Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy
A MOUNTJOY DAUGHTER WHO DIED FORTY YEARS TOO EARLY TO BE COUNTED. Her death notice, filed at Barkly East on 19 August 1898 and numbered 2345, is read: born at DORDRECHT, dead at TWENTY at her husband’s residence, a farmer’s wife, married to ANDRIES JOHAN BRUMMER — his third forename is written and this archive cannot read it — and leaving ONE MINOR SON. AND LINE THREE NAMES HER PARENTS: FATHER JOHN JAMES MOUNTJOY, MOTHER MARIA LOUISA BERTHA, the surname trailing into a single capital and a flourish that is not legible. THAT IS ALMOST THE BARKLY EAST HOUSEHOLD AND IT IS NOT ADOPTED AS IT. The man this archive holds is JAMES JONATHAN MOUNTJOY, retired builder, recorded here under the variants James John and Jakobus Jonathan, who married MARIA LOUISA BERTHA KUMM at Dordrecht in community of property — a surname with five spellings across seven baptisms, so an illegible one is what you would expect. Three forenames match exactly, the town of birth is the town of the marriage, and the town of death is theirs. ONE DOCUMENT SAYS NO, AND IT IS THE BETTER DOCUMENT. The distribution account of that man’s estate, KAB MOOC 6/9/5047: 58379, pays ELEVEN HEIRS in 1938 — nine living children, and GWENDOLINE and AUBREY DIESEL taking half a tenth each as the children of a daughter who had died in 1923. If this woman were an eleventh child, her own son would have had the same claim by representation, and THERE IS NO BRUMMER IN THAT ACCOUNT. The innocent explanation is that the boy died before 1938 without issue, which for a child born by 1898 is ordinary. The other explanation is that the father on this notice is a different John James Mountjoy. A SECOND ARITHMETIC TO WATCH: Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm’s age at death puts her birth at about October 1860, which would make her SEVENTEEN when this daughter was born. Possible, and tight. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: the Dordrecht baptism register for 1878, or her own marriage record. Until one of them is read she is a person here and not a daughter of that house.
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The record
| Name | Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy |
| Also written | Wilhelmina Ernestina Brummer, born Mountjoy · Wilhelmina Christina, on a user tree |
| Born | 1878, Dordrecht |
| Died | 14 Jun 1898, her husband’s residence, Barkly East — aged 20 |
| Line | Mountjoy |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
A MOUNTJOY DAUGHTER WHO DIED FORTY YEARS TOO EARLY TO BE COUNTED. Her death notice, filed at Barkly East on 19 August 1898 and numbered 2345, is read: born at DORDRECHT, dead at TWENTY at her husband’s residence, a farmer’s wife, married to ANDRIES JOHAN BRUMMER — his third forename is written and this archive cannot read it — and leaving ONE MINOR SON. AND LINE THREE NAMES HER PARENTS: FATHER JOHN JAMES MOUNTJOY, MOTHER MARIA LOUISA BERTHA, the surname trailing into a single capital and a flourish that is not legible. THAT IS ALMOST THE BARKLY EAST HOUSEHOLD AND IT IS NOT ADOPTED AS IT. The man this archive holds is JAMES JONATHAN MOUNTJOY, retired builder, recorded here under the variants James John and Jakobus Jonathan, who married MARIA LOUISA BERTHA KUMM at Dordrecht in community of property — a surname with five spellings across seven baptisms, so an illegible one is what you would expect. Three forenames match exactly, the town of birth is the town of the marriage, and the town of death is theirs. ONE DOCUMENT SAYS NO, AND IT IS THE BETTER DOCUMENT. The distribution account of that man’s estate, KAB MOOC 6/9/5047: 58379, pays ELEVEN HEIRS in 1938 — nine living children, and GWENDOLINE and AUBREY DIESEL taking half a tenth each as the children of a daughter who had died in 1923. If this woman were an eleventh child, her own son would have had the same claim by representation, and THERE IS NO BRUMMER IN THAT ACCOUNT. The innocent explanation is that the boy died before 1938 without issue, which for a child born by 1898 is ordinary. The other explanation is that the father on this notice is a different John James Mountjoy. A SECOND ARITHMETIC TO WATCH: Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm’s age at death puts her birth at about October 1860, which would make her SEVENTEEN when this daughter was born. Possible, and tight. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: the Dordrecht baptism register for 1878, or her own marriage record. Until one of them is read she is a person here and not a daughter of that house.
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
…The thirteen Mountjoy children The Women Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy Inferred 1818 1827 Absent from the four children listed at his father's death in Sept 1827, which supports a death that year rather than in infancy. The Women Open Questions Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy also written Wilhelmina Ernestina Brummer, born Mountjoy · Wilhelmina Christina, on a user tree Documented 1878, Dordrecht 14 Jun 1898, her husband’s residence, Barkly East — aged 20 A MOUNTJOY DAUGHTER WHO DIED FORTY YEARS TOO EARLY TO BE COUNTED.…
Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy
…Her death notice, filed at Barkly East on 19 August 1898 and numbered 2345, is read: born at DORDRECHT, dead at TWENTY at her husband’s residence, a farmer’s wife, married to ANDRIES JOHAN BRUMMER — his third forename is written and this archive cannot read it — and leaving ONE MINOR SON.…
The Register
…oy with: Hendrik Johannes Jacobus Brummer · Andries Johan Wichart Brummer record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Wilhelmina Emarentia Mountjoy Membership 24 May 1896 Barkly East, Cape Colony, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy reconstructed 1878, Dordrecht · 14 Jun 1898, her husband’s residence, Barkly East — aged 20 no public link reconstructed by this archive Wilhelmina Ernstina Mountjoy Birth 1878 · with: Andries Johan Wiegaart Brummer record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Wilhelmina Ernstina Mountjoy Birth 1878 · with: Andries Johan Wiegault Brummer · James John Mountjoy · Maria Bertha Elizabeth…
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