John Augustus Barry I

…Everything from 1819 forward is solid. Everything before it falls apart. John Augustus Barry I, 1819–1903 The most documented person in the Booyzen ancestry, and the least certain. Born 8 June 1819 — recorded in the tree, literally, as "?Sunderland, Durham, England? Ireland? High Seas?" Trades Carpenter and Builder · timmerman en bouwvakker · Grocer · Labourer — five occupation records, all working trades Married c.…

…By 1908 all four children were adults, two of them married women. The archive put them under the marriage it could name rather than the marriage that could have produced them. → A document read past what it says 13 Sep 2026 “Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry was John Augustus Barry I’s daughter” She was his granddaughter. The 1915 death notice names eight children and she is not among them; her father is Hendrik Nicholaas Barry, whose other children were baptised at Dordrecht and Slang River between 1888 and 1900. Moved down a generation — which is where the cousin marriage of 1924 needs her to be, and the archive had her in the wrong place while asserting it.…

…They were cousins — and their marriage folds the family tree back on itself. The two descents John Augustus Barry I (1819-1903) === Margaretha W. E. M. Kolbe (1826-1912) | | +-------------------+--------------+-------------------+ | | Catherine Maria Sophia Hendrik Nicholaas Barry (1857-1931) "Kathleen" Barry (1859-1940) === Anna Johanna Maria Schoemann (1859-1923) === Willem Hermanus Booyzen | (1851-1905) | | Margarietha W. E.…

…Separate them. → John Barry — his parents Recorded as “Unknown Barry” and “Unknown Barry”, with a brother entered as “Other Barry's - South Africa Barry”. Fatal These are placeholders, not people. The Barry line ends here, whatever the profile suggests. → John Augustus Barry I & James Barry Both sons recorded born 8 June 1819 — one at “?Sunderland? Ireland? High Seas?”, the other in County Cork. Serious Twins born in two countries, or one man duplicated. If duplicated, “County Cork” is John Augustus's own birthplace and the Irish claim strengthens.…

…Doop Register, Barkly Oost , entry 40 , 15 September 1889: Johanna Catharina , geb. 20 Juni 1889; Ouders Willem Hermanus Booijsen and Catharina Maria Sophia Barry ; Getuigen John Barry and Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Kolby . The godparents are the child's own maternal grandparents — John Augustus Barry I , the Irishman born at sea, and Margaretha Kolbe , the 1820 Settler's daughter, standing together at a font in Barkly East in September 1889. 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.…

…10 Sep 1839 Anna Catharina Booysen · 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 David Schalk Booysen · b. 9 Jun 1848 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen · 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 (the direct line) Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen · b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen · b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen · b. 21 Sep 1857 John Augustus Barry I & Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe John 1819 – 1903 · Margaretha 1826 – 1912 On whose word a record read here Married about 1850 at BURGHERSDORP — “probably”, says their own son on the 1915 notice, who did not know. His 1903 registration says they had ELEVEN children; the 1915 notice names EIGHT. Three are missing and this archive cannot name one of them.…

…He signed her death notice twenty-five years later. The 1863 notice → 20 August 1848 Cradock George Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha a record read here Certificate 735. Thirteen children — and their forenames run out through three more surnames. 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.…

…The Documents The Women Anna Catharina Grobelaar also written born Booysen Documented 3 mentions — — Married in community of property to Willem Grobelaar, in whose house at Koedoesfontein her father died. The Documents The Women John Augustus Barry I Documented 12 mentions 1819, “at sea (exact whereabouts unknown), British” 1903 His 1915 death notice types the birthplace as at sea and his mother as “born Neagle”. Cape Mounted Rifles.…

…k reconstructed by this archive Harriet Louisa Barry reconstructed 1894 · 7 Sep 1912, Barkly East no public link reconstructed by this archive Hendrik Nicholaas Barry reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive James Henry Barry reconstructed c. 1847 · 23 Jun 1939, Barkly East no public link reconstructed by this archive John Augustus Barry I reconstructed 1819, “at sea (exact whereabouts unknown), British” · 1903 no public link reconstructed by this archive John Augustus Barry II reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive John Barry reconstructed 1796 · 1853 no public link reconstructed by this archive John Gerson Eliazer Barry reconstructed 1893 · 8 Mar 1941, Barkly East no public link reconstructed by this archive…

…Kolbe FamilySearch Family Tree — both Petrus Jacobus Booysens Testimony Tersia Booyzen , recorded on the MyHeritage profile of Willem Hermanus Booyzen — the name-change and Anglo-Boer War account, given as told to her by her father. Quoted in full → An unattributed earlier researcher , recorded on the profiles of John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Kolbe — the account of the three conflicting birth records, the "Neagle" maiden name, and the anti-English reputation.…

…A carpenter, eighty-four, with eleven children. It answers the oldest question on the Barry side and corrects two things this archive had published. John Augustus Barry I Richard Peter Barry Manorowen Barkly East 13 Sep 1905 The name The name changes on one sheet of paper Willem Hermanus Booyzen dies at Indwe of an ulcer of the stomach after fourteen months' illness — not shot by the British. The clerk writes BOOYSEN; his son signs BOOYZEN four lines below.…

…Not Known.” Written 1840, thirteen years after he died. Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Anna Catharina Sleer · 1787 – 1885 · also married Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Catherine M. S. “Kathleen”… 1859 – 1940 Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · 1859 – 1940 John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 John Augustus Barry I · 1819 – 1903 John Barry 1796 – 1853 John Barry · 1796 – 1853 Disputed One profile holding two men — a Yorkshire farmer of Bilsdale and a man who died at de Bruins Poort. His son's 1903 registration says only: an Irishman, born in Ireland. Margaretha W. E. M.…