Barkly East
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. It is also the only place in this archive where an estate is itemised: a retired builder's savings-bank deposit, a house on Lot 380 let at fifty shillings a month, and a village's worth of unpaid accounts — two butchers, a doctor and a burial society.
The place
| Name | Barkly East |
| Also | Barkly Oost |
| Kind | Town and district |
| Region | North-eastern Cape |
| Standing | Documented |
Why it is here
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. It is also the only place in this archive where an estate is itemised: a retired builder's savings-bank deposit, a house on Lot 380 let at fifty shillings a month, and a village's worth of unpaid accounts — two butchers, a doctor and a burial society.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 15 Sep 1889 | Johanna Catharina Booyzen baptised; both maternal grandparents stand |
| 6 Oct 1889 | George Mountjoy baptised, facing page |
| 24 May 1891 | Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen baptised, entry 120 |
| 13 May 1915 | R. P. Barry signs his mother's death notice at Manorowen |
| 22 Dec 1937 | James Jonathan Mountjoy dies |
| 3 Jul 1934 | Maria Louisa Bertha Mountjoy, born Kumm, dies — her death is never reported |
| 19 Feb 1938 | G. Mountjoy signs both death notices in one afternoon, hers three and a half years late |
| 1938 | estate 58379 wound up: £300 3s 1d, divided eleven ways |