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Willem Hermanus Pietersen

THE SON, not the husband — and the man the name in this family actually comes from. Baptised 12 March 1809, the elder of Anna Catharina Slier's two Pietersen boys, and so HALF-BROTHER to the Montjoy children. He stood godfather at the 1851 Graaff-Reinet font, where his surname is written PIETERZEN twice in the same hand that wrote BOOYZEN three lines above — the entry that taught this archive that a z is Dutch orthography and not intent. HIS NAME IS HIS TWO GRANDFATHERS AND HIS FATHER: WILLEM for Willem Slier of Hamburg, HERMANUS for Hermanus Pietersen.

Willem Hermanus Pietersenb. bapt. 12 Mar 1809Mountjoy
the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 4 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. Slier and Pietersen → Her first husband, married 5 April 1807. De Villiers gives his own parents as unknown. This household used to carry the father and the son under one name; the book separates them.

Every record naming Willem Hermanus Pietersen →

The record

NameWillem Hermanus Pietersen
Also writtenPieterzen · Pieterse — the 1851 godfather
Bornbapt. 12 Mar 1809
Died—
LineMountjoy
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

THE SON, not the husband — and the man the name in this family actually comes from. Baptised 12 March 1809, the elder of Anna Catharina Slier's two Pietersen boys, and so HALF-BROTHER to the Montjoy children. He stood godfather at the 1851 Graaff-Reinet font, where his surname is written PIETERZEN twice in the same hand that wrote BOOYZEN three lines above — the entry that taught this archive that a z is Dutch orthography and not intent. HIS NAME IS HIS TWO GRANDFATHERS AND HIS FATHER: WILLEM for Willem Slier of Hamburg, HERMANUS for Hermanus Pietersen.

The DocumentsNamesakesThe Name

Where the archive puts Willem

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

Households

…Oct 1874 – 14 May 1940 inferred Hermanus Pietersen and Anna Catharina Sleer 2 head born d. bef. Mar 1817 a record read here Her first husband, married 5 April 1807. De Villiers gives his own parents as unknown. This household used to carry the father and the son under one name; the book separates them. Slier and Pietersen Willem Hermanus Pietersen b. bapt. 12 Mar 1809 Johan Christiaan Pietersen b. bapt. 28 Apr 1810 unnamed and Louisa Elizabeth Diesel 2 a record read here Married out of community of property to Evelyn Wilfred Diesel and dead fourteen years before her father. Her two children took her tenth share between them. The distribution account Gwendoline Diesel Aubrey Diesel Johan Gottlieb Kolbe 2 head born c.…

The Marriages

…12 Mar 1809 — Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — — Willem Slier — — William Henry Keys 1854 — William Henry Keys the younger 10 Jun 1882, baptised 23 Jul 1882 at Dordrecht — Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen — — Held on 69 a record read here · 12 inferred.…

The Name

…Five spellings of one woman are a fact about handwriting. Two spellings of one surname are supposed to be a fact about history. The difference is that somebody in this family cared about the second one. And the same page gives the other half of the pattern. Her son was baptised Willem Hermanus Pietersen in 1809; the 1851 Graaff-Reinet register writes the surname Pieterzen , twice, in the hand that wrote Booyzen three lines above. The Pietersens changed nothing either. What the name means A patronymic Booysen is Dutch and means "son of Booy" . Booy is itself a short form of Boudewijn — the Dutch form of Baldwin , from Germanic bald ("bold") and win ("friend").…

The forenames

…His grandson carries his forename. Hermanus Pietersen d. bef. Mar 1817 THE SOURCE OF THE SECOND HALF, and until 15 September this archive had him and his son as one man. Anna Catharina Slier's first husband, married 5 April 1807. His own parents were unknown to the book. Willem Hermanus Pietersen bapt. 12 Mar 1809 THEIR GRANDSON AND SON, and the first person to carry the whole name — Willem for his mother's father, Hermanus for his own. Godfather at the 1851 Graaff-Reinet font, and half-brother to Johanna Catharina Mountjoy. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 1851–1905 Named at that font for the godfather standing over it. Generation four of the direct line.…

The People

…He appears on nothing else in this archive, and he is here because de Villiers's volume 3 lists him on the line below one this archive had already read wrong. The Documents Willem Hermanus Pietersen also written Pieterzen · Pieterse — the 1851 godfather Documented bapt. 12 Mar 1809 — THE SON, not the husband — and the man the name in this family actually comes from. Baptised 12 March 1809, the elder of Anna Catharina Slier's two Pietersen boys, and so HALF-BROTHER to the Montjoy children.…

Anna Catharina Sleer

…FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS A WIDOW. Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 Mountjoy married Hermanus Pietersen d. bef. Mar 1817 record married James Montjoy c. 1782 – Sep 1827 record 2 children with Hermanus Willem Hermanus Pietersen b. bapt. 12 Mar 1809 record Johan Christiaan Pietersen b. bapt. 28 Apr 1810 record 5 children with James Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 record Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863 direct line Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 record George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record James Mountjoy b.…

Hermanus Pietersen

…THEY ARE A FATHER AND A SON. His own parents were unknown to the book, as James Montjoy's would be to the clerk ten years later: TWO MEN IN ONE WOMAN'S LIFE AND NEITHER OF THEM HAD A RECORDED FATHER. Hermanus Pietersen d. bef. Mar 1817 Mountjoy married Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 record 2 children with Anna Willem Hermanus Pietersen b. bapt. 12 Mar 1809 record Johan Christiaan Pietersen b. bapt. 28 Apr 1810 record the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 3 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. Her first husband, married 5 April 1807. De Villiers gives his own parents as unknown.…

Johan Christiaan Pietersen

…He appears on nothing else in this archive, and he is here because de Villiers's volume 3 lists him on the line below one this archive had already read wrong. Parents Hermanus Pietersen d. bef. Mar 1817 record Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 record Johan Christiaan Pietersen b. bapt. 28 Apr 1810 Mountjoy Sibling Willem Hermanus Pietersen b. bapt. 12 Mar 1809 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 4 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. Slier and Pietersen → Her first husband, married 5 April 1807. De Villiers gives his own parents as unknown.…

Willem Hermanus Pietersen

…Baptised 12 March 1809, the elder of Anna Catharina Slier's two Pietersen boys, and so HALF-BROTHER to the Montjoy children.…

The Register

…na Frederika Aletta Meyer reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Susanna Margaretha Swart reconstructed 26 Oct 1861 · 28 Jul 1940 no public link reconstructed by this archive Wilhelmine R*nn with: Louise Marie · Julius Büllner record ↗ South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 Willem Hermanus Pietersen reconstructed bapt. 12 Mar 1809 no public link reconstructed by this archive Willem Jacobus Lowies reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive William Henry Keys reconstructed 1854 no public link reconstructed by this archive William Henry Keys the younger reconstructed 10 Jun 1882, baptised 23 Jul 1882 at Dordrecht no public link reconstructed by this archive Aleaja Jacobus Stef…

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