The Booyzen Archive
Booyzen · 28 mentions across 28 pages

John Barry Booyzen

HIS GRAVE IS READ, and it gives both dates at once. BRENTHURST CEMETERY, BRAKPAN: “IN LIEFDE HERINNERING — AAN ONS VADER — JOHN BARRY BOOYZEN — ★ 26.4.1884 — † 23.1.1952 — RUS SAG.”, cut by Pretoria Grafstene. This archive had “c. 1884” and NO DEATH AT ALL. It now has 26 APRIL 1884 and 23 JANUARY 1952 — the latter matching estate TAB MHG 769/52, a file still unread on a blocked film. “Aan ons vader”: he left children. AND NOW HE HAS A DEATH AND A PLACE. “BOOYZEN JOHN BARRY 1884-1952”, BRENTHURST CEMETERY, BRAKPAN. This archive had him as “c. 1884” with no death at all, and an estate number — TAB MHG 769/52 — on a film that will not open. The stone gives 1884-1952, which matches both the estimate and the estate year, and puts him on the East Rand rather than in Johannesburg. IMAGE LOCATED, NOT YET READ. Eldest son. Present at his father's death in 1905 and the informant — he signs Booyzen four lines under the clerk's Booysen.

John Barry Booyzenb. c. 1884Booyzen
the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 6 of the 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 2 are inferred from one. 3 come from the family tree and are unverified. The name → Married 22 December 1879 — the marriage register that carries the disputed signature.

Every record naming John Barry Booyzen →

The record

NameJohn Barry Booyzen
Bornc. 1884
Died—
LineBooyzen
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

HIS GRAVE IS READ, and it gives both dates at once. BRENTHURST CEMETERY, BRAKPAN: “IN LIEFDE HERINNERING — AAN ONS VADER — JOHN BARRY BOOYZEN — ★ 26.4.1884 — † 23.1.1952 — RUS SAG.”, cut by Pretoria Grafstene. This archive had “c. 1884” and NO DEATH AT ALL. It now has 26 APRIL 1884 and 23 JANUARY 1952 — the latter matching estate TAB MHG 769/52, a file still unread on a blocked film. “Aan ons vader”: he left children. AND NOW HE HAS A DEATH AND A PLACE. “BOOYZEN JOHN BARRY 1884-1952”, BRENTHURST CEMETERY, BRAKPAN. This archive had him as “c. 1884” with no death at all, and an estate number — TAB MHG 769/52 — on a film that will not open. The stone gives 1884-1952, which matches both the estimate and the estate year, and puts him on the East Rand rather than in Johannesburg. IMAGE LOCATED, NOT YET READ. Eldest son. Present at his father's death in 1905 and the informant — he signs Booyzen four lines under the clerk's Booysen.

The NameThe DocumentsJohannesburg

Where the archive puts John

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

One correction on this site names John Barry Booyzen. 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.
  • 17 Sep 2026 — Seventeen people had a page saying they are “not yet discussed on any page”
    Among them GEORGE AUGUSTUS KOLBE, the 1820 Settler, named 155 times in the built site; JOHN BARRY, 158; GEORGE MOUNTJOY, 140; PETRUS JACOBUS BOOYSEN, 110; JOHANNA CATHARINA MOUNTJOY, 89. THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages. Found because the estate asked this archive to look for a fault the Mazza archive had just had. Where it stands →

The Booyzen Archive

…4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg d. 13 Sep 1905, Indwe × Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry achter Sneeuberg married 22 Dec 1879 documented 9 children recorded George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen carries the line show ↓ hide ↑ John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

The documents

…They are not the same word. The clerk, September 1905: Willem Hermanus Boo y sen His son, the same day: J. B. Boo y z en The father is registered under the old spelling. The son signs the new one. Both are on the same page, in September 1905 — three years after the Anglo-Boer War ended. The informant is John Barry Booyzen (b. 1884), the eldest son, then twenty-one, recorded as present at the death . This is as close to a photograph of the surname changing as the archive is ever likely to find. The name → 1879 · The marriage register — and one ambiguous letter Duplicaat Origineel Register , in Dutch. Entry 15, 22 December 1879.…

Households

…16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen and Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 9 head born 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 a record read here Married 22 December 1879 — the marriage register that carries the disputed signature. The name John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 inferred David Kolbe Booyzen the family tree Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 the family tree Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen the family tree Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

Johannesburg

…The move, as the birthplaces record it Nobody wrote down the date the family left the Cape. But children have to be born somewhere, and the register moves.…

The Marriages

…1854, Potchefstroom district — Johanna Margaretha Delport — — Johanna Margaritha Pretorius — — Johannes Jacobus Lowies — — Johannes Sybert Roos — — John Barry Booyzen c. 1884 — John Barry Booyzen the infant 1914 buried 28 Dec 1916, Brixton — D.R. section, grave 2951 Levina “Finnie” Kolbe-Booysen — — Lourens Daniel Albertus Lowies — — Magdalena Booijsen of 1782 bapt.…

