The Booyzen Archive
14 families with a page

The Families

A family here is a name: the people who carry it or were born to it, the line the archive filed them on, the households that join it to the others, and the places and records that name them. Each page is counted from the archive's own data.

Who gets a page

A name has a family page when a direct-line ancestor on the archive's chart carries it, or at least eight people on these pages carry it, or the archive's own research files treat it as a family under investigation. The two older pages, the Barrys and the Kolbes, were written by hand; the rest are drawn from the people, households, chart, places and register the archive already holds. They add no claim to the archive: they count, group and link what is there.

A shared surname is not a relationship. These pages group people by the name they carry and by the line the archive filed them on, as The People does, and the only connections they draw are the households the archive has recorded.

The families

Families with a page

The Booyzens

137 people

82 people carry or were born to the name, and 55 more are filed on its line under another name.

Years named
1741–2013
On the direct line
6 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Booyzen 37 · Booysen 17 · Booijsen 16 · Booijzen 4 · Booÿsen 1
Married into or out of
Pretorius 2 · Roodt 2 · van der Merwe 2 · Barry 1 · Benadie 1 · Boshoff 1
Places
Indwe · Rustenburg · Brakfontein · Goedehoop · Marico

The family page →

The Mountjoys

81 people

37 people carry or were born to the name, and 44 more are filed on its line under another name.

Years named
1782–1973
On the direct line
2 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Mountjoy 30 · Montjoy 1
Married into or out of
Booyzen 1 · Botha 1 · Keys 1 · Kumm 1 · Slier 1 · van Niekerk 1
Places
Dordrecht · Barkly East · Cradock · Graaff-Reinet · Stutterheim

The family page →

The Barrys

39 people

A page written by hand, with the family's own story.

Years named
1796–1963
On the direct line
5 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Barry 36
Married into or out of
Booyzen 1 · Botha 1 · Ellinckhuizen 1 · Kolbe 1 · Pretorius 1 · Schoeman 1
Places
Manorowen · Barkly East · Brixton Cemetery · Cherryville · Indwe

The hand-built page →

The Kolbes

84 people

A page written by hand, with the family's own story.

Years named
1764–1959
On the direct line
3 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Kolbe 67
Married into or out of
Barry 1 · Downing 1 · Enslin 1 · Joubert 1 · Klopper 1 · van der Merwe 1
Places
Wakkerstroom · Bethulie · Conduit Street · Bloemfontein · Hoopstad

The hand-built page →

The Pretoriuses

6 people

6 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1906–1944
On the direct line
2 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Pretorius 6
Married into or out of
Booyzen 2 · Barry 1
Places
Vereeniging · Johannesburg · West Park Cemetery

The family page →

The Bothas

6 people

6 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1827–1911
On the direct line
1 ancestor on the chart
The name as written
Botha 6
Married into or out of
Barry 1 · Mountjoy 1 · Olivier 1 · Schoeman 1 · van Niekerk 1
Places
Cradock · Dordrecht

The family page →

The van der Merwes

5 people

5 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1785–1825
On the direct line
1 ancestor on the chart
The name as written
van der Merwe 5
Married into or out of
Booyzen 2 · Kolbe 1 · Mountjoy 1
Places
Bloemfontein · Kaalspruit · Leeuwberg

The family page →

The Schoemans

4 people

3 people carry or were born to the name, and 1 more is filed on its line under another name.

On the direct line
2 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Schoeman 3
Married into or out of
Barry 1 · Botha 1
Places
Caerlaverock

The family page →

The Downings

2 people

2 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1803–1867
On the direct line
2 ancestors on the chart
The name as written
Downing 2
Married into or out of
Kolbe 1
Places
Burgersdorp · Colesberg · Shoreditch

The family page →

The Sliers

2 people

2 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1787–1885
On the direct line
1 ancestor on the chart
The name as written
Sleer 1 · Slier 1
Married into or out of
Mountjoy 1 · Pietersen 1
Places
Graaff-Reinet

The family page →

The de Beers

1 person

1 person carries or was born to the name.

Years named
1754–1843
On the direct line
1 ancestor on the chart
The name as written
de Beer 1
Married into or out of
Booyzen 1

The family page →

The Daschners

15 people

15 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1883–2009
On the direct line
none of the chart's ancestors
The name as written
Daschner 13
Married into or out of
Booyzen 1
Places
Indwe · Stutterheim · West Park Cemetery

The family page →

The Lowies

14 people

14 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1848–1905
On the direct line
none of the chart's ancestors
The name as written
Lowies 14
Married into or out of
Lubbe 1 · Stols 1
Places
Goedehoop

The family page →

The van Niekerks

12 people

12 people carry or were born to the name.

Years named
1868–1961
On the direct line
none of the chart's ancestors
The name as written
van Niekerk 10
Married into or out of
Botha 1 · Mountjoy 1
Places
Dordrecht

The family page →

Lines in The People with no family page yet — the archive files them as lines; they are small, or have their own archive

Names several people carry, with no page

Keys 9 · Olivier 6 · Pietersen 5 · Roos 5. They are in the archive as in-laws and descendants; they are listed on The People and in the households of the families above.