The Booyzen Archive
Booyzen · 13 mentions across 9 pages

Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe

AN EIGHTH CHILD, and one this archive did not have. Confirmed at Indwe on 31 May 1907, aged 21, entered “Booijzen”. A MIJNWERKER of DUGMORE MIJN when he married Susanna Adriana Roodt, 16, at Indwe on 21 September 1908 — the only miner in five generations of read occupations, and the answer to the last line of the family testimony. Two children in nine months by two women of the same surname, both entered “onecht”. His mother stood godmother at the first font, which is how this archive knows whose son he is. AND THEN JOHANNESBURG: a WILLIAM HERMAN BOOYZEN, 47, born Cape Province, married, EX MINER UNDERGROUND, of 62 Langford Street, Booysens, died at Johannesburg Hospital on 29 July 1932 of a perforated duodenal ulcer after about one day, and was buried at BRIXTON on 31 July. The occupation, the province, the age within a year and the cemetery all fit; no parents are named, because a civil registration does not ask. Marked INFERRED for that reason.

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified10 of the 14 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 1 is 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.Married at Indwe on 21 September 1908, certificate 13 — he 22 and a mijnwerker, she 16 and her parents consenting, both living at Dugmore Mijn. Indwe, 1907–1910 →Not a marriage. She is named as the mother on the Indwe baptism of 22 September 1910, and the entry is marked onecht. She was confirmed in the same class as him and as Susanna Adriana Roodt on 31 May 1907. Indwe, 1907–1910 →

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The record

NameWillem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe
Also writtenBooijzen (1907 lidmate register) · William Hermanus (1908 marriage) · William Herman Booyzen (1932)
Bornc. 1886
Died29 Jul 1932, Johannesburg Hospital — PROBABLY
LineBooyzen
ConfidenceInferred

What the archive holds

AN EIGHTH CHILD, and one this archive did not have. Confirmed at Indwe on 31 May 1907, aged 21, entered “Booijzen”. A MIJNWERKER of DUGMORE MIJN when he married Susanna Adriana Roodt, 16, at Indwe on 21 September 1908 — the only miner in five generations of read occupations, and the answer to the last line of the family testimony. Two children in nine months by two women of the same surname, both entered “onecht”. His mother stood godmother at the first font, which is how this archive knows whose son he is. AND THEN JOHANNESBURG: a WILLIAM HERMAN BOOYZEN, 47, born Cape Province, married, EX MINER UNDERGROUND, of 62 Langford Street, Booysens, died at Johannesburg Hospital on 29 July 1932 of a perforated duodenal ulcer after about one day, and was buried at BRIXTON on 31 July. The occupation, the province, the age within a year and the cemetery all fit; no parents are named, because a civil registration does not ask. Marked INFERRED for that reason.

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Where the archive puts Willem

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The documents

…Transvaal Civil Death 1869–1954 · 1:1:W9CB-BNMM . All read 13 September 2026. No image is available for any of the church entries. 1908 & 1932 · The second Willem Hermanus — married at sixteen and twenty-two, dead in Booysens This archive has had Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe as a name with a beginning and no end: a lidmaat at Indwe in 1907, a mijnwerker on two baptisms, a marriage known only from an index, and then nothing at all after 1910. Two things are new here. The marriage register page itself has now been read, and it is worth reading.…

…This archive's list of the children of Willem Hermanus Booyzen and Kathleen Barry ran John Barry (c. 1884), then Johanna Catharina (1889). There was a gap and nobody had noticed it. Then a marriage, and one word in it Duplicaat Origineel Register , Indwe, parish of Indwe, district Wodehouse . Certificate 13 . 21 September 1908 Groom William Hermanus Booyzen , 22, jonkman Bride Susanna Adriana Roodt , 16, jongedochter Beroep MIJNWERKER Woonplaats Dugmore Mijn — both of them Toestemming Ouders — she was sixteen, so her parents had to consent Married by J. J. Krige, predikant der Ned. Geref. Kerk Rang of Beroep: Mijnwerker. Woonplaats tijdens het Huwelijk: Dugmore Mijn. A Booyzen, on a mine, in a document.…

The households

…Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry Willem 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 · Catherine 1859 – 1940 On whose word a record read here Married 22 December 1879 — the marriage register that carries the disputed signature. The name 8 children John Barry Booyzen · b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe · c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 (inferred) David Kolbe Booyzen (the family tree) Henry James Booyzen (the family tree) Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen (the family tree) Johanna Catharina Booyzen · b.…

The research log

…It does not prove the identification. It does show that whoever named that child was standing inside the family this archive is describing. And a second reason why no Barry is in the Cape Master's index: John Barry's 1915 estate was administered at GRAHAMSTOWN, not Cape Town. 13 Sep 2026 Worked Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe stops in 1910 Item 5 was to read the Indwe registers forward from 1910 for the miner. The Dutch Reformed index holds nothing further: no third baptism, no marriage after 1908, no death.…

