Hercules Johannes Mountjoy

…Her surname is written "Kolby" — a phonetic variant, twenty-six years before her own son would tell a magistrate he thought his grandfather's name was James . The Kolbes → And on the facing page, entirely by accident 6 October 1889: George , geb. 21 Juli 1889; Ouders Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk; among the witnesses Jakobus Jonathan Mountjoy and Maria Sophia Mountjoy . Mountjoys, alive and baptising at Barkly Oost in 1889. This line descends from Johanna Catharina Mountjoy (1819–1863), and the archive had her family as little more than a surname and a father who died in 1827.…

…2809 : Het Kind Willem Hermanus , Geboren 4 Mei 1851 , Vader Petrus Jacobus Booyzen , The father: Petrus Jacobus Boo y z en The witnesses, same hand, same ink: Pieter z en , twice Doop Register, Barkly Oost , entry 40 , 15 September 1889: Johanna Catharina , geb. 20 Juni 1889 6 October 1889: George , geb. 21 Juli 1889; Ouders Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia v Line 3 — the generation the archive did not have from any document: James Montjoy and Anna Catha One Major , seven Minors . The widower signs. Names of the Parents of the Deceased. Not Known. 1840, line 5 — Saddler 1840, line 6 — "Married to Catharina Sl[i/e]er, widow of William Pietersen" Line 7: September 1827 . Line 9: James · George · Johanna · Jacoba , all minors.…

…Two grandparents at a font 8 children George Mountjoy · 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy · b. 3 Sep 1891 (inferred) Fritz Johannes Mountjoy · b.…

…And the file contradicts itself — his death notice answers question 14 “Joint Will with predeceased wife”, and the executors’ account four months later opens “The deceased died intestate.” Recorded, not resolved. 10 Sep 2026 Found The false positive, opened Hercules Johannes Mountjoy has no estate file — a negative this archive has stated for months on the strength of a name search. Reading the entire indexed MOUNTJOY surname in the Cape probate collection at once, 61 personas, produced exactly one hit for him, and it is his mother-in-law’s 1902 death notice from Dordrecht: his name appears on it because he is written into her list of eleven children.…

…The second wife, named → 22 December 1879 Lady Grey Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry a record read here He signs as a BOER. The signature on this register is the one this archive has spent most of its time arguing about: is the letter a z or an s? The name → 8 October 1888 Dordrecht Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk a record read here Twenty-two and twenty. Five of their eight children are named for a parent or a grandparent, and one dead daughter's name was given again four years later. The namesakes → bef. 1890 Dordrecht James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm a record read here In community of property.…

…Maria Sophia Mountjoy b. 23 Oct 1898 For his mother. Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 For his father. Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b. 10 Apr 1915 And the Booyzen name, into the Mountjoys, twenty-six years after the two families stood at the same font at Barkly Oost. Five of the eight children of Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk are named for a grandparent or a parent. These come from the Dutch Reformed INDEX and not from the register images, and the person pages say so. The Mountjoy names, crossing a third surname at Dordrecht And into a family called Keys The habit again, in a family this archive did not know existed until this afternoon.…

…Also: who took it, and where. § 16 · High priority Who are the Mountjoys of Barkly Oost? — ANSWERED Found by accident, on the page opposite a Booyzen baptism: the Doop Register, Barkly Oost, 6 October 1889 records Hercules Johannes Mountjoy and Maria Sophia van Niekerk baptising a son, with Jakobus Jonathan Mountjoy and Maria Sophia Mountjoy among the witnesses. This line descends from Johanna Catharina Mountjoy (1819–1863), of whom the archive has little more than a surname and a father who died in 1827. Here are three named Mountjoys in the right district, twenty-six years after her death.…

…A fourth Botha marriage in this archive, and none of them yet joined to another. The 1891 notices The Women Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha Documented 6 mentions c. Jul 1844, district Cradock 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht Her mother, and Hercules Johannes Mountjoy’s mother-in-law — the only Cape probate hit that comes up under his name, because his name is written on her form. Aged 58 years 5 months. Parents Philip Rudolph Botha and a mother carrying the same four names. Eleven children, one of them called Hercules Johannes van Niekerk.…

…, Gauteng, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 Bertie Leonard Mountjoy with: Rex Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Carolina Isabella Margareta Alettha Mountjoy Baptism 6 Sep 1896 Dordrecht, Wodehouse, Cape Province, South Africa | Birth 15 Aug 1896 · with: Hercules Johannes Mountjoy · Maria Sophia Van Niekerk record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy Death 25 Oct 1897 Wodehouse, Cape Province, South Africa | Birth 1896 record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy Birth 1901 · with: Henderik Stefanus Palm record ↗ South Afric…

…MONTJOY 4 documents Found The spelling nobody had tried — and two of the four are the Mountjoy–Booysen junction itself, including the 1840 and 1863 death notices. MOUNTJOY + HERKLAAS / HERCULES / WODEHOUSE / BARKLY 0 each Nothing There is no estate file for Hercules Johannes Mountjoy under any spelling. The estates around him run 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1948 unbroken, so this is an absence, not a gap in the index. BOOYZEN 39 documents Found Earliest 1779 — KAB CJ 2633: 29, the testament of Christina Booyzen. The z is a hundred and twenty years older than the war. BOOIJZEN 3 documents Found Earliest 1792.…

…There is no estate file for Hercules Johannes Mountjoy (d. 12 May 1941, Wodehouse) in the Cape Town Archives under any spelling. The estates around him run 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946 and 1948 — an unbroken sequence — so this is an absence , not a hole in the index. His parentage is instead carried by his 1866 baptism register entry , which is better evidence than a death notice would have been. One correction to an external source.…

…n Gottlieb Kolbe buried at the German Savoy Church 20 Aug 1848 — George Mountjoy, saddle maker, marries Maria Sophia Botha 31 Oct 1851 — Willem Hermanus Booyzen baptised at Achter Sneeuwberg 25 Dec 1862 — A baptism at Rustenburg that spells the name this archive got wrong 19 May 1863 — Johanna Catharina dies at Zevenfontein 16 Jul 1866 — Hercules Johannes Mountjoy born 25 Nov 1867 — Margaret Downing dies at Burgersdorp 3 Apr 1869 — Two brothers admitted to membership at Rustenburg on one Sunday 19 Jan 1870 — Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen born 1 Sep 1876 — Petrus Jacobus Booysen dies at Rustenburg, aged 88 1 Sep 1876 — Petrus Jacobus Booysen dies in district Rustenburg, aged 88 22 Dec 1879 — Willem Hermanus Booyzen, boer of Lady Grey, marries Kathleen Barry 4 Jan…

…Booyzen Mountjoy Child Johanna Catharina Booyzen , b. 20 June 1889 George Mountjoy , b. 21 July 1889 Baptised 15 September 1889 , Barkly Oost 6 October 1889 , Barkly Oost Father Willem Hermanus Booysen Hercules Johannes Mountjoy Godparents John Barry and Margaret W. E. Kolby — her grandparents van Niekerk and Mountjoy kin The two children were second cousins, born a month apart and baptised three weeks apart in the same church. Their fathers were first cousins. And the Booyzen daughter was christened Johanna Catharina — after the great-aunt who is the link between them. And the Mountjoys stayed.…