Petrus Jacobus Booyzen
Baptised in the Dutch Reformed register with a Z, son of Gert Jacobus Booyzen and Isabella Frederika Coetzee — the second marriage's line, at Middelburg, spelled Booyzen a year before the Indwe sheet.
The record
| Name | Petrus Jacobus Booyzen |
| Also written | Pieter Jacobus (1943 notice) |
| Born | 29 Dec 1904 |
| Died | 7 Jun 1937, Middelburg |
| Line | Booyzen |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
Baptised in the Dutch Reformed register with a Z, son of Gert Jacobus Booyzen and Isabella Frederika Coetzee — the second marriage's line, at Middelburg, spelled Booyzen a year before the Indwe sheet.
The documents
…Born 25 March 1929, she was eighteen when her father died, and fourteen when her mother did. Corrected throughout. 1851 · The baptism that settles an age, and names a godfather The register opening, entries 2808–2815 . Entry 2809 is second down on the left. Entry No. 2809 : Het Kind Willem Hermanus , Geboren 4 Mei 1851 , Vader Petrus Jacobus Booyzen , Moeder Johanna Catharina Mountjoy , Gedoopt 31 October 1851 . The age question is settled Documented Born 4 May 1851 , from a contemporary register, matching the tree exactly. 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 plates
…Anna Johanna Maria, geb. 3 Oct. 1906 — Petrus Jacobus Pretorius, Margaretha Wilhelmina Eliz Entry No. 2809 : Het Kind Willem Hermanus , Geboren 4 Mei 1851 , Vader Petrus Jacobus Booyzen , The father: Petrus Jacobus Boo y z en The witnesses, same hand, same ink: Pieter z en , twice Doop Register, Barkly Oost , entry 40 , 15 September 1889: Johanna Catharina , geb. 20 Juni 1889 6 October 1889: George , geb.…
The households
…19 Jan 1870 · Isabella c. May 1874 – 31 Mar 1930 On whose word a record read here Married at Middelburg, 23 March 1896. 3 children Isabella Fredrika du Plessis Petrus Jacobus Booyzen · 29 Dec 1904 – 7 Jun 1937 Gerhardus Jacobus Booyzen · b. 15 May 1910 Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen & Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh Ockert 15 Sep 1852 – 16 Jan 1921 · Elisabetta c. 1862 – bef.…
The research log
…Every attempt had gone at death notices, which either do not ask for a wife's name or got “oorlede” for an answer. A baptism names both parents: Gert Jacobus, born 19 January 1870 — the exact date on the 1884 death notice — baptised 19 June 1870, “Oud: Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius.” Read from the register image, not the index. And two children of the first marriage stood godparent to the first child of the second. 10 Sep 2026 Found The one death notice where line 3 works TAB MHG 2945/44, read at full resolution off the film. Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen, born Pretorius, died Forest Hill 26 February 1944, aged 37.…
The name
…Leave of absence, Middelburg Police Office." 1904 KAB AG 1648: 8946 "BOOYZEN, PJ. Constable. Application for leave. Middelburg." 1905 KAB AG 1772: 11084 "BOOYZEN, PJ. Constable. Leave of. Middelburg." 1907 KAB DOC 4/1/1075: 5377 Mortgage bond, Pieter Ignatius du Plessis and Petrus Jacobus Booyzen 1904 KAB DOC 4/1/1185: 1256 Mortgage bond, the same two men 1906 Not connected to this family — yet Petrus Jacobus is this family's core male name, carried by three generations of it. Middelburg is the district where Petrus Jacobus Booysen died at Zevenfontein in 1884 .…
The namesakes
…Who When What they are to the name Petrus Jacobus Booysen 1788–1876 Generation six. Died at Brakfontein, district Rustenburg, with nothing to leave. Petrus Jacobus Booysen 1812–1884 Generation five. The farmer at Zevenfontein who signed his wife's death notice. Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 Sep 1839 Third child on the 1863 death notice. Petrus Jacobus Booyzen b. 29 Dec 1904 Baptised with a Z at Middelburg, a year before the Indwe sheet spelled it with an S. Petrus Jacobus “Piet” Booyzen 1934–2003 Youngest of the Johannesburg family. Three of these share one page on this site, because merging them silently would be worse than saying so.…
Everyone
…Present at his father's death in 1905 and the informant — he signs Booyzen four lines under the clerk's Booysen. The Name The Documents Johannesburg Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen Documented 4 mentions 14 Oct 1926 1966 Second child. Birth date corrected from 1 October on her mother’s 1944 death notice. The Line Petrus Jacobus Booyzen also written Pieter Jacobus (1943 notice) Documented 10 mentions 29 Dec 1904 7 Jun 1937, Middelburg Baptised in the Dutch Reformed register with a Z, son of Gert Jacobus Booyzen and Isabella Frederika Coetzee — the second marriage's line, at Middelburg, spelled Booyzen a year before the Indwe sheet.…
The register
…er Johannes Booyzen Probate South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Orange Free State, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1990 Alfred Petrus J. Booyzen Burial 3 Jul 1975 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | Death 16 Jun 1975 | Birth 1914 record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 Alfred Petrus Jacobus Booyzen Birth 1913 · with: Olive May Susannah Koch record ↗ South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 Alfred Petrus Jacobus Booyzen Birth 1914 · with: Mary Ethel Jackson Boyter record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Alfred Petrus Jacobus Booyzen Birth 1914 · with: Sarah Elizabeth Venter record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Alfr…
The tree
…Johanna Margaritha Pretorius also married Petrus Jacobus Booysen (1812 – 1884) His second marriage, unnamed on his own 1884 death notice and named at last by a christening — the 1870 Doop Register enters the parents as “Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius”. Two more sons, neither of them in this chart. Her page → Elizabetha van der Merwe also married Petrus Jacobus Booysen (1788 – 1876) A second marriage, and a second van der Merwe — named as the mother on their son Hendrik Stephanus's 1908 death notice, whose age puts his birth about June 1828. She is not the mother of the box below her.…
The women
…Every route ran through a death, and death is exactly where this family stops remembering its women. She was named by a christening. A baptism register asks for both parents, at the moment when everyone concerned is alive and standing in the same room. Gert Jacobus was baptised on 19 June 1870 : Oud: Petrus Jacobus Booyzen en Johanna Margaritha Pretorius And at the font stood Petrus Jacobus Booijzen junior (b. 1839) and Magdalena Johanna Francina Booijzen (b. 1853) — the third and sixth children of the first marriage, on the 1863 death notice. Two of the dead wife's children godparented the new wife's first baby.…
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