Margaret Downing

…Mother: Unknown ." His grandfather was George Augustus Kolbe — who married at sixteen on a sworn lie in Shoreditch, sailed on the Nautilus in 1819 as an 1820 Settler , preached across the Orange River, and named a Karoo farm after the Württemberg his own father had left. His grandmother was Margaret Downing of London. Both of them lie under a cut-stone monument at Burgersdorp — names, London birthplaces, farm and dates carved into it — about forty miles from where that notice was written. The family forgot them inside seventy years, with the headstone still standing. And it had happened before, on the other side of the house.…

…And MARGARET DOWNING KOLBE, born 1899, buried in Natal in 1979: George Augustus Kolbe married Margaret Downing at Shoreditch in 1819, and eighty years later a girl was christened with the whole of it. Then eGGSA corrected something published this morning. Searching the British press for this family returned almost nothing and that was written down as a limit of the medium. It is a limit of the COUNTRY.…

…If duplicated, “County Cork” is John Augustus's own birthplace and the Irish claim strengthens. → Margaretha Kolbe (1826–1912) Marries George Frederick Enslin in 1850 while married to John Augustus Barry, then bears Barry and Enslin children three and a half months apart in 1851. Resolved RESOLVED by Margaret Downing’s 1867 death notice, which lists among her children “Mary Elizabeth (dead) who was married to George F. Enslin — left issue of 6 minor children.” The Enslin marriage and children belong to Margaretha’s SISTER. The archive’s own hypothesis, confirmed. → Margaretha Kolbe — census Recorded in the 1881 census at 52 Arthur Street, Chelsea, London. Reject She was in the Cape Colony throughout.…

…The registration is a hard, researchable detail. Unidentified. 1819 · A sworn falsehood in Shoreditch A marriage allegation of the London Diocese , 20 January 1819 — the sworn statement required before a marriage licence could be issued. Fee, 2/6. Marriage allegation of George Kolbe and Margaret Downing, London Diocese, 20 January 1819, signed G. Kolbe .…

…Hypot A young man in a dark uniform tunic and peaked cap . Hypothesis: George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen A man in a light suit and fedora on a late-1920s sedan, registration TAS 486 , a small boy besid Marriage allegation of George Kolbe and Margaret Downing, London Diocese, 20 January 1819, signe "…a Bachelor of the age of Twenty-one Years and upwards ." Death Notice of George Augustus Kolbe , made under Section 9, Ordinance 104, at Colesberg in Jan The whole sheet, for anyone who wants to check the reading against it.…

…3 Mar 1881 (inferred) Anton Rector Kolbe Barry · b. 3 Nov 1882 (inferred) Alida Eduarda Barry · b. 10 Dec 1886 (inferred) Miny Barry · b. 13 Aug 1889 (inferred) FROM THE INDEX — no image has been read, and the mother's surname is spelled five different ways across the entries. George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c. 1804 On whose word a record read here Married 1819 — both were sixteen, and the Nautilus passenger roll of 1820 overstates both their ages by four years. The Kolbes 9 children Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe · 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 (the direct line) Mary Elizabeth Kolbe · d. bef.…

…The line → 9 March 1817 Graaff-Reinet James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer a record read here She was a widow; his origin is left blank on a page where the clerk filled everyone else's in. The blank predates the 1840 death notice by twenty-three years. 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.…

…§ 12 · High priority Who is in the "Kolbe–Downing" photograph? A carte-de-visite captioned as George Augustus Kolbe and Margaret Downing cannot be them — the costume is c. 1875–1885, and they died in 1844 and 1867. The likeliest sitter is their son George Augustus Kolbe (b. 1836) . Where to look: the pencilled inscription on the card mount, at higher resolution than the tree holds; the photographer's imprint if the reverse survives; and the descendants who uploaded it. Also: who took it, and where.…

…Her mother is entered UNKNOWN — the seventh parent this archive's documents fail to name. Her 1902 death notice Open Questions John Paul Downing Documented 47 mentions — — Margaret's father. The Kolbes Margaret Downing Documented 78 mentions c. 1804, London — Married at fifteen in Shoreditch, signing with a mark. Died owning a house and a farm. The Women The Kolbes The Documents Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore Documented 21 mentions 31 May 1908, Indwe — Baptised at Indwe 6 December 1908, entry 15, and entered ONECHT — born four months before his parents married.…

