Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen
Signed his father’s 1908 death notice as “son of the deceased” — thirty-two years after his father had signed his own father’s at Brakfontein. Second of the seven children on his mother’s 1891 notice, and he carries HER father’s name: Ocken Johannes Oliefier. Confirmed at Rustenburg on 3 April 1869, the same day as his brother Petrus Jacobus. He died at Klerksdorp on 16 January 1921, aged 69 — a civil registration, which names no parents.
This archive filed her for a week as a stranger called Anna Johanna Booijzen BORN ALBERTS who died at BOEKFONTEIN. Both readings were wrong, and together they kept a documented wife and two documented children off this family.
The record
| Name | Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen |
| Also written | Ceker Johannes Stephanus Booÿsen (1869) · Okker Johannis Stephanus Booysen (1921) |
| Born | 15 Sep 1852 |
| Died | 16 Jan 1921, Klerksdorp |
| Line | Booyzen |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
Signed his father’s 1908 death notice as “son of the deceased” — thirty-two years after his father had signed his own father’s at Brakfontein. Second of the seven children on his mother’s 1891 notice, and he carries HER father’s name: Ocken Johannes Oliefier. Confirmed at Rustenburg on 3 April 1869, the same day as his brother Petrus Jacobus. He died at Klerksdorp on 16 January 1921, aged 69 — a civil registration, which names no parents.
The documents
…There is no b , no r-t-s , and no second syllable that could carry -berts . Oliefier is how a man who writes Booijzen , Stefanes and Brakfontijn spells OLIVIER. And the archive does not have to guess, because her own son wrote her name down again . Seventeen years later, filling in his father's death notice, Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen gave the first wife as "Anna Catharina Johanna Booysen, born Olivier" . The 1908 notice → Three documents, three spellings of one woman: Anna Johanna on her own notice, Anna Catrena on her son's, Anna Catharina Johanna on her husband's. Put together, she is Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier , and every one of them agrees on the surname. Seven children, all of age Question twelve, entire.…
The households
…Her husband remarried at Zeerust eleven months later. The four on his 1908 notice are the four of these seven who were still alive in 1908. The 1891 notices 7 children Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg · 20 Apr 1851 – bef. 1908 Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen · 15 Sep 1852 – 16 Jan 1921 Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen Elesabettha Maria Cornelya Booijsen Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter Magdalena Johanna Booijsen of Brakfontein Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen · c. 31 Jan 1862 – 14 May 1891 This archive filed her for a week as a stranger called Anna Johanna Booijzen BORN ALBERTS who died at BOEKFONTEIN.…
Everyone
…A niece born 1853 carries the name again. The Documents The Women Hendrik Stephanus Nicolaas Booyen also written the nephew Documented 5 mentions 4 Jan 1882, Rustenburg 8 Oct 1959, Kempton Park Baptised at Rustenburg on 30 January 1882, son of Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen and Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh — and named for his uncle, who was then twenty and would be dead at Brakfontein before the boy turned ten. He outlived that uncle by sixty-eight years. The Rustenburg register Namesakes Anna Catharina Booysen Documented 4 mentions 21 Sep 1842 bef. 1863 Baptised Graaff-Reinet, and absent from her mother's 1863 death notice — she died first.…
…The Documents The Register Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen Documented 3 mentions 16 Jul 1853 — Sixth on the 1863 list. The Documents Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen also written Ceker Johannes Stephanus Booÿsen (1869) · Okker Johannis Stephanus Booysen (1921) Documented 6 mentions 15 Sep 1852 16 Jan 1921, Klerksdorp Signed his father’s 1908 death notice as “son of the deceased” — thirty-two years after his father had signed his own father’s at Brakfontein. Second of the seven children on his mother’s 1891 notice, and he carries HER father’s name: Ocken Johannes Oliefier.…
The register
…Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Nicolaas Pieter Frederik Booijsen with: Dirk Johannes Booijsen · Elizabeth Huibregt Scholtz record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Ockert Johannes Stefanus Booysen of 1894 reconstructed 16 May 1894 no public link reconstructed by this archive Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen reconstructed 15 Sep 1852 · 16 Jan 1921, Klerksdorp no public link reconstructed by this archive October Booijsen with: Lena Stallenberg record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Oeloff Christoffel Booijsen Birth 1899 · with: Abraham Jacobus Burger record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 P J Booijsen with: Cornelia Johanna Christina Bo…
The timeline
…be 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 Mountjoy dies at Barkly East 1940 — Kathleen Barry dies in Mayfair, a “Military Pen…
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