Anna Maria van der Merwe
WikiTree makes her a daughter of DAVID SCHALK VAN DER MERWE and ANNA ELIZABETH LOUW—which, if right, is where the forename DAVID SCHALK entered this family: her eldest son carries her father’s names entire.FROM WIKITREE, NOT FROM A DOCUMENT THIS ARCHIVE HAS READ, and it is checkable against the van der Merwe baptism registers rather than the tree. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — DE VILLIERS HAS HER, AND HE DISAGREES WITH THE TREE. Volume 2 of the Geslacht-register der oude Kaapsche familien, in the van der Merwe genealogy: “(e) 3 WILLEM, gedoopt 30 September 1764, burger te Stellenbosch, gehuwd 7 November 1784 met HESTER MARIA VAN DER MERWE — (f) 1 Johanna Catharina, gedoopt 8 Maart 1787; 2 ANNA MARIA, GEDOOPT 5 OCTOBER 1788, GEHUWD MET PETRUS JACOBUS BOOIJSEN; 3 DAVID SCHALK, GEDOOPT 10 OCTOBER 1790; 4 Hendrina Magdalena, 1792; 5 Hester Maria, 1793; 6 Hendrik Petrus Jacobus, 1796.” SO THE TREE MAKES DAVID SCHALK HER FATHER AND THE BOOK MAKES HIM HER BROTHER, and the two parentages cannot both be right. BUT THE CONCLUSION SURVIVES EITHER READING: on both accounts the name stands one step from her. A BAPTISM DATE AT LAST, AND IT IS FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER HIS — he on 21 September 1788, she on 5 October. His wife, married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet — and DOCUMENTED, which she was not until today. A Dutch Reformed baptism of 4 JANUARY 1807 names her as the mother of DAVID SCHALK BOOIJZEN, born 12 December 1806, who is FIRST of the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis. That resolves a contradiction this archive marked Serious (they were married by 1806, so the 1825 Cape Town marriage record is a different couple) and it rewrites the wall on the ancestor chart, which said only a family tree put her there. WHAT IS STILL NOT PROVED is that she is the mother of the 1812 man in the direct line.
The 1876 notice lists eight children and names no mother for any of them. They are drawn under this marriage because it is the only one recorded — not because the document says so.
Every record naming Anna Maria van der Merwe →
The marriage record
Married Petrus Jacobus Booysen · 1805 · Graaff-Reinet a family tree, not a documentHe was about seventeen. She died before March 1825, and at least one child came after that — so there was a second marriage nobody had recorded until 2026.The line →
The record
| Name | Anna Maria van der Merwe |
| Born | 1785 |
| Died | bef. Mar 1825 |
| Line | Booyzen |
| Confidence | Documented |
| From a tree | not documented her parents — and a printed genealogy gives her different ones — the rest of this record rests on documents this archive has read, and that part does not. |
What the archive holds
WikiTree makes her a daughter of DAVID SCHALK VAN DER MERWE and ANNA ELIZABETH LOUW—which, if right, is where the forename DAVID SCHALK entered this family: her eldest son carries her father’s names entire.FROM WIKITREE, NOT FROM A DOCUMENT THIS ARCHIVE HAS READ, and it is checkable against the van der Merwe baptism registers rather than the tree. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — DE VILLIERS HAS HER, AND HE DISAGREES WITH THE TREE. Volume 2 of the Geslacht-register der oude Kaapsche familien, in the van der Merwe genealogy: “(e) 3 WILLEM, gedoopt 30 September 1764, burger te Stellenbosch, gehuwd 7 November 1784 met HESTER MARIA VAN DER MERWE — (f) 1 Johanna Catharina, gedoopt 8 Maart 1787; 2 ANNA MARIA, GEDOOPT 5 OCTOBER 1788, GEHUWD MET PETRUS JACOBUS BOOIJSEN; 3 DAVID SCHALK, GEDOOPT 10 OCTOBER 1790; 4 Hendrina Magdalena, 1792; 5 Hester Maria, 1793; 6 Hendrik Petrus Jacobus, 1796.” SO THE TREE MAKES DAVID SCHALK HER FATHER AND THE BOOK MAKES HIM HER BROTHER, and the two parentages cannot both be right. BUT THE CONCLUSION SURVIVES EITHER READING: on both accounts the name stands one step from her. A BAPTISM DATE AT LAST, AND IT IS FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER HIS — he on 21 September 1788, she on 5 October. His wife, married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet — and DOCUMENTED, which she was not until today. A Dutch Reformed baptism of 4 JANUARY 1807 names her as the mother of DAVID SCHALK BOOIJZEN, born 12 December 1806, who is FIRST of the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis. That resolves a contradiction this archive marked Serious (they were married by 1806, so the 1825 Cape Town marriage record is a different couple) and it rewrites the wall on the ancestor chart, which said only a family tree put her there. WHAT IS STILL NOT PROVED is that she is the mother of the 1812 man in the direct line.
