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Barry · 51 mentions across 48 pages

John Augustus Barry II

THE ENTRY HAS NOW BEEN READ, film 008119684 image 876, and every witness at his font is a KOLBE: “Gt: JOHN KOLBE, MARGARET KOLBE, AUGUSTA KOLBE” — the third name is the least certain of the three. The clerk writes the child JOHN AUGUST and the mother MARGARETWINA KOLBE. Read beside his brother’s font of the following year, where the godmother is CATHARINE SOPHIA MARIA KOLBER, it makes one point twice: the forenames this archive has spent the project calling BARRY NAMES are Kolbe names, standing at Kolbe godparents’ fonts. The eldest son on the 1915 notice, carrying his father's name exactly — which is why this archive calls the father John Augustus Barry I. His own documents call him simply John Barry, and that is the third man in this family the name has to be shared out between. His birth date does one more job than it looks: being HARD, off a register, it is what forces his brother James Henry's “about 1847” to move.

John Augustus Barry IIb. 13 Mar 1847Barry
marriedAlida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizeninferred

FROM THE INDEX — no image has been read, and the mother's surname is spelled five different ways across the entries.

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 12 of the 22 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 10 are inferred from one. The Barrys → Married 23 FEBRUARY 1846 at COLESBERG — entry 735, read at the page on 9 October 2026, where the clerk writes the groom JOHN BERRY and the groom signs JOHN BARRY. Residence STORMBERG SPRUIT; after banns; by Thomas Reid. THE CONSENT COLUMN NAMES HER MOTHER AND NOBODY OF HIS: «de Weduwe Kolbe, moeder», where the entries above and below each name two fathers. THIS FILE SAID “about 1850 at BURGHERSDORP” until 28 September 2026 and drew a son born in 1847 underneath it. The 1850 was the word “probably” on the 1915 death notice, written by the son who had put “Unknown” on his mother's notice three months earlier; the 1846 is in this archive's own people file, and a correspondent supplied the exact date and place from Pama in 1999. 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.A household this archive did not have. John Augustus Barry II was a name on his parents' two death notices and nothing else — no wife, no children. Asking the index for every Barry child of a father called JOHN AUGUSTUS, rather than for him, returned NINE, baptised at Burgersdorp and then Dordrecht between 1871 and 1889. The eldest is a third Catherine Mary Sophia; the seventh carries KOLBE into a fourth generation. The Barrys →

Every record naming John Augustus Barry II →

The record

NameJohn Augustus Barry II
Also writtenJohn August Berry (1847 register)
Born13 Mar 1847, baptised 12 Apr 1847 at Graaff-Reinet, entry 80
Died—
LineBarry
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

THE ENTRY HAS NOW BEEN READ, film 008119684 image 876, and every witness at his font is a KOLBE: “Gt: JOHN KOLBE, MARGARET KOLBE, AUGUSTA KOLBE” — the third name is the least certain of the three. The clerk writes the child JOHN AUGUST and the mother MARGARETWINA KOLBE. Read beside his brother’s font of the following year, where the godmother is CATHARINE SOPHIA MARIA KOLBER, it makes one point twice: the forenames this archive has spent the project calling BARRY NAMES are Kolbe names, standing at Kolbe godparents’ fonts. The eldest son on the 1915 notice, carrying his father's name exactly — which is why this archive calls the father John Augustus Barry I. His own documents call him simply John Barry, and that is the third man in this family the name has to be shared out between. His birth date does one more job than it looks: being HARD, off a register, it is what forces his brother James Henry's “about 1847” to move.

