James Henry Barry
SETTLED, 14 September 2026, and it removes a candidate rather than adding one. The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN. The same event is indexed twice: once as Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868, and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY, baptism 13 Nov 1848. Same birth date of 13 July 1848, same parents, same collection, and FamilySearch attaches BOTH to one tree person, James Henry Barry 1848–1939. The volume decides the year on its own: the register is “GRAAFF-REINET. BAPTISM RECORDS 1846–1851”, and a baptism of 1868 cannot sit in a book that closes in 1851. So he was baptised at four months, not at twenty, AT GRAAFF-REINET — not at Cape Town or Tulbagh, which is what both index entries say for the place. The birth-spacing argument made against him held: his brother John Augustus II was born 13 March 1847 and he was born sixteen months later. THE IMAGE HAS BEEN LOCATED AND NOT READ — identifier apid:TH-909-70517-31299-17. Named on the 1915 death notice, which he swore himself. The index now dates him: born about 1847, dead at Barkly East on 23 June 1939, having outlived his father by thirty-six years. BUT THAT YEAR CANNOT STAND. His brother John Augustus Barry II was born 13 MARCH 1847 off a register, and “about 1847” here is not a date at all — it is an age worked back from the 1939 death. Two brothers cannot share it. A relationship search on his mother's surname turned up a HENRY JAONAS BARRY born 13 July 1848 and baptised at twenty, which is where a next child belongs; whether that is this man under a clerk's ear is UNPROVED and the register is unread.
The record
| Name | James Henry Barry |
| Also written | Henry Jaonas Barry · Hennery James Berry (both 1848 index entries) |
| Born | 13 Jul 1848, baptised 13 Nov 1848 at Graaff-Reinet |
| Died | 23 Jun 1939, Barkly East |
| Line | Barry |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
SETTLED, 14 September 2026, and it removes a candidate rather than adding one. The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN. The same event is indexed twice: once as Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868, and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY, baptism 13 Nov 1848. Same birth date of 13 July 1848, same parents, same collection, and FamilySearch attaches BOTH to one tree person, James Henry Barry 1848–1939. The volume decides the year on its own: the register is “GRAAFF-REINET. BAPTISM RECORDS 1846–1851”, and a baptism of 1868 cannot sit in a book that closes in 1851. So he was baptised at four months, not at twenty, AT GRAAFF-REINET — not at Cape Town or Tulbagh, which is what both index entries say for the place. The birth-spacing argument made against him held: his brother John Augustus II was born 13 March 1847 and he was born sixteen months later. THE IMAGE HAS BEEN LOCATED AND NOT READ — identifier apid:TH-909-70517-31299-17. Named on the 1915 death notice, which he swore himself. The index now dates him: born about 1847, dead at Barkly East on 23 June 1939, having outlived his father by thirty-six years. BUT THAT YEAR CANNOT STAND. His brother John Augustus Barry II was born 13 MARCH 1847 off a register, and “about 1847” here is not a date at all — it is an age worked back from the 1939 death. Two brothers cannot share it. A relationship search on his mother's surname turned up a HENRY JAONAS BARRY born 13 July 1848 and baptised at twenty, which is where a next child belongs; whether that is this man under a clerk's ear is UNPROVED and the register is unread.