- 13 Sep 2026 — Only a family tree puts Anna Maria van der Merwe in this family
A Dutch Reformed baptism does. Her son DAVID SCHALK BOOIJZEN was born 12 December 1806 and christened on 4 January 1807, with PIETER JACOBUS BOOIJZEN and ANNA MARIA VAN DER MERWE named as his parents — and he is first of the eight on the 1876 Sterfkennis. The wall on the ancestor chart said the wrong thing for a day and has been rewritten. Where it stands →
The Booyzen Archive
…21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 Carries the line The evidence show ↓ hide ↑ no dates, no parents — but both names now DOCUMENTED, on his son's 1876 death notice 6 1788 → 1876 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. c. 21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet d. 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg × Anna Maria van der Merwe Graaff-Reinet married 1805 Graaff-Reinet documented 8 children recorded Petrus Jacobus Booysen carries the line show ↓ hide ↑ David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 Magdalena Johanna Booijsen Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) Carries the line Anna Eliezabet Booijsen Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
The Spine
…One primary document signed by a son, against a printed genealogy agreeing with itself. How it was narrowed → no dates, no parents — but both names now DOCUMENTED, on his son's 1876 death notice Generation6 Petrus Jacobus Booysen and Anna Maria van der Merwe (1785 – bef. Mar 1825) born c.…
Disputed
…One confirmed a guess this archive had already written down; two showed that a researcher had gone out and photographed the wrong building ; and one — the two Gertrudes — turned out not to be an error at all . This archive has also had to correct two mistakes of its own . The documents → The list Person The contradiction Class Reading Anna Maria van der Merwe — whose daughter? The family tree makes her a daughter of DAVID SCHALK VAN DER MERWE and ANNA ELIZABETH LOUW, born 1785. De Villiers's printed Cape genealogy of 1893, volume 2, makes her a daughter of WILLEM VAN DER MERWE and HESTER MARIA VAN DER MERWE, baptised 5 OCTOBER 1788 — fourteen days after the man she married. Both cannot be right.…
The documents
…hey were read 1780 Anna Catharina Slier gets parents, and this archive had two men under one name 1781 The people this family owned, and the fact that this archive had never looked 1792 Five of the eight sons, named at last 1800 Not Brunswick Square: a tailor rated in Soho for thirty-one years 1803 The London end of the line, closed 1806 Anna Maria van der Merwe stops being a rumour 1806 The regiment James Mountjoy left, tracked through the London papers 1807 Seven Kolbe burials in a German Lutheran register, and two wives called Mary 1817 The marriage register — where the blank actually begins 1819 A sworn falsehood in Shoreditch 1819 The marriage entry — and a bride who could not sign her name 1819 What the voyage was like, from a man on the same deck…
Households
…27 Mar 1871 John Augustus Barry III b. 9 May 1873 Margaret Elizabeth Annie Barry b. 30 Mar 1875 Jacobus Ellinckhuizen Barry b. 25 Mar 1877 Clarence Barry b. 14 Mar 1879 George Alphonso Barry b. 3 Mar 1881 Anton Rector Kolbe Barry b. 3 Nov 1882 Alida Eduarda Barry b. 10 Dec 1886 Miny Barry b. 13 Aug 1889 Petrus Jacobus Booysen and Anna Maria van der Merwe 8 head born c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 a record read here Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet. NO LONGER TREE-SOURCED: a Dutch Reformed baptism of 4 January 1807 names her as the mother of DAVID SCHALK BOOIJZEN, born 12 December 1806, who is first of the eight on the 1876 Sterfkennis.…
The Marriages
…iage London 1819 one marriage Colesberg 23 Feb 1846 one marriage Orange Free State 13 Jul 1871 one marriage Bloemfontein 4 Jun 1872 one marriage Lady Grey 22 December 1879 Cape Colony Union of South Africa 1820The 1820 Settlers 1834Emancipation at the Cape 1899The South African War begins 1902Peace of Vereeniging Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe · Graaff-Reinet James Montjoy & Anna Catharina Sleer · Graaff-Reinet George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing · London Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe · bef. 1828 David Schalk van der Merwe & Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy · Cradock Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Catharina Mountjoy · Cradock John Augustus Barry I & Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe · Colesberg George Mount…
