The Booyzen Archive
Booyzen · 8 mentions across 8 pages

Richard Peter Booyzen

TWENTY-FOUR, buried at Brixton on 27 October 1918 — the centre of Black October, the influenza that killed some fourteen thousand people on the Rand in six weeks. NOT PREVIOUSLY IN THIS ARCHIVE, and added as a ninth child of Willem Hermanus and Kathleen Barry on two grounds and no document: RICHARD PETER is the name of Kathleen's own brother, named on their father's 1903 registration and on the Cape Rebel roll; and a boy born about 1894 falls exactly in the gap between Catharina Maria Sophia in 1891 and George Downing Mountjoy in 1901. A burial register names no parents. Marked INFERRED.

Richard Peter Booyzenc. 1894 – buried 27 Oct 1918Booyzen
the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified6 of the 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 2 are inferred from one. 3 come from the family tree and are unverified. The name →Married 22 December 1879 — the marriage register that carries the disputed signature.

Every record naming Richard Peter Booyzen →

The record

NameRichard Peter Booyzen
Bornc. 1894
Diedburied 27 Oct 1918, Brixton Cemetery
LineBooyzen
ConfidenceInferred

What the archive holds

TWENTY-FOUR, buried at Brixton on 27 October 1918 — the centre of Black October, the influenza that killed some fourteen thousand people on the Rand in six weeks. NOT PREVIOUSLY IN THIS ARCHIVE, and added as a ninth child of Willem Hermanus and Kathleen Barry on two grounds and no document: RICHARD PETER is the name of Kathleen's own brother, named on their father's 1903 registration and on the Cape Rebel roll; and a boy born about 1894 falls exactly in the gap between Catharina Maria Sophia in 1891 and George Downing Mountjoy in 1901. A burial register names no parents. Marked INFERRED.

The cemeteries, sweptThe BarrysNamesakes

What changed

…And two infants at Brixton the archive did not have at all. THEN OCTOBER 1918. RICHARD PETER BOOYZEN, twenty-four, buried at Brixton on the 27th — the centre of Black October. This archive has no Richard Peter Booyzen and it should: Richard Peter Barry is Kathleen's own brother, and a boy born about 1894 falls exactly in the gap between her daughter of 1891 and her son of 1901. Added as a ninth child, marked INFERRED, because a burial register names no parents. Two more Booysens went into the same ground within eight weeks and neither can be shown to be kin.…

The documents

…Already held. John Barry Booyzen the infant 28 Dec 1916 2 years , Brixton, born 1914. Not the John Barry Booyzen who signed his father’s death registration at Indwe in 1905 — a second child of the name, and the archive did not have him. Anna J. Mary Booyzen 23 Jan 1914 0 days , Brixton. Not previously held. And then October 1918 Richard Peter Booyzen, twenty-four years old, buried at Brixton on 27 October 1918. That is the exact centre of what Johannesburg called Black October — the second wave of the influenza, which killed something like fourteen thousand people on the Rand in six weeks. This archive does not have a Richard Peter Booyzen. It should.…

The households

…c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe · c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 (inferred) David Kolbe Booyzen (the family tree) Henry James Booyzen · c. 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 (the family tree) Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen (the family tree) Johanna Catharina Booyzen · b. 20 Jun 1889 Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen · 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 Richard Peter Booyzen · c. 1894 – buried 27 Oct 1918 (inferred) George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen · 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 (the direct line) Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe Petrus c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 · Anna 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 On whose word the family tree Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet, on the family tree.…

The research log

…And two infants at Brixton the archive did not have at all. THEN OCTOBER 1918. RICHARD PETER BOOYZEN, twenty-four, buried at Brixton on the 27th — the centre of Black October. This archive has no Richard Peter Booyzen and it should: Richard Peter Barry is Kathleen's own brother, and a boy born about 1894 falls exactly in the gap between her daughter of 1891 and her son of 1901. Added as a ninth child, marked INFERRED, because a burial register names no parents. Two more Booysens went into the same ground within eight weeks and neither can be shown to be kin.…

Everyone

…The Name Open Questions Petrus Jacobus “Piet” Booyzen Documented 5 mentions 10 Jan 1934, Johannesburg 2003 Sixth child. The Line Richard Peter Booyzen Inferred 8 mentions c. 1894 buried 27 Oct 1918, Brixton Cemetery TWENTY-FOUR, buried at Brixton on 27 October 1918 — the centre of Black October, the influenza that killed some fourteen thousand people on the Rand in six weeks.…

The register

…tta Booyzen Birth 1881 · with: Johannes George Kilian record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Marriages, 1870-1931 Richard Booyzen Birth 6 Apr 1945 | Baptism 20 May 1945 Worcester, Cape Province, South Africa · with: Willem Booyzen · Maggie Booyzen record ↗ South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 Richard Peter Booyzen Birth 1894 | Burial 27 Oct 1918 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 Richard Peter Booyzen Birth 1894 | Death 25 Oct 1918 Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Richard Peter Booyzen Birth 1895 · with: Anna Magdalena Koorts record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal,…

What has been searched

…Grave numbers 2 of 10 Partly The index rows carry name, age, date and cemetery; the grave number is on the register image, and only two have been read page by page so far. The rest are a morning's work. The 1918 influenza 3 burials, 1 claimed Partly Richard Peter Booyzen, 24, buried 27 October 1918 at Brixton — claimed as kin on the naming and the gap in the children, marked INFERRED. John Zacharia Booysen, 29, buried 26 November, and Johanna A. Booysen, nought days, on 19 December: NOT claimed. No forename in this family reaches them and Booysen is common on the Rand.…

The timeline

…s at Manorowen 2 Aug 1912 — Margaretha Kolbe dies at Manorowen, and names a ninth child 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 27 Oct 1918 — Black October: Richard Peter Booyzen, twenty-four, buried at Brixton 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 Johann…

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