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Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit

THE FOURTH MAN OF THE NAME, AND THE ONE THIS ARCHIVE KEPT MEETING WITHOUT ENTERING. He is the FREDERIK FORTUNA KOLBE who fathered ROSA MAGDALENA, baptised at Bloemfontein on 6 July 1890, and MAGDALENA JACOBA, by MARIA PETRONELLA ELIZABETH ANTOINETTA McCABE — the second of the two Kolbe–McCabe marriages. HIS DEATH IS DOCUMENTED TWICE AND THE TWO DOCUMENTS DISAGREE ABOUT WHEN HE WAS BORN. The civil death registration — National Archives of South Africa, Dewetsdorp death records 1930, image 852 of 2,140, FamilySearch 1:1:81ZN-KW6Z — is a Form of Information of a Death completed at his death and registered the next day by the district registrar J. S. Kruger: age 73, born in the Orange Free State, a BOER, a WEDUWNAAR, died 18 DECEMBER 1930 at Bloemspruit in the district of Bloemfontein, to be buried at Bloemfontein. Cause of death, in the doctor's English inside an Afrikaans form: valvular disease of the heart, bronchial asthma, nephritis and enlarged prostate, attended by Dr J. M. de Kock. His gravestone says something else. BillionGraves photographed it at the Bloemfontein Memoriam Road Cemetery on 30 September 2018: born 22 OCTOBER 1859, died 8 DECEMBER 1930. AGE 73 ON 18 DECEMBER 1930 MEANS BORN ABOUT 1857; THE STONE MAKES HIM 71. Neither is a baptism, and both are at one remove — an age is what an informant said, and a stone is cut after the fact by somebody working from a family memory. THE STONE'S PHOTOGRAPH IS BEHIND A PAYWALL, so its transcription has not been checked against the cutting, and the ten-day gap between the two death dates may be nothing more than a volunteer dropping a “1” from “18”. THE BLOEMFONTEIN OR FAURESMITH BAPTISM REGISTER WOULD END IT and he is not in the index. WHAT HE WAS TO THE FAMILY: he took church membership at Bloemfontein on 6 May 1882, and he was a widower when he died, so his wife went first. THE INFORMANT AT HIS DEATH WAS A PIENAAR — the signature reads W. J. PIENAAR, of 77 St John's Road, Bloemfontein — and the Commandant's eldest daughter CATHARINA WILHELMINA married JOHANNES PETRUS PIENAAR at Bloemfontein on 8 October 1860. A NEPHEW REPORTING HIS UNCLE'S DEATH WOULD LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THIS, AND PIENAAR IS ONE OF THE COMMONEST SURNAMES IN THAT DISTRICT. It is written down because it is suggestive, and it is not adopted.

Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930Kolbe

Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 12 of the 13 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified. What Was Searched → Married 3 April 1843; he died on the same date twenty-five years later, leaving her with twelve children — eight sons and four daughters, which is his obituary's own count. NONE OF THE TWELVE WAS NAMED IN A DOCUMENT HERE UNTIL 27 SEPTEMBER 2026, when the Free State and Cape Dutch Reformed baptism registers were searched on HER name rather than on his. ELEVEN OF THE TWELVE ARE BELOW, and ten of them are named as this couple's by a baptism register or a civil death registration — not by a tree. THE TENTH CAME LAST AND IS THE FIRST IN ORDER: CATHARINA WILHELMINA, born 1844 in the Cape Colony, whose own 1909 death registration names this father and this mother and states that she had been married to a PIENAAR before the ANDERSON she died as — which is what turned a probable sixth child into the documented eldest. They are drawn in birth order, which is also the order the fonts move: Colesberg in 1846, Fauresmith in 1848 and 1849, then Bloemfontein from 1860, so the register records this household's move to the town without anybody writing it down. ONE IS STILL MISSING and the obituary is the authority for there being twelve. BOTH OF THE LAST TWO CAME OUT OF THE FREE STATE CIVIL DEATH REGISTERS ON ONE AFTERNOON, found by searching that index for their FATHER rather than for themselves — which is how a daughter filed under a married surname this archive had never heard of, and a son whose forenames run two of his brothers' together, were both reached.

