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Hercules Johannes Mountjoy

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.

Hercules Johannes Mountjoy16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941Mountjoy
marriedMaria Sophia van Niekerk1868 – 1961record

A Petronella Christina Aletta baptised at SWELLENDAM in 1871 carries both parents' names and is NOT adopted — Swellendam is six hundred miles west of everywhere else this family stood.

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified11 of the 18 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 7 are inferred from one. The thirteen Mountjoy children →Married at Cradock, 20 August 1848, certificate 735. THIRTEEN children, of whom this archive could name one until the Dutch Reformed baptism registers were read. Seven more are here, and the places track the family across the Cape–Free State border: Graaff-Reinet in 1858, Burgersdorp in 1860, Smithfield in 1862 and 1864.Married at Dordrecht, 8 October 1888, aged 22 and 20. Two grandparents at a font →

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The record

NameHercules Johannes Mountjoy
Also writtenHerculas · Herklaas · Montjoy · Mondjoy
Born16 Jul 1866
Died12 May 1941, Wodehouse
LineMountjoy
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

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.

Open QuestionsThe DocumentsSources

Where the archive puts Hercules

Each carries the document that puts them there. The atlas →

What changed

…Whether it was DELIVERED is a separate question from whether it was sent, and this archive will not use the second word until it has checked for the first. A dead child's name, given again — watched happening · Found Worked out of the register rather than off a new document. Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk baptised a daughter at Dordrecht on 6 September 1896 and called her CAROLINA ISABELLA MARGARETHA ALETTA, her grandmother's four names entire. She died at Wodehouse on 25 October 1897, aged fourteen months.…

The documents

…Her surname is written "Kolby" — a phonetic variant, twenty-six years before her own son would tell a magistrate he thought his grandfather's name was James . The Kolbes → And on the facing page, entirely by accident 6 October 1889: George , geb. 21 Juli 1889; Ouders Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk; among the witnesses Jakobus Jonathan Mountjoy and Maria Sophia Mountjoy . Mountjoys, alive and baptising at Barkly Oost in 1889. This line descends from Johanna Catharina Mountjoy (1819–1863), and the archive had her family as little more than a surname and a father who died in 1827.…

The plates

…2809 : Het Kind Willem Hermanus , Geboren 4 Mei 1851 , Vader Petrus Jacobus Booyzen , The father: Petrus Jacobus Boo y z en The witnesses, same hand, same ink: Pieter z en , twice Doop Register, Barkly Oost , entry 40 , 15 September 1889: Johanna Catharina , geb. 20 Juni 1889 6 October 1889: George , geb. 21 Juli 1889; Ouders Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia v Line 3 — the generation the archive did not have from any document: James Montjoy and Anna Catha One Major , seven Minors . The widower signs. Names of the Parents of the Deceased. Not Known. 1840, line 5 — Saddler 1840, line 6 — "Married to Catharina Sl[i/e]er, widow of William Pietersen" Line 7: September 1827 . Line 9: James · George · Johanna · Jacoba , all minors.…

The households

…3 Jan 1878 William Henry Keys the younger · b. 10 Jun 1882 James Jonathan Keys · b. 18 Nov 1883 George Keys · b. 5 Jan 1884 Lancelott Byron Keys · b. 29 Jan 1888 Cecil Frederik Keys · b. 15 Sep 1891 Rachel Anna Maria Keys · b. 5 May 1895 Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys · b. 9 Feb 1897 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 George Mountjoy · 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy · b. 3 Sep 1891 (inferred) Fritz Johannes Mountjoy · b.…

The marriages

…The second wife, named → 22 December 1879 Lady Grey Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry a record read here He signs as a BOER. The signature on this register is the one this archive has spent most of its time arguing about: is the letter a z or an s? The name → 8 October 1888 Dordrecht Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk a record read here Twenty-two and twenty. Five of their eight children are named for a parent or a grandparent, and one dead daughter's name was given again four years later. The namesakes → bef. 1890 Dordrecht James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm a record read here In community of property.…

The namesakes

…Maria Sophia Mountjoy b. 23 Oct 1898 For his mother. Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 For his father. Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b. 10 Apr 1915 And the Booyzen name, into the Mountjoys, twenty-six years after the two families stood at the same font at Barkly Oost. Five of the eight children of Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk are named for a grandparent or a parent. These come from the Dutch Reformed INDEX and not from the register images, and the person pages say so. The Mountjoy names, crossing a third surname at Dordrecht And into a family called Keys The habit again, in a family this archive did not know existed until this afternoon.…

