Nuno Fernando Lerena

…There is no photograph of their farm, and this archive does not invent one. This archive was built for David Defranceski , born in Johannesburg, living in Brisbane. It runs backwards from his grandmother Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen (1929–2013) — who married Nuno Fernando Lerena at St Joseph's, Mayfair, in 1949 — into the north-eastern Cape: to Barkly East and Dordrecht , to Cradock and Graaff-Reinet , and out again to Württemberg , to Soho , and to a County Cork that may or may not be real. It is a public archive with one rule: the living are left out — omitted, not hidden. And a second rule, which is harder: every claim says how well it is known.…

…& H.; married his first cousin once removed 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill — buried West Park 14 Dec Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (1906–1944), m. 30 Dec 1924 Vereeniging 2 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen orphaned at eighteen; the hinge to the Lerena archive 25 Mar 1929 25 Dec 2013, Johannesburg Nuno Fernando Lerena (1924–1971), m. 15 Jan 1949, St Joseph’s, Mayfair All from the MyHeritage tree Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) , read 9 September 2026. Most dates there carry a FamilySearch citation to Dutch Reformed Church registers or to Cape and Transvaal probate records; those citations are listed on Sources .…

…That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage. NO CHILDREN BY HIM. This archive drew his four children here for a month because it could name this marriage and not the other. She was fifty-one at the wedding; and her own 1902 death notice lists SIX children — two van Stadens and four Rooses — and not one Booysen. Nuno Fernando Lerena & Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen Nuno 1924 – 1971 · Catherine 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 On whose word a record read here Married 15 January 1949 at St Joseph's, Mayfair — the hinge to the Lerena archive. No children recorded No document read here places a child under this marriage. That is a statement about the records, not about the marriage.…

…reet, Forest Hill 1944 where Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius died of a ruptured extra-uterine pregnancy, aged 37 No. 1, Fifteenth Avenue, Mayfair 1940 where Kathleen Barry died of carcinoma of the uterus, aged 82 — forty years after leaving the Cape St Joseph's Catholic Church, Mayfair 15 Jan 1949 where Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen married Nuno Fernando Lerena West Park Cemetery, Johannesburg 14 Dec 1947 where George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen was buried, three days after his death 96 James Street, Germiston 1941 where Petrus Jacobus Pretorius died Turf Club Nursing Home 1947 where the second infant, Gertrude Booyzen, lived six hours Brixton Cemetery, Johannesburg 1940 where Kathleen Barry was buried — a fact the tree does not record at all Primrose Ceme…

…The 1942 notice → 30 December 1924 Vereeniging George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen & Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius a record read here A tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed — the Barry line closing on itself sixty-five years after it left. The cousin marriage → 15 January 1949 St Joseph's, Mayfair Nuno Fernando Lerena & Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen a record read here Where this archive stops and the Lerena one begins. The line → Three of them are not ordinary 8 July 1901 A wedding under martial law Pretorius and Barry married "in woonhuis D. Schoeman" at Caerlaverock — in the house of a man tried as a Cape Rebel the month before , and witnessed by him.…

…The rebels → Sibling archives Same method, same author: The Defranceski (Istria), The Falco (Arienzo, Campania), The Lerena (Rosario, the Cape, Brisbane).…

…His notice records it in four words: “death not reported.” Her age of 73 years 9 months is the only birth date this archive has for her. The Documents The Women Sources Nuno Fernando Lerena Documented 10 mentions 1924 1971 Her husband, married 15 Jan 1949 at St Joseph's, Mayfair. The Line Johannesburg Anna Maria van der Merwe Documented 10 mentions 1785 bef. Mar 1825 His wife, married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet. The Line The Women David Schalk van der Merwe Documented 4 mentions — — Married Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy at Cradock, 24 Mar 1838.…

…herine M.s. Booyzen Burial 6 Sep 1940 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | Birth 1858 record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen Birth 1917 · with: Johannes Jacobus Fouche record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen Birth 1930 · with: Nuno Fernando Lerena record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen Birth 1930 · with: Wilhelmus Johannes Kockemoer record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen reconstructed 25 Mar 1929 · 25 Dec 2013, Johannesburg no public link reconstructed by this archive Catrina Agada Booyzen Birth 18 Jan 1926 | Baptism 11 Jul 1926 Thaba Nchu, Oran…

…In order c. 20 Mar 1754 The name Johanna Booyzen born “in this Colony” Not this family — and her dates are the two this archive has for Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer, which is why she is on the site at all.…

…She left six children, the eldest eighteen and the youngest ten. Catherine was fourteen. Her husband remarried, lost two infant daughters, and died himself of a heart attack on 21 February 1947. Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen was eighteen years old and had no parents. Two years later she married Nuno Fernando Lerena at St Joseph's, Mayfair. Johannesburg → Margaret Downing signed with a cross The 1819 marriage register at St Leonard's Shoreditch records the entry in the usual form — and then, where the bride should sign: Margaret Downing † her mark. She could not write her own name. She was fifteen years old, and had that morning been sworn to be twenty-one and upwards.…