Tersia Booyzen

…The documents → Ways in Search everything Everyone 78 The places 28 The tree The timeline 43 The atlas The plates 83 What was searched 30 What the family remembers, and how it has held up One long piece of testimony sits at the centre of this archive — recorded on the family tree from Tersia Booyzen , told to her by her father. It carries seven separate claims. None of them has yet been proved. Two are already in trouble, and three now have strong circumstantial support that did not exist before this archive was built.…

…Documented He was not shot by anybody. The death registration → Inferred Three readings survive, and the archive does not choose between them: The generations are miscounted. Tersia Booyzen was counting from herself, not from the current researcher. Her "great great grandfather" may be a man this archive has not identified. "Shot and killed" is not an execution. It may mean killed in action, or shot during a farm clearance — neither of which would appear on the treason lists.…

…The claim being tested "There were some Booysens who were joiners, fighting on the side of the British, so our great grandfather changed the spelling to Booyzen so as not to be associated with them." — family testimony recorded on the MyHeritage tree from Tersia Booyzen. The full account → Documented That a change happened is on the record twice over. MyHeritage carries "Former name: Booysen" as a formal Name Change fact on Willem Hermanus "William Henry" Booyzen (1851–1905) — and, far better, both spellings appear on a single sheet of paper in September 1905 .…

…His 1940 Sterfkennis was fetched because it should have named his mother; his widow wrote only “oorlede” for both parents. Married Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff at Mossel Bay; eleven children; left immovable property and a will. The Documents Open Questions Tersia Booyzen Testimony 7 mentions living — Recorded the name-change and Anglo-Boer War account on the MyHeritage tree, as told to her by her father. The Rebels The Name Sources Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen · generation 4 also written Booysen (1905 clerk) Documented 8 mentions 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg 13 Sep 1905, Indwe Farmer in 1879, mason in 1905.…

…After the war our great great grandmother (with nothing but a pumpkin to eat) put herself and her kids on a train to Johannesburg where the boys initially all got jobs on the mines to make ends meet." Recorded on the MyHeritage profile of Willem Hermanus "William Henry" Booyzen and attributed there to Tersia Booyzen , who gives her own father as her source. It is therefore third-hand at best, and none the worse for saying so. Eight claims, one at a time The claim Status Why They were living in the Cape Colony Confirmed Every birth, marriage and death in the line from 1788 to 1907 is in the Cape Colony — Graaff-Reinet, Cradock, Barkly East, Dordrecht, Indwe.…

…d ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1961 Sylvetser Booyzen — record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 Tametha Cicelia Booyzen with: Sara Johanna Lombard · Hendrk Benjamin Lombard record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Tersia Booyzen reconstructed living no public link reconstructed by this archive Thelma Grace Booyzen Birth 1928 · with: Joachim Petrus Kruger record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Theunisina Jacoba Nicholas Booyzen Birth 18 Aug 1843 | Baptism 3 Mar 1844 Winterberg, Cape Province, South Africa · with: Hester Susara Oosthuizen · Dirk Booyzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registe…

…Kolbe FamilySearch Family Tree — both Petrus Jacobus Booysens Testimony Tersia Booyzen , recorded on the MyHeritage profile of Willem Hermanus Booyzen — the name-change and Anglo-Boer War account, given as told to her by her father. Quoted in full → An unattributed earlier researcher , recorded on the profiles of John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Kolbe — the account of the three conflicting birth records, the "Neagle" maiden name, and the anti-English reputation.…