George Augustus Kolbe

…What was searched → Why this archive exists In 1915 a man at Barkly East filled in his own mother's death notice. Where it asked for her parents' names, he wrote: "Father: Kolbe, thinks James was christian name . Mother: Unknown ." His grandfather was George Augustus Kolbe — who married at sixteen on a sworn lie in Shoreditch, sailed on the Nautilus in 1819 as an 1820 Settler , preached across the Orange River, and named a Karoo farm after the Württemberg his own father had left. His grandmother was Margaret Downing of London.…

…The 1820 Settler hypothesis does not survive arithmetic. He was born 8 June 1819 . The settler fleets sailed from late 1819 and reached Algoa Bay from April 1820. He cannot have been born on that voyage. But the family does have a documented 1820 Settler — his own father-in-law, George Augustus Kolbe , who sailed on the Nautilus from Gravesend on 3 December 1819. Inferred The likeliest reading is that a true settler story attached itself to the wrong branch.…

…The woman wears a bustle and cuirass bodice; the man a full beard and watch chain — costume of about 1875–1885. Fatal George Kolbe died in 1844 and Margaret Downing in 1867. Neither can be in a photograph taken in the late 1870s. Probably their son George Augustus Kolbe (b. 1836) and his wife — the repeated forename is the obvious route by which the caption went astray. → Kathleen Mary Barry (Booysen) Listed in the tree as a sister of Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry, also married to a Booysen, with no dates. Resolved RESOLVED by John Barry's 1915 death notice, which lists only ONE Barry daughter married to a Boyson.…

…George Augustus Kolbe was born 7 December 1802 . On 20 January 1819 he was sixteen years and six weeks old . Margaret Downing was born 23 February 1803 ; she was fifteen years and eleven months . Under Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 a minor under twenty-one could not marry by licence without a parent's consent.…

…Hypothesis: George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen A man in a light suit and fedora on a late-1920s sedan, registration TAS 486 , a small boy besid Marriage allegation of George Kolbe and Margaret Downing, London Diocese, 20 January 1819, signe "…a Bachelor of the age of Twenty-one Years and upwards ." Death Notice of George Augustus Kolbe , made under Section 9, Ordinance 104, at Colesberg in Jan The whole sheet, for anyone who wants to check the reading against it. Death Notice of Margaret Downing, widow of the late George Augustus Kolbe , estate 4094, filed 3 The monument, inside its cast-iron enclosure, Burgersdorp Old Cemetery. The inscription.…

…Harriet's registration, 1912 5 children Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry · 1880 – 1961 Ruben Jacobus Hosea Barry · b. 7 Oct 1888 (inferred) Dorothea Regina Barry of Slang River · b. 11 Jan 1892 (inferred) Harriet Louisa Barry · 1894 – 7 Sep 1912 Ellen Hendrika Barry · b. 8 Dec 1899 (inferred) George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing George 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 · Margaret b. c. 1804 On whose word a record read here Married 1819 — both were sixteen, and the Nautilus passenger roll of 1820 overstates both their ages by four years.…

…George Augustus Kolbe, 1802–1844 — an 1820 Settler The family's research notes wonder whether John Augustus Barry was born at sea with the 1820 Settlers. He was not. But the family does have a documented settler, on the other side of that marriage, and his record is unusually complete.…

…Catherine was eighteen. 9 Sep 2026 Taken back CORRECTED — Anna Pretorius born 1906, not 1905 Three documents beat the tree: the baptism register, her death form's age, and her marriage register's age with parental consent. A derived claim built on the wrong year was withdrawn with it. 9 Sep 2026 Found The 1820 Settler his family forgot George Augustus Kolbe — the Nautilus, Owen's party, Algoa Bay 1820 — whose grandson wrote “Father: Kolbe, thinks James was christian name. Mother: Unknown” with the man's carved headstone standing forty miles away. 9 Sep 2026 Worked The Cape Rebel rolls searched, and the wrong surname noticed Twenty-six Booysens on the roll, every one Northern Cape. But the man in whose house the family married in July 1901 — D. W.…

…The line → 9 March 1817 Graaff-Reinet James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer a record read here She was a widow; his origin is left blank on a page where the clerk filled everyone else's in. The blank predates the 1840 death notice by twenty-three years. The 1817 register → 1819 London George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing a record read here Both were sixteen. The Nautilus passenger roll the following year makes them twenty — a second age overstatement in the same twelve months. The Kolbes → bef. 1828 not recorded Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe a record read here A second van der Merwe, named only on her son's 1908 death notice.…

