Booysens
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 1940s. It means every name-index search for Booysen in Johannesburg returns people whose only connection to the word is an address. The archive met it head-on: a death notice indexed under the surname Daschner turned out to belong to Charles Bruce Rennie, a miner of Booysens, and nothing else about him touches this family at all.
The place
| Name | Booysens |
| Kind | Suburb, Johannesburg |
| Region | Witwatersrand |
| Standing | Documented |
Why it is here
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 1940s. It means every name-index search for Booysen in Johannesburg returns people whose only connection to the word is an address. The archive met it head-on: a death notice indexed under the surname Daschner turned out to belong to Charles Bruce Rennie, a miner of Booysens, and nothing else about him touches this family at all.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 1936 | Charles Bruce Rennie, miner of Booysens — a false hit, recorded so it is not found twice |