The forenames
…The claim is testable, so it was tested. Who When What they are to the name David Schalk van der Merwe bapt. 10 Oct 1790 HER BROTHER. One of the two candidates for where the name comes from — and on the other candidate, the family tree's version, he is her FATHER instead. Either way he stands one step from her. Anna Maria van der Merwe bapt. 5 Oct 1788 THE DOOR IT COMES THROUGH. Baptised fourteen days after the man she married. Her son is the first David Schalk in this surname. David Schalk Booijsen bapt. 4 Jan 1807 THE FIRST, and the only David Schalk in the whole first volume of the Cape genealogies — the volume that holds every Booijsen de Villiers recorded. David Schalk Booysen b. 9 Jun 1848 The second.…
The People
…She is not the Anna Catharina Grobelaar of the 1908 notice — the forenames do not agree — and this archive has not settled whether they are the same woman. The 1891 notices The Women Anna Maria Booijsen Documented — — Eighth and last on the 1876 notice, named for her mother Anna Maria van der Merwe. The Documents The Women David Schalk Booijsen Documented 12 Dec 1806, baptised 4 Jan 1807 — First on his father's 1876 death notice, and a major — and now with a date. His baptism of 4 JANUARY 1807 names his parents as PIETER JACOBUS BOOIJZEN and ANNA MARIA VAN DER MERWE, which is the only document in this archive that puts Anna Maria in the family at all.…
Anna Eliezabet Booijsen
…Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record Anna Eliezabet Booijsen Booyzen 7 siblings David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 Magdalena Johanna Booijsen Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
Anna Maria Booijsen
…Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record Anna Maria Booijsen Booyzen 7 siblings David Schalk Booijsen b.…
Anna Maria van der Merwe
…Booyzen Anna Maria van der Merwe WikiTree makes her a daughter of DAVID SCHALK VAN DER MERWE and ANNA ELIZABETH LOUW—which, if right, is where the forename DAVID SCHALK entered this family: her eldest son carries her father’s names entire.FROM WIKITREE, NOT FROM A DOCUMENT THIS ARCHIVE HAS READ, and it is checkable against the van der Merwe baptism registers rather than the tree. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — DE VILLIERS HAS HER, AND HE D…
David Schalk Booijsen
…His nephew, born 1848, carries the same name — the two are told apart only by a generation. Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 Booyzen married Adriana Christina Viljoen record 1 child with Adriana Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835 b.…
Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen
…Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Booyzen 7 siblings David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 Magdalena Johanna Booijsen Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) Anna Eliezabet Booijsen Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
Elizabetha van der Merwe
…1788), and a name this archive did not have until her son’s 1908 death notice was read. The first wife, Anna Maria van der Merwe, died before March 1825; this son was born about June 1828. Two van der Merwe wives, one after the other — which is why the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis cannot all be drawn under one marriage. Elizabetha van der Merwe Booyzen married Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record 1 child with Petrus Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen
…His own death notice, TAB estate 14380, names HIS mother as ELIZABETHA BOOYSEN, BORN VAN DER MERWE — which resolves this archive’s oldest “Serious” contradiction, because his father’s recorded wife Anna Maria van der Merwe died three years before he was born. A FARMER, “Dutch”, married twice — Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier, then Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl — and married last at ZEERUST, in the district of Marico. He died in his son-in-law’s house. Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen
