Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen

…Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen's marriage to Nuno Fernando Lerena in 1949 is the hinge between this archive and The Lerena . The families who married in Eleven lines meet in this archive. A marriage is where two of them join. The marriages, in full → The line, seven generations Back to a Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen the tree asserts and no record yet names. The two Petrus Jacobus Booysens in the middle are father and son, and they are two men. 7 Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen × Magdelena Elisabeth De Beer The joint here will not bear weight. The tree asserts it and no record names the father. 1 child recorded Petrus Jacobus Booysen carries the line show ↓ hide ↑ Petrus Jacobus Booysen c.…

…Seven generations up, the male line simply ends. One thing has changed here, and it is worth being precise about how little. Until the 1876 Sterfkennis was read, generation seven existed only because a family tree said so. It now exists because a nineteenth-century clerk wrote "Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen" and "Magdalena de Beer" on his son's death notice. See the line → 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — AND THAT CLERK IS NOW THE ONLY THING HOLDING THIS ROW UP. De Villiers's printed Cape genealogy of 1893 places this Petrus Jacobus under a father called JAN , and Riël Smit confirms that de Villiers & Pama’s 1981 revision still does .…

…Two of these men married twice , and in both cases the second wife was found long after the first had been written down. Both second marriages are given in the Married column; the ancestor chart has one slot for a mother and can only draw one of them. The chart → Generation7 Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen and Magdelena Elisabeth De Beer (1754–1843) The joint here will not bear weight. He has no birth date, no death date, no father and no mother. He exists because a clerk wrote his name on his son's 1876 death notice - and de Villiers's printed Cape genealogy puts that son under a father called Jan instead. One primary document signed by a son, against a printed genealogy agreeing with itself.…

…A CONCLUSION THAT SURVIVES BOTH READINGS OF THE EVIDENCE IS THE ONLY KIND WORTH KEEPING. What the disagreement does cost is her: she has two sets of parents and no way to choose, and the baptism register of 5 October 1788 at Cape Town would end it. → Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen — did he exist? The 1876 Rustenburg Sterfkennis of Petrus Jacobus Booijsen, Notice 678, names his parents on line 3 as GERTHARDUS LÖDEWIKUS BOOIJSEN and MAGDALENA DE BEER. De Villiers (1893) and de Villiers & Pama (1981) both place that Petrus Jacobus under JAN Booijsen, b3c4. The mother agrees; the father does not. Serious FOUR THINGS NOW POINT ONE WAY AND THE CHART HAS NOT BEEN MOVED.…

…It is the document this archive has been looking for since the first page was written. Notice 678 . Countersigned by the veldkornet and by H. S. Booijsen — Hendrik Stefanus, one of the sons listed four lines above his own signature. The form, as completed 1. Naam Petrus Jacobus Booijsen 2. Geboorteplaats Graaffreinet 3. Ouders Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen Magdalena de Beer 4. Ouderdom 88 jaar 5. Beroep Landbouwer 6. Staat Gehuwd — weduwenaar 7. Overleden 1 September 1876 8. Waar Destrikt Rustenburg 9. Testament Neen 10. Goederen Niets nagelaten 11. Boven £25 Niets bekend 12.…

…And the mother on line 3 — Magdalena de Beer — agrees with the book exactly. The informant got the woman right and the man wrong, which is what an informant reaching for a half-remembered pair of names would do. And the spine is not being moved on this The pedigree still shows Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen at the top, marked open, and it stays there today. Everything above is secondary. De Villiers is a printed genealogy of 1893; Pama’s revision agreeing with it is one book agreeing with its own earlier edition, not two sources agreeing. Against it stands a primary document, a death notice signed by a son, and this archive does not let a book overrule a page just because the book is tidier.…

…Sophia Daschner (Stoter) — deceased. Read it on The documents → Notice 678 . Countersigned by the veldkornet and by H. S. Booijsen — Hendrik Stefanus, one of the sons listed four lines above his own signature. Read it on The documents → "Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen" — "Magdalena de Beer" Read it on The documents → All eight entered mondig — the eldest was in his sixties. Read it on The documents → Destrikt Rustenburg · Neen · Niets nagelaten · Niets bekend Read it on The documents → 58379 — James John Mountjoy , retired builder, Barkly East. Died 22 December 1937, aged 83 years 6 months .…

…1764 – 18 Nov 1845 a record read here A tailor of Conduit Street, Mayfair. Four independent documents call him John Gottlob; the family tree calls him Johan Gottlieb, and this archive follows the documents. The Kolbes George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 John Gottlob Kolbe Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen and Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer 1 a record read here Named together in line 3 of their son's 1876 Sterfkennis — the oldest document this archive has read. The 1876 Sterfkennis Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 the direct line David Schalk Booijsen and Adriana Christina Viljoen 1 head born b.…

…21 Sep 1788, Graaff-Reinet · gen 6 1 Sep 1876, district Rustenburg Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen gen 7 — Abel Hermanus Gerhardus Lowies — — Adriana Christina Viljoen — — Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter — — Andries Gottlieb Pretorius — — Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 bef.…

