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Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier

His first wife, named on his 1908 death notice as pre-deceased.

Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier · — – bef. 1908

Anna Catharina Johanna Olivierd. bef. 1908Booyzen
marriedHendrik Stefanus Booijsenc. 1828 – 11 May 1908record

This archive filed her for a week as a stranger called Anna Johanna Booijzen BORN ALBERTS who died at BOEKFONTEIN. Both readings were wrong, and together they kept a documented wife and two documented children off this family.

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverifiedAll 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1891 notices →Named together on line 3 of their daughter's 1891 Sterfkennis, and that is the whole of what this archive holds on them. Their forename is why a Booysen grandson in the Transvaal was called Ockert Johannes Stephanus.His first marriage, and the one that produced every child. She died on 9 May 1891 at BRAKFONTEIN, district Rustenburg — the family farm — still married, aged 67 years 8 months and 1 day, and her own Sterfkennis 6332 lists SEVEN children, all of age. Her husband remarried at Zeerust eleven months later. The four on his 1908 notice are the four of these seven who were still alive in 1908. The 1891 notices →

Every record naming Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier →

Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier · c. 8 Sep 1823, district Cradock – 9 May 1891, Brakfontein, district Rustenburg

Every record naming Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier →

No family is drawn here, because none is recorded. This archive holds Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier as a name on a document — a witness at a font, a signature on a form, a person named in someone else's list — and has no record of who their parents, spouse or children were. That is a statement about the sources, not about the person. Every record naming them →

The record

NameAnna Catharina Johanna Olivier
Born
Diedbef. 1908
LineBooyzen
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

His first wife, named on his 1908 death notice as pre-deceased.

The DocumentsThe Women

Where the archive puts Anna

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

More than one person of this name. This archive holds 2 people called Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier, and they are gathered here together because merging them silently would be worse than saying so. The surrounding text on each page below usually makes it clear which is which.
  • Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier — — to bef. 1908. His first wife, named on his 1908 death notice as pre-deceased.
  • Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier — c. 8 Sep 1823, district Cradock to 9 May 1891, Brakfontein, district Rustenburg. THE FIRST WIFE OF HENDRIK STEFANUS BOOIJSEN, and for a week this archive had her filed as a stranger. Her own Sterfkennis 6332 gives her parents as OCKEN JOHANNES OLIEFIER and ANNA JOHANNA BOTHA, her age as 67 years 8 months and 1 day, her farm as BRAKFONTEIN — which this archive read as Boekfontein — and her surname as OLIEFIER, which this archive read as Alberts. She was still married when she died: her husband outlived her by seventeen years and remarried at Zeerust eleven months later. Seven children, all of age: Petrus Jacobus, Ocken Johannes, Anna Johanna Maria, Elesabettha Maria Cornelya, Alettha Catrina Johanna, Magdalena Johanna, Hendrick Stefanus Nicolaas. Her father is where OCKERT JOHANNES came into this family.

The documents

…Both are the right names in the right district at the right time, and this archive could no longer say what it had been saying. What was withdrawn → Since then the second of those two has been settled. The farm is Brakfontein , not Boekfontein, and the maiden name is Oliefier , not Alberts. She is Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier , the first wife of Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen, and she died on the family's own farm. How that was read → 1937–38 · A whole estate, from the death to the last shilling Estates 58379 and 58380 , KAB MOOC 6/9/5047 — on this archive's Sources page as "Located, not yet read" for months. Read now, and not just the death notices: the liquidation account and the distribution account too.…

The households

…23 Oct 1898 (inferred) Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second · b. 8 Nov 1901 (inferred) Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy · b. 16 Feb 1904 (inferred) Willem Hermanus Mountjoy · b. 10 Apr 1915 (inferred) Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen & Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier Hendrik c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 · Anna d. bef. 1908 On whose word a record read here His first marriage, and the one that produced every child. She died on 9 May 1891 at BRAKFONTEIN, district Rustenburg — the family farm — still married, aged 67 years 8 months and 1 day, and her own Sterfkennis 6332 lists SEVEN children, all of age. Her husband remarried at Zeerust eleven months later.…

The research log

…His birthplace is now a town and not a colony, and it is the same town as three other men of this line. He was still at Brakfontein sixteen years after he signed his father's Sterfkennis there. And his four children cannot be hers: she was fifty-one at the wedding and they were adults by 1908, so they belong to the first wife, Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier. The clerk writes him Booijzen; he signs himself Booysen. 13 Sep 2026 Found Brakfontein, 1891 — a wife, a son, and two of this archive's own misreadings A week ago this site found a woman it called ANNA JOHANNA BOOIJZEN, BORN ALBERTS, who died in 1891 at BOEKFONTEIN in the district of Rustenburg, and filed her under NOT PROVED TO BE KIN.…

Everyone

…His own death notice, TAB estate 14380, names HIS mother as ELIZABETHA BOOYSEN, BORN VAN DER MERWE — which resolves this archive’s oldest “Serious” contradiction, because his father’s recorded wife Anna Maria van der Merwe died three years before he was born. A FARMER, “Dutch”, married twice — Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier, then Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl — and married last at ZEERUST, in the district of Marico. He died in his son-in-law’s house. The Documents Disputed The Atlas Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen also written Hendrick Stefanes Booijsen (1891) Documented 7 mentions c.…

The register

…1908 no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier reconstructed c.…

What has been searched

…Right names, right districts, right decades. NEITHER WAS PROVED TO BE KIN when this was written — and the second of them SINCE HAS BEEN. The farm is BRAKFONTEIN, not Boekfontein, and the maiden name is OLIEFIER, not Alberts: she is Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier, the first wife of Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen, and she died on the family's own farm. TAB MHG O/2899 — Jan Gerhardus Lodewikus Booyzen, 1885 Not this document Nothing The persona indexed under that name in the Transvaal probate collection turned out to be a FATHER named on somebody else’s 1920 death notice, not the 1885 estate. The NAAIRS reference stands and is still unread.…

Sources

…The first of them is the oldest document in this archive. Reference Person Died Status Sterfkennis 678 Transvaal, Weeskamer Petrus Jacobus Booijsen — generation six, b. Graaff-Reinet c. 1788 1876 Read Parents named : Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen and Magdalena de Beer. Eight children. Nothing to leave. Transcribed → Sterfkennis 6332 Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier — b. district Cradock c. 1823 1891 Read, and she is kin Died Brakfontein , district Rustenburg — the family farm. Parents Ocken Johannes Oliefier and Anna Johanna Botha. The first wife of Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen, with seven children. Filed here for a week as born Alberts, at Boekfontein, kinship unproven ; both readings were wrong.…

The timeline

…Father Hendrik Stephanus Booijsen; mother ANNA JOHANNA OLIVIER. The birth date agrees to the day with the age on his 1891 death notice, and the mother's surname — indexed by somebody who never saw this site — is the one the archive read as Alberts. Index only: no image. Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen Rustenburg 19 May 1863 Document Johanna Catharina dies at Zevenfontein Her death notice names her parents — James Montjoy and Anna Catharina Sleer — gives her age to the day, and lists eight children. KAB MOOC 6/9/104: 499.…

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