The marriages

…The 1943 notice → 8 July 1901 Caerlaverock, Barkly Oost Petrus Jacobus Pretorius & Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry a record read here “In woonhuis D. Schoeman” — in the house of a man tried as a Cape Rebel the month before, under martial law, witnessed by him. The rebels → 21 September 1908 Indwe Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe & Susanna Adriana Roodt a record read here Certificate 13. He is 22 and a MIJNWERKER of Dugmore Mijn; she is 16 and her parents had to consent. Their son had been born four months earlier. Indwe, 1907–1910 → bef. 1921 Indwe Joseph Heinrich Daschner & Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen a record read here The same village where her father had died in 1905.…

The namesakes

…Willem Hermanus Pieterzen the son His son by her, and godfather at the 1851 Graaff-Reinet font — half-brother to Johanna Catharina Mountjoy. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 1851–1905 Named at that font for the godfather standing over it. Generation four of the direct line. Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 The miner. An eighth child this archive did not know it had until the register turned him up. Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore b. 31 May 1908 Baptised at Indwe, entered “onecht”, his grandmother standing godmother. Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 1925–1996 Eldest of the Johannesburg family. William Herman Daschner b. c. 1915 And out through a daughter into a third surname.…

Everyone

…A Mountjoy and a Booyzen in one small colliery congregation, twenty-two years after the two families stood at the same font at Barkly Oost. The Documents The Women Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe also written Booijzen (1907 lidmate register) · William Hermanus (1908 marriage) · William Herman Booyzen (1932) Inferred 13 mentions c. 1886 29 Jul 1932, Johannesburg Hospital — PROBABLY AN EIGHTH CHILD, and one this archive did not have. Confirmed at Indwe on 31 May 1907, aged 21, entered “Booijzen”.…

…A Mountjoy and a Booyzen in one small colliery congregation, twenty-two years after the two families stood at the same font at Barkly Oost. The Documents The Women Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe also written Booijzen (1907 lidmate register) · William Hermanus (1908 marriage) · William Herman Booyzen (1932) Inferred 13 mentions c. 1886 29 Jul 1932, Johannesburg Hospital — PROBABLY AN EIGHTH CHILD, and one this archive did not have. Confirmed at Indwe on 31 May 1907, aged 21, entered “Booijzen”.…

The register

…South Africa | Birth 1940 · with: Willem Hermanus Booyzen record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Willem Hermanus Booyzen with: Willem Hermanus Booyzen record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore reconstructed 31 May 1908, Indwe no public link reconstructed by this archive Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe reconstructed c. 1886 · 29 Jul 1932, Johannesburg Hospital — PROBABLY no public link reconstructed by this archive Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen reconstructed 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg · 13 Sep 1905, Indwe no public link reconstructed by this archive Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen reconstructed 15 Oct 1925 · 1996 no public link reconstructed by this archive Willem Jacobus Booyzen Bi…

…cord ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 William Booyzen Birth 1888 · with: Petronella Johanna Goubert record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 William H Booyzen Birth 1885 | Burial 31 Jul 1932 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 William Herman Booyzen Birth 1909 · with: Julia Maria Samauns record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 William Herman Booyzen Death 29 July 1932 Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa | Birth 1888 record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 William Hermanus Booyzen Birth 1886 · with: Susanna Adriana Roodt record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Willie Booyzen Birth 1920 | Bu…

…ord ↗ South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 William Herman Booyzen Birth 1909 · with: Julia Maria Samauns record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 William Herman Booyzen Death 29 July 1932 Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa | Birth 1888 record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 William Hermanus Booyzen Birth 1886 · with: Susanna Adriana Roodt record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Willie Booyzen Birth 1920 | Burial Silverton, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa | Death 2000 record ↗ Find a Grave Index Willie Booyzen Death 07 Jun 1987 | Burial Brakpan, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa | Birth 04 Jun 1913 record ↗ F…

What has been searched

…FamilySearch, South Africa, Civil Marriage Records — BOOYZEN + ROODT One certificate Found Indwe, 21 September 1908, certificate 13. The document that carries the word MIJNWERKER. Booyzen + Roodt, any later marriage or death Nothing further Nothing No death record and no second marriage found for Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe, and nothing yet for either Roodt woman after 1910. The Indwe registers past 1910 have not been read forward. The Transvaal probate index, read against itself no new document — an index line and two already read · searched 13 Sep 2026 · where it is used → Query Result TAB MHG O/2899 — who is actually the deceased? Jan Gerardus Lodewicus Booijzen, 67, b. district Graaff-Reinet, d.…

The timeline

…The clerk writes BOOYSEN; his son signs BOOYZEN four lines below. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen John Barry Booyzen Indwe 31 May 1907 Document Willem Hermanus Booijzen confirmed at Indwe, aged 21 An eighth child this archive did not have — in a class that also holds the two Roodt women who would bear his children. Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe Indwe 11 May 1908 Document Hendrik Stephanus Booysen dies at Koedoesfontein, Rustenburg He signed his father's Sterfkennis in 1876. His own names his mother — and gives his place of last marriage as ZEERUST, in the district of Marico.…

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