James Jonathan Mountjoy
Witness at the 1889 font. A RETIRED BUILDER, married at Dordrecht, of a dwelling house at Barkly East. His estate — KAB MOOC 6/9/5047 ref 58379 — has now been read to the last shilling: £664 in the Post Office Savings Bank, a house on Lot 380 let at £2 10s a month, £400 out on note at six per cent. His death notice says he left a joint will; his executors’ account says he died intestate. Ten children and two grandchildren took £21. 4. 5. each.
The record
| Name | James Jonathan Mountjoy |
| Also written | James John · Jakobus Jonathan |
| Born | c. Jun 1854, Cape Province |
| Died | 22 Dec 1937, Barkly East |
| Line | Mountjoy |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
Witness at the 1889 font. A RETIRED BUILDER, married at Dordrecht, of a dwelling house at Barkly East. His estate — KAB MOOC 6/9/5047 ref 58379 — has now been read to the last shilling: £664 in the Post Office Savings Bank, a house on Lot 380 let at £2 10s a month, £400 out on note at six per cent. His death notice says he left a joint will; his executors’ account says he died intestate. Ten children and two grandchildren took £21. 4. 5. each.
Where the archive puts James
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The documents
…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.…
The households
…8 May 1922 Albert Alfred Daschner · b. 3 Mar 1927 Edith Dorothy Daschner · b. 20 Jan 1930 Henry James Daschner · b. 25 Feb 1932 Yvonne Muriel Daschner · b. 15 Jul 1935 James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm James c. Jun 1854 – 22 Dec 1937 · Maria c. Oct 1860 – 3 Jul 1934 On whose word a record read here Married in community of property at Dordrecht. Their two death notices were written on the same afternoon in February 1938, hers three and a half years late.…
The Kolbes
…The lie may have been written for them. Either way it was on the paper. The marriage allegation → Settler roll: 1820settlers.com, Owen's party, accessed 10 September 2026 — the same database whose citation for James Jonathan Mountjoy this archive found to be wrong, so it is used here for what it is: a compiled transcript, corroborating dates the tree already carried, and adding one occupation. The children are a missionary's itinerary Not a settler farm but a circuit — and two of the stops are London Missionary Society stations north of the Orange River.…
The marriages
…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. 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.…
The namesakes
…Who When What they are to the name William Henry Keys b. 1854 Married a Johanna Catharina Mountjoy. Their children were baptised at Dordrecht, Burgersdorp and Barkly East between 1878 and 1897. James Jonathan Keys b. 18 Nov 1883 Baptised at Dordrecht — and named for James Jonathan Mountjoy, the retired builder of Barkly East. Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys b. 9 Feb 1897 Named for Herklaas — Hercules Johannes Mountjoy. Maria Annie Sophia Keys b. 21 Nov 1889 Maria Sophia, which is both a Mountjoy and a van Niekerk name. Richard Pieter Kolbe Barry b. 1899 And on the other side of the family, a Barry carrying the rebel's forename and the Settler's surname in one.…
Open questions
…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. Answered They are the descendants of Johanna Catharina Mountjoy's brother. George Mountjoy (b.…
Everyone
…The Documents The Barrys The Women Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys Inferred 3 mentions 9 Feb 1897 — Barkly West, and named for Herklaas — Hercules Johannes Mountjoy. FROM THE INDEX. The Namesakes The Register James Jonathan Keys Inferred 3 mentions 18 Nov 1883 — Baptised at Dordrecht, 2 December 1883, and named for James Jonathan Mountjoy. FROM THE INDEX. The Namesakes The Register William Henry Keys Inferred 3 mentions 1854 — Married a Johanna Catharina Mountjoy and had children baptised at Dordrecht, Burgersdorp and Barkly East between 1878 and 1897 — among them JAMES JONATHAN KEYS and HERKLAAS EDWARD JOHANNES KEYS. The Mountjoy forenames crossing into a third surname, exactly as the Barry names crossed into the Daschners.…
…FROM THE INDEX. The Namesakes The Register Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy Documented 5 mentions 1820 1842 A sibling our tree lacked entirely. Married David Schalk van der Merwe at Cradock, 24 Mar 1838. The Women James Jonathan Mountjoy also written James John · Jakobus Jonathan Documented 12 mentions c. Jun 1854, Cape Province 22 Dec 1937, Barkly East Witness at the 1889 font. A RETIRED BUILDER, married at Dordrecht, of a dwelling house at Barkly East. His estate — KAB MOOC 6/9/5047 ref 58379 — has now been read to the last shilling: £664 in the Post Office Savings Bank, a house on Lot 380 let at £2 10s a month, £400 out on note at six per cent.…
The register
…ia Kumm with: Maria Fredericke Bertha Kumm · William Ferdinand Kumm record ↗ South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996 Maria Kumm with: Anna Elizabeth Kumm Lemmer · William Kumm · Stephanus Francois Lemmer record ↗ South Africa, Western Cape, Deceased Estate Files, 1951-2011 Maria Lou Elizabeth Kumm with: Anna Louisa Mountjoy · James Jonathan Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm Birth 1861 · with: James Jonathan Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm with: Georg Mountjoy · James Jonathan Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm Bir…
Sources
…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. The FamilySearch ark cited by 1820settlers.com for James Jonathan Mountjoy ( 3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-S3QM-6 ) is not him. It is the death notice of Ferdinand Kumm , d. 20 October 1903 at Stutterheim — his father-in-law. Published and reference sources Forebears — surname incidence and distribution for Booyzen and Booysen , accessed 9 September 2026. Forebears figures are modelled estimates from name-frequency data, not a census.…
The timeline
…21 — Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen dies at Klerksdorp 30 Dec 1924 — A tree nurseryman marries at Vereeniging 25 Mar 1929 — Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen born 31 Mar 1930 — Isabella Fredrika Booyzen, born Coetzee, dies at Middelburg 29 Jul 1932 — An ex-miner dies at Johannesburg Hospital, and nobody who knew him is there 22 Dec 1937 — James Jonathan Mountjoy dies at Barkly East 1940 — Kathleen Barry dies in Mayfair, a “Military Pensioner” 6 Sep 1940 — Kathleen Barry buried at Brixton, grave 9760 12 May 1941 — Hercules Johannes Mountjoy dies in Wodehouse, aged 74 19 Apr 1942 — Joseph Heinrich Daschner dies at Kenilworth, Johannesburg 26 Feb 1944 — Anna Pretorius dies at Forest Hill, aged 37 11 May 1946 — Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen born and dead within…
The women
…8 Oct 1888, DORDRECHT | GEORGE MOUNTJOY (1889-1963) = the child baptised at Barkly Oost, 6 Oct 1889 George Mountjoy, saddle maker of Cradock, was Johanna Catharina's younger brother. The two Mountjoy men on that register page — Hercules Johannes as father and Jakobus Jonathan as witness — are his sons. It fits to the month: Hercules Johannes married at Dordrecht on 8 October 1888 ; his first child George was born 21 July 1889 and baptised at Barkly Oost that October. Booyzen Mountjoy Child Johanna Catharina Booyzen , b. 20 June 1889 George Mountjoy , b.…
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