…His daughter Magdalena Susanna Maria died on the same farm in 1920, and her death notice names him. He is how this family reaches the western Transvaal. Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 Booyzen 1 child Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg c. Aug 1860 – 1 May 1920 record 7 siblings David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 Magdalena Johanna Booijsen Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) Anna Eliezabet Booijsen Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
Magdalena Johanna Booijsen
…A niece born 1853 carries the name again. Parents Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record Magdalena Johanna Booijsen Booyzen 7 siblings David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) Anna Eliezabet Booijsen Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
Petrus Jacobus Booysen
…Estate: NOTHING. “Niets nagelaten. Niets bekend.” Petrus Jacobus Booysen · c. 21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet – 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg Parents Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen record Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer 1754 – 1843 record Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 generation 6 — see the spine → married Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 record married Elizabetha van der Merwe record 8 children with Anna David Schalk Booijsen b. 12 Dec 1806 record Magdalena Johanna Booijsen record Petrus Jacobus Booysen 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) direct line Anna Eliezabet Booijsen record Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818 – 25 May 1885 record Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen record Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c.…
The Register
…ba 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 Merwe of Burgersdorp reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Aubrey Diesel reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Beatrix Magdalena Catharina Boshoff reconstructed 16 Jun 1889, baptis…
Sources
…He was the eldest name on the 1863 notice and an estate number, with no wife at all. Caution: the profile's own source line dates that marriage 1899, not 1866. Where this archive is ahead of it What WikiTree holds What this archive holds Hendrik Stefanus Booysen as a son of Anna Maria van der Merwe — while the profile's own prose hedges "Elizabetha ? (Anna Maria ?) van der Merwe" Resolved. His 1908 death notice, TAB estate 14380, names his mother ELIZABETHA BOOYSEN, BORN VAN DER MERWE . Another researcher reached the same ambiguity and left it standing in a question mark; the notice settles it.…
The Timeline
…20 Mar 1754 — Johanna Booyzen born “in this Colony” 1779 — The spelling BOOYZEN is already in use at the Cape c. 1782 — James Montjoy born, in “Europe” c.…
Our line, drawn
…Self Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 Gen 4 Gen 5 Gen 6 Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen's father Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen — – — Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer's parents Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer 1754 – 1843 Petrus Jacobus Booysen 1788 – 1876 Anna Maria van der Merwe, 1785–bef. 1825 Anna Maria van der Merwe c. 1785 – bef. 1825 Petrus Jacobus Booysen 1812 – 1884 James Montjoy's parents James Montjoy c.1782 – 1827 Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Johanna C.…
The women
…This page puts them back at the front. The wives of the direct line Name Dates Family Magdelena Elisabeth De Beer 1754–1843 Huguenot-descended Cape m. Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen. Lived to 89. Her husband has no dates at all — she is better recorded than he is. Anna Maria van der Merwe bapt. 5 Oct 1788 – bef. Mar 1825 one of the largest Cape families m. 2 Nov 1805, Graaff-Reinet. Her husband was about seventeen — and baptised fourteen days before her. Parents Willem van der Merwe and Hester Maria van der Merwe, from the printed genealogy; the family tree says otherwise and both are on the site. Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 1819–1863 English m. 4 Nov 1838, Cradock.…
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