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Isabella Frederika Coetsee

Married Gerrit Jacobus at Middelburg, 23 March 1896. THIS ARCHIVE HAD HER DYING IN 1943 AND HAS TAKEN IT BACK: 1943 is when her husband finally filed, thirteen years after the death. Her notice — KAB 84992, spelled BOOYZEN throughout — names her parents Pieter Coetzee and Isabella Fredrika Coetzee, and three children.

Isabella Frederika Coetseec. May 1874 – 31 Mar 1930Booyzen
marriedGerrit Jacobus Booÿsenb. 19 Jan 1870record
the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverifiedAll 7 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1943 notice →Named together in line 3 of their daughter's 1943 death notice, both already dead.Married at Middelburg, 23 March 1896.

Every record naming Isabella Frederika Coetsee →

The record

NameIsabella Frederika Coetsee
Also writtenCoetzee · Isabella Fredrika Booyzen, born Coetzee
Bornc. May 1874, Middelburg
Died31 Mar 1930, Church Street, Middelburg
LineBooyzen
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

Married Gerrit Jacobus at Middelburg, 23 March 1896. THIS ARCHIVE HAD HER DYING IN 1943 AND HAS TAKEN IT BACK: 1943 is when her husband finally filed, thirteen years after the death. Her notice — KAB 84992, spelled BOOYZEN throughout — names her parents Pieter Coetzee and Isabella Fredrika Coetzee, and three children.

The DocumentsThe NameThe NamesakesOpen Questions

What was taken back

…→ A list mistaken for a population 13 Sep 2026 “He died in the Transvaal at about thirty” Estate O/2899 belongs to his uncle, born 1818. The death date had no source but the file number: the archive read a year off a reference, wrote it in as a fact, and cited the fact back. → A fact cited back to itself 13 Sep 2026 “Isabella Frederika Coetsee died in 1943” 31 March 1930. 1943 is the year her husband finally filed — thirteen years late. The same mistake as O/2899, made in the same way, and found the same afternoon by opening the document instead of trusting the reference. → A fact cited back to itself 13 Sep 2026 “John Augustus Barry was born at sea” Born in IRELAND.…

The households

…The Kolbes 5 children Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe · 1826 – 1912 (the direct line) Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe Peter Benjamin Kolbe Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen & Isabella Frederika Coetsee Gerrit b. 19 Jan 1870 · Isabella c. May 1874 – 31 Mar 1930 On whose word a record read here Married at Middelburg, 23 March 1896. 3 children Isabella Fredrika du Plessis Petrus Jacobus Booyzen · 29 Dec 1904 – 7 Jun 1937 Gerhardus Jacobus Booyzen · b. 15 May 1910 Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg & Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie Petrus 20 Apr 1851 – bef.…

The research log

…The Dutch Reformed index gives her born 15 May 1844 and baptised at BRAK RIVIER on 4 August 1844 — the farm her father was still on nineteen years later when her mother died there. A small thing, and the kind the register was built to hand over. 13 Sep 2026 Taken back Withdrawn — Isabella Frederika Coetsee died in 1943 She died on 31 MARCH 1930, at Church Street, Middelburg. 1943 is when her husband finally filed. This archive had taken the year off the estate reference and written it in as a death date — the same error it corrected on O/2899 three days ago, sitting undetected in the next record along. Two instances in one week of one habit: trusting a file number to tell you when somebody died.…

The marriages

…1890 Dordrecht James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm a record read here In community of property. Their two death notices were typed on the same afternoon in February 1938, hers three and a half years late — “death not reported”. Barkly East, 1938 → 23 March 1896 Middelburg, Cape Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen & Isabella Frederika Coetsee a record read here In community of property. She died in 1930 and he did not report it until 1943. The 1943 notice → 8 July 1901 Caerlaverock, Barkly Oost Petrus Jacobus Pretorius & Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry a record read here “In woonhuis D. Schoeman” — in the house of a man tried as a Cape Rebel the month before, under martial law, witnessed by him.…

Everyone

…The Line Johannesburg Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen also written Gert Jacobus Booyzen Documented 12 mentions 19 Jan 1870 — The only child entered on his father's 1884 death notice, and born seven years after the first wife died — so a child of the second marriage. He married Isabella Frederika Coetsee at Middelburg on 23 March 1896, and his own son was baptised BOOYZEN, with a z, in 1904. The Documents Open Questions The Name Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff Documented 3 mentions — — His widow, who signed the 1940 death notice at Pretoria on 26 July 1940 — and who could not name her husband's parents.…

The register

…s Peterus Henderik Booijsen Probate South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Orange Free State, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1990 Gerrit Booijsen with: Jan Lodewijk Booijsen · Anna Elisabeth Theron record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gerrit Jacobus Booijsen with: Isabella Frederika Coetsee record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen reconstructed 19 Jan 1870 no public link reconstructed by this archive Gerrit Johannes Booijsen Membership 7 Sep 1876 Riebeek West, Malmesbury, Cape Colony, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gerrit Johannes Nicolaas Booijse…

The timeline

…Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen Johannesburg 31 Mar 1930 Isabella Fredrika Booyzen, born Coetzee, dies at Middelburg Her husband did not report it until 1943. This archive had been using the filing year as her death date. Isabella Frederika Coetsee Middelburg 29 Jul 1932 Document An ex-miner dies at Johannesburg Hospital, and nobody who knew him is there WILLIAM HERMAN BOOYZEN, 47, born Cape Province, married, EX MINER (TOLD) UNDERGROUND, of 62 Langford Street, Booysens — a perforated duodenal ulcer, general peritonitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, about one day in hospital. The informant was an officer of the hospital.…

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