George Mountjoy
Saddle maker — his father's trade, learned after his father died when he was four. Married Maria Sophia Botha at Cradock, 20 Aug 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children.
George Mountjoy · 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – —
A Petronella Christina Aletta baptised at SWELLENDAM in 1871 carries both parents' names and is NOT adopted — Swellendam is six hundred miles west of everywhere else this family stood.
Every record naming George Mountjoy →
The marriage record
Married Maria Sophia Botha · 20 August 1848 · Cradock a record read hereCertificate 735. Thirteen children — and their forenames run out through three more surnames.The namesakes →
George Mountjoy · 1889 – 1963
The record
| Name | George Mountjoy |
| Born | 11 Jun 1823, Cradock |
| Died | — |
| Line | Mountjoy |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
Saddle maker — his father's trade, learned after his father died when he was four. Married Maria Sophia Botha at Cradock, 20 Aug 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children.
Where the archive puts George
Each carries the document that puts them there. The atlas →
- George Mountjoy — 11 Jun 1823, Cradock to —. Saddle maker — his father's trade, learned after his father died when he was four. Married Maria Sophia Botha at Cradock, 20 Aug 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children.
- George Mountjoy — 1889 to 1963. The child baptised at Barkly Oost on 6 Oct 1889 — second cousin to the Booyzen daughter baptised in the same register three weeks earlier.
- 17 Sep 2026 — Seventeen people had a page saying they are “not yet discussed on any page”
Among them GEORGE AUGUSTUS KOLBE, the 1820 Settler, named 155 times in the built site; JOHN BARRY, 158; GEORGE MOUNTJOY, 140; PETRUS JACOBUS BOOYSEN, 110; JOHANNA CATHARINA MOUNTJOY, 89. THE DATA WAS FINE AND THE BUILD THREW IT AWAY. dossiers.py dropped any name that was a strict prefix of a longer person’s name — a rule written to stop “John Barry” swallowing “John Barry Booyzen”, which instead silenced the shorter man entirely. The fix keeps the shorter name and fences it with a negative lookahead, so it matches everywhere except where the longer name begins. 2,428 mentions came back. NOTHING REFUSED THE BUILD WHILE THIS WAS TRUE, so a gate now does: checkregisters.py fails when a person the dossier calls undiscussed is named in the built pages. Found because the estate asked this archive to look for a fault the Mazza archive had just had. Where it stands → - 17 Sep 2026 — The Burgersdorp sweep of images 605–818 found five new people
Three. Johanna Catharina Mountjoy, born 28 January 1860, was already held in full — a daughter of George Mountjoy who married William Henry Keys — and the sweep only confirmed her and gave her a reference. Frederick Fortunatus Werdmuller was already held from a 1907 petition and a 1953 estate; what the sweep added was his birth and his mother, which is a real gain and not a new person. THE DUPLICATE PERSON RECORDS WERE CAUGHT BY THE BUILD'S OWN NAME-COLLISION CHECK for the first and by reading the register for the second, before either reached a page. The rule it costs: a sweep that returns a name is checked against the archive before it is called a find. Where it stands →
The Booyzen Archive
…12 Dec 1806 Magdalena Johanna Booijsen 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 Johanna’s · 4 Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 James Mountjoy b. 1826 The evidence show ↓ hide ↑ died fifteen years before the war began; signed his wife's death notice · and Johanna Margaritha Pretorius — DOCUMENTED, named by the 1870 Doop Register and by nothing else 4 1851 → 1905 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen b. 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg d.…
The documents
…Two families, two centuries, the same box on the same printed form, the same answer. Why this archive exists → "Birth-place: Europe." Not a country. The most that was remembered of where he came from was that it was not here. A trade, passed down 1840, line 5 — Saddler Documented James Montjoy was a saddler at Cradock. His son George Mountjoy — four years old when his father died — is recorded at his own 1848 marriage as a saddle maker , in the same town. The archive had George's trade already and treated it as the first recorded for a Mountjoy. It was the second. The boy learned his dead father's trade.…
Households
…1854 a record read here Eight children baptised at Dordrecht, Barkly East and Barkly West between 1878 and 1898. She is George Mountjoy's daughter, baptised at Burgersdorp on a leap day in 1860 — which is the question this archive has been asking since the Keys index was read. The thirteen Mountjoy children Robert Byron Keys b. 3 Jan 1878 William Henry Keys the younger b. 10 Jun 1882 James Jonathan Keys b. 18 Nov 1883 George Keys b. 5 Jan 1884 Lancelott Byron Keys b. 29 Jan 1888 Cecil Frederik Keys b.…
The Marriages
…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 Mountjoy & Maria Sophia Botha · Cradock Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Johanna Margaritha Pretorius · bef.…
The People
