Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen
Seventh on the 1876 notice — and the man who signed it, four lines under his own name, beside the veldkornet. 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.
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.
NO CHILDREN BY HIM. This archive drew his four children here for a month because it could name this marriage and not the other. She was fifty-one at the wedding; and her own 1902 death notice lists SIX children — two van Stadens and four Rooses — and not one Booysen.
This archive filed her for a week as a stranger called Anna Johanna Booijzen BORN ALBERTS who died at BOEKFONTEIN. Both readings were wrong, and together they kept a documented wife and two documented children off this family.
The record
| Name | Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen |
| Also written | Hendrik Stephanus Booysen (1908) |
| Born | c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet |
| Died | 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg |
| Line | Booyzen |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
Seventh on the 1876 notice — and the man who signed it, four lines under his own name, beside the veldkornet. 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.
Where the archive puts Hendrik
Each carries the document that puts them there. The atlas →
- 13 Sep 2026 — Anna Johanna Booijzen, born Alberts, died at Boekfontein and is not this family
Every clause of that was wrong. She is Anna Catharina Johanna OLIVIER, she died at BRAKFONTEIN — the family's own farm, where the archive's oldest document was written — and she is the first wife of Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen. The maiden name reads Oliefier and contains no b, r, t or s; her son gives OLIVIER on the 1908 notice. Two misreadings on one page kept a documented wife, seven children and a whole Olivier line off this site for a week. Where it stands →
The Booyzen Archive
…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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen The evidence show ↓ hide ↑ married at about seventeen; died a widower in the Transvaal with nothing to leave · and Elizabetha van der Merwe — DOCUMENTED, named as the mother on their son Hendrik Stephanus’s 1908 death notice 5 1812 → 1884 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 May 1812, Graaff-Reinet d.…
The Atlas
…The pin is a placement in the district and the number is the part that is solid.) Rustenburg Rustenburg — Town Zwartruggens Zwartruggens — Town Tolosberg Tolosberg — Hill, place of capture (position inferred; Jeppe's 1899 map does not carry the name) Koedoesfontein Koedoesfontein — Farm (District Rustenburg is documented — Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen died here on 11 May 1908. The farm is not surveyed here, and Koedoesfontein is a common Transvaal farm name, so the pin is a placement in the district.) Driefontein Driefontein — Farm, Groot Marico (Given in the records as a farm in the Groot Marico, district Marico.…
Disputed
…Serious Petrus Jacobus remarried and the second wife is missing from the tree. Two “sons” belong to her. → Anna Maria van der Merwe (1785–1825) Dies before 8 March 1825 — but Hendrik Stefanus is recorded born 23 August 1829. Resolved RESOLVED, 13 September 2026. The second marriage is no longer unrecorded. Hendrik Stephanus Booysen's own 1908 death notice — Transvaal estate 14380 — names his mother as ELIZABETHA BOOYSEN, BORN VAN DER MERWE, and gives his age as seventy-nine years eleven months at 11 May 1908, which puts his birth about June 1828, three years after the first wife died. Two van der Merwe wives in succession. The contradiction was never a contradiction; it was a missing row.…
The documents
…Child, as written What this archive already knew David Schalk Booijsen — Magdalena Johanna Booijsen — Petrus Jacobus Booijsen generation five , b. 10 May 1812, the farmer at Zevenfontein who signed the 1863 death notice Anna Eliezabet Booijsen — Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen — Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen — Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen signed this notice Anna Maria Booijsen — Seven of these eight were unknown to this archive an hour ago. And three of the names — David Schalk , Magdalena Johanna , Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus — are the same names that appear on the 1863 death notice as children of Petrus Jacobus the younger , born 1848, 1853 and 1855.…
…She lived at Manorowen , died at Cherryville and was buried at Manorowen — so both are Barry places, and Cherryville is the third named Barry farm in this archive after Manorowen and Jerpoint. The atlas → 1908 · The son who signed the 1876 notice, found — and a mother nobody had Estate 14380 , Transvaal. Hendrik Stephanus Booysen put his name to his father's Sterfkennis at Brakfontein in September 1876. Thirty-two years later his own was filed, and it resolves a contradiction this archive has carried as Serious since the first week. Under the Administration of Estates Ordinance 1902 , stamped 16 September 1909 . Signed O. J. S. Booysen — son of the deceased .…
Households
…David Schalk Booijsen b. 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.…
The Marriages
…1828, Graaff-Reinet 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen c.…
The People
…Of age by 1891, and absent from her father's 1908 notice, which names only four children — so she probably died in between. The 1891 notices The Women Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Documented — — Sixth on the 1876 notice. The Documents The Women Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen also written Hendrik Stephanus Booysen (1908) Documented c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Seventh on the 1876 notice — and the man who signed it, four lines under his own name, beside the veldkornet.…
Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter
…Parents Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 record Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter Booyzen 6 siblings Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg 20 Apr 1851 – bef.…
Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier
