Mary Elizabeth Kolbe
MARGARETHA'S SISTER, and the woman who married GEORGE FREDERICK ENSLIN — which is the whole answer to a contradiction this archive carried as Serious, that Margaretha appeared to marry Enslin while married to John Barry. It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice. The Burgersdorp register of 23 October 1853 shows it instead: the two sisters baptising a son each, two entries apart, on one page.
The record
| Name | Mary Elizabeth Kolbe |
| Also written | Enslin |
| Born | — |
| Died | bef. 1867 |
| Line | Kolbe |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
MARGARETHA'S SISTER, and the woman who married GEORGE FREDERICK ENSLIN — which is the whole answer to a contradiction this archive carried as Serious, that Margaretha appeared to marry Enslin while married to John Barry. It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice. The Burgersdorp register of 23 October 1853 shows it instead: the two sisters baptising a son each, two entries apart, on one page.
The documents
…It was resolved from Margaret Downing’s 1867 death notice , which lists among her children “Mary Elizabeth (dead) who was married to George F. Enslin” . The Enslin marriage belongs to Margaretha’s sister . Here are the two sisters, on one page, on one day, baptising a son each. Mary Elizabeth Kolbe with her Enslin, Margareth Kolbe with her Barry, two entries apart in the Burgersdorp register on 23 October 1853. The contradiction → And it puts them at Burgersdorp. The 1915 death notice says the marriage was at “Burghersdorp (probably)” — a son guessing, sixty-five years on, at something nobody had told him.…
The households
…c. 1804 On whose word a record read here Married 1819 — both were sixteen, and the Nautilus passenger roll of 1820 overstates both their ages by four years. The Kolbes 9 children Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe · 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 (the direct line) Mary Elizabeth Kolbe · d. bef. 1867 John Kolbe (inferred) George Kolbe (inferred) Catharine Kolbe (inferred) Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe Peter Benjamin Kolbe Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe Petrus c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 · Anna 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 On whose word a record read here Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet.…
Everyone
…She died in R. P. Barry’s house at Manorowen and left NOTHING — no movable property, no immovable, estate Nil, no will. And she names NINE children where her husband’s notice names eight. The ninth is WILLIAM. Estate 1291 The Kolbes The Barrys The Women Marian Kolbe Documented 5 mentions — — Of the London Kolbes. The Kolbes Mary Elizabeth Kolbe also written Enslin Documented 5 mentions — bef. 1867 MARGARETHA'S SISTER, and the woman who married GEORGE FREDERICK ENSLIN — which is the whole answer to a contradiction this archive carried as Serious, that Margaretha appeared to marry Enslin while married to John Barry. It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice.…
The register
…7 record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Mary Ann Kolbe Birth 1907 | Residence Woodstock | Death 23 Oct 1907 South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 Mary Ann Kolbe Burial 26 Oct 1907 | Death Maitland, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe Birth 1925 | Death 3 Mar 1992 | Burial 7 Mar 1992 Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe reconstructed bef. 1867 no public link reconstructed by this archive Mary Kolbe Death 21 June 1928 Harrismith, Orange Free State, South Africa | Birth 1926 record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 Mary Kolbe Burial 21 Oct…
The timeline
…Here are the two sisters baptising a son each, two entries apart, on one page. It also finds WILLIAM — who existed yesterday on a single line of his mother's 1915 death notice and nowhere else — and puts the family at BURGERSDORP, where the 1915 notice only guessed the marriage was. William Barry Mary Elizabeth Kolbe Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe John Kolbe George Kolbe Burgersdorp 25 Dec 1862 Document A baptism at Rustenburg that spells the name this archive got wrong Hendrik Nicolaas Stephanus Booijsen, born 31 January 1862, baptised on Christmas Day at Rustenburg. Father Hendrik Stephanus Booijsen; mother ANNA JOHANNA OLIVIER.…
Others on the Kolbe side
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