Barry · 74 mentions across 74 pages

John Augustus Barry I

His 1915 death notice types the birthplace as at sea and his mother as “born Neagle”. Cape Mounted Rifles.

Parents

John Augustus Barry I1819 – 1903Barry

marriedMargaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe1826 – 2 Aug 1912record

10 children with Margaretha

John Augustus Barry IIb. 13 Mar 1847record William Barryb. 23 Aug 1853record James Henry Barry13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939record George Augustus Barryb. 26 Apr 1850record Hendrik Nicholaas Barryrecord Frederick Fortunatus Barryb. 10 Nov 1863record Richard Peter Barryrecord Margaret Mary Bedfordrecord Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry4 Aug 1859 – 1940direct line Kathleen Mary Barryrecord

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

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified11 of the 13 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 2 come from the family tree and are unverified. Disputed →Entered on the family tree as the father. This archive does not accept the profile: it holds a Yorkshire farmer buried at Bilsdale on 3 January 1853 and a man who died at de Bruins Poort in the Cape five days later.Married about 1850 at BURGHERSDORP — “probably”, says their own son on the 1915 notice, and “Unknown” says the same son on his mother's notice three months earlier. His 1903 registration says they had ELEVEN children; his own death notice names EIGHT; HER death notice, estate 1291, names NINE. The ninth is WILLIAM, who appears on nothing else. Two are still missing. The Barrys →

Every record naming John Augustus Barry I →

The record

Name	John Augustus Barry I
Born	1819, “at sea (exact whereabouts unknown), British”
Died	1903
Line	Barry
Confidence	Documented

What the archive holds

His 1915 death notice types the birthplace as at sea and his mother as “born Neagle”. Cape Mounted Rifles.

The Barrys The Documents Open Questions

Where the archive puts John

Manorowen

Farm · Barkly East

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

Every mention, page by page

The Barrys

…Everything from 1819 forward is solid. Everything before it falls apart. John Augustus Barry I, 1819–1903 The most documented person in the Booyzen ancestry, and the least certain. Born 8 June 1819 — recorded in the tree, literally, as "?Sunderland, Durham, England? Ireland? High Seas?" Trades Carpenter and Builder · timmerman en bouwvakker · Grocer · Labourer — five occupation records, all working trades Married c.…

What changed

…By 1908 all four children were adults, two of them married women. The archive put them under the marriage it could name rather than the marriage that could have produced them. → reading Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry was John Augustus Barry I’s daughter She was his granddaughter. The 1915 death notice names eight children and she is not among them; her father is Hendrik Nicholaas Barry, whose other children were baptised at Dordrecht and Slang River between 1888 and 1900. Moved down a generation — which is where the cousin marriage of 1924 needs her to be, and the archive had her in the wrong place while asserting it.…

What was taken back

…By 1908 all four children were adults, two of them married women. The archive put them under the marriage it could name rather than the marriage that could have produced them. → A document read past what it says 13 Sep 2026 “Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry was John Augustus Barry I’s daughter” She was his granddaughter. The 1915 death notice names eight children and she is not among them; her father is Hendrik Nicholaas Barry, whose other children were baptised at Dordrecht and Slang River between 1888 and 1900. Moved down a generation — which is where the cousin marriage of 1924 needs her to be, and the archive had her in the wrong place while asserting it.…

The cousin marriage

…They were cousins — and their marriage folds the family tree back on itself. The two descents John Augustus Barry I (1819-1903) === Margaretha W. E. M. Kolbe (1826-1912) | | +-------------------+--------------+-------------------+ | | Catherine Maria Sophia Hendrik Nicholaas Barry (1857-1931) "Kathleen" Barry (1859-1940) === Anna Johanna Maria Schoemann (1859-1923) === Willem Hermanus Booyzen | (1851-1905) | | Margarietha W. E.…

Disputed

…Separate them. → John Barry — his parents Recorded as “Unknown Barry” and “Unknown Barry”, with a brother entered as “Other Barry's - South Africa Barry”. Fatal These are placeholders, not people. The Barry line ends here, whatever the profile suggests. → John Augustus Barry I & James Barry Both sons recorded born 8 June 1819 — one at “?Sunderland? Ireland? High Seas?”, the other in County Cork. Serious Twins born in two countries, or one man duplicated. If duplicated, “County Cork” is John Augustus's own birthplace and the Irish claim strengthens.…

The documents

…Doop Register, Barkly Oost , entry 40 , 15 September 1889: Johanna Catharina , geb. 20 Juni 1889; Ouders Willem Hermanus Booijsen and Catharina Maria Sophia Barry ; Getuigen John Barry and Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Kolby . The godparents are the child's own maternal grandparents — John Augustus Barry I , the Irishman born at sea, and Margaretha Kolbe , the 1820 Settler's daughter, standing together at a font in Barkly East in September 1889. 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.…

The households

…Barkly East, 1938 10 children George Mountjoy of Barkly East Maria Sophia Diesel Annie Louisa Nepgen Ellen Sophia Schmidt Charles Mountjoy James John Mountjoy the younger · 30 May 1895 – 20 Jul 1948 Emma Jane Mountjoy Mathilda Elizabeth Shooter Lena Millie Frachet Louisa Elizabeth Diesel · d. 11 Jun 1923 John Augustus Barry I & Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe John 1819 – 1903 · Margaretha 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 On whose word a record read here Married about 1850 at BURGHERSDORP — “probably”, says their own son on the 1915 notice, and “Unknown” says the same son on his mother's notice three months earlier.…

The marriages

…He signed her death notice twenty-five years later. The 1863 notice → 20 August 1848 Cradock George Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha a record read here Certificate 735. Thirteen children — and their forenames run out through three more surnames. The namesakes → 1850 Cape Colony John Augustus Barry I & Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe a record read here An Irish carpenter and a Settler's daughter. Both their death notices survive, filed on the same day in 1915, and the two disagree about when he died. The Barrys → bef. 1863 not recorded Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Margaritha Pretorius a record read here The second marriage his own death notice refuses to name.…

Everyone

…The Documents The Women Anna Catharina Grobelaar also written born Booysen Documented 60 mentions — — Married in community of property to Willem Grobelaar, in whose house at Koedoesfontein her father died. The Documents The Women John Augustus Barry I Documented 71 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.…