenger roll the following year makes them twenty — a second age overstatement in the same twelve months. The Kolbes → bef. 1828 not recorded Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe a record read here A second van der Merwe, named only on her son's 1908 death notice. No place and no date: the marriage is known because a child of it was born about June 1828. The 1908 notice → 24 March 1838 Cradock David Schalk van der Merwe & Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy a record read here Eight months before her sister married in the same town.…
Method
…A relationship motherSurname, fatherGivenName, spouseSurname Anyone standing in that relation, including people you could not have named Noisy, and every hit needs separating from the namesakes by hand. Both results on this page's hardest day came out of that difference. Three person-searches for Elizabetha van der Merwe returned nothing, and the third of them — her son's own baptism — was the best test this archive could devise. One relationship-search on the Barrys returned two children on neither parent's death notice . The difference was not effort or luck. It was which question the form was asked. The same logic runs underneath three other things this archive did.…
Open questions
…Read it and it either names John Augustus Barry and Margaretha Kolbe or it does not, and either way the question moves. The second missing child has no candidate at all; the same relationship search, run on the father instead of the mother, has not been tried. § 14 · Medium priority Does Elizabetha van der Merwe exist anywhere but her son's death notice? — THREE ROUTES CLOSED. She is in this archive on the strength of ONE document: the 1908 death notice of her son, which names her as his mother. Nothing else — no marriage, no baptism of any child, no death, no estate. On 13 September the index was asked three separate ways and answered nothing three times.…
Everyone
…WHAT IS STILL NOT PROVED is that she is the mother of the 1812 man in the direct line. The 1806 baptism The Line The Women Disputed David Schalk van der Merwe Documented 82 mentions — — Married Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy at Cradock, 24 Mar 1838. The Women Elizabetha van der Merwe Documented 147 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.…
Abel Hermanus Gerhardus Lowies
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Adriana Christina Viljoen
…The daughter is ANNA MARIA, called after his own mother — the naming ran up the female line in this generation as it did in the Oliviers'. The 1806 baptism 1 child Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835 · b. 7 Aug 1835 Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe Petrus c.… Everyone …The Line Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) Documented 74 mentions 12 Oct 1930 deceased Fourth child.…
Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Andries Gottlieb Pretorius
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Catharina Booysen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Catharina Grobelaar
…The Documents The Women Where the archive puts Anna Koedoesfontein Farm · District Rustenburg, Transvaal Each carries the document that puts them there.…
Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Eliezabet Booijsen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico Jacob Dormehl Named as her father on the 1902 death notice.…
Anna Francisa Roos
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna J. Mary Booyzen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak)
…The 1806 baptism 1 child Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835 · b. 7 Aug 1835 Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe Petrus c.… Everyone …The Line Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) Documented 74 mentions 12 Oct 1930 deceased Fourth child.…
Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835
…The daughter is ANNA MARIA, called after his own mother — the naming ran up the female line in this generation as it did in the Oliviers'. The 1806 baptism 1 child Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835 · b. 7 Aug 1835 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.… Everyone …The Line Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) Documented 74 mentions 12 Oct 1930 deceased Fourth child.…
Anna Maria Booijsen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Anna Maria van der Merwe
…The wall on the ancestor chart said the wrong thing for a day and has been rewritten.… The line …21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet — DOCUMENTED 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg — DOCUMENTED Anna Maria van der Merwe (1785 – bef. Mar 1825), m.…
Anna Susanna Booijzen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Booyzen
…Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Sixth on the 1876 notice. Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet – 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Elizabetha van der Merwe The second wife of Petrus Jacobus Booysen (b. 1788), and a name this a Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841, Graaff-Reinet – 6 Feb 1902, Driefontein, Groot Marico All 278 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Others on the Booyzen side
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A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on. Identity here is by NAME, not by resolved individual — where two people share a name they share this page, and the archive says so rather than guessing. Nothing on a dossier page is new evidence; it is the same evidence, brought together.