81 people · 1782–1973
The Mountjoys
Everyone this archive holds under the Mountjoy name, how the name is written, where they are placed and which other families they married into. All of it is counted from the archive's own people, households and register; nothing is added to it.
The Mountjoy name at a glance
| On these pages | 81 people: 37 carry or were born to the name, and 44 are filed on the Mountjoy line under another name. The Mountjoy line is one of the lines The People counts as a family. |
| How well known | Documented 69 Inferred 12 of the 81 who are not living. What the words mean → |
| Years named | 1782–1973 in the dates this archive prints for them |
| The name as written | Mountjoy 30 · Montjoy 1 The spellings are grouped as the archive's own name fold groups them, which is a search rule and joins no one to anyone. The name → |
| On the direct line | 2 ancestors on the archive's chart carry the name (below). |
| Places | Dordrecht 6 · Barkly East 4 · Cradock 4 · Graaff-Reinet 3 · Stutterheim 2 · Achter Sneeuwberg 1 · Colesberg 1 · Wodehouse 1 and 1 more — the places that name them. Places → |
| In the register | 650 rows are filed under MOUNTJOY in the register: 32 reconstructed by this archive and 618 from surname indexes. 203 rows link to a person page. The archive's own caution applies: a shared surname is not a relationship. The Register → |
On the direct line
Ancestors on the archive's chart who carry the name. The generation is the one the Spine uses, where the chart's starting point, Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen, is generation 2. Each note is the opening of what the archive says on that person's own page.
Generation 6
James Montjoy
c. 1782, “Europe” – Sep 1827, Cradock Documented
Saddler. Owned a house and erf at Cradock worth £90. His 1840 death notice gives his parents as NOT KNOWN — the oldest document here, and the top of this line. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — A MAN WHO SLEPT IN HIS HOUSE SAYS WHERE HE CAME FROM. … The whole note →
Generation 5
Johanna Catharina Mountjoy
30 Apr 1819, Graaff-Reinet – 19 May 1863, Zevenfontein, Brak River Documented
The Mountjoy–Booysen junction. Married 4 Nov 1838 at Cradock. Her death notice gives her age to the day and names her parents.
How this family connects to the others
12 households in the archive's records have a person of this page as a spouse. In 7 the other spouse is of another name: Booyzen (1); Botha (1); Keys (1); Kumm (1); Slier (1); van Niekerk (1); van der Merwe (1). 2 are households of people the archive filed on this line, neither of whom carries the name. 3 households record only one parent.
| Household | The other family | Known from | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Catharina Mountjoy Married at Cradock 4 November 1838. He signed her death notice in 1863; it names her parents and their eight surviving children. The 1863 death notice → | Booyzen | a record read here | 9 |
| Hermanus Pietersen & Anna Catharina Sleer Her first husband, married 5 April 1807. De Villiers gives his own parents as unknown. This household used to carry the father and the son under one name; the book separates them. Slier and Pietersen → | Pietersen · Slier | a record read here | 2 |
| James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer Married at Graaff-Reinet, 9 March 1817 — on a page where the clerk recorded everyone else's origin and left his blank. The 1817 marriage register → | Slier | a record read here | 5 |
| George Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha Married at Cradock, 20 August 1848, certificate 735. THIRTEEN children, of whom this archive could name one until the Dutch Reformed baptism registers were read. … The thirteen Mountjoy children → | Botha | a record read here | 7 |
| William Henry Keys & Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp Eight children baptised at Dordrecht, Barkly East and Barkly West between 1878 and 1898. … The thirteen Mountjoy children → | Keys | a record read here | 8 |
| Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk Married at Dordrecht, 8 October 1888, aged 22 and 20. Two grandparents at a font → | van Niekerk | a record read here | 8 |
| Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk & Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha He signed her death notice at Dordrecht on 29 December 1902 as “nablyvende echtgenoot”. It lists eleven children. The 1902 van Niekerk notice → | van Niekerk · Botha | a record read here | 11 |
| Philip Rudolph Botha Named in line 3 of his daughter's 1902 death notice at Dordrecht, with her mother, who carried the same four names as she did. The 1902 van Niekerk notice → | Botha | a record read here | 1 |
| James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm Married in community of property at Dordrecht. Their two death notices were written on the same afternoon in February 1938, hers three and a half years late. Barkly East, 1938 → | Kumm | a record read here | 10 |
| Ferdinand Kumm Entered as her father on the family tree. His own 1903 death notice at Stutterheim is the document an external source mistook for James Jonathan's. | Kumm | a family tree, not a document | 1 |
| no husband recorded & Louisa Elizabeth Diesel Married out of community of property to Evelyn Wilfred Diesel and dead fourteen years before her father. Her two children took her tenth share between them. The distribution account → | a record read here | 2 | |
| David Schalk van der Merwe & Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy Married at Cradock, 24 March 1838 — eight months before her sister married Petrus Jacobus Booysen in the same town. The women → | van der Merwe | a record read here | 0 |
1 of these households rests on a family tree alone, not on a document; the table says so wherever it is the case.