…The single most important unopened door: it indexes Cape (KAB) and Transvaal (TAB) estate files and death notices , which is where a death notice for Willem Hermanus Booyzen would be found. Cape Archives (KAB), Master's Office (MOOC) — one reference is already in hand: MOOC 6/9/35: 7698 (1845) , the estate of George Augustus Kolbe. It has not been ordered or read. The Dutch Reformed Church registers for Graaff-Reinet, Cradock, Colesberg, Burgersdorp, Dordrecht and Barkly East — already the backbone of the tree's citations, but read only where FamilySearch has indexed them.…

…The Rebels Frederick Fortunatus Barry Documented 8 mentions — — Carries the Kolbe given name Fortunatus. The Kolbes The Women George Augustus Barry Documented 5 mentions — — NEW. Named on his father's 1915 death notice and nowhere else this archive has looked. He carries his grandfather George Augustus Kolbe's names entire. The Documents The Kolbes Namesakes Harriet Louisa Barry Inferred 8 mentions 1894 7 Sep 1912, Barkly East Of MANOROWEN, Barkly East district — the farm where Richard Peter Barry signed his mother’s death notice in 1915. Dead at eighteen. FROM THE INDEX. The Barrys The Women The Register Hendrik Nicholaas Barry Documented 10 mentions — — Married Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman.…

…And Barkly East and Dordrecht supplied about 550 combatants before the Battle of Stormberg in December 1899 — with a commando known as the Barkly East Rebels under Commandant J. F. de Wet. Now place the family on that map: District Rebel contribution The family there Burgersdorp 1,048 rebels six Barry children born 1847–1863; George Augustus Kolbe buried in the Old Cemetery, 1844 Barkly East part of ~550, own commando Kathleen Barry b. 1859; four Booyzen children b. 1885–1907; Margarietha Barry b. 1880; Anna Pretorius b. 1905; John Augustus Barry died at Manor Owen, 1903 Dordrecht part of ~550; in rebel hands 1899 Kathleen Barry christened there, 1859; Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b.…

…7 | Probate from 1866 to 1868 Cape Province, South Africa | Birth from 1802 to 1804 London record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990 Margaret Downing with: Caroline Celia · Alfred Downing record ↗ South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996 Margaret Downing with: Johan Casimis Kolbe · George Augustus Kolbe record ↗ South Africa, Orange Free State, Civil Death Registration, 1902-1954 Margaret Downing Probate South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Orange Free State, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1990 Margaret Downing Death 25 Nov 1867 Burghersdorp, Cape | Birth 1800 · with: George Augustus Kolbe record ↗ South Africa, Settlers Index, 1820-1920 Margaret Downing reconstructed…

…1930s Three uncaptioned photographs attached to George's profile; identifications inferred and flagged as unverified Death notice, George Augustus Kolbe, 1845 Section 9, Ordinance 104; estate 7698 = KAB MOOC 6/9/35 (1845); signed by his widow at Colesberg Death notice, Margaret Downing, 1868 Ordinance 104; estate 4094 ; filed 30 Jan 1868, signed G. D. O.…

…Two hundred and thirty-four years 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 c. 20 Mar 1754 — Johanna Booyzen born “in this Colony” 1779 — The spelling BOOYZEN is already in use at the Cape c. 1782 — James Montjoy born, in “Europe” c.…

…His son's 1903 registration says only: an Irishman, born in Ireland. Margaretha W. E. M. Kolbe 1826 – 1912 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe · 1826 – 1912 George Augustus Kolbe 1802 – 1844 George Augustus Kolbe · 1802 – 1844 Johan Gottlieb Kolbe 1765 – 1845 Johan Gottlieb Kolbe · 1765 – 1845 Margaret Downing c.1804 – 1867 Margaret Downing · c.1804 – 1867 John Paul Downing — – — John Paul Downing · — – — Anna Johanna M.…

…It is the whole character of the family. They are inside the men's names David Defranceski's great-grandfather was christened George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen . On an Afrikaans surname that reads like an affectation. It is the opposite: every one of those forenames is a woman's surname.…