Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen

…Seven generations up, the male line simply ends. One thing has changed here, and it is worth being precise about how little. Until the 1876 Sterfkennis was read, generation seven existed only because a family tree said so. It now exists because a nineteenth-century clerk wrote "Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen" and "Magdalena de Beer" on his son's death notice. See the line → That converts an assertion into a record. It does not add a generation. The buttons above him are still empty, the dates below are still arithmetic, and the question of who his own parents were is exactly as open as it was. What can be said is arithmetic rather than evidence.…

…Two of these men married twice , and in both cases the second wife was found long after the first had been written down. Both second marriages are given in the Married column; the ancestor chart has one slot for a mother and can only draw one of them. The chart → Gen Name Born Died Married 7 Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen no dates, no parents — but both names now DOCUMENTED, on his son's 1876 death notice — — Magdelena Elisabeth De Beer (1754–1843) 6 Petrus Jacobus Booysen married at about seventeen; died a widower in the Transvaal with nothing to leave c. 21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet — DOCUMENTED 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg — DOCUMENTED Anna Maria van der Merwe (1785 – bef. Mar 1825), m.…

…All three are checkable. Forty-four Cape colonists were executed for high treason , and that list is closed. What would settle it → What is not in dispute It is worth ending on this. The direct descent itself is unbroken and well sourced from Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen to David Defranceski. The contradictions above sit on side branches, spouses' records and dates of death — not on the parent-to-child links of the line. Nothing on this page moves anybody out of the family. The single exception is the Barry line above 1819 , where the link to a father genuinely fails.…

…It is the document this archive has been looking for since the first page was written. Notice 678 . Countersigned by the veldkornet and by H. S. Booijsen — Hendrik Stefanus, one of the sons listed four lines above his own signature. The form, as completed 1. Naam Petrus Jacobus Booijsen 2. Geboorteplaats Graaffreinet 3. Ouders Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen Magdalena de Beer 4. Ouderdom 88 jaar 5. Beroep Landbouwer 6. Staat Gehuwd — weduwenaar 7. Overleden 1 September 1876 8. Waar Destrikt Rustenburg 9. Testament Neen 10. Goederen Niets nagelaten 11. Boven £25 Niets bekend 12.…

…Beroep van oorledene — Messelaar Oud: Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius Both parents, and their address — 96 James Street, Germiston. (Alle Minderjarig) "CATHERINE MARY SOPHIA DASCHNER (born Booyzen)" — and below it, "Indwe, Cape Colony." Joseph Daschner — deceased. Sophia Daschner (Stoter) — deceased. "Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen" — "Magdalena de Beer" All eight entered mondig — the eldest was in his sixties. Destrikt Rustenburg · Neen · Niets nagelaten · Niets bekend "died 3rd July, 1934 — death not reported." Father — "Deceased." Mother — "Deceased." The same answer on both forms. £21. 4. 5. — one tenth share. Lidmaten Register, Gemeente Indwe — thirty-two young people aangenomen 31-5-1907 . "8.…

…Four independent documents call him John Gottlob; the family tree calls him Johan Gottlieb, and this archive follows the documents. The Kolbes 2 children George Augustus Kolbe · 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 John Gottlob Kolbe Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen & Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer Magdelena 1754 – 1843 On whose word a record read here Named together in line 3 of their son's 1876 Sterfkennis — the oldest document this archive has read. The 1876 Sterfkennis 1 child Petrus Jacobus Booysen · c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 (the direct line) Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe Petrus c.…

…10 Sep 2026 Found The oldest document in this archive — and the two names above the line Sterfkennis No. 678, written at the farm Brakfontein, district Rustenburg, on 14 September 1876. Petrus Jacobus Booijsen, born Graaffreinet, aged 88, landbouwer, widower, died 1 September 1876. Line 3: “Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen — Magdalena de Beer.” Generation seven has stood at the head of the direct line since this archive began with the flattest entry on the site — no dates, no parents, no document. He has a document now.…

