Johanna Margaritha Pretorius

…4 Nov 1838 Cradock and Johanna Margaritha Pretorius — DOCUMENTED, named by the 1870 Doop Register and by nothing else 4 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen parentage DOCUMENTED by two registers; farmer in 1879, mason in 1905; died of a stomach ulcer 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg — DOCUMENTED 13 Sep 1905, Indwe — DOCUMENTED Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry (1859–1940), m. 22 Dec 1879 3 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen S.A.R.…

…The mistake was looking at deaths. A baptism names both parents, and the child whose birth date the 1884 notice gives to the day was baptised 19 June 1870 . The register opening, pages 1296–1297 . The entry is low on the right-hand page. Oud: Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius The entry Kind Gert Jacobus Geboren 19 January 1870 — the exact date on the 1884 death notice Gedoopt 19 June 1870 , Cape Colony Ouders Petrus Jacobus Booyzen Johanna Margaritha Pretorius Getuigen Petrus Jacobus Booijzen jr · Magdalena Johanna Francina Booijzen · Andries Gottlieb Pretorius Look at who stood at the font Petrus Jacobus Booijzen junior , born 10 September 1839.…

…22 April 1891 . "Name en adresse van ouers van oorledene" — Vader: oorlede · Moeder: oorlede 5. 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.…

…1908 On whose word a record read here Named together on two baptisms at Rustenburg, in 1889 and 1894. Both entries are indexed and neither image is available. The Rustenburg register 2 children Petrus Jacobus Booijsen of 1889 · b. 21 Jun 1889 Ockert Johannes Stefanus Booysen of 1894 · b. 16 May 1894 Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Margaritha Pretorius Petrus 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) On whose word a record read here The second marriage, unnamed on his own 1884 death notice and finally named by a christening: the 1870 Doop Register enters the parents as “Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius”. The second wife, named at last 2 children Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen · b. 19 Jan 1870 Stephanus Francois Booyzen · c.…

…His widow wrote “oorlede” for both parents. Four death notices in this family now ask who the parents were, and four fail. He was a MESSELAAR, a mason, like his half-brother Willem Hermanus at Indwe. 10 Sep 2026 Found The second wife, named — Johanna Margaritha Pretorius The oldest open question in the archive, answered by a christening rather than a death. Every attempt had gone at death notices, which either do not ask for a wife's name or got “oorlede” for an answer.…

…The namesakes → 1850 Cape Colony John Augustus Barry I & Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe a record read here An Irish carpenter and a Settler's daughter. Both their death notices survive, filed on the same day in 1915, and the two disagree about when he died. The Barrys → bef. 1863 not recorded Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Margaritha Pretorius a record read here The second marriage his own death notice refuses to name. A christening named her in the end — the oldest open question on this site, answered by a baptism rather than a death. 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 Documents The Women Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter Documented 3 mentions — — Second witness at the 1851 baptism. The Documents Andries Gottlieb Pretorius Documented 3 mentions — — Third witness at the 1870 font, and presumably the bride's people — the only trace the archive has of Johanna Margaritha Pretorius's own family. The Documents Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Documented 13 mentions 3 Oct 1906 1944 His wife, married 30 Dec 1924 at Vereeniging aged eighteen, with parental consent. Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905. The Women The Documents The Cousin Marriage Dirk Jacobus Pretorius Documented 4 mentions — — Of the Pretorius family.…

…pe Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gert Jacobus Booyzen Birth 1870 | Baptism 19 Jun 1870 South Africa · with: Petrus Jacobus Booyzen · Johanna Margaritta Pretorius record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gert Jacobus Booyzen Birth 19 Jan 1870 | Baptism 19 Jun 1870 Cape Colony, South Africa · with: Johanna Margaritha Pretorius · Petrus Jacobus Booyzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gert Jacobus Booyzen with: Petrus Jacobus Booyzen · Isabella Frederika Coetzee record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gert Jacobus Booyzen with: Gert Jacobus Booyzen · Izabella Fredrika Coetzee record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church…

…Booyzen 1901 – 1947 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen · 1901 – 1947 Willem Hermanus Booyzen 1851 – 1905 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen · 1851 – 1905 Petrus Jacobus Booysen 1812 – 1884 Petrus Jacobus Booysen · 1812 – 1884 · also married Johanna Margaritha Pretorius Petrus Jacobus Booysen 1788 – 1876 Petrus Jacobus Booysen · 1788 – 1876 · also married Elizabetha van der Merwe Gerthardus Lodewikus Booys… — – — Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen · — – — The wall No father. 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.…

…The death notice → Four corrections it offers our own tree: Anna Catharina is recorded there as Slier , not Schleher; her marriage to James Mountjoy is dated 9 March 1817 at Graaff-Reinet ; Thomas Jacobus lived to 1827 , not 1818; and there is a sibling our tree lacks entirely — Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy (1820–1842) . Johanna Margaritha Pretorius — the woman four documents refused to name She was the hardest person in this archive to find, and the reason is worth as much as the answer. Petrus Jacobus Booysen's first wife died in 1863 . His own death notice of 1884 enters him as married — twenty-one years later — and names a child, Gerrit Jacobus, born 19 January 1870 , who could only be another woman's.…