The DocumentsThe missing twoThe BarrysNamesakes

One correction on this site names John Augustus Barry II. A correction here is filed against the page it changed, not against a person, so until now it could be read on the corrections register and nowhere else — least of all on the page of the person it was about.
  • 13 Sep 2026 — The 1915 notice named eight children and the archive listed nine
    Two men on that list — John Augustus Barry II and George Augustus Barry — had no page at all, while a ninth name stood in their place. All three fixed together; the build now refuses to publish a household naming somebody who does not exist. Where it stands →

The Booyzen Archive

…15 May 1844 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 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.…

The Barrys

…The query re-surfaced him; it did not find him. He remains exactly what he was: an unresolved second William, indexed twice over to Graaff-Reinet and Dordrecht , eight years after the Burgersdorp baptism . On Henry Jaonas there is an argument, and it comes entirely out of figures this archive already held. John Augustus Barry II was born 13 March 1847 and baptised four weeks later — a documented date, off a register. James Henry Barry is carried in this archive as born "about 1847" , and that figure is not a register at all: it is an age worked back from his death at Barkly East on 23 June 1939. Two brothers cannot both be born in 1847 , and the approximate date is the one that has to give way.…

Blood relatives

…The links do not — here they are.…

The documents

…Here is his baptism. And the page it is on does something else: it puts the two Kolbe sisters this archive had to separate side by side in one church on one afternoon .…

…The question’s own note said the index route was closed. It was closed to a name search. It was never closed to a relationship search. The nine baptisms, in order Born Baptised As indexed Where 13 Mar 1847 12 Apr 1847 John August Berry Cape Colony — known 13 Jul 1848 13 Nov 1868 Henry Jaonas / Hennery James baptised at twenty — known 26 Apr 1850 9 Jun 1850 George Augustus Barry Graaff-Reinet — known 5 Apr 1852 5 Apr 1852 Margrith Louisa Maria also Margreth Louisa Mary BURGERSDORP — NEW. No surname of her own in the index.…

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

…be 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, de Bruins Poort John Gerson Eliazer Barry 1893 8 Mar 1941, Barkly East Kathleen Mary Barry — — Margaret Elizabeth Annie Barry 30 Mar 1875, baptised 29 Apr 1875 at Burgersdorp — Margaret Mary Bedford — — Margariet…

The People

…The marriage itself is not found and the children are index rows. What Was Searched The Kolbes The Marriages Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 Inferred 27 Mar 1871, baptised 23 Apr 1871 — THE THIRD OF THE NAME. Eldest child of John Augustus Barry II, and a niece of the Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry who married into this family — born twelve years after her aunt. The index enters her baptism at Graaff-Reinet on one record and Colesberg on another, from the same date. FROM THE INDEX.…

…Their own registers at Johnson’s Leap are on this archive’s list of things that would settle question 5; a soldier’s discharge paper is not, because there is no evidence he was a soldier. The Barrys The Documents Open Questions John Augustus Barry II also written John August Berry (1847 register) Documented 13 Mar 1847, baptised 12 Apr 1847 at Graaff-Reinet, entry 80 — THE ENTRY HAS NOW BEEN READ, film 008119684 image 876, and every witness at his font is a KOLBE: “Gt: JOHN KOLBE, MARGARET KOLBE, AUGUSTA KOLBE” — the third name is the least certain of the three. The clerk writes the child JOHN AUGUST and the mother MARGARETWINA KOLBE.…

Alida Eduarda Barry

…The household has moved from Burgersdorp to Dordrecht by this baptism. FROM THE INDEX. Parents John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 inferred Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen inferred Alida Eduarda Barry b. 10 Dec 1886 Barry 8 siblings Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 b. 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.…

Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen

…This archive had John Augustus II as a name on two death notices with no wife and no children at all until the index was asked for every Barry child of a father called John Augustus.…

Anton Rector Kolbe Barry

…FROM THE INDEX. Parents John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 inferred Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen inferred Anton Rector Kolbe Barry b. 3 Nov 1882 Barry 8 siblings Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 b. 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 Alida Eduarda Barry b.…