…The Documents The Women Jeannie Maria Catharina Botha Documented — — Richard Pieter Barry's wife, named on their son's 1898 baptism at Barkly West. The Documents The Women Magdalena Johanna Botha Documented — — Ruben Schoeman's wife. The Documents The Women Maria Sophia Botha Documented 1827 1911 George Mountjoy's wife. Most likely the “Maria Sophia Mountjoy” standing witness at the 1889 font, aged 62. The Women The Documents Philip Rudolph Botha Documented — — Named in line 3 of the 1902 notice as the father of Carolina Deybella Margrietta Alletta Botha, of the district of Cradock.…
Anna Catharina Mountjoy
…Parents George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 record Anna Catharina Mountjoy b. 5 Aug 1852 Mountjoy 6 siblings Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy b. 12 Jun 1858 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp b. 28 Jan 1860 George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy b.…
Anna Catharina Sleer
…1782 – Sep 1827 record 2 children with Hermanus Willem Hermanus Pietersen b. bapt. 12 Mar 1809 record Johan Christiaan Pietersen b. bapt. 28 Apr 1810 record 5 children with James Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 record Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863 direct line Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 record George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record James Mountjoy b. 1826 record the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 9 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. Her first husband, married 5 April 1807. De Villiers gives his own parents as unknown.…
Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second
…She married Hendrik Stefanus Palm, and a granddaughter born in 1920 carries the name again. FROM THE INDEX. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b. 8 Nov 1901 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Fritz Johannes Mountjoy 5 Oct 1893 – 1973 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b. 23 Oct 1898 Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b.…
Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy
…Her name was given again to the next daughter but one. FROM THE INDEX. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Fritz Johannes Mountjoy 5 Oct 1893 – 1973 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b. 23 Oct 1898 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b. 8 Nov 1901 Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b.…
Cecil Frederik Keys
…The thirteen Mountjoy children → Eight children baptised at Dordrecht, Barkly East and Barkly West between 1878 and 1898. She is George Mountjoy's daughter, baptised at Burgersdorp on a leap day in 1860 — which is the question this archive has been asking since the Keys index was read.…
Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy
…Elsje appears nowhere else in this archive. Parents George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 record Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy b. 10 Jun 1864 Mountjoy 6 siblings Anna Catharina Mountjoy b. 5 Aug 1852 Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy b. 12 Jun 1858 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp b. 28 Jan 1860 George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Jan 1862 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 Jacoba Regina Mountjoy b.…
Frederick Fortunatus Werdmuller
…17 Sep 2026 — The Burgersdorp sweep of images 605–818 found five new people Three. Johanna Catharina Mountjoy, born 28 January 1860, was already held in full — a daughter of George Mountjoy who married William Henry Keys — and the sweep only confirmed her and gave her a reference. Frederick Fortunatus Werdmuller was already held from a 1907 petition and a 1953 estate; what the sweep added was his birth and his mother, which is a real gain and not a new person.…
Fritz Johannes Mountjoy
…Baptised 5 August 1894. FROM THE INDEX, which mangles the place to “Barkly, Queensland, Australia” — it is Barkly East. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Fritz Johannes Mountjoy 5 Oct 1893 – 1973 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b. 23 Oct 1898 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b. 8 Nov 1901 Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b.…
George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy
…He carries his father's name and his brother's. Parents George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 record George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Jan 1862 Mountjoy 6 siblings Anna Catharina Mountjoy b. 5 Aug 1852 Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy b. 12 Jun 1858 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp b. 28 Jan 1860 Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy b. 10 Jun 1864 Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 Jacoba Regina Mountjoy b.…
George Keys
…The thirteen Mountjoy children → Eight children baptised at Dordrecht, Barkly East and Barkly West between 1878 and 1898. She is George Mountjoy's daughter, baptised at Burgersdorp on a leap day in 1860 — which is the question this archive has been asking since the Keys index was read.…
George Mountjoy of Kokstad
