Willem Hermanus Pieterzen

…Name Born Died Carried by James Montjoy saddler at Cradock; his parents recorded as Not Known c. 1782, "Europe" Sep 1827, Cradock His 1840 death notice, KAB MOOC 6/9/21: 4393 Anna Catharina Sleer his wife, m. 9 Mar 1817 Graaff-Reinet; previously widow of William Pietersen 1787 1885 — aged 98 The 1840 death notice; the 1817 marriage index Johanna Catharina Mountjoy m.…

…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 1879 entry is wrong by six years. And he was named for his godfather The witnesses are Willem Hermanus Pieterzen , Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter and Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen . (The archive scan corrects this archive's earlier reading of the surname as Pietersen — see below; the first given name, earlier read as Iwerus , is still not certain.) Johanna Catharina Mountjoy's half-brothers were Pieterzens — the sons of Anna Catharina Sleer by her first marriage.…

…It was there. Filed 9 July 1840 , reference 4393 . The form, as completed 1. Name of the Deceased James Montjoy 2. Birth-place Europe 3. Names of the Parents Not Known 4. Age About 45 years 5. Condition in life Saddler 6. Married or unmarried Married to Catharina Sl[i/e]er, widow of William Pietersen 7. Day of decease September 1827 8. At what House In the village of Cradock 9. Children James, George, Johanna, Jacoba — all minors 10. Property A house and erf at Cradock, of the value of £90 Signed Colesberg, 25 June 1840 , by a Montjoy Line 3 Names of the Parents of the Deceased. Not Known.…

…A third indexing, under the spelling Montyoy , did. Graaff-Reinet marriage register, folios 60–61. "Den 9 Maart 1817 getrouwd" — married on 9 March 1817. The entry, with a pencil cross beside it: "James Montjoy — Met · Anna Catharina Slier, weduwe van Harmanus Pieterze[n]" What it does not say, and that is the point This archive went to this register expecting an origin . Cape marriage entries of this date routinely record where a party came from, and this very page does it repeatedly — three couples in the right-hand column are entered "beide van Uitenhage" . Against James Montjoy's name there is a long ruled dash and nothing else .…

…The widower signs. Names of the Parents of the Deceased. Not Known. 1840, line 5 — Saddler 1840, line 6 — "Married to Catharina Sl[i/e]er, widow of William Pietersen" Line 7: September 1827 . Line 9: James · George · Johanna · Jacoba , all minors. " Petrus Jacobus Booÿsen — mother's name, not known " — and the informant underlined it. The only child entered: Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen, geboren 19 Januarij 1870 . " Moveables only. Such as wearing apparel &c.…

…1944, the parents line filled in 1 child Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius · 3 Oct 1906 – 1944 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen & Anna Catharina Sleer Willem d. bef. 1817 · Anna 1787 – 1885 On whose word a record read here Her first husband. The 1817 marriage register calls her “widow of Harmanus Pieterze”; the 1840 death notice calls him “William Pietersen”. Where the blank begins 1 child Willem Hermanus Pieterzen · d. bef. 1817 George Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha George b.…

…1944, the parents line filled in 1 child Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius · 3 Oct 1906 – 1944 Willem Hermanus Pieterzen & Anna Catharina Sleer Willem d. bef. 1817 · Anna 1787 – 1885 On whose word a record read here Her first husband. The 1817 marriage register calls her “widow of Harmanus Pieterze”; the 1840 death notice calls him “William Pietersen”. Where the blank begins 1 child Willem Hermanus Pieterzen · d. bef. 1817 George Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha George b. 11 Jun 1823 · Maria 1827 – 1911 On whose word a record read here Married at Cradock, 20 August 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children.…

…Five generations, and it does not come from this family at all Willem Hermanus The name enters through a step-relation with no blood tie to any Booyzen, and is still being given to children a century and a half later. Who When What they are to the name Willem Hermanus Pieterzen d. bef. 1817 Anna Catharina Slier's FIRST husband. Not a Booyzen, not a Mountjoy, and no blood relation to either. 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 “Willy” Booyzen 1925–1996 Eldest of the Johannesburg family. William Herman Daschner b. c. 1915 And out through a daughter into a third surname. This archive published “Willem Hermanus is a Booyzen name” and withdrew it. Three documents name the first husband three ways — Harmanus Pieterze in 1817, William Pietersen in 1840, Willem Hermanus Pieterzen in 1851 — and the man they name married into the line and died before it started. Four generations of women, across three surnames Catherine Maria Sophia A Barry name that outlives the Barry surname by eighty years. Who When What they are to the name Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 1859–1940 The last Barry of the surname in this line.…