…3 Mar 1881 (inferred) Anton Rector Kolbe Barry · b. 3 Nov 1882 (inferred) Alida Eduarda Barry · b. 10 Dec 1886 (inferred) Miny Barry · b. 13 Aug 1889 (inferred) FROM THE INDEX — no image has been read, and the mother's surname is spelled five different ways across the entries. George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c.… Everyone …It is a point in the argument and not a proof. The 1940 estate Disputed Johanna Catharina Booyzen of 1940 Documented 46 mentions — — Married a Du Plessis. The 1940 estate The Women Petrus Jacobus Booyzen of 1940 Documented 50 mentions — — The sixth Petrus Jacobus this archive has found in this family.…

…NTEIN.… Anna Cathar… Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen …s 1940 estate — and a name… Andries Gottlieb Pretorius …trena gebooren Ol… Adriana Christ… Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier …Everyone …… Albert Alfred… Anna Catharina Mountjoy …15 May 1823 Ockert Johannes Stephanus Olivier the younger b.… Anna Catharina Sleer …Kolbe …It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice.… Amelia A.… Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie …l… Adriana… Anna Catharina… Anna Eliezabet Booijsen …Venter …This archive filed her fo… Anna Francisa Roos ……phia Benadie …f 1894 Documented… Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter …Johanna Booijzen BORN ALBERTS who died at BOEKFONTEIN.… Anna Catharina Mountjoy …25 Jul 1820 Aletta Catharina Olivier b.… Anna Catharina Sleer …ptised… Alida Ed…

…The line → 9 March 1817 Graaff-Reinet James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer a record read here She was a widow; his origin is left blank on a page where the clerk filled everyone else's in. The blank predates the 1840 death notice by twenty-three years. The 1817 register → 1819 London George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing a record read here Both were sixteen.… Everyone …She married Hendrik Stefanus Palm, and a granddaughter born in 1920 carries the name again. FROM THE INDEX. The Namesakes The Women The Register Mathilda Elizabeth Shooter also written born Mountjoy Documented 61 mentions — — Daughter; married out of community of property to Douglas Gilmore Shooter.…

…12 Dec 1… Anna Francisa Roos …d since.… Anna Francisa Roos …The only son-in-law on the page.… Anna J.… Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen …n …Mary Booyzen Documented 48… Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) …ocumented 67 mention… Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman …Barry …the direct lin… Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman …Kolbe …Kolbe …It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice.… Amelia A.… Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman …Kolbe …Kolbe …The 1940 estate The Women Petrus Jacobus Booyzen of 1940 Documented 40 mentions — — The sixth Petrus Jacobus this archive has found in this family.… Amelia A.… Anna Susanna Booijzen …The married surname is written and this archive cannot read it.… Anna Maria van der Mer… Andries Gottlieb Pretorius …The Documents Anna Joha…

…3 Mar 1881 (inferred) Anton Rector Kolbe Barry · b. 3 Nov 1882 (inferred) Alida Eduarda Barry · b. 10 Dec 1886 (inferred) Miny Barry · b. 13 Aug 1889 (inferred) FROM THE INDEX — no image has been read, and the mother's surname is spelled five different ways across the entries. George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c.… Everyone …The 1940 estate Namesakes Alida Eduarda Barry Inferred 141 mentions 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht — Named for her mother. The household has moved from Burgersdorp to Dordrecht by this baptism. FROM THE INDEX.…

…7 Sep 1853 Richard Peter Barry & Jeannie Maria Catharina Botha On whose word a record read here Named together on their son's baptism at Barkly West, 26 April 1898. The 1903 registration 1 child Richard Pieter Kolbe Barry · b. 1899 John Paul Downing On whose word a record read here Margaret's father. 1 child Margaret Downing · b. c.… Everyone …Her surname is spelled nine different ways across the entries — Ellinckhuizen, Ellinckhuisen, Elinchhiusen, Westerhuizen, Ellincahuyzen — and one son carries it as a forename. FROM THE INDEX.…

…This archive had called it a Barry name. It is a Kolbe name, and it belongs to a woman who never married into the Booyzens at all. She is also godmother at Burgersdorp in 1853, two entries above her sister Mary Elizabeth's son. Parents George Augustus Kolbe 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing b. c. 1804 record Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Kolbe 8 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef.…

