Johanna Booyzen
NOT THIS FAMILY, and recorded here on purpose. Death notice 6167 — the oldest Booyzen estate paper in the Cape Master's series, and a generation older in form than anything else this archive has read. Widow of Charles du Plessis; one daughter, married to Benjamin Solomon; “no property whatever except a Bond amounting per balance to £15”. Line 3 answers “both dead”. She is here because she was born in 1754 and died in 1843 — the only two dates this archive has for Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer, both off the family tree with no source stated — and because somebody will one day find her and decide she is the same woman. She is not. Her name is not Magdelena, not Elisabeth, and not de Beer.
Every record naming Johanna Booyzen →
No family is drawn here, because none is recorded. This archive holds Johanna Booyzen as a name on a document — a witness at a font, a signature on a form, a person named in someone else's list — and has no record of who their parents, spouse or children were. That is a statement about the sources, not about the person. Every record naming them →
The record
| Name | Johanna Booyzen |
| Born | c. 20 Mar 1754, “this Colony” |
| Died | 16 Jun 1843, 28 Roze Street, Cape Town |
| Line | Booyzen |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
NOT THIS FAMILY, and recorded here on purpose. Death notice 6167 — the oldest Booyzen estate paper in the Cape Master's series, and a generation older in form than anything else this archive has read. Widow of Charles du Plessis; one daughter, married to Benjamin Solomon; “no property whatever except a Bond amounting per balance to £15”. Line 3 answers “both dead”. She is here because she was born in 1754 and died in 1843 — the only two dates this archive has for Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer, both off the family tree with no source stated — and because somebody will one day find her and decide she is the same woman. She is not. Her name is not Magdelena, not Elisabeth, and not de Beer.
The documents
…The name → 1843 · The oldest Booyzen death notice in the Cape — and a warning Death notice 6167 , filed at Cape Town on 21 June 1843. It is not this family. It is put here because of what it nearly is. Under Section 9, Ordinance 104 — a generation older than every other form in this archive. The form 1. Name Johanna Booyzen 2. Birth-place This Colony 3. Parents "both dead" 4. Age 89 years, 2 months & 26 days — born about 20 March 1754 6. Condition Widow of Charles du Plessis, D ls son 7. Died 16 June 1843 8. Where No. 28 Roze Street , Cape Town 9. Children Johanna Petronella du Plessis, married to Benjamin Solomon 10.…
Everyone
…Entry 4256 — not the same child as the Gertrude of 1947. The Documents Johannesburg Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Documented 5 mentions — — Daughter of Willem Hermanus and Kathleen Barry. The Documents Henry James Booyzen Documented 10 mentions — — Son of Willem Hermanus and Kathleen Barry. The Barrys The Cousin Marriage Johanna Booyzen Documented 5 mentions c. 20 Mar 1754, “this Colony” 16 Jun 1843, 28 Roze Street, Cape Town NOT THIS FAMILY, and recorded here on purpose. Death notice 6167 — the oldest Booyzen estate paper in the Cape Master's series, and a generation older in form than anything else this archive has read.…
The register
…4 Aletta Booyzen Probate 1850 Grahamstown, Albany, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990 Aletta Booyzen with: Petrus Johannis Faurie · Petrus Johannis Faurie record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Aletta Catharina Johanna Booyzen with: Stephanus Albertus Venter record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Aletta Cornellia Booyzen Probate Transvaal, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1961 Aletta Cornellia Booyzen Probate Transvaal, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1961…
What has been searched
…Estate 84992, read from the image A death in 1930, filed in 1943 Found Corrected a date this archive had taken off the reference number. Also gave her parents, her three children, and the death of a son it had been carrying as living. The oldest Booyzen in the Cape probate series 1843, and not this family Partly Johanna Booyzen, born about 20 March 1754, died 16 June 1843 at Cape Town. Read because her dates match the only two this archive has for Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer. They match to the year and she is somebody else entirely. MOOC 7/1/268: 87 (the 1845 will) and MOOC 13/1/221: 6 (the 1866 account) Still not located Nothing Neither is name-indexed.…
The timeline
…Where a document was written long after the event it records, both dates are given — that gap is one of the things this archive is about. Two hundred and thirty-four years 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 c. 20 Mar 1754 — Johanna Booyzen born “in this Colony” 1779 — The spelling BOOYZEN is already in use at the Cape c. 1782 — James Montjoy born, in “Europe” c.…
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