…He is the head of a line this archive has not worked at all. The 1891 notices What Is Still To Ask Hendrik Stefanus Palm Inferred 4 mentions — — Married the second Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta. FROM THE INDEX. The Register Willem Hermanus Pieterzen also written Harmanus Pieterze (1817) · William Pietersen (1840) Inferred 16 mentions — bef. 1817 Anna Catharina Slier's FIRST husband, and the origin of the name Willem Hermanus in this family — which therefore comes from a step-relation with no blood tie to the Booyzens. Three documents name him differently; the 1851 godfather, his son, carries both forms in full.…

…The Documents The Women Anna Catharina Sleer also written Slier · Schleher · Sher · Hier — five renderings, five sources Documented 9 mentions 1787 1885 Lived to ninety-eight. Married James Montjoy 9 Mar 1817 at Graaff-Reinet, having first been the widow of William Pietersen. The Women The Documents Jacob van Staden Documented 3 mentions — bef. 1902 Her first husband, named on her 1902 death notice with the date of his death given as unknown. Two sons, Jacob Alewyn and Coenrad Sybert. Her 1902 death notice Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter also written born Booysen Documented 4 mentions — — Married in community of property to Stephanus Andries Venter.…

…Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Willemina Christina Pieterzen with: Leendert Labùschagne record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Willemina Pieterzen Birth 18 Jun 1831 | Baptism 17 Jul 1831 Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa · with: Marie Elisabeth Van Deventer · Willem Hermanus Pieterzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Armanes Pieterzen Birth 1914 | Death 29 Dec 1916 Vergelegen, Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 Bartholomeus Wilhelm Pieterzen with: Hendrina Maria Pieterzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994…

…Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Catharina Slier with: Jacoba Willemina · Jacobus Montzouy record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Catharina Slier with: Harmanus Slier record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Catharina Slier with: Willem Harmanus Pieterze · Harmanus Pieterze record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Catharina Slier with: Catharina Johanna · Jacobùs Nountyeÿ record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Catharina Slier with: Catharina Johanna · Jacobùs Mountjoy record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives),…

…George Mountjoy Maria Sophia Botha Cradock 31 Oct 1851 Document Willem Hermanus Booyzen baptised at Achter Sneeuwberg Entry 2809. The father is written BOOYZEN with a z — and so, three lines below in the same hand, are the godparents PIETERZEN. The z is the clerk's Dutch, not the family's claim. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Achter Sneeuwberg 25 Dec 1862 Document A baptism at Rustenburg that spells the name this archive got wrong Hendrik Nicolaas Stephanus Booijsen, born 31 January 1862, baptised on Christmas Day at Rustenburg. Father Hendrik Stephanus Booijsen; mother ANNA JOHANNA OLIVIER.…

…Johanna C. Mountjoy 1819 – 1863 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy · 1819 – 1863 James Montjoy c.1782 – 1827 James Montjoy · c.1782 – 1827 “Not Known” “Names of the Parents of the Deceased. Not Known.” Written 1840, thirteen years after he died. Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Anna Catharina Sleer · 1787 – 1885 · also married Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Catherine M. S. “Kathleen”… 1859 – 1940 Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · 1859 – 1940 John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 John Augustus Barry I · 1819 – 1903 John Barry 1796 – 1853 John Barry · 1796 – 1853 Disputed One profile holding two men — a Yorkshire farmer of Bilsdale and a man who died at de Bruins Poort. His son's 1903 registration says only: an Irishman, born in Ireland.…

…Three renderings, three independent sources, all with an l and none with a t . Documented Her first marriage is now on record too: her second husband's 1840 death notice describes her as "Catharina Sl[i/e]er, widow of William Pietersen" . The archive had only inferred the Pieterzen marriage, from a godparent standing at an 1851 font. Here it is named, in a document eleven years older. She married a Pieterzen first — four sons between 1808 and 1813 — and then James Mountjoy , who died in 1827 leaving her with a son, Willem Jan , born and dead in 1828. She outlived her second husband by fifty-eight years .…