…22 Dec 1879 3 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen S.A.R. & H.; married his first cousin once removed 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill — buried West Park 14 Dec Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (1906–1944), m.… Disputed …Fatal George Kolbe died in 1844 and Margaret Downing in 1867. Neither can be in a photograph taken in the late 1870s. Probably their son George Augustus Kolbe (b. 1836) and his wife — the repeated forename is the obvious route by which the caption went astray. → Kathleen Mary Barry (Booysen) Listed in the tree as a sister of Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry, also married to a Booysen, with no dates.…

…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.…

…His own 1903 death notice at Stutterheim is the document an external source mistook for James Jonathan's. 1 child Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm · c. Oct 1860 – 3 Jul 1934 (the family tree) Joseph Daschner & Sophia Daschner Joseph d. bef. 1942 · Sophia d. bef.… Everyone …It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice. The Burgersdorp register of 23 October 1853 shows it instead: the two sisters baptising a son each, two entries apart, on one page. The Barry fonts Disputed The Women Peter Benjamin Kolbe Documented 40 mentions — — Of the Kolbe children. The Documents Ferdinand Kumm Documented 77 mentions — 20 Oct 1903, Stutterheim Farmer, married Wilhelmina née Nass.…

…c.… Ellen Sophia Schmidt …Parents Charles Petrus Barend Lowies c.… Ewert Philippus Booyzen …s read.…… Elisab… Ewert Philippus Booyzen …shoff b.… Ferdinand Kumm …Maria Lubbe …Elisabetha Maria Lubbe …be …J… Fred J.… George Alphonso Barry …George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c.… Everyone …Relationship to this family unproven; the middle initial does not match Frederick Fortunatus. The Rebels Frederick Fortunatus Barry Documented 78 mentions 10 Nov 1863, baptised 10 Jul 1864 at Dordrecht — Carries the Kolbe given name Fortunatus.…

…Parents George Augustus Kolbe 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing b. c. 1804 record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe Kolbe 8 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef.…

…3 Mar 1881 (inferred) Anton Rector Kolbe Barry · b. 3 Nov 1882 (inferred) Alida Eduarda Barry · b. 10 Dec 1886 (inferred) Miny Barry · b. 13 Aug 1889 (inferred) FROM THE INDEX — no image has been read, and the mother's surname is spelled five different ways across the entries. George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c.… Everyone …Relationship to this family unproven; the middle initial does not match Frederick Fortunatus. The Rebels Frederick Fortunatus Barry Documented 69 mentions 10 Nov 1863, baptised 10 Jul 1864 at Dordrecht — Carries the Kolbe given name Fortunatus.…

…Married at sixteen on a sworn falsehood. Preached across the Orange River. His grandson could not name him in 1915. Parents Johan Gottlieb Kolbe 1765 – 1845 record George Augustus Kolbe 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 Kolbe married Margaret Downing b. c. 1804 record 9 children with Margaret Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 direct line Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef.…

…If duplicated, “County Cork” is John Augustus's own birthplace and the Irish claim strengthens. → Margaretha Kolbe (1826–1912) Marries George Frederick Enslin in 1850 while married to John Augustus Barry, then bears Barry and Enslin children three and a half months apart in 1851. Resolved RESOLVED by Margaret Downing’s 1867 death notice, which lists among her children “Mary Elizabeth (dead) who was married to George F. Enslin — left issue of 6 minor children.” The Enslin marriage and children belong to Margaretha’s SISTER.… The documents …A three-way agreement, which in this archive is rare enough to be worth stating. And it settles the Enslin problem.…

…He carries his own father's name — George Augustus Kolbe, the 1820 Settler, dead at Colesberg nine years earlier. Parents George Augustus Kolbe 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing b. c. 1804 record George Kolbe Kolbe 8 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef.…

…Her own death notice now says the same thing from the other side, in her husband’s handwriting.… The households …The 1903 registration 1 child Richard Pieter Kolbe Barry · b. 1899 John Paul Downing On whose word a record read here Margaret's father. 1 child Margaret Downing · b. c. 1804 Gert Johannes Laubeschagne & Anna Francisa Roos On whose word a record read here Married in community of property — the only marriage of the six step-children that the 1902 notice records. Her 1902 death notice No children recorded No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.…