Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg

…The direct ancestor died in district Rustenburg in 1876 — twenty-five years before the war, a generation before Johannesburg. Two other notices read the same afternoon sit in the same country: a Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg, born Booyzen , who died at Vaalbank in the district of Lichtenburg in 1920 and whose father is entered as Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booyzen ; and an an Anna Johanna Booijzen , born in the district of Cradock about 1823, who died on a farm in the district of Rustenburg in 1891, leaving children called Petrus Jacobus, Magdalena Johanna and Hendrik Stephanus Nicolaas.…

…bef. 1908 Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen Jan 1818 – 25 May 1885 On whose word a record read here Named as her father on her 1920 Sterfkennis at Vaalbank — the same farm in the district of Lichtenburg where he had died thirty-five years earlier. The 1885 estate, corrected 1 child Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg · c. Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920 Pieter Coetzee & Isabella Fredrika Coetzee Pieter d. bef. 1930 · Isabella d. bef. 1930 On whose word a record read here Named together in line 3 of their daughter's 1943 death notice, both already dead. The 1943 notice 1 child Isabella Frederika Coetsee · c. May 1874 – 31 Mar 1930 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe & Susanna Adriana Roodt Willem c.…

…13 Sep 2026 Found Lichtenburg joins the line The same correction does the opposite favour. Vaalbank, in the district of Lichtenburg, is where the 1876 man's son died in 1885 — and this archive had already read a 1920 Sterfkennis from that farm for Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg, born Booyzen about 1860, father entered as Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booyzen, filed under “NOT PROVED”. She is his daughter. Two deaths on one farm thirty-five years apart, which is settlement rather than passage. Read west along the atlas: Rustenburg 1876, Lichtenburg 1885 and 1920, Marico 1903.…

…The Line The Documents The Women Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie also written Benadi · Booysen Documented 3 mentions — — His wife, named with him on two baptisms at Rustenburg, in 1889 and 1894. Both entries are index-only. The Rustenburg register The Women Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg also written born Booyzen Documented 8 mentions c. Aug 1860 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg His daughter, and the first person in the western Transvaal this archive can attach to the line rather than merely set beside it.…

…South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Lena Millie Frachet reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Louisa Elizabeth Diesel reconstructed 11 Jun 1923 no public link reconstructed by this archive Magdalena Johanna Botha reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg reconstructed c. Aug 1860 · 1 May 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg no public link reconstructed by this archive Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer reconstructed 1754 · 1843 no public link reconstructed by this archive Margaret Mary Bedford reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Jeanette van Jaarsveld reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by…

…The oldest document this archive has read, and it was sitting in a name index the whole time. Found only because the search stopped asking for the nine references NAAIRS had given and started reading the surname. BOOYZEN, exact surname, same collection, second page of results Two more notices read in full Partly Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg, born Booyzen (d. 1920, Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg), whose father is entered as Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booyzen; and Anna Johanna Booijzen, born Cradock about 1823, died 1891 on a farm in the district of Rustenburg, with children called Petrus Jacobus, Magdalena Johanna and Hendrik Stephanus Nicolaas. Right names, right districts, right decades.…

…1823 1891 Read, and she is kin Died Brakfontein , district Rustenburg — the family farm. Parents Ocken Johannes Oliefier and Anna Johanna Botha. The first wife of Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen, with seven children. Filed here for a week as born Alberts, at Boekfontein, kinship unproven ; both readings were wrong. Sterfkennis 44420 Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg, born Booyzen — b. c. 1860 1920 Read, kinship unproven Died Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg. Father entered as Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booyzen . How they were found matters more than what they say. The nine references below came from NAAIRS, one search at a time, and this archive spent days working through them.…

…en dies at Koedoesfontein, Rustenburg 2 Aug 1912 — Margaret Elizabeth Barry née Kolbe dies at Manorowen 7 Sep 1912 — Harriet Louisa Barry dies of typhoid at Cherryville, aged eighteen 13 May 1915 — “Father: Kolbe, thinks James was christian name. Mother: Unknown.” 29 Mar 1915 — John Barry's estate reported, twelve years late 1 May 1920 — Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg, born Booyzen, dies at Vaalbank 16 Jan 1921 — 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 Mou…