Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter

…So of the three figures the archive had, the marriage register is the outlier : it gives his age as 22 in December 1879, when he was 28 . His 1905 death registration says 55 , which is right within a year. The 1879 entry is wrong by six years. And he was named for his godfather The witnesses are Willem Hermanus Pieterzen , Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter and Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen . (The archive scan corrects this archive's earlier reading of the surname as Pietersen — see below; the first given name, earlier read as Iwerus , is still not certain.) Johanna Catharina Mountjoy's half-brothers were Pieterzens — the sons of Anna Catharina Sleer by her first marriage. The archive had them only as names in a list.…

…The Name The Documents Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen Documented 3 mentions — — Third witness at the 1851 baptism. The given name is not certain. The Documents Isabella Fredrika du Plessis also written born Booyzen Documented 4 mentions — — Eldest on the 1943 notice, and the third of her name in three generations. 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.…

…lla Stephasina Pietersen Pieterzen · Pieter Stephanus Pieterzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Death Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen with: Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen with: Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter · C Potgieter record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen with: Anna Willemina Pieterzen · Marie Elisabeth Van Deventer record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-199…