John Barry Booyzen

…They are not the same word. The clerk, September 1905: Willem Hermanus Boo y sen His son, the same day: J. B. Boo y z en The father is registered under the old spelling. The son signs the new one. Both are on the same page, in September 1905 — three years after the Anglo-Boer War ended. The informant is John Barry Booyzen (b. 1884), the eldest son, then twenty-one, recorded as present at the death . This is as close to a photograph of the surname changing as the archive is ever likely to find. The name → 1879 · The marriage register — and one ambiguous letter Duplicaat Origineel Register , in Dutch. Entry 15, 22 December 1879.…

…Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry Willem 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 · Catherine 1859 – 1940 On whose word a record read here Married 22 December 1879 — the marriage register that carries the disputed signature. The name 8 children John Barry Booyzen · b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe · c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 (inferred) David Kolbe Booyzen (the family tree) Henry James Booyzen (the family tree) Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen (the family tree) Johanna Catharina Booyzen · b.…

…The move, as the birthplaces record it Nobody wrote down the date the family left the Cape. But children have to be born somewhere, and the register moves.…

…BOOYZEN returns 39 in the Cape and 184 across all repositories. One hundred and forty-five documents unseen, including the estate files of nearly everyone in the last three generations. 10 Sep 2026 Found The Johannesburg generation's estates, found Anna Pretorius (1944), George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen (1947), John Barry Booyzen (1952), Henry James Booyzen (1956) — and Catharina Maria Sophia, the daughter baptised at Barkly Oost in 1891, who married a Daschner and died in 1946. Also two of the eight children on the 1863 death notice, and both sons of the second marriage. 10 Sep 2026 Found The 1820 voyage confirmed — and a second lie found under it Every date the tree carried for the Nautilus is right.…

…The registering clerk names the dead man: Willem Hermanus Boo y sen Four lines below, his son signs: J. B. Boo y z en The informant is John Barry Booyzen , the eldest son, twenty-one, recorded as present at the death . His father is buried under the old spelling; he signs the new one. The full document → Family lore The motive — the joiners — is testimony, and cannot be proved from a spelling alone.…

…The films that carry them refuse to serve images: film 007830063 and every film after it in the collection returns 403, and those are exactly the ones running to 1946 and later. MHG 1095/48 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen, d. 1947 MHG 3734/46 Catherine Mary Sophia Daschner, born Booyzen — should name her parents MHG 769/52 John Barry Booyzen, who signed the 1905 form MHG 5155/51 Gert Jacobus Booyzen, b. 19 Jan 1870 MHG 10/57 Henry James Booyzen MHG 52653 Jacobus Nichols Booyzen, 1923 — the one that cannot even be found on film Sent 13 September 2026 to enquiries2@dsac.gov.za , the research address on the National Archives' own contact page, copied to the Head of Client Services.…

…The Documents Open Questions The Women Johanna Catharina Booyzen Documented 6 mentions 20 Jun 1889 — Baptised at Barkly Oost 15 Sep 1889 with both maternal grandparents standing as godparents — and on the facing page of the same register, the Mountjoy baptism three weeks later. The Documents John Barry Booyzen Documented 11 mentions c. 1884 — Eldest son. Present at his father's death in 1905 and the informant — he signs Booyzen four lines under the clerk's Booysen. The Name The Documents Johannesburg Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen Documented 4 mentions 14 Oct 1926 1966 Second child. Birth date corrected from 1 October on her mother’s 1944 death notice.…

…rdús Booÿzen Membership 2 May 1836 Cradock, Cape Colony, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Johannis Zagaryas Jacobus Booyzen Membership 12 Jun 1835 Colesberg, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 John Barry Booyzen Burial Brakpan, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa | Death 23 Jan 1952 | Birth 26 Apr 1884 record ↗ Find a Grave Index John Barry Booyzen Birth 1919 · with: Gertruida Johanna Olivier record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 John Barry Booyzen Birth 1914 | Burial 28 Dec 1916 Brixton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johann…

…22 Apr 1891 1946 Blocked Film access restricted online. TAB MHG 1095/48 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1947 Blocked Film access restricted online. The ark 1:1:QGXP-3MKR is his wife's file, already read. TAB MHG 5155/51 Gert Jacobus Booyzen — b. 19 Jan 1870 1951 Blocked Film access restricted online. TAB MHG 769/52 John Barry Booyzen — who signed the 1905 form 1952 Blocked Film access restricted online. TAB MHG 10/57 Henry James Booyzen 1956 Blocked Film access restricted online. TAB MHG 52653 Jacobus Nichols Booyzen — eldest on the 1863 list 1923 Not found In the open half of the collection, but not name-indexed, and the films are not ordered by estate number.…

…The clerk writes BOOYSEN; his son signs BOOYZEN four lines below. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen John Barry Booyzen Indwe 31 May 1907 Document Willem Hermanus Booijzen confirmed at Indwe, aged 21 An eighth child this archive did not have — in a class that also holds the two Roodt women who would bear his children. Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe Indwe 11 May 1908 Document Hendrik Stephanus Booysen dies at Koedoesfontein, Rustenburg He signed his father's Sterfkennis in 1876.…

…And Frederik Fortsenatus Booÿsen (b. 1899) is a worn-down copy of Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe (b. 1839), by way of Frederick Fortunatus Barry (b. 1863). The women's families did not vanish into the Booyzen name. They were carried inside it.…