Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel
A MOUNTJOY BY MARRIAGE, WHICH IS WHY HER DEATH NOTICE COULD NEVER HAVE DONE WHAT IT WAS WANTED FOR. Death notice 989, Master’s Office Cape Town, stamped 12 April 1921: a housewife, married IN COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY to GEORGE MOUNTJOY JNR, dead at thirty-three at Mt Prospect, Flagstaff, leaving a joint estate of a TRADING STATION AND STOCK IN TRADE and no will. Four daughters, all minors, are named: IVY ELIZABETH, GWENDOLINE HAZEL, EDNA IRIS and DAPHNE JOYCE. They are named here and deliberately not made into people, having between them one forename apiece and no dates. HER OWN PARENTS ARE THE POINT, AND THEY ARE BARELY THERE. Question three is answered FATHER — “Diesel ?”, MOTHER — “Diesel ?”: her husband knew his wife’s maiden surname, wrote it twice, and marked both with a question mark. He did the same to her birthplace, “Maclear (?) District”. THE INDEX KEEPS THE WORD AND DROPS THE DOUBT. FamilySearch publishes her birthplace as Maclear, flat, with no question mark anywhere — so a reading the informant himself refused to vouch for arrives at the next researcher as a fact. AND HER CHILDREN ARE INDEXED AS IF THEY WERE DEAD. Ivy Elizabeth appears in the same collection as a Principal record, “Probate 1920, Grahamstown”, with no death date; she lived, and married a DU RANDT. The Cape probate index raises a record for every person named on a document, so a count of records is not a count of estates.
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The record
| Name | Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel |
| Born | c. 1887, “Maclear (?)” — the question mark is the informant’s |
| Died | 13 Sep 1920, Mt Prospect, Flagstaff — aged 33 |
| Line | Mountjoy |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
A MOUNTJOY BY MARRIAGE, WHICH IS WHY HER DEATH NOTICE COULD NEVER HAVE DONE WHAT IT WAS WANTED FOR. Death notice 989, Master’s Office Cape Town, stamped 12 April 1921: a housewife, married IN COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY to GEORGE MOUNTJOY JNR, dead at thirty-three at Mt Prospect, Flagstaff, leaving a joint estate of a TRADING STATION AND STOCK IN TRADE and no will. Four daughters, all minors, are named: IVY ELIZABETH, GWENDOLINE HAZEL, EDNA IRIS and DAPHNE JOYCE. They are named here and deliberately not made into people, having between them one forename apiece and no dates. HER OWN PARENTS ARE THE POINT, AND THEY ARE BARELY THERE. Question three is answered FATHER — “Diesel ?”, MOTHER — “Diesel ?”: her husband knew his wife’s maiden surname, wrote it twice, and marked both with a question mark. He did the same to her birthplace, “Maclear (?) District”. THE INDEX KEEPS THE WORD AND DROPS THE DOUBT. FamilySearch publishes her birthplace as Maclear, flat, with no question mark anywhere — so a reading the informant himself refused to vouch for arrives at the next researcher as a fact. AND HER CHILDREN ARE INDEXED AS IF THEY WERE DEAD. Ivy Elizabeth appears in the same collection as a Principal record, “Probate 1920, Grahamstown”, with no death date; she lived, and married a DU RANDT. The Cape probate index raises a record for every person named on a document, so a count of records is not a count of estates.
The Marriages
…1887, “Maclear (?)” — the question mark is the informant’s 13 Sep 1920, Mt Prospect, Flagstaff — aged 33 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 1827 Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy 1878, Dordrecht 14 Jun 1898, her husband’s residence, Barkly East — aged 20 Wilhelmina Louisa Mountjoy — — — an estate at the Cape about 1949 Willem Hermanus Mountjoy 10 Apr 1915 — Willem Hermanus Pietersen bapt.…
The People
…Her tenth share went to her two children. She is on her mother’s notice and not on her father’s — his was typed first and ran out of page. The Documents The Women Maria Sophia Diesel also written born Mountjoy Documented — — Daughter; married in community of property to Marthinus Frederick Diesel. The Documents The Women Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel Documented c. 1887, “Maclear (?)” — the question mark is the informant’s 13 Sep 1920, Mt Prospect, Flagstaff — aged 33 A MOUNTJOY BY MARRIAGE, WHICH IS WHY HER DEATH NOTICE COULD NEVER HAVE DONE WHAT IT WAS WANTED FOR.…
Catherine Louisa Johanna de Kock
…What the index says: aged 49, born about 1896 at MIDDELBURG, TRANSVAAL, died 12 December 1945, place as originally written FLAGSTAFF. FLAGSTAFF IS THE POINT. It is where Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel died in 1920, at Mt Prospect, and it sits in the same Transkei country as Kokstad and Bizana. A third Mountjoy wife in that one district is the pattern, not a coincidence — but her husband is not named by the index and no image exists to name him. THIS IS THE ONE OF THE SIX THAT STILL NEEDS ORDERING FROM THE CAPE ARCHIVES. Catherine Louisa Johanna de Kock c.…
Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel
…Death notice 989, Master’s Office Cape Town, stamped 12 April 1921: a housewife, married IN COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY to GEORGE MOUNTJOY JNR, dead at thirty-three at Mt Prospect, Flagstaff, leaving a joint estate of a TRADING STATION AND STOCK IN TRADE and no will.…
The Register
…egisters, 1801-2004 Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy with: Gwendoline Hazel Mountjoy · George Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy with: Joy Elizabeth · George Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel reconstructed c. 1887, “Maclear (?)” — the question mark is the informant’s · 13 Sep 1920, Mt Prospect, Flagstaff — aged 33 no public link reconstructed by this archive Thomas Jacobus Montjoy Burial 18 Mar 1818 Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy reconstructed 1818 · 1827 no public…
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