Open questions

…Also: who took it, and where. § 16 · High priority Who are the Mountjoys of Barkly Oost? — ANSWERED Found by accident, on the page opposite a Booyzen baptism: the Doop Register, Barkly Oost, 6 October 1889 records Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk baptising a son, with Jakobus Jonathan Mountjoy and Maria Sophia Mountjoy among the witnesses. This line descends from Johanna Catharina Mountjoy (1819–1863), of whom the archive has little more than a surname and a father who died in 1827. Here are three named Mountjoys in the right district, twenty-six years after her death.…

Everyone

…A fourth Botha marriage in this archive, and none of them yet joined to another. The 1891 notices The Women Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha Documented 125 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.…

Anna Catharina Mountjoy

…11 Jun 1823 record Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 record Anna Catharina Mountjoy b. 5 Aug 1852 Mountjoy 6 siblings Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy b. 12 Jun 1858 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp b. 28 Jan 1860 George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Jan 1862 Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy b. 10 Jun 1864 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 Jacoba Regina Mountjoy b. 14 Jun 1868 A Petronella Christina Aletta baptised at SWELLENDAM in 1871 carries both parents' names and is NOT adopted — Swellendam is six hundred miles west of everywhere else this family stood.…

Anna Catharina Sleer

…The archive had them only as names in a list. Here one of them is standing at the font, and the child takes his name. The women → The register's place column reads achter Sneeuwberg — the family was farming behind the Sneeuberg , not living in Cradock town.… The households …10 Jun 1864 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy · 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 Jacoba Regina Mountjoy · b. 14 Jun 1868 A Petronella Christina Aletta baptised at SWELLENDAM in 1871 carries both parents' names and is NOT adopted — Swellendam is six hundred miles west of everywhere else this family stood. James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer James c.…

Annie Louisa Nepgen

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Aubrey Diesel

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Benjamin Jacobus van Niekerk

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha

…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. Parents Philip Rudolph Botha record Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c.…

Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk

…The notice enters her as married to an Edward Huskins. The Documents The Women Every mention, page by page The documents …One of them was accumulating and one of them was not. The line → 1902 · A wrong name in the index, and a right family behind it Searching the Cape probate index for Hercules Johannes Mountjoy returns exactly one hit. It is not his. Kennisgeving van Sterfgeval , filed 3 January 1903. Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk, geboren Botha , died at her own house at Dordrecht , 18 December 1902. Why it comes up Because his name is written on it. Fifth in her list of eleven children: "5.…

Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second

…She married Hendrik Stefanus Palm, and a granddaughter born in 1920 carries the name again. FROM THE INDEX. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b. 8 Nov 1901 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Fritz Johannes Mountjoy b. 5 Oct 1893 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b.…

Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy

…Her name was given again to the next daughter but one. FROM THE INDEX. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Fritz Johannes Mountjoy b. 5 Oct 1893 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b. 23 Oct 1898 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b.…

Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry

…The second wife, named → 22 December 1879 Lady Grey Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry a record read here He signs as a BOER. The signature on this register is the one this archive has spent most of its time arguing about: is the letter a z or an s? The name → 8 October 1888 Dordrecht Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk a record read here Twenty-two and twenty.… The namesakes …Who When What they are to the name Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe godmother, 1848 Stood at the Graaff-Reinet font on 13 November 1848 for her sister's son Henry James Barry, entry 603, written out in full by the clerk. Eleven years before the first Catherine Maria Sophia was born.…

Cecil Frederik Keys

…3 Jan 1878 William Henry Keys the younger · b. 10 Jun 1882 James Jonathan Keys · b. 18 Nov 1883 George Keys · b. 5 Jan 1884 Lancelott Byron Keys · b. 29 Jan 1888 Cecil Frederik Keys · b. 15 Sep 1891 Rachel Anna Maria Keys · b. 5 May 1895 Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys · b. 9 Feb 1897 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.… Everyone …The cemeteries, swept Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Jeanette van Jaarsveld also written born Daschner Documented 36 mentions — — Married a van Jaarsveld and was a major by 1942.…

Charles Mountjoy

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Christiaan Jacobus van Niekerk

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Cornelia Elizabeth Gertruida Ross

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Cornelius van Niekerk

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

David Schalk van der Merwe

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Ellen Sophia Schmidt

…1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — – bef. 1817 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — James Mountjoy 1826 – — Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941, Wodehouse Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk Her father. Signed his wife’s death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha c. Jul 1844, district Cradock – 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk Eldest, and named for her mother entire.…

Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy

…11 Jun 1823 record Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 record Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy b. 10 Jun 1864 Mountjoy 6 siblings Anna Catharina Mountjoy b. 5 Aug 1852 Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy b. 12 Jun 1858 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp b. 28 Jan 1860 George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Jan 1862 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 Jacoba Regina Mountjoy b. 14 Jun 1868 A Petronella Christina Aletta baptised at SWELLENDAM in 1871 carries both parents' names and is NOT adopted — Swellendam is six hundred miles west of everywhere else this family stood.…

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