…If that progenitor is right, then this family is German or Frisian on the male line as well — and joins Kolbe of Württemberg, Schleher , and the German Lutheran community of Soho on the female lines. A family that reads as Afrikaans and English is, underneath, substantially German. Inferred The link from Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen to Boy Booysen is not demonstrated in this archive . Where the line stops → 1942 · A clerk who typed the z The one document in this archive where an official, unprompted, spells it the family's way. Estate TAB MHG 1928/42 , Johannesburg, April 1942 — "(born Booyzen)" . Every other official spelling this archive has read runs the other way.…

…Three of these share one page on this site, because merging them silently would be worse than saying so. The name that made this archive get something wrong Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus An uncle and a nephew, both of this name, both connected to an estate filed in 1885. Who When What they are to the name Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen no dates Generation seven — the top of the male line, and the source of the name. Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen 1818–1885 His grandson. Fifth on the 1876 Sterfkennis; died at Vaalbank, district Lichtenburg. THE ESTATE IS HIS. Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 His great-grandson, seventh on the 1863 death notice. This archive gave him the uncle's estate and a death date to match.…

…He married Elizabeth Anna Bronkhorst, widow Joubert, in community of property; their youngest son carries his grandfather’s name. The 1935 Sterfkennis Namesakes The Atlas Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen · generation 7 also written Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen (1876) Documented — — THE ONE DOCUMENT THAT NAMES HIM HAS BEEN WEAKENED, AND BY SOMEBODY WHO HAD NOT SEEN IT. On 14 September 2026 PIETER VAN ZYL, answering this archive’s G2G question, guessed that the 1876 informant had reached for a name already in the household — and added, from memory, that he thought a CHILD of Petrus Jacobus was called Gerhardus Lodewicus.…

…Named together in line 3 of their son's 1876 Sterfkennis — the oldest document this archive has read. The 1876 Sterfkennis → Every record naming Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen → The record Name Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen Also written Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen (1876) Born — Died — Line Booyzen Generation 7 — on the direct line Confidence Documented What the archive holds THE ONE DOCUMENT THAT NAMES HIM HAS BEEN WEAKENED, AND BY SOMEBODY WHO HAD NOT SEEN IT.…

…On 14 September 2026 PIETER VAN ZYL, answering this archive’s G2G question, guessed that the 1876 informant had reached for a name already in the household — and added, from memory, that he thought a CHILD of Petrus Jacobus was called Gerhardus Lodewicus.…

…That matters because a 1793 Cape will names a different “Jan Booysen, married to the late Magdalena de Beer”: the pairing was never unique, and now this line’s version of it is documented. Magdelena Elisabeth de Beer 1754 – 1843 Booyzen married Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen record 1 child with Gerthardus Petrus Jacobus Booysen c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 direct line 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. Named together in line 3 of their son's 1876 Sterfkennis — the oldest document this archive has read.…

…His Sterfkennis — No. 678, written 14 September 1876 — is the oldest document about this family that this archive has read, it names his parents, and it lists eight children. 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.…

…bus Stephanus Booijsen · Maria Margaritha Van Zijl record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gert Johannes Diederik Lourens Booijsen with: Francina Johanna Jacoba Booijsen · Anna Margaretha Carolina Barendse record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Gertruida Barendina Petronella Booijsen with: Daniel Petrus Du Plessis Compaan · Theodorus Hermanus Carel Compaan record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Gertruida Barendina Petronella Booijsen with: Theodorus Hermanus Carel Compaau · Theodous Hermanus Carel Compaau record ↗ South Africa, D…

…The first of them is the oldest document in this archive. Reference Person Died Status Sterfkennis 678 Transvaal, Weeskamer Petrus Jacobus Booijsen — generation six, b. Graaff-Reinet c. 1788 1876 Read Parents named : Gerthardus Lödewikus Booijsen and Magdalena de Beer. Eight children. Nothing to leave. Transcribed → Sterfkennis 6332 Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier — b. district Cradock c. 1823 1891 Read, and she is kin Died Brakfontein , district Rustenburg — the family farm. Parents Ocken Johannes Oliefier and Anna Johanna Botha. The first wife of Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen, with seven children.…

…His Sterfkennis names GERTHARDUS LÖDEWIKUS BOOIJSEN and MAGDALENA DE BEER — the top of the male line, documented for the first time. Petrus Jacobus Booysen Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen Rustenburg Brakfontein 22 Dec 1879 Document Willem Hermanus Booyzen, boer of Lady Grey, marries Kathleen Barry He is a farmer here and a mason at his death. Something takes the land away in between.…

…Siblings are drawn from kin.js, which records each household and the document that places every child in it — only the dead, and where a forename is carried by more than one person in this archive the sibling is drawn without dates rather than with somebody else's. 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.…

…Everything else about it — its forenames, its politics, its religion, its 1820 Settler descent and its German origins — arrived through 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.…