…If that progenitor is right, then this family is German or Frisian on the male line as well — and joins Kolbe of Württemberg, Schleher , and the German Lutheran community of Soho on the female lines. A family that reads as Afrikaans and English is, underneath, substantially German. Inferred The link from Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen to Boy Booysen is not demonstrated in this archive . Where the line stops → 1942 · A clerk who typed the z The one document in this archive where an official, unprompted, spells it the family's way. Estate TAB MHG 1928/42 , Johannesburg, April 1942 — "(born Booyzen)" . Every other official spelling this archive has read runs the other way.…

…Three of these share one page on this site, because merging them silently would be worse than saying so. The name that made this archive get something wrong Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus An uncle and a nephew, both of this name, both connected to an estate filed in 1885. Who When What they are to the name Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen no dates Generation seven — the top of the male line, and the source of the name. Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818–1885 His grandson. Fifth on the 1876 Sterfkennis; died at Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg. THE ESTATE IS HIS. Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 His great-grandson, seventh on the 1863 death notice. This archive gave him the uncle's estate and a death date to match.…

…It shows Booysen–de Beer was not a unique pairing, which is a warning about the tree rather than a lead. WHAT HAS CHANGED, 10 September 2026: the 1876 Rustenburg Sterfkennis of his son now names BOTH of them in line 3 — "Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen" and "Magdalena de Beer". That does not answer this question, which is about HIS parents, and the entry stays blocking.…

…The enquiry did reach archive@dod.mil.za , which has not replied. "Sent" and "delivered" are not the same word, and this archive used the wrong one. The research log → The queue § 0 · Blocking Who were Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen's parents? STILL BLOCKING, and the named lead is now exhausted at the Cape depot. The queue pointed at the estate papers of his wife MAGDELENA ELISABETH DE BEER, d. 1843.…

…The Documents The Women The Name What Was Searched David Schalk Booysen Documented 5 mentions 9 Jun 1848 — Fourth on the 1863 list. The Documents Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen · generation 7 also written Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen (1876) Documented 18 mentions — — The top of the male line — and, since the 1876 Sterfkennis was read, no longer a name held up by the family tree alone. His son’s death notice names him and his wife in line 3. He still has no birth date, no death date, and no parents: the oldest open question on this site is about him.…

…People the records name only once — a witness, a neighbour, an official — are on The Documents in the transcription of the record that names them, rather than here.…

…bus Stephanus Booijsen · Maria Margaritha Van Zijl record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gert Johannes Diederik Lourens Booijsen with: Francina Johanna Jacoba Booijsen · Anna Margaretha Carolina Barendse record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Gertruida Barendina Petronella Booijsen with: Daniel Petrus Du Plessis Compaan · Theodorus Hermanus Carel Compaan record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gertruida Barendina Petronella Booijsen with: Theodorus Hermanus Carel Compaau · Theodous Hermanus Carel Compaau record ↗ South Africa, D…

…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.…

…His Sterfkennis names GERTHARDUS LÖDEWIKUS BOOIJSEN and MAGDALENA DE BEER — the top of the male line, documented for the first time. Petrus Jacobus Booysen Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen Rustenburg Brakfontein 22 Dec 1879 Document Willem Hermanus Booyzen, boer of Lady Grey, marries Kathleen Barry He is a farmer here and a mason at his death. Something takes the land away in between.…

…No dates. Nothing behind the button. Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer 1754 – 1843 Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer · 1754 – 1843 Searched, nothing No estate file for her in the Cape archives. Searched eight ways. Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. 1825 Anna Maria van der Merwe · 1785 – bef. 1825 Disputed Only a family tree puts her here.…

…Everything else about it — its forenames, its politics, its religion, its 1820 Settler descent and its German origins — arrived through the women. This page puts them back at the front. The wives of the direct line Name Dates Family Magdelena Elisabeth De Beer 1754–1843 Huguenot-descended Cape m. Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen. Lived to 89. Her husband has no dates at all — she is better recorded than he is. Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 one of the largest Cape families m. 2 Nov 1805, Graaff-Reinet. Her husband was about seventeen. Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 1819–1863 English m. 4 Nov 1838, Cradock. Died at Zevenfontein aged 44. Gives “Mountjoy” to the family.…