Everyone on this page
81 people, oldest first by the first year the archive prints for them; those with no year come last. Dates are shown exactly as the archive prints them on the person's own page. Two people of one name are two rows.
81 people · everything is listed; the filters only narrow it
| Name | Born | Died | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Montjoy also written Mountjoy, Montyoy | c. 1782, “Europe” | Sep 1827, Cradock | Documented |
| Anna Catharina Sleer also written Slier · Schleher · Sher · Hier — five renderings, five sources filed on the Mountjoy line | bapt. 14 Oct 1787 | 1885 | Documented |
| Willem Hermanus Pietersen also written Pieterzen · Pieterse — the 1851 godfather filed on the Mountjoy line | bapt. 12 Mar 1809 | — | Documented |
| Johan Christiaan Pietersen filed on the Mountjoy line | bapt. 28 Apr 1810 | — | Documented |
| Hermanus Pietersen also written Harmanus Pieterze (1817) filed on the Mountjoy line | — | bef. Mar 1817 | Documented |
| Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy | 1818 | 1827 | Inferred |
| Johanna Catharina Mountjoy also written Montjoy, Montjoÿ | 30 Apr 1819, Graaff-Reinet | 19 May 1863, Zevenfontein, Brak River | Documented |
| Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy | 1820 | 1842 | Documented |
| George Mountjoy shares a page with another person of the same name | 11 Jun 1823, Cradock | — | Documented |
| James Mountjoy | 1826 | — | Documented |
| Maria Sophia Botha filed on the Mountjoy line | 1827 | 1911 | Documented |
| Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha filed on the Mountjoy line | c. Jul 1844, district Cradock | 18 Dec 1902, Dordrecht | Documented |
| Anna Catharina Mountjoy | 5 Aug 1852, baptised 11 Jan 1854 | — | Documented |
| James Jonathan Mountjoy also written James John · Jakobus Jonathan | c. Jun 1854, Cape Province | 22 Dec 1937, Barkly East | Documented |
| William Henry Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 1854 | — | Documented |
| Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy | 12 Jun 1858, baptised at Graaff-Reinet | — | Documented |
| Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp also written Keys | 28 Jan 1860, baptised 29 Feb 1860 at Burgersdorp | — | Documented |
| Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm also written Kuen · Kunn · Kum · Keem — five spellings across seven baptisms filed on the Mountjoy line | c. Oct 1860, Cape Province | 3 Jul 1934, Barkly East | Documented |
| Elizabeth Maria Mountjoy also written Elizabeth Maria Demmer, born Mountjoy · ELIZABETH MARTHA, which is NAAIRS’s reading and is wrong | c. Jan 1862, Dordrecht | 15 Dec 1942, Erf 12 Block XIX, Kokstad, district Mount Currie — aged 80 years 11 months | Documented |
| George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy | 16 Jan 1862, baptised at Smithfield | — | Documented |
| George Mountjoy of Kokstad also written George Mountjoy, senior | c. 1862, Orange Free State | 12 May 1943, Nyaninga, Tongaat, Natal — aged 81 | Documented |
| Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy | 10 Jun 1864, baptised at Smithfield | — | Documented |
| Hercules Johannes Mountjoy also written Herculas · Herklaas · Montjoy · Mondjoy | 16 Jul 1866 | 12 May 1941, Wodehouse | Documented |
| Jacoba Regina Mountjoy | 14 Jun 1868, baptised 15 Aug 1868 | — | Documented |
| Maria Sophia van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | 1868 | 1961 | Documented |
| Robert Byron Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 3 Jan 1878, baptised 26 Jan 1878 | — | Documented |
| Wilhelmina Ernestina Mountjoy also written Wilhelmina Ernestina Brummer, born Mountjoy · Wilhelmina Christina, on a user tree | 1878, Dordrecht | 14 Jun 1898, her husband’s residence, Barkly East — aged 20 | Documented |
| William Henry Keys the younger filed on the Mountjoy line | 10 Jun 1882, baptised 23 Jul 1882 at Dordrecht | — | Documented |
| James Jonathan Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 18 Nov 1883 | — | Inferred |
| George Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 5 Jan 1884, baptised 21 Feb 1886 at Dordrecht | — | Documented |
| Susan Elizabeth Mountjoy born Diesel | c. 1887, “Maclear (?)” — the question mark is the informant’s | 13 Sep 1920, Mt Prospect, Flagstaff — aged 33 | Documented |
| Lancelott Byron Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 29 Jan 1888, baptised 4 Mar 1888 at Dordrecht | — | Documented |
| George Mountjoy shares a page with another person of the same name | 1889 | 1963 | Documented |
| Cecil Frederik Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 15 Sep 1891, baptised 8 Nov 1891 at Barkly East | — | Documented |
| Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy | 3 Sep 1891 | — | Inferred |
| Fritz Johannes Mountjoy | 5 Oct 1893 | 1973, BARKLY EAST | Inferred |
| Maria Magdalena Buis also written Maria Magdalena Mountjoy, geb. Buis filed on the Mountjoy line | c. 1893, Barkly Oost | 20 Jan 1931, Witwatersrand, district Krugersdorp — aged 38 | Documented |
