Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius
His wife, married 30 Dec 1924 at Vereeniging aged eighteen, with parental consent. Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905. THE DAY OF HER DEATH WAS CARRIED AS “1944” UNTIL 12 OCTOBER 2026, while the FORM OF INFORMATION OF A DEATH was already published on this site and already summarised on the Timeline. Question 10 of it reads “Twenty-sixth day of February, 1944”. The same form gives her age as 37, her place of death as 85 Rheeders Street, Forest Hill, Johannesburg, her intended burial at West Park Cemetery, and the cause as haemorrhage from a ruptured tubal pregnancy — she was not carrying her first child. It was signed before a Justice of the Peace at Johannesburg and registered on 29 February 1944, entry 2045; 1944 was a leap year, so that date is real. The form writes her married name Booysen, with the z. THIS IS THE MARGARET DOWNING FAULT AGAIN, FOUND BY THE SAME SWEEP: the exact date sat in timeline.json and in a document on the shelf, and the person record — which is what the pages and the charts read — kept the year only.
Every record naming Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius →
The marriage record
Married George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen · 30 December 1924 · Vereeniging a record read hereA tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed — the Barry line closing on itself sixty-five years after it left.The cousin marriage →
The record
| Name | Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius |
| Born | 3 Oct 1906 |
| Died | 26 Feb 1944, Forest Hill, Johannesburg |
| Line | Pretorius |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
His wife, married 30 Dec 1924 at Vereeniging aged eighteen, with parental consent. Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905. THE DAY OF HER DEATH WAS CARRIED AS “1944” UNTIL 12 OCTOBER 2026, while the FORM OF INFORMATION OF A DEATH was already published on this site and already summarised on the Timeline. Question 10 of it reads “Twenty-sixth day of February, 1944”. The same form gives her age as 37, her place of death as 85 Rheeders Street, Forest Hill, Johannesburg, her intended burial at West Park Cemetery, and the cause as haemorrhage from a ruptured tubal pregnancy — she was not carrying her first child. It was signed before a Justice of the Peace at Johannesburg and registered on 29 February 1944, entry 2045; 1944 was a leap year, so that date is real. The form writes her married name Booysen, with the z. THIS IS THE MARGARET DOWNING FAULT AGAIN, FOUND BY THE SAME SWEEP: the exact date sat in timeline.json and in a document on the shelf, and the person record — which is what the pages and the charts read — kept the year only.
Where the archive puts Anna
Each carries the document that puts them there. The atlas →
The Booyzen Archive
…1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b. 1866 — from Pama Margaret Mary Bedford Kathleen Mary Barry The evidence show ↓ hide ↑ parentage DOCUMENTED by two registers; died of a stomach ulcer 3 1901 → 1947 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen b. 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province d. 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill × Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Cape Province married 30 Dec 1924 Vereeniging 8 children recorded Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen carries the line show ↓ hide ↑ Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Carries the line Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b.…
The cousin marriage
…Hendrik Nicholaas Barry's daughter Dorothea married George Booyzen's brother Henry James — in 1912, twelve years before George married Hendrik's granddaughter. The two families were marrying each other in both directions at once.…
The Spine
…ration4 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen and Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry (1859–1940) born 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg died 13 Sep 1905, Indwe trade farmer in 1879, mason in 1905 married 22 Dec 1879 documented parentage DOCUMENTED by two registers; died of a stomach ulcer Generation3 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen and Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (1906–1944) born 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province died 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill trade South African Railways & Harbours married 30 Dec 1924 Vereeniging married his first cousin once removed Generation2 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen and Nuno Fernando Lerena (1924–1971) born 25 Mar 1929 died 25 Dec 2013, Johannesburg married 15 Jan 1949, St Joseph’s, Mayfair orphaned at eighteen; the hinge to the Lerena a…
The documents
…Left: a boy of about seven in a pleated tunic and wide collar — Dirk Jacobus Pretorius (b. 8 June 1902). Centre: Petrus Jacobus Pretorius (1878–1941), the stock farmer. Right: Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry (1880–1961), in a high-necked blouse with her hair dressed in a pompadour. Front: a small girl of about four — Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (b. 3 Oct 1905). Inferred The hairstyle and blouse date the picture to about 1908–1912 ; the children's ages narrow it to roughly 1909 . This is David Defranceski's great-grandmother as a small child — the woman who would die at thirty-eight of an ectopic pregnancy at Forest Hill, leaving Catherine orphaned at eighteen.…