- 14 Sep 2026 — A relationship search had found one name the Barry notices never gave
It found none. HENRY JAONAS BARRY is JAMES HENRY BARRY, who was already in this archive — the same baptism indexed twice, once as Henry Jaonas with the year read as 1868 and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY with it read as 1848. Same birth date, same parents, and FamilySearch attaches both to one tree person. The register itself decides: “Graaff-Reinet. Baptism Records 1846–1851” cannot hold an 1868 entry. So the “baptised at twenty years old” that made him interesting was a mis-transcribed year, and “Jaonas” was a mis-read “James” — which is what the archive's own register search implied when it found JONAS nowhere among the Barrys or Kolbes. The eleven-against-nine gap is unchanged: TWO children are still missing, not one. Where it stands → - 28 Sep 2026 — John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Kolbe married about 1850 at Burghersdorp
THEIR ELDEST SON WAS BORN IN 1847, AND THIS ARCHIVE DREW HIM UNDER THAT MARRIAGE. The 1850 rested on one word — “probably” — written by their son R. P. Barry on his father's death notice in 1915, sixty-five years after the event. The same son had written “Unknown” on his mother's notice three months earlier, which this archive quoted elsewhere as a sign of how little he knew, and then used his guess as a date anyway. Meanwhile people.js said “married 1846” the whole time. Two of this archive's own files disagreed, and the marriage page published the wrong one. WHAT IT IS NOW: 23 FEBRUARY 1846 at COLESBERG, markedinfbecause the exact date and place come from Pama, reported in a letter of November 1999 that had been in David's files for twenty-seven years. THE BOOK IS NOT WHAT MAKES IT SAFE — this archive does not let a book overrule a page. 1850 is refuted by arithmetic on the archive's own data, and 1846 was already here. HOW IT WAS CAUGHT MATTERS MORE THAN THE DATE. Not by a gate, not by an audit, but by a stranger's letter arriving at a page nobody had re-read. There is a gate now —child-before-weddingrefuses a household whose marriage postdates a child drawn under it, and it fired on this row and on James Henry Barry, born 1848, before the fix. Where it stands →
The Booyzen Archive
…10 Sep 1839 Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 David Schalk Booysen 9 Jun 1848 – after Nov 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 Catherine’s · 9 John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 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.…
The Barrys
…The reasoning below is left standing because the archive argued itself to the right answer before the record confirmed it. HENRY JAONAS BARRY IS JAMES HENRY BARRY. The same baptism is indexed twice. One entry reads Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868 ; the other reads Hennery James Berry, baptism 13 Nov 1848 . Both give the birth as 13 July 1848 , both name John Barry and Margret Willemina Kolbe , both sit in the Cape Town Archives DRC collection, and FamilySearch attaches both to one tree person — James Henry Barry, 1848–1939 , which is this archive's man, dead at Barkly East on 23 June 1939. The volume settles the year without the image being read.…
…And the register search that found Jonas nowhere among the Barrys or Kolbes was pointing at the truth: it was never a family name, it was a clerk's James . The withdrawal → The name as indexed Dates What it might be Henry Jaonas Barry born 13 Jul 1848 baptised 13 Nov 1868 Baptised at twenty years old , which is itself unusual enough to be worth the image. Indexed twice, once to Cape Town and once to Tulbagh — both a long way from this family's Cape midlands. It may not be a new child: this archive holds a James Henry Barry , born about 1847, who died at Barkly East on 23 June 1939.…
…Death certificate, 1903 "An Irishman born in Ireland" Recorded by the Cape Mounted Rifles , then the authority in the district, stationed at Johnson's Leap — and dated two months after his death. Document, 29 March 1915 "At sea, exact whereabouts unknown. British." Signed by his second son James Henry Barry . It also names his father as John Barry and his mother's maiden name as "Neagle" — almost certainly Nagle , of County Cork. The tree's own guess Sunderland, Durham Offered with a question mark and no source. The note's own conclusion is a question: if he was born on the high seas with the 1820 Settlers , who were his parents? The 1820 Settler hypothesis does not survive arithmetic.…
Blood relatives
