George Kolbe
Godfather at the same font, the same day. He carries his own father's name — George Augustus Kolbe, the 1820 Settler, dead at Colesberg nine years earlier.
The record
| Name | George Kolbe |
| Born | — |
| Died | — |
| Line | Kolbe |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
Godfather at the same font, the same day. He carries his own father's name — George Augustus Kolbe, the 1820 Settler, dead at Colesberg nine years earlier.
Disputed
…The tree’s photograph of “34 Lamb’s Conduit Street” is therefore a picture of the wrong building. → The “Kolbe–Downing” couple photograph A carte-de-visite captioned “Margaret Elizabeth Georgina Downing and George Kolbe” and attached to both their profiles. 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.…
The documents
…The registration is a hard, researchable detail. Unidentified. 1819 · A sworn falsehood in Shoreditch A marriage allegation of the London Diocese , 20 January 1819 — the sworn statement required before a marriage licence could be issued. Fee, 2/6. Marriage allegation of George Kolbe and Margaret Downing, London Diocese, 20 January 1819, signed G. Kolbe .…
The plates
…Left: George Downing An elderly woman seated in full black between two young people, outside a plastered house. Hypot A young man in a dark uniform tunic and peaked cap . 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.…
The households
…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. The Kolbes 9 children Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe · 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 (the direct line) Mary Elizabeth Kolbe · d. bef. 1867 John Kolbe (inferred) George Kolbe (inferred) Catharine Kolbe (inferred) Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe Peter Benjamin Kolbe Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe Petrus c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 · Anna 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 On whose word a record read here Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet.…
Open questions
…§ 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. It said George Kolbe's 1803 baptism was 'downloaded and unread' — it had in fact been read and published (born 7 Dec 1802, baptised 2 Feb 1803, son of John Gottlob and Mary, at St Anne's Soho). It listed a 'Johanna Catharina birth' as unread — that image is the 1889 Doop Register spread already transcribed, pages 212-213, with the Booyzen baptism on one page and the Mountjoy baptism on the other.…
Everyone
…The Kolbes The Women George Augustus Kolbe Documented 18 mentions 1802 1 Dec 1844, “Wurtemburg”, Colesberg 1820 Settler — the Nautilus, Owen's party, Algoa Bay 14 Apr 1820. Married at sixteen on a sworn falsehood. Preached across the Orange River. His grandson could not name him in 1915. The Kolbes Home The Documents George Kolbe Documented 9 mentions — — Godfather at the same font, the same day. He carries his own father's name — George Augustus Kolbe, the 1820 Settler, dead at Colesberg nine years earlier. The Barry fonts The Kolbes Namesakes Johan Gottlieb Kolbe Documented 8 mentions 1765 1845 Tailor. Died at 34 Conduit Street, Mayfair — not Lamb's Conduit Street; the tree's photograph is of the wrong building.…
The register
…rds of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990 Daniel Peter Kolbe Death 16 Aug 1938 | Burial 17 Aug 1938 Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 David Frederick Kolbe Death Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990 David George Kolbe Birth 1896 | Burial 1 Dec 1964 Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 David George Kolbe Death 30 Nov 1964 Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa | Birth 1896 Cape Town, Cape Province record ↗ South Africa, Civil Death Registration, 1953-1967 David George Kolbe Birth 1930 · with: Mary Veronica Arrow record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-…
The timeline
…It also finds WILLIAM — who existed yesterday on a single line of his mother's 1915 death notice and nowhere else — and puts the family at BURGERSDORP, where the 1915 notice only guessed the marriage was. William Barry Mary Elizabeth Kolbe Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe John Kolbe George Kolbe Burgersdorp 25 Dec 1862 Document A baptism at Rustenburg that spells the name this archive got wrong Hendrik Nicolaas Stephanus Booijsen, born 31 January 1862, baptised on Christmas Day at Rustenburg. Father Hendrik Stephanus Booijsen; mother ANNA JOHANNA OLIVIER.…
The women
…On an Afrikaans surname that reads like an affectation. It is the opposite: every one of those forenames is a woman's surname.…
Others on the Kolbe side
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