The Booyzen Archive
40 places, 25 regions

The places

Every place this archive can put a named person in, with the document that puts them there. Farms, villages, churches, hospitals and cemeteries — not a gazetteer, a list of where the evidence actually lands.

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Graaff-Reinet
Town, Cape Colony · Karoo
Where this family is oldest. Johanna Catharina Montjoy was born here on 30 April 1819 and James Montjoy married Anna Catharina Slier here on 9 March 1817. The Dutch Reformed baptism register…
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Cradock
Town, Cape Colony · Karoo
A saddler's town, and the top of the Mountjoy line. James Montjoy died here in September 1827 owning a house and erf worth £90; his son George learned his trade here and married here in 1848…
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Achter Sneeuwberg
Farming district · Karoo
“Behind the Sneeuberg.” The place column of the 1851 baptism register, which tells us the family was farming out beyond the mountain rather than living in Cradock town.
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Zevenfontein
Farm · Brak River, later Middelburg district
The family farm across two death notices twenty-one years apart — and the district boundary moved under it. Johanna Catharina died here in 1863 when it was reckoned Brak River, Port Elizabet…
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Barkly East
Town and district · North-eastern Cape
The district the family belongs to for two generations, and the most rebellious corner of the Colony in 1899–1902. Its Doop Register holds the Booyzen and Mountjoy baptisms on facing pages. …
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Manorowen
Farm · Barkly East
The Barry farm, and now documented as John Barry's own house rather than only his son's. The 1903 registration of his death gives his residence and his place of death as MANOR OWEN, WARD IV,…
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Jerpoint
Farm · Cape Colony
Named for an abbey in County Kilkenny — the first Irish place name this archive has found anywhere near the Barrys, whose Irish origin it has never been able to place. A Richard Peter Barry,…
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Ivanhoe
Farm · Barkly East / Wodehouse
Fred J. Barry farmed here and was tried as a Cape Rebel in June 1901 — the same district and the same month as Schoeman of Caerlaverock.
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Caerlaverock
Farm · Wodehouse / Barkly East
Named for a castle in Dumfriesshire. The family married in this house in July 1901 — five weeks after its owner, Daniel Willem Schoeman, was tried as a Cape Rebel. He signed the register.
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Dordrecht
Town · Wodehouse
Where this side of the family married, and where its in-laws lived. Hercules Johannes Mountjoy married Maria Sophia van Niekerk here on 8 October 1888, aged 22 — a year before the 1889 font …
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Indwe
Colliery town · North-eastern Cape
A COLLIERY TOWN, and this archive took three passes to notice that the word matters. Willem Hermanus Booyzen died at Doorn Street, Indwe, on 13 September 1905 of an ulcer of the stomach. His…
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Lady Grey
Town · North-eastern Cape
He is entered as a boer — farmer — of Lady Grey at his marriage in 1879, and a mason at his death in 1905. Something took the land away in between, and the 1884 estate says it may already ha…
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Wodehouse
District · North-eastern Cape
Hercules Johannes Mountjoy died here on 12 May 1941, aged 74 — and the Cape Town Archives hold no estate file for him under any spelling.
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Colesberg
Town · Northern Cape midlands
George Augustus Kolbe, the 1820 Settler, died on the farm “Wurtemburg” in this district on 1 December 1844. His widow signed the death notice here in January 1845, and the 1840 Montjoy notic…
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Burgersdorp
Town · North-eastern Cape
George Augustus Kolbe and Margaret Downing lie under a cut-stone monument in the old cemetery here — names, London birthplaces, farm and dates carved on it, about forty miles from where thei…
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Johannesburg
City · Witwatersrand
Where the family arrives with nothing and where the archive's starting point was born. Forest Hill, Mayfair, Fordsburg and Germiston all appear on its certificates.
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West Park Cemetery
Cemetery · Johannesburg
Anna Pretorius was buried here in 1944 and her husband three years later, three days after he died.
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Brixton Cemetery
Cemetery · Johannesburg
Kathleen Barry's intended place of burial on her 1940 death form — a mile and a half from the Mayfair house, and a long way from Barkly East.
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Vereeniging
Town · Transvaal
Where George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen married Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius on 30 December 1924 — she aged eighteen, with her father's written consent.
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Rustenburg
Town · Transvaal
Where the male line's oldest documented man died. Petrus Jacobus Booysen, born at Graaff-Reinet about 1788, died in this district on 1 September 1876, eighty-eight years old, a widower, with…
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Soho, London