| James John Mountjoy the younger | 30 May 1895, Barkly East | 20 Jul 1948, East London | Documented |
| Rachel Anna Maria Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 5 May 1895, baptised 14 Jul 1895 at Barkly East | — | Documented |
| Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy | 15 Aug 1896 | 25 Oct 1897, Wodehouse | Inferred |
| Catherine Louisa Johanna de Kock also written Catherine Louisa Johanna Mountjoy, born de Kock · Catharina Johanna Louisa, in a second index entry filed on the Mountjoy line | c. 1896, Middelburg, Transvaal | 12 Dec 1945, Flagstaff — aged 49 | Inferred |
| Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys filed on the Mountjoy line | 9 Feb 1897 | — | Inferred |
| Aletta Johanna Hattingh also written Aletta Johanna Mountjoy, born Hattingh filed on the Mountjoy line | 1898, Cala, Cape Province | 10 Oct 1939, Bizana | Documented |
| Hendrik Johannes Jacobus Brummer filed on the Mountjoy line | — — a minor in August 1898 | — | Documented |
| Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht | 23 Oct 1898 | — | Inferred |
| Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second filed on the Mountjoy line | 8 Nov 1901 | — | Inferred |
| Ferdinand Kumm filed on the Mountjoy line | — | 20 Oct 1903, Stutterheim | Documented |
| Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy | 16 Feb 1904 | — | Inferred |
| Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Indwe | — | Jun 1911, Indwe | Documented |
| Willem Hermanus Mountjoy | 10 Apr 1915 | — | Inferred |
| Louisa Elizabeth Diesel also written born Mountjoy | — | 11 Jun 1923 | Documented |
| Wilhelmina Louisa Mountjoy also written Minnie Burger, born Mountjoy · Minnie is the name on her father’s notice | — | — — an estate at the Cape about 1949 | Documented |
| Anna Catharina Fortman filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Annie Louisa Nepgen also written born Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| Aubrey Diesel filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Benjamin Jacobus van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Charles Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| Christiaan Jacobus van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Cornelia Elizabeth Gertruida Ross also written born van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Cornelius van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| David Schalk van der Merwe filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Ellen Sophia Schmidt also written born Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| Emma Jane Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| George Mountjoy of Barkly East | — | — | Documented |
| Gwendoline Diesel filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Hendrik Stefanus Palm filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Inferred |
| Hercules Johannes van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk the younger filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Lena Millie Frachet also written born Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Maria Francina Cecilia Olivier also written born van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Maria Sophia Diesel also written born Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| Mathilda Elizabeth Shooter also written born Mountjoy | — | — | Documented |
| Philip Rudolph Botha filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Philip Rudolph van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Pieter Jacobus van Niekerk filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Willem Hermanus Pieterzen filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Willem Slier also written van Hamburg filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
| Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen filed on the Mountjoy line | — | — | Documented |
Nothing matches that.
Where the archive writes about them
The pages this archive itself links from these people's entries, with how many of them each one covers.
- The Documents 47 people
- The Women 37 people
- The Register 13 people
- The thirteen Mountjoy children 13 people
- The Namesakes 8 people
- What Has Been Read 7 people
- Namesakes 6 people
- Open questions 6 people
- Open Questions 5 people
- Sources 5 people
- The Name 2 people
- Corrections 1 person
- His regiment 1 person
- The Cousin Marriage 1 person
How we know, and what this page does not say
Every person here carries one of the archive's marks: Documented a record was read; Inferred reasoned from records; Testimony told by the family; Open an open question. Method →
This page groups people by the name they carry and by the line the archive filed them on. A shared surname is not a relationship, as the Register says: where the archive has not connected two people of one name, nothing here connects them, and the households above are the only connections drawn.