The Sliers
Everyone this archive holds under the Slier 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 Slier name at a glance
| On these pages | 2 people, all of whom carry or were born to the name. |
| How well known | Documented 2 of the 2 who are not living. What the words mean → |
| Years named | 1787–1885 in the dates this archive prints for them |
| The name as written | Sleer 1 · Slier 1 — grouped here because the archive writes the same woman Sleer on her page and Slier in its prose, and gives five renderings of the name for her; the archive's name fold keeps the spellings apart. The name → |
| On the direct line | 1 ancestor on the archive's chart carries the name (below). |
| Places | Graaff-Reinet 1 — the places that name them. Places → |
| In the register | 880 rows are filed under SLIER in the register: 2 reconstructed by this archive and 878 from surname indexes. 6 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.
Anna Catharina Sleer
bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 Documented
Lived to ninety-eight. Married James Montjoy 9 Mar 1817 at Graaff-Reinet, having first been the widow of a Pietersen. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — SHE HAS PARENTS, A BAPTISM AND THREE SIBLINGS. … The whole note →
How this family connects to the others
2 households in the archive's records have a person of this page as a spouse. In 2 the other spouse is of another name: Mountjoy (1); Pietersen (1).
| Household | The other family | Known from | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 → | Mountjoy | a record read here | 5 |
Everyone on this page
2 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.
2 people · everything is listed; the filters only narrow it
| Name | Born | Died | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Catharina Sleer also written Slier · Schleher · Sher · Hier — five renderings, five sources | bapt. 14 Oct 1787 | 1885 | Documented |
| Willem Slier also written van Hamburg | — | — | 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 2 people
- Namesakes 1 person
- The Women 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.