…Parents Ockert Johannes Stephanus Olivier record Anna Catharina Botha record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 Booyzen married Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record 7 children with Hendrik Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg 20 Apr 1851 – bef. 1908 record Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen 15 Sep 1852 – 16 Jan 1921 record Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen record Elesabettha Maria Cornelya Booijsen record Aletta Catharina Johanna Venter record Magdalena Johanna Booijsen of Brakfontein record Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen c.…
Anna Eliezabet Booijsen
…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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen 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.…
Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen
…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. Parents Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 record Anna Johanna Maria Booijsen Booyzen 6 siblings Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg 20 Apr 1851 – bef.…
Anna Maria Booijsen
…Mar 1825 record Anna Maria 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 Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 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.…
Anna Maria van der Merwe
…21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 record 8 children with Petrus 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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Maria Booijsen record 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.…
Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl
…That is why the four children this archive once drew under her are not hers. Parent Jacob Dormehl record Charlotta Elizabetha Dormehl c. Oct 1841 – 6 Feb 1902 Booyzen married Jacob van Staden d. bef. 1902 record married Matthys Roos d. bef. 1892 record married Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record 2 children with Jacob Jacob Alewyn van Staden record Coenrad Sybert van Staden record 4 children with Matthys Gert Johannes Roos record Matthys Johannes Roos record Johannes Sybert Roos record Anna Francisa Roos record NO CHILDREN BY HIM. This archive drew his four children here for a month because it could name this marriage and not the other.…
David Schalk Booijsen
…12 Dec 1806 Booyzen married Adriana Christina Viljoen record 1 child with Adriana Anna Maria Booijsen of 1835 b. 7 Aug 1835 record 7 siblings Magdalena Johanna Booijsen 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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen 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.…
Elesabettha Maria Cornelya Booijsen
…Of age by 1891, and absent from her father's 1908 notice, which names only four children — so she probably died in between. Parents Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 record Elesabettha Maria Cornelya Booijsen Booyzen 6 siblings Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg 20 Apr 1851 – bef.…
Eliezabet Cornelia Booijsen
…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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen 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.…
Elizabetha van der Merwe
…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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 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. A second marriage, and a second van der Merwe.…
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.…
…Her husband remarried at Zeerust eleven months later. The four on his 1908 notice are the four of these seven who were still alive in 1908. The 1891 notices → Every record naming Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen → The record Name Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen Also written Hendrik Stephanus Booysen (1908) Born c. 1828, Graaff-Reinet Died 11 May 1908, Koedoesfontein, district Rustenburg Line Booyzen Confidence Documented What the archive holds Seventh on the 1876 notice — and the man who signed it, four lines under his own name, beside the veldkornet.…
Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen
…Sterfkennis 6361: landbouwer, ongehuwd, movables only and not above £25, and line 3 names his parents — Hendrick Stefanus Booijsen and Anna Catrena gebooren Oliefier. He is the seventh child on his mother's list and the first Booysen this archive has documented as BORN in the Transvaal. Parents Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 record Hendrik Stefanus Nicolaas Booijsen c. 31 Jan 1862 – 14 May 1891 Booyzen 6 siblings Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg 20 Apr 1851 – bef.…
Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen
…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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen 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.…
Magdalena Johanna Booijsen of Brakfontein
…Absent from the 1908 notice. Parents Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 record Magdalena Johanna Booijsen of Brakfontein Booyzen 6 siblings Petrus Jacobus Booysen of Rustenburg 20 Apr 1851 – bef.…
Magdalena Johanna Booijsen
…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. 1828 – 11 May 1908 Anna Maria Booijsen 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.…
Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen
…Second of the seven children on his mother’s 1891 notice, and he carries HER father’s name: Ocken Johannes Oliefier. Confirmed at Rustenburg on 3 April 1869, the same day as his brother Petrus Jacobus. He died at Klerksdorp on 16 January 1921, aged 69 — a civil registration, which names no parents. Parents Hendrik Stefanus Booijsen c. 1828 – 11 May 1908 record Anna Catharina Johanna Olivier 10 Sep 1824 – 9 May 1891 record Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen 15 Sep 1852 – 16 Jan 1921 Booyzen married Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh c. 1862 – bef. Mar 1935 record 2 children with Elisabetta Hendrik Stephanus Nicolaas Booyen 4 Jan 1882 – 8 Oct 1959 record Diederik Arnoldus Booysen c.…
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