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The record

NameFrederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit
Also writtenFrederik Fortuna, on his daughter's 1890 baptism · Frederik Fortunatus Kolhe, as the death index has him
Born22 Oct 1859, or 1857 — two documents disagree
Died18 Dec 1930, Bloemspruit, district Bloemfontein
LineKolbe
ConfidenceDocumented
From a treenot documented That he is the Commandant's son is a user tree's claim and is not adopted. His death registration names no parents, because that line of the form is filled in only for a deceased under ten. — the rest of this record rests on documents this archive has read, and that part does not.

What the archive holds

THE FOURTH MAN OF THE NAME, AND THE ONE THIS ARCHIVE KEPT MEETING WITHOUT ENTERING. He is the FREDERIK FORTUNA KOLBE who fathered ROSA MAGDALENA, baptised at Bloemfontein on 6 July 1890, and MAGDALENA JACOBA, by MARIA PETRONELLA ELIZABETH ANTOINETTA McCABE — the second of the two Kolbe–McCabe marriages. HIS DEATH IS DOCUMENTED TWICE AND THE TWO DOCUMENTS DISAGREE ABOUT WHEN HE WAS BORN. The civil death registration — National Archives of South Africa, Dewetsdorp death records 1930, image 852 of 2,140, FamilySearch 1:1:81ZN-KW6Z — is a Form of Information of a Death completed at his death and registered the next day by the district registrar J. S. Kruger: age 73, born in the Orange Free State, a BOER, a WEDUWNAAR, died 18 DECEMBER 1930 at Bloemspruit in the district of Bloemfontein, to be buried at Bloemfontein. Cause of death, in the doctor's English inside an Afrikaans form: valvular disease of the heart, bronchial asthma, nephritis and enlarged prostate, attended by Dr J. M. de Kock. His gravestone says something else. BillionGraves photographed it at the Bloemfontein Memoriam Road Cemetery on 30 September 2018: born 22 OCTOBER 1859, died 8 DECEMBER 1930. AGE 73 ON 18 DECEMBER 1930 MEANS BORN ABOUT 1857; THE STONE MAKES HIM 71. Neither is a baptism, and both are at one remove — an age is what an informant said, and a stone is cut after the fact by somebody working from a family memory. THE STONE'S PHOTOGRAPH IS BEHIND A PAYWALL, so its transcription has not been checked against the cutting, and the ten-day gap between the two death dates may be nothing more than a volunteer dropping a “1” from “18”. THE BLOEMFONTEIN OR FAURESMITH BAPTISM REGISTER WOULD END IT and he is not in the index. WHAT HE WAS TO THE FAMILY: he took church membership at Bloemfontein on 6 May 1882, and he was a widower when he died, so his wife went first. THE INFORMANT AT HIS DEATH WAS A PIENAAR — the signature reads W. J. PIENAAR, of 77 St John's Road, Bloemfontein — and the Commandant's eldest daughter CATHARINA WILHELMINA married JOHANNES PETRUS PIENAAR at Bloemfontein on 8 October 1860. A NEPHEW REPORTING HIS UNCLE'S DEATH WOULD LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THIS, AND PIENAAR IS ONE OF THE COMMONEST SURNAMES IN THAT DISTRICT. It is written down because it is suggestive, and it is not adopted.

What Was SearchedThe KolbesCorrections

One correction on this site names Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit. A correction here is filed against the page it changed, not against a person, so until now it could be read on the corrections register and nowhere else — least of all on the page of the person it was about.
  • 27 Sep 2026 — Two collaborative trees disagree about Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit's birth year, so neither settles anything
    TRUE, AND THE REASONING UNDER IT WAS WRONG. This archive wrote on 20 September that the disagreement between Geni's 1857 and the FamilySearch tree's 1859 showed the two were not independent witnesses. The opposite turns out to be the case: each tree is following a different document. 1859 is his gravestone; 1857 is the age of 73 on his civil death registration. THE TREES WERE THE ONLY HONEST PARTIES IN THE ROOM — they disagreed because their sources disagree. AND GENI'S DATE IS A SPLICE: “22 October 1857” takes the day and month from the stone and the year from the death form, so it reproduces neither document while looking more precise than both. THE RULE THAT SURVIVES, SHARPENED: where trees differ, do not ask which tree is right — ask what each one is copying, because a compiled date can be a composite of two sources and match neither. AND THE FIRST DRAFT OF THIS ENTRY WAS FILED AGAINST THE WRONG MAN. Written with the bare name, it was attributed to Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe (1839–1929), the Settler's tenth child — a different man by twenty years, whose page would have carried a correction about somebody else's gravestone. The archive holds four men of this name and the tool prefers the longest, so the fix was to write the longer one. Caught the same morning, by reading what the tool printed rather than that it exited 0. Where it stands →