…here they are. Parents: George Augustus Kolbe · Margaret Downing Brothers and sisters: Mary Elizabeth Kolbe · John Kolbe · George Kolbe · Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe · Marian Kolbe · Julia Kolbe · Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe · Peter Benjamin Kolbe Children: Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · John Augustus Barry II · William Barry · James Henry Barry · George Augustus Barry · Hendrik Nicholaas Barry · Frederick Fortunatus Barry · Richard Peter Barry · Margaret Mary Bedford · Kathleen Mary Barry · John Augustus Barry II · William Barry · James Henry Barry · George Augustus Barry · Hendrik Nicholaas Barry · Frederick Fortunatus Barry · Richard Peter Barry · Margaret Mary Bedford · Kathleen Mary Barry What the lines are made of Every link on thi…
The documents
…Nine children, and one of them is new Question ten, entire. John · Richard Peter · James · Henry · George · Frederick · WILLIAM · Catharina · Margaret — “all majors”. 1915, hers 1915, his (estate 925) John John Augustus Barry ✓ Richard Peter Richard Peter Barry ✓ James James Henry Barry ✓ Henry Henry Nicholas Barry ✓ George George Augustus Barry ✓ Frederick Frederick Fortunatus Barry ✓ Catharina Kathleen Mary Boyson, born Barry ✓ Margaret Margaret Mary Bedford, born Barry ✓ WILLIAM — not on it — NEW “Eight is not eleven” becomes “nine is not eleven”. John Barry’s 1903 registration answers the printed question “the total number of children deceased has had” with ELEVEN .…
Households
…His 1903 registration says they had ELEVEN children; his own death notice names EIGHT; HER death notice, estate 1291, names NINE. The ninth is WILLIAM, who appears on nothing else. Two are still missing. The Barrys John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
The Marriages
…sdorp — George Augustus Barry 26 Apr 1850, baptised 9 Jun 1850 at Graaff-Reinet — Harriet Louisa Barry 1894 7 Sep 1912, Barkly East Hendrik Nicholaas Barry 1857 — from Pama, not from a font — Henry James Kolbe Barry Barkly East 1958 — estate NAB MSCE 2183/1958 Jacobus Ellinckhuizen Barry 25 Mar 1877, baptised 22 May 1877 at Burgersdorp — James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848, baptised 13 Nov 1848 at Graaff-Reinet 23 Jun 1939, Barkly East Jeannie Maria Catharina Botha — — John Augustus Barry I 1819, “at sea (exact whereabouts unknown), British” 1903 John Augustus Barry II 13 Mar 1847, baptised 12 Apr 1847 at Graaff-Reinet, entry 80 — John Augustus Barry III 9 May 1873, baptised 9 Jun 1873 at Burgersdorp — John Barry — — 1796 was the OTHER man’s year 1853,…
The People
…FROM THE INDEX. The Barrys What Was Searched James Henry Barry also written Henry Jaonas Barry · Hennery James Berry (both 1848 index entries) Documented 13 Jul 1848, baptised 13 Nov 1848 at Graaff-Reinet 23 Jun 1939, Barkly East SETTLED, 14 September 2026, and it removes a candidate rather than adding one. The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN.…
…The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN. The same event is indexed twice: once as Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868, and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY, baptism 13 Nov 1848. Same birth date of 13 July 1848, same parents, same collection, and FamilySearch attaches BOTH to one tree person, James Henry Barry 1848–1939. The volume decides the year on its own: the register is “GRAAFF-REINET. BAPTISM RECORDS 1846–1851”, and a baptism of 1868 cannot sit in a book that closes in 1851.…
…The same event is indexed twice: once as Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868, and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY, baptism 13 Nov 1848. Same birth date of 13 July 1848, same parents, same collection, and FamilySearch attaches BOTH to one tree person, James Henry Barry 1848–1939. The volume decides the year on its own: the register is “GRAAFF-REINET. BAPTISM RECORDS 1846–1851”, and a baptism of 1868 cannot sit in a book that closes in 1851. So he was baptised at four months, not at twenty, AT GRAAFF-REINET — not at Cape Town or Tulbagh, which is what both index entries say for the place.…
Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry
…20 Jun 1889 record Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park record Richard Peter Booyzen c. 1894 – 25 Oct 1918 inferred George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen 1 Jun 1901 – 11 Dec 1947 direct line 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
Frederick Fortunatus Barry
…Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Barry 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Richard Peter Barry b.…
George Augustus Barry
…He carries his grandfather George Augustus Kolbe's names entire. Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Barry 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
Hendrik Nicholaas Barry
…7 Oct 1888 inferred Dorothea Regina Barry of Slang River b. 11 Jan 1892 inferred Harriet Louisa Barry 1894 – 7 Sep 1912 record Ellen Hendrika Barry b. 8 Dec 1899 inferred 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
James Henry Barry