The Name

…The registering clerk names the dead man: Willem Hermanus Boo y sen Four lines below, his son signs: J. B. Boo y z en The informant is John Barry Booyzen , the eldest son, twenty-one, recorded as present at the death . His father is buried under the old spelling; he signs the new one. The full document → Family lore The motive — the joiners — is testimony, and cannot be proved from a spelling alone.…

The People

…The Documents Open Questions The Women Johanna Catharina Booyzen Documented 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. The Documents John Barry Booyzen Documented c. 1884 — HIS GRAVE IS READ, and it gives both dates at once. BRENTHURST CEMETERY, BRAKPAN: “IN LIEFDE HERINNERING — AAN ONS VADER — JOHN BARRY BOOYZEN — ★ 26.4.1884 — † 23.1.1952 — RUS SAG.”, cut by Pretoria Grafstene. This archive had “c. 1884” and NO DEATH AT ALL.…

Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen

…8 May 1922 record Albert Alfred Daschner b. 3 Mar 1927 record Edith Dorothy Daschner b. 20 Jan 1930 record Henry James Daschner b. 25 Feb 1932 record Yvonne Muriel Daschner b. 15 Jul 1935 record 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry

…Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 Barry married Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record 9 children with Willem John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 record Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 inferred David Kolbe Booyzen family tree Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 family tree Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen family tree Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 record Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park record Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

David Kolbe Booyzen

…Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record David Kolbe Booyzen Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

George Augustus Kolbe

…THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages.…

George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen

…12 Oct 1930 record Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b. 22 Sep 1932 record Petrus Jacobus “Piet” Booyzen 10 Jan 1934 – 2003 record Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen 11 May 1946 – 15 May 1946 record Gertrude Booyzen 11 May 1947 – 11 May 1947 record 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

George Mountjoy

…THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages.…

Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen

…Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

Henry James Booyzen

…Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

Johanna Catharina Booyzen

…Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

Johanna Catharina Mountjoy

…THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages.…

John Barry Booyzen the infant

…He is NOT the John Barry Booyzen who signed his father's death registration at Indwe in 1905 — a second child of the name, one generation down, and this archive did not have him. John Barry Booyzen the infant 1914 – buried 28 Dec 1916 Booyzen No household in this archive names this person, as a child or as a parent. They are here because a record names them, and that record stands alone.…

John Barry Booyzen

…BRENTHURST CEMETERY, BRAKPAN: “IN LIEFDE HERINNERING — AAN ONS VADER — JOHN BARRY BOOYZEN — ★ 26.4.1884 — † 23.1.1952 — RUS SAG.”, cut by Pretoria Grafstene. This archive had “c. 1884” and NO DEATH AT ALL. It now has 26 APRIL 1884 and 23 JANUARY 1952 — the latter matching estate TAB MHG 769/52, a file still unread on a blocked film.…

John Barry

…THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages.…

Petrus Jacobus Booysen

…THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages.…

Richard Peter Booyzen

…And he was NOT A SOLDIER — which kills the best explanation this archive had for his mother's military pension. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Richard Peter Booyzen c. 1894 – 25 Oct 1918 Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe

…1886 – 29 Jul 1932 Booyzen married Susanna Adriana Roodt c. 1892 – buried 29 Aug 1968 record married Catharina Maria Elizabeth Roodt b. c. 1890 record 1 child with Susanna Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore b. 31 May 1908 record 1 child with Catharina Catharina Willemina Levina Booyzen b. 8 Feb 1909 record 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen

…Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) record Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863 record Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 generation 4 — see the spine → married Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record 9 children with Catherine John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 record Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 inferred David Kolbe Booyzen family tree Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 family tree Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen family tree Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 record Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park record Richard Peter Booyzen c.…

The Register

…rdús Booÿzen Membership 2 May 1836 Cradock, Cape Colony, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Johannis Zagaryas Jacobus Booyzen Membership 12 Jun 1835 Colesberg, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 John Barry Booyzen Burial Brakpan, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa | Death 23 Jan 1952 | Birth 26 Apr 1884 record ↗ Find a Grave Index John Barry Booyzen Birth 1919 · with: Gertruida Johanna Olivier record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 John Barry Booyzen Birth 1914 | Burial 28 Dec 1916 Brixton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johann…

Sources

…This row said Blocked — film access restricted online until 9 October, which is true of the FILM and false of the DOCUMENT. The ark 1:1:QGXP-3MKR is his wife’s file, separately read. TAB MHG 5155/51 Gert Jacobus Booyzen — b. 19 Jan 1870 1951 Blocked Film access restricted online. TAB MHG 769/52 John Barry Booyzen — who signed the 1905 form 1952 Blocked Film access restricted online. TAB MHG 10/57 Henry James Booyzen 1956 Blocked Film access restricted online.…

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