Households

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 the family tree James Jonathan Mountjoy and Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm 10 head born c. Jun 1854 – 22 Dec 1937 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.…

The Kolbes

…Colesberg in 1846, Fauresmith in 1848 and 1849, and Bloemfontein from 1860 onwards.…

The Marriages

…16 Dec 1816, Westminster — Frederik Fortunatus Downing Kolbe 1891, Wakkerstroom — about May, counting back his age at death 2 Nov 1918, Villieria, a portion of Kleinfontein, district Wakkerstroom — aged 27 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839, Bethulie, Orange Free State 23 Nov 1929, Utrecht, Natal — aged about 90 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859, or 1857 — two documents disagree 18 Dec 1930, Bloemspruit, district Bloemfontein G.A.…

The People

…Her Cape probate names her husband as JOHANNES HENDRIK. She died on 16 MARCH 1937, TWELVE WEEKS BEFORE PIETER J. BOOYZEN went into the same ground, and this archive can find no link between them but the surname and the town. SET DOWN SO THAT NOBODY LATER ASSUMES ONE. The Middelburg stones The Name The Women Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit also written Frederik Fortuna, on his daughter's 1890 baptism · Frederik Fortunatus Kolhe, as the death index has him Documented 22 Oct 1859, or 1857 — two documents disagree 18 Dec 1930, Bloemspruit, district Bloemfontein THE FOURTH MAN OF THE NAME, AND THE ONE THIS ARCHIVE KEPT MEETING WITHOUT ENTERING.…

Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg

…16 Feb 1854 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Anna Jacoba van der Merwe

…16 Feb 1854 record Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 record Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 record Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 record Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 family tree Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Catharina Wilhelmina Kolbe

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit

…He is the FREDERIK FORTUNA KOLBE who fathered ROSA MAGDALENA, baptised at Bloemfontein on 6 July 1890, and MAGDALENA JACOBA, by MARIA PETRONELLA ELIZABETH ANTOINETTA McCABE — the second of the two Kolbe–McCabe marriages. HIS DEATH IS DOCUMENTED TWICE AND THE TWO DOCUMENTS DISAGREE ABOUT WHEN HE WAS BORN.…

George Augustus Kolbe of 1845

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Jan Hendrik Kolbe

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

John Gerson Eliezar Kolbe

…16 Feb 1854 record Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 record Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 record Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 record Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 family tree Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein

…30 Sep 1845 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.…

The Register

…nstructed by this archive Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe Birth 1887 | Death 1 Apr 1927 Standerton, Transvaal, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe reconstructed 1839, Bethulie, Orange Free State · 23 Nov 1929, Utrecht, Natal — aged about 90 no public link reconstructed by this archive Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit reconstructed 22 Oct 1859, or 1857 — two documents disagree · 18 Dec 1930, Bloemspruit, district Bloemfontein no public link reconstructed by this archive Fredrika Catherina Kolbe Birth 1897 | Residence 106 Bree Street | Death 06 Jul 1897 Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 G G Kolbe Birth 1 Dec 1956 | Burial Cape Colony, South Afr…

The Timeline

…His gravestone in the Memoriam Road cemetery says he was born 22 October 1859 and died on the 8th — which would make him 71. The two trees that disagree about his birth year are not two opinions; they are these two documents , and Geni's “22 October 1857” is the stone's day and month spliced onto the form's year, matching neither. Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit Bloemfontein 31 Mar 1930 Taken back Isabella Fredrika Booyzen, born Coetzee, dies at Middelburg Her husband did not report it until 1943. This archive had been using the filing year as her death date.…

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