…His 1903 registration says they had ELEVEN children; his own death notice names EIGHT; HER death notice, estate 1291, names NINE. The ninth is WILLIAM, who appears on nothing else. Two are still missing. Every record naming James Henry Barry → The record Name James Henry Barry Also written Henry Jaonas Barry · Hennery James Berry (both 1848 index entries) Born 13 Jul 1848, baptised 13 Nov 1848 at Graaff-Reinet Died 23 Jun 1939, Barkly East Line Barry Confidence Documented What the archive holds SETTLED, 14 September 2026, and it removes a candidate rather than adding one. The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN.…
…The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN. The same event is indexed twice: once as Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868, and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY, baptism 13 Nov 1848. Same birth date of 13 July 1848, same parents, same collection, and FamilySearch attaches BOTH to one tree person, James Henry Barry 1848–1939. The volume decides the year on its own: the register is “GRAAFF-REINET. BAPTISM RECORDS 1846–1851”, and a baptism of 1868 cannot sit in a book that closes in 1851.…
…The HENRY JAONAS BARRY who turned up on 13 September — “baptised at twenty years old” in 1868, and briefly a candidate for a tenth child — IS THIS MAN. The same event is indexed twice: once as Henry Jaonas Barry, baptism 13 Nov 1868, and once as HENNERY JAMES BERRY, baptism 13 Nov 1848.…
John Augustus Barry I
…Parent John Barry — — 1796 was the OTHER man’s year – 1853 family tree John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 Barry married Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record 10 children with Margaretha John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 record William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 record James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 record George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 record Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama record Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 record Richard Peter Barry b.…
John Augustus Barry II
…30 Mar 1875 inferred Jacobus Ellinckhuizen Barry b. 25 Mar 1877 inferred Clarence Barry b. 14 Mar 1879 inferred George Alphonso Barry b. 3 Mar 1881 inferred Anton Rector Kolbe Barry b. 3 Nov 1882 inferred Alida Eduarda Barry b. 10 Dec 1886 inferred Miny Barry b. 13 Aug 1889 inferred 9 siblings William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
Kathleen Mary Barry
…Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record Kathleen Mary Barry Barry 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
Margaret Mary Bedford
…Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record Margaret Mary Bedford Barry 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe
…Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Kolbe married John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record 10 children with John John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 record William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 record James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 record George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 record Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama record Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 record Richard Peter Barry b. 1866 — from Pama record Margaret Mary Bedford record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 direct line Kathleen Mary Barry record 9 siblings Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef.…
Richard Peter Barry
…1866 — from Pama Barry married Jeannie Maria Catharina Botha record 1 child with Jeannie Richard Pieter Kolbe Barry b. 1899 record 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b.…
William Barry
…His father's 1903 registration said ELEVEN children; with William there are nine named and two still missing. Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 Barry 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry b. 26 Apr 1850 Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Frederick Fortunatus Barry b. 10 Nov 1863 Richard Peter Barry b.…
The rebels
…1859; four Booyzen children b. 1885–1907; Margarietha Barry b. 1880; Anna Pretorius b. 1905; John Augustus Barry died at Manor Owen, 1903 Dordrecht part of ~550; in rebel hands 1899 Kathleen Barry christened there, 1859; Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857; James Henry Barry married there, 1867 Lady Grey part of 1,268 Richard Peter Barry b. 1866 The family was not near the Cape rebellion. The family was inside it — living, marrying and burying across the four districts that supplied the largest share of its manpower. Inferred This establishes overwhelming opportunity and milieu .…
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