Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius

…Hendrik Nicholaas Barry's daughter Dorothea married George Booyzen's brother Henry James — in 1912, twelve years before George married Hendrik's granddaughter. The two families were marrying each other in both directions at once.…

…22 Dec 1879 3 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen S.A.R. & H.; married his first cousin once removed 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill — buried West Park 14 Dec Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (1906–1944), m. 30 Dec 1924 Vereeniging 2 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen orphaned at eighteen; the hinge to the Lerena archive 25 Mar 1929 25 Dec 2013, Johannesburg Nuno Fernando Lerena (1924–1971), m. 15 Jan 1949, St Joseph’s, Mayfair All from the MyHeritage tree Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) , read 9 September 2026.…

…Left: a boy of about seven in a pleated tunic and wide collar — Dirk Jacobus Pretorius (b. 8 June 1902). Centre: Petrus Jacobus Pretorius (1878–1941), the stock farmer. Right: Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry (1880–1961), in a high-necked blouse with her hair dressed in a pompadour. Front: a small girl of about four — Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (b. 3 Oct 1905). Inferred The hairstyle and blouse date the picture to about 1908–1912 ; the children's ages narrow it to roughly 1909 . This is David Defranceski's great-grandmother as a small child — the woman who would die at thirty-eight of an ectopic pregnancy at Forest Hill, leaving Catherine orphaned at eighteen.…

…20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen · 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen · 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 (the direct line) George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen & Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius George 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 · Anna 3 Oct 1906 – 1944 On whose word a record read here Married at Vereeniging, 30 December 1924 — a tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed.…

…She made the journey. The addresses Place When Queen Victoria Hospital 1946 where Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen died, four days old — 85 Rheeder Street was her mother’s address, not the place of death 85 Rheeders Street, Forest Hill 1944 where Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius died of a ruptured extra-uterine pregnancy, aged 37 No.…

…Indwe, 1907–1910 → bef. 1921 Indwe Joseph Heinrich Daschner & Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen a record read here The same village where her father had died in 1905. His 1942 notice enters her as “born Booyzen”, with a z, from her own dictation. The 1942 notice → 30 December 1924 Vereeniging George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen & Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius a record read here A tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed — the Barry line closing on itself sixty-five years after it left. The cousin marriage → 15 January 1949 St Joseph's, Mayfair Nuno Fernando Lerena & Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen a record read here Where this archive stops and the Lerena one begins.…

…Two children of the first marriage stood godparent to the first child of the second. Where to look: Her own dates and parentage; the marriage itself, now bounded to 1863–January 1870; and whether Izak (1864) is hers too. Note and do not chase: Pretorius is also the surname of Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius, who married into this family in 1924 — but it is among the commonest surnames in the Cape and a coincidence is not a link. § 8 · Low priority Extract what is left of the photographs and biographies. — DONE. COMPLETE, and this entry was carrying three stale claims of its own.…

…The Documents Andries Gottlieb Pretorius Documented 3 mentions — — Third witness at the 1870 font, and presumably the bride's people — the only trace the archive has of Johanna Margaritha Pretorius's own family. The Documents Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Documented 13 mentions 3 Oct 1906 1944 His wife, married 30 Dec 1924 at Vereeniging aged eighteen, with parental consent. Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905. The Women The Documents The Cousin Marriage Dirk Jacobus Pretorius Documented 4 mentions — — Of the Pretorius family. The Documents Isaak Pretorius Documented 5 mentions — — Of the Pretorius family.…

…8 Sep 1823, district Cradock · 9 May 1891, Brakfontein, district Rustenburg no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Johanna Botha reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius reconstructed 3 Oct 1906 · 1944 no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Maria van der Merwe reconstructed 1785 · bef.…

…Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court 3:1:3Q9M-CS92-DWY4 Hendrik Stefanus Booysen — marriage 1850, Potchefstroom Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court 3:1:3Q9M-CSQH-LS9Z-9 George Booyzen & Anna Pretorius — marriage 1924, Vereeniging Heidelberg, Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3Q9M-C91V-TQKX-F Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius — death 1944, Forest Hill Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3Q9M-CS9R-Y9LN-M George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen — death 1947 Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3Q9M-CS34-696T-M George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen — burial 1947, West Park Randburg, Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3QHK-93PY-2FS2 Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen — death 1946, 85 Rheeden St Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1…

…The man who signed his father's death notice in 1908, and who carried his mother's father's name out of the district of Cradock and into the western Transvaal. A civil registration, which names no parents. Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen 30 Dec 1924 Document A tree nurseryman marries at Vereeniging George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen and Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius, she aged eighteen with her father's written consent — and a first cousin once removed. George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Vereeniging 25 Mar 1929 Life Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen born The third woman of that name in seventy years, and the starting point of this archive.…

…Pretorius 1906 – 1944 Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius · 1906 – 1944 Petrus Jacobus Pretorius 1878 – 1941 Petrus Jacobus Pretorius · 1878 – 1941 Margarietha W. E. Barry 1880 – 1961 Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry · 1880 – 1961 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry 1857 – 1931 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry · 1857 – 1931 · the line folds back here Anna Johanna M.…

…Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 1819–1863 English m. 4 Nov 1838, Cradock. Died at Zevenfontein aged 44. Gives “Mountjoy” to the family. Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 1859–1940 Irish / English at the Cape m. 22 Dec 1879 in the DRC at Barkly, after banns. Thirteen children. Occupation: Needle Woman. Died at Mayfair, Johannesburg. Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 1906–1944 Afrikaner — and a Barry granddaughter m. 30 Dec 1924, Vereeniging. Six children. Died at 37 of a ruptured extra-uterine pregnancy. Born 1906, not 1905 as the tree has it. Gertruida Alexandra Kinnear / Kinnier — Scottish second wife of George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen. Two daughters, both named Gertrude Elizabeth, both died as infants.…