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.…

Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855

…It was thought important enough to use, lose, and use again.…

Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871

…Eldest child of John Augustus Barry II, and a niece of the Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry who married into this family — born twelve years after her aunt. The index enters her baptism at Graaff-Reinet on one record and Colesberg on another, from the same date. FROM THE INDEX. Parents John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 inferred Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen inferred Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 b.…

Clarence Barry

…FROM THE INDEX. Parents John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 inferred Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen inferred Clarence Barry b. 14 Mar 1879 Barry 8 siblings Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 b. 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 George Alphonso Barry b. 3 Mar 1881 Anton Rector Kolbe Barry b. 3 Nov 1882 Alida Eduarda Barry b.…

Cornelia Herculena Petronella Barry

…FROM THE INDEX. The Barrys The Women The Register Every mention, page by page Others on the Barry side Alida Eduarda Barry 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht – — Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen Wife of John Augustus Barry II and the mother of nine children baptise Anton Rector Kolbe Barry 3 Nov 1882, baptised 4 Apr 1883 at Burgersdorp – — Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855 10 Jul 1855, baptised 22 Jul 1855 at Burgersdorp – bef.…

Dorothea Regina Barry of Slang River

…The Namesakes The Register Where the archive puts Dorothea Slang River Locality · North-eastern Cape Each carries the document that puts them there. The atlas → Every mention, page by page Others on the Barry side Alida Eduarda Barry 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht – — Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen Wife of John Augustus Barry II and the mother of nine children baptise Anton Rector Kolbe Barry 3 Nov 1882, baptised 4 Apr 1883 at Burgersdorp – — Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855 10 Jul 1855, baptised 22 Jul 1855 at Burgersdorp – bef.…

Dorothea Regina Barry

…The only Dorothea Regina in the registers is a granddaughter, baptised at Slang River in 1892. Where it stands → Every mention, page by page Others on the Barry side Alida Eduarda Barry 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht – — Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen Wife of John Augustus Barry II and the mother of nine children baptise Anton Rector Kolbe Barry 3 Nov 1882, baptised 4 Apr 1883 at Burgersdorp – — Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855 10 Jul 1855, baptised 22 Jul 1855 at Burgersdorp – bef.…

Ellen Hendrika Barry

…FROM THE INDEX. The Register Every mention, page by page Others on the Barry side Alida Eduarda Barry 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht – — Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen Wife of John Augustus Barry II and the mother of nine children baptise Anton Rector Kolbe Barry 3 Nov 1882, baptised 4 Apr 1883 at Burgersdorp – — Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855 10 Jul 1855, baptised 22 Jul 1855 at Burgersdorp – bef.…

Fred J. Barry

…The Rebels Where the archive puts Fred Ivanhoe Farm · Barkly East / Wodehouse Each carries the document that puts them there. The atlas → Every mention, page by page Others on the Barry side Alida Eduarda Barry 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht – — Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen Wife of John Augustus Barry II and the mother of nine children baptise Anton Rector Kolbe Barry 3 Nov 1882, baptised 4 Apr 1883 at Burgersdorp – — Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855 10 Jul 1855, baptised 22 Jul 1855 at Burgersdorp – bef.…

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 Alphonso Barry

…FROM THE INDEX. Parents John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 inferred Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen inferred George Alphonso Barry b. 3 Mar 1881 Barry 8 siblings Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 b. 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 Anton Rector Kolbe Barry b. 3 Nov 1882 Alida Eduarda Barry b.…

George Augustus Barry

…Named on his father's 1915 death notice and nowhere else this archive has looked. 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.…

Harriet Louisa Barry

…The atlas → Every mention, page by page Others on the Barry side Alida Eduarda Barry 10 Dec 1886, baptised 23 Feb 1887 at Dordrecht – — Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen Wife of John Augustus Barry II and the mother of nine children baptise Anton Rector Kolbe Barry 3 Nov 1882, baptised 4 Apr 1883 at Burgersdorp – — Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1855 10 Jul 1855, baptised 22 Jul 1855 at Burgersdorp – bef.…

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.…

Others on the Barry side

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