Parish · Middlesex
St Anne's, Soho, where George Augustus Kolbe was baptised on 2 February 1803, son of John Gottlob and Mary. The register notes 410 baptisms for the year 1802.
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Shoreditch
Parish · London
St Leonard's, where George Augustus Kolbe married Margaret Downing in 1819 on a sworn falsehood — both swore they were twenty-one; he was sixteen and she fifteen. She signed with a mark.
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Conduit Street
Street · Mayfair, London
34 Conduit Street, where Johan Gottlieb Kolbe the tailor died in 1845 — not Lamb's Conduit Street, which is where the family tree put him and where its photograph shows the wrong building.
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German Savoy Church
Church · Strand, London
Where Johan Gottlieb Kolbe was actually buried on 26 November 1845, entry 55, grave 7 — not St John the Baptist, Leamington, Warwickshire, as the tree has it. The correction makes the family…
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Heilbron
Town · Orange Free State
Where the only Booysen in the whole joiners register comes from — J. J. Booysen, four hundred miles from Barkly East and in a different country at the time. It matters because the family's a…
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Middelburg
Town and district · Cape Colony
Zevenfontein fell in this district by 1884. And a P. J. Booyzen — spelled with the z — was a police constable at the Middelburg police office in 1904, 1905 and 1907, with mortgage bonds in 1…
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Stutterheim
Town · Eastern Cape
Ferdinand Kumm died here on 20 October 1903 — and his death notice is the document an external source mistook for James Jonathan Mountjoy's. The town returned to this archive from a differen…
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Brisbane
City · Queensland, Australia
Where the line reaches now. The sixteen Booyzens recorded in Australia are likely a separate migration; this family arrived through the Lerena and Defranceski marriages rather than under the…
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Pretoria
City · Transvaal
Where the Transvaal Master of the Supreme Court sat, and so where this family's later estates were filed — the depot this archive spent its whole life not searching. Stephanus Francois Booyz…
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Marico
District · Western Transvaal
A substantial Booyzen farming district — and this archive can no longer say whose. Seven Booyzen claims for compensation as burghers were filed here in 1903–04, and the Booyzen children who …
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Mossel Bay
Town · Southern Cape
Where Stephanus Francois Booyzen married Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff — six hundred miles from where he was born and eight hundred from where he died.
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Potchefstroom
Town · Transvaal
A Booyzen presence from at least 1860, when Jan Booyzen paid his marriage fee to the government here. Whether the line connects to this family is unproven.
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Booysens
Suburb, Johannesburg · Witwatersrand
Not a family place — a trap. Booysens is a mining suburb south of the Johannesburg city centre, a couple of miles from Forest Hill and Kenilworth where this family actually lived in the 1940…
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Brakfontein
Farm · District Rustenburg, Transvaal
The farm where the oldest document in this archive was written. On 14 September 1876, thirteen days after the death, somebody at Brakfontein filled in Sterfkennis No. 678 for Petrus Jacobus …
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Lichtenburg
District · Western Transvaal
Where this family's western Transvaal branch is, and it is a branch rather than a lead now. Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen — fifth of the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis, born dist…
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Dugmore Mine
Colliery · Indwe, district Wodehouse
Where a Booyzen worked underground. The Indwe marriage register of 21 September 1908 gives both bride and groom's dwelling place as “Dugmore Mijn” and the groom's trade as “Mijnwerker”. It i…
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Vaalbank
Farm · District Lichtenburg, Transvaal
One farm, two deaths, thirty-five years apart, and the same family on it both times. Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen — born district Graaff-Reinet about 1818, fifth child on the 1876 Sterf…
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Cherryville
Farm · District Barkly East
The third named Barry farm, after Manorowen and Jerpoint. Harriet Louisa Barry, eighteen, died here of typhoid on 7 September 1912 after thirty days' illness and was carried back to Manorowe…
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Slang River
Locality · North-eastern Cape
Where Dorothea Regina Barry, daughter of Hendrik Nicholaas Barry and Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman, was baptised on 3 April 1892. From the index rather than the register, and placed only appro…
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Koedoesfontein
Farm · District Rustenburg, Transvaal
Where Hendrik Stephanus Booysen died on 11 May 1908, aged seventy-nine, in the house of his son-in-law Willem Grobelaar. A farmer with no movable property, some land, and mutual wills with b…
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