Households
…12 Dec 1806 Magdalena Johanna Booijsen Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) the direct line Anna Eliezabet Booijsen Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen and Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 8 head born 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 a record read here Married at Vereeniging, 30 December 1924 — a tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed.…
Johannesburg
…She made the journey. The addresses Place When Queen Victoria Hospital 1946 where Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen died, four days old — 85 Rheeder Street was her mother’s address, not the place of death 85 Rheeders Street, Forest Hill 1944 where Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius died of a ruptured extra-uterine pregnancy, aged 37 No.…
The Marriages
…Their son had been born four months earlier. a record read here Joseph Heinrich Daschner × Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen bef. 1921 Indwe The same village where her father had died in 1905. His 1942 notice enters her as “born Booyzen”, with a z, from her own dictation. a record read here George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen × Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 30 December 1924 Vereeniging A tree nurseryman and a girl of eighteen who were first cousins once removed — the Barry line closing on itself sixty-five years after it left. a record read here Nuno Fernando Lerena × Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 15 January 1949 St Joseph's, Mayfair Where this archive stops and the Lerena one begins.…
The People
…A zinc building in Market Street Namesakes Andries Gottlieb Pretorius Documented — — Third witness at the 1870 font, and presumably the bride's people — the only trace the archive has of Johanna Margaritha Pretorius's own family. The Documents Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Documented 3 Oct 1906 26 Feb 1944, Forest Hill, Johannesburg His wife, married 30 Dec 1924 at Vereeniging aged eighteen, with parental consent. Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905. THE DAY OF HER DEATH WAS CARRIED AS “1944” UNTIL 12 OCTOBER 2026 , while the FORM OF INFORMATION OF A DEATH was already published on this site and already summarised on the Timeline.…
Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak)
…Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 Booyzen 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius
…Three documents put her birth in 1906, not 1905. THE DAY OF HER DEATH WAS CARRIED AS “1944” UNTIL 12 OCTOBER 2026 , while the FORM OF INFORMATION OF A DEATH was already published on this site and already summarised on the Timeline. Question 10 of it reads “Twenty-sixth day of February, 1944”.…
Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen
…The hinge to the Lerena archive, and the starting point of this one. Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 generation 2 — see the spine → married Nuno Fernando Lerena 1924 – 1971 record 1 child with Nuno Cheryl Anne Lerena family tree 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b.…
Dirk Jacobus Pretorius
…That is a statement about the sources, not about the person. Every record naming them → The record Name Dirk Jacobus Pretorius Born — Died — Line Pretorius Confidence Documented What the archive holds Of the Pretorius family. The Documents Every mention, page by page Others on the Pretorius side Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944, Forest Hill, Johannesburg Isaak Pretorius Of the Pretorius family. Petrus Jacobus Pretorius Anna's father. Gave consent to her marriage at eighteen. All 372 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen
…Boomkweker, then Clerk, South African Railways. Married his first cousin once removed. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 generation 3 — see the spine → married Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record 8 children with Anna Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 record Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 direct line Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 record Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff)
…Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b. 22 Sep 1932 Booyzen 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b.…
Gertrude Booyzen
…Entry 3920, a different hospital and a different cemetery. Two children, one year apart, on the same date. Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Gertrude Booyzen 11 May 1947 – 11 May 1947 Booyzen 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen
…Entry 4256 — not the same child as the Gertrude of 1947. Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen 11 May 1946 – 15 May 1946 Booyzen 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
Isaak Pretorius
…That is a statement about the sources, not about the person. Every record naming them → The record Name Isaak Pretorius Born — Died — Line Pretorius Confidence Documented What the archive holds Of the Pretorius family. The Documents Every mention, page by page Others on the Pretorius side Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944, Forest Hill, Johannesburg Dirk Jacobus Pretorius Of the Pretorius family. Petrus Jacobus Pretorius Anna's father. Gave consent to her marriage at eighteen. All 372 people → · The places → · Search the archive → A dossier is every mention of a person anywhere in this archive, gathered automatically after the site is built and linked back to the page it appears on.…
Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen
…Birth date corrected from 1 October on her mother’s 1944 death notice. Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Booyzen 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry
…Parents Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama record Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman record Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry 1880 – 1961 Barry married Petrus Jacobus Pretorius record 1 child with Petrus Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record 4 siblings Ruben Jacobus Hosea Barry b. 7 Oct 1888 Dorothea Regina Barry of Slang River b. 11 Jan 1892 Harriet Louisa Barry 1894 – 7 Sep 1912 Ellen Hendrika Barry b.…
Petrus Jacobus “Piet” Booyzen
…Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Petrus Jacobus “Piet” Booyzen 10 Jan 1934 – 2003 Booyzen 7 siblings Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
Petrus Jacobus Pretorius
…Gave consent to her marriage at eighteen. Petrus Jacobus Pretorius Pretorius married Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry 1880 – 1961 record 1 child with Margarietha Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 2 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read.…
Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen
…Parents George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 record Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 3 Oct 1906 – 26 Feb 1944 record Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 15 Oct 1925 – 1996 Booyzen 7 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Maggie” Booyzen 14 Oct 1926 – 1966 Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen 25 Mar 1929 – 25 Dec 2013 Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (Vermaak) b. 12 Oct 1930 Georgina Jeanette Booyzen (Boshoff) b.…
The Register
…urg no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Catharina Sophia Benadie reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Francisa Roos reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Jacoba van der Merwe reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Name What the source says Source Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius reconstructed 3 Oct 1906 · 26 Feb 1944, Forest Hill, Johannesburg no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Maria van der Merwe reconstructed 1785 · bef. Mar 1825 no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna Maria Viljoen reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Anna van der M…
Sources
…Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court 3:1:3Q9M-CS92-DWY4 Hendrik Stefanus Booysen — marriage 1850, Potchefstroom Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court 3:1:3Q9M-CSQH-LS9Z-9 George Booyzen & Anna Pretorius — marriage 1924, Vereeniging Heidelberg, Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3Q9M-C91V-TQKX-F Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius — death 1944, Forest Hill Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3Q9M-CS9R-Y9LN-M George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen — death 1947 Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3Q9M-CS34-696T-M George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen — burial 1947, West Park Randburg, Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1:3QHK-93PY-2FS2 Gertrude Elizabeth Booyzen — death 1946, 85 Rheeden St Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa records 3:1…
The Timeline
…The man who signed his father's death notice in 1908, and who carried his mother's father's name out of the district of Cradock and into the western Transvaal. A civil registration, which names no parents. Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen 30 Dec 1924 Document A tree nurseryman marries at Vereeniging George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen and Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius, she aged eighteen with her father's written consent — and a first cousin once removed. George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Vereeniging 25 Mar 1929 Life Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen born The third woman of that name in seventy years, and the starting point of this archive.…
The women
…Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 1819–1863 English m. 4 Nov 1838, Cradock. Died at Zevenfontein aged 44. Gives “Mountjoy” to the family. Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 1859–1940 Irish / English at the Cape m. 22 Dec 1879 in the DRC at Barkly, after banns. Thirteen children. Occupation: Needle Woman. Died at Mayfair, Johannesburg. Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 1906–1944 Afrikaner — and a Barry granddaughter m. 30 Dec 1924, Vereeniging. Six children. Died at 37 of a ruptured extra-uterine pregnancy. Born 1906, not 1905 as the tree has it. Gertruida Alexandra Kinnear / Kinnier — Scottish second wife of George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen. Two daughters, both named Gertrude Elizabeth, both died as infants.…
Others on the Pretorius side
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