…He left movables, immovables, an estate over £300 and a will. NINE CHILDREN, NAMED: Minnie Burger born Mountjoy; Maria Kirsten born Mountjoy; George Mountjoy; Christian Mountjoy; Emily Lloyd born Mountjoy; Joseph Mountjoy; Alfred Mountjoy; Nellie Bouwer born Mountjoy; Lettie van der Sandt born Mountjoy. THEY ARE NAMED HERE AND NOT MADE INTO PEOPLE, because nothing yet joins this house to this archive’s and a family chart is not a place to park a maybe. AND QUESTION THREE FAILS AGAIN: Father — “Names unknown”. Mother — “Names unknown: deceased”.…
George Mountjoy
…Married Maria Sophia Botha at Cradock, 20 Aug 1848, certificate 735. Thirteen children. George Mountjoy · 11 Jun 1823, Cradock – — Parents James Montjoy c. 1782 – Sep 1827 record Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 record George Mountjoy b.…
Hercules Johannes Mountjoy
…Married at Dordrecht 8 Oct 1888, aged 22. Father at the 1889 font. No estate file exists for him under any spelling. Parents George Mountjoy b.…
Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys
…The thirteen Mountjoy children → Eight children baptised at Dordrecht, Barkly East and Barkly West between 1878 and 1898. She is George Mountjoy's daughter, baptised at Burgersdorp on a leap day in 1860 — which is the question this archive has been asking since the Keys index was read. Every record naming Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys → The record Name Herklaas Edward Johannes Keys Born 9 Feb 1897 Died — Line Mountjoy Confidence Inferred What the archive holds Barkly West, and named for Herklaas — Hercules Johannes Mountjoy.…
Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy
…FROM THE INDEX. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Fritz Johannes Mountjoy 5 Oct 1893 – 1973 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b. 23 Oct 1898 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b. 8 Nov 1901 Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b.…
Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy
…Parents James Montjoy c. 1782 – Sep 1827 record Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 record Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 Mountjoy married David Schalk van der Merwe record 4 siblings Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863 George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 James Mountjoy b. 1826 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 8 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1817 marriage register → Married at Graaff-Reinet, 9 March 1817 — on a page where the clerk recorded everyone else's origin and left his blank.…
Jacoba Regina Mountjoy
…Parents George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record Maria Sophia Botha 1827 – 1911 record Jacoba Regina Mountjoy b. 14 Jun 1868 Mountjoy 6 siblings Anna Catharina Mountjoy b. 5 Aug 1852 Maria Elizabeth Mountjoy b. 12 Jun 1858 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy of Burgersdorp b. 28 Jan 1860 George Herkules Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Jan 1862 Elsje Petronella Frederika Mountjoy b.…
James Jonathan Keys
…The thirteen Mountjoy children → Eight children baptised at Dordrecht, Barkly East and Barkly West between 1878 and 1898. She is George Mountjoy's daughter, baptised at Burgersdorp on a leap day in 1860 — which is the question this archive has been asking since the Keys index was read. Every record naming James Jonathan Keys → The record Name James Jonathan Keys Born 18 Nov 1883 Died — Line Mountjoy Confidence Inferred What the archive holds Baptised at Dordrecht, 2 December 1883, and named for James Jonathan Mountjoy. FROM THE INDEX.…
James Montjoy
…James Montjoy c. 1782 – Sep 1827 Mountjoy married Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 record 5 children with Anna Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 record Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863 direct line Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 record George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 record James Mountjoy b. 1826 record the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 6 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. Married at Graaff-Reinet, 9 March 1817 — on a page where the clerk recorded everyone else's origin and left his blank.…
James Mountjoy
…Parents James Montjoy c. 1782 – Sep 1827 record Anna Catharina Sleer bapt. 14 Oct 1787 – 1885 record James Mountjoy b. 1826 Mountjoy 4 siblings Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 7 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1817 marriage register → Married at Graaff-Reinet, 9 March 1817 — on a page where the clerk recorded everyone else's origin and left his blank.…
Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy
…FROM THE INDEX; the register page has not been read. Parents Hercules Johannes Mountjoy 16 Jul 1866 – 12 May 1941 record Maria Sophia van Niekerk 1868 – 1961 record Jan Dirk Abraham Francois Mountjoy b. 3 Sep 1891 Mountjoy 7 siblings George Mountjoy 1889 – 1963 Fritz Johannes Mountjoy 5 Oct 1893 – 1973 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy 15 Aug 1896 – 25 Oct 1897 Maria Sophia Mountjoy of Dordrecht b. 23 Oct 1898 Carolina Isabella Margaretha Aletta Mountjoy the second b. 8 Nov 1901 Herklaus Johannes Mountjoy b. 16 Feb 1904 Willem Hermanus Mountjoy b.…
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