Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe

The marriage record

Married John Augustus Barry I · 23 Feb 1846 · Colesberg a record read hereREAD AT THE PAGE, 9 OCTOBER 2026 — ENTRY 735 OF THE COLESBERG MARRIAGE REGISTER. FamilySearch 1:1:6FB4-KHS4, image 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-8SZQ-L, image 189 of 202. THE CLERK WROTE “JOHN BERRY” AND THE MAN SIGNED “JOHN BARRY”, three lines apart on the same entry — which is the whole reason this record was invisible: every search this archive ever ran was for Barry, and the index follows the clerk. She is entered Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Kolbe and signs Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Kolbe. Both jongman and jongedochter; married na huwelijks geboden, after banns; residence STORMBERG SPRUIT; by THOMAS REID, Leeraar der Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk, in the presence of G. W. VOLBERG and a VAN DER WALT — the same two witness entries 734, 735 and 736, so they are the church's standing witnesses and not family. AND THE CONSENT COLUMN IS THE FINDING. It reads “DE WEDUWE KOLBE, MOEDER” — the widow Kolbe, mother: Margaret Downing, consenting for her daughter fourteen months after the Settler died. NOBODY IS NAMED ON THE GROOM'S SIDE. The entry above names two fathers and the entry below names two; this one names one parent and leaves the other half of the column empty. A register with a column for his father, left blank, is the same answer his death notice gives — the colony had nobody to ask. THIS ROW SAID 1850 UNTIL 28 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND THEIR ELDEST SON WAS BORN IN 1847. The 1850 came from the word “probably”, written by their son R. P. Barry on his father's death notice in 1915 — the same son who had written “Unknown” on his mother's notice three months earlier. The archive's own kin file drew JOHN AUGUSTUS BARRY II, born 13 March 1847, under that marriage the whole time. A gate refuses that arrangement now. THE DATE AND PLACE ARE FROM A BOOK AND ARE MARKED inf ACCORDINGLY: Prof. C. Pama's South African family genealogies, reported to David by a correspondent in November 1999 — “John who married Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Kolbe in Colesberg on feb 23, 1846”. What makes it safe to adopt is not the book. It is that this archive's own people file has said married 1846 all along, and that 1850 is arithmetically impossible. The Colesberg marriage register would make it doc, and it has not been read. An Irish carpenter and a Settler's daughter. Both their death notices survive, filed on the same day in 1915, and the two disagree about when he died. AND THIS ARCHIVE INDEPENDENTLY PUTS THE FAMILY AT COLESBERG THAT FORTNIGHT. Her brother the Commandant had a son, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, baptised at Colesberg on 8 MARCH 1846 — thirteen days after this wedding, in the same town, at the same font. Their father the Settler's own death notice had been signed at Colesberg in January 1845. Pama's date is not corroborated by Pama: it is corroborated by a baptism register this archive read on its own account, for a different household, a fortnight later.The Barrys →

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…Born 8 June 1819 — recorded in the tree, literally, as "?Sunderland, Durham, England? Ireland? High Seas?" Trades Carpenter and Builder · timmerman en bouwvakker · Grocer · Labourer — five occupation records, all working trades Married c. 23 February 1846, Dutch Reformed Church, Colesberg — Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe Died 3 August 1903 on the farm Manorowen , Barkly East — the tree gives 25 August; his 1915 death notice gives the 3rd. His son James Henry died there too, in 1939, aged 92 The 1915 death notice is now in hand The tree carried a long research note describing three conflicting documents.…

…Choose a person Nobody of that name is drawn here. If you were looking for someone alive, that is the point rather than a fault: the living are named and nothing more across this estate, and only where a record has placed them. the direct line through this person a register was read an index says so the tree says so, nothing read Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe The chart needs JavaScript. The links do not — here they are.…

…George was Kathleen's son. Anna was Hendrik's granddaughter. They were first cousins once removed , and their common ancestors are John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe . What follows from it Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen descends from John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Kolbe twice — once through her father, once through her mother. This is pedigree collapse : she has fewer distinct ancestors than the arithmetic of generations predicts.…

…Checked one by one against the register here, nearly all of them were already held: Harriet Louisa Barry , dead at Manor Owen on 7 September 1912; Henry James Kolbe Barry , whose 23 June 1939 is already on his record; John Gerson Eliazer Barry ; James Jonathan Mountjoy , dead at Barkly East on 22 December 1937; and Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe , dead at Manorowen on 2 August 1912. That is worth saying rather than quietly not saying. A sweep that returns almost nothing new is a measurement of how thoroughly the ground was already worked, and this ground was worked properly. The work-list row assumed otherwise. One discrepancy, recorded and not adopted.…

…Barkly East, 1938 George Mountjoy of Barkly East Maria Sophia Diesel Annie Louisa Nepgen Ellen Sophia Schmidt Charles Mountjoy James John Mountjoy the younger 30 May 1895 – 20 Jul 1948 Emma Jane Mountjoy Mathilda Elizabeth Shooter Lena Millie Frachet Louisa Elizabeth Diesel d. 11 Jun 1923 John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 10 head born 1819 – 1903 a record read here 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.…

…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.…

…SHE IS ALSO THE FIRST OF THE EIGHT TO SURFACE IN THE TRANSVAAL: a Margaret Harriet Kolbe, aged 24, marries DIRK JACOBUS ASPHELING VAN DER SPUY at Wakkerstroom. Her name is her aunt's — Harriet Hachilah Machilah, born at Philippolis in 1831.…

…She is also godmother at Burgersdorp in 1853, two entries above her sister Mary Elizabeth's son. Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe George Kolbe Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…Recorded at her death as a Military Pensioner. Buried on 6 SEPTEMBER 1940 at the City of Johannesburg NEW CEMETERY — Brixton — aged 82, in the DUTCH REFORMED section, GRAVE 9760. An Irishman’s daughter out of Barkly East, in the Dutch Reformed ground on the Rand. Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 Barry married Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record 9 children with Willem John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 record Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c.…

…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.…

…NINE, NOT EIGHT — the note above is careful and says eight are in the REGISTERS; the ninth is not. THE FILE ITSELF IS NOT READ. Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe George Kolbe Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…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.…

…268. Nothing is claimed about him , and he is written down so that the next reader does not fold two initials into one man. Parent Johan Gottlieb Kolbe c. 1764 – 18 Nov 1845 record George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 Kolbe married Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record 10 children with Margaret Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 direct line Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate record John Kolbe inferred George Kolbe inferred Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe inferred Marian Kolbe record Julia Kolbe record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 record Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 record Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…He carries his own father's name — George Augustus Kolbe, the 1820 Settler, dead at Colesberg nine years earlier. Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record George Kolbe Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…No daughter is entered on that basis : a compiler confusing a mother with a daughter of the same name is exactly the error this archive made five days ago with a widow, and one letter is not enough to make a person. Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record Hendrik Nicholaas Barry b. 1857 — from Pama Barry married Anna Johanna Maria Schoeman record 5 children with Anna Margarietha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Barry 1880 – 1961 record Ruben Jacobus Hosea Barry b. 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.…

…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. Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record James Henry Barry 13 Jul 1848 – 23 Jun 1939 Barry 9 siblings John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 William Barry b. 23 Aug 1853 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.…

…Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe George Kolbe Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…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. 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.…

…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. Parents John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 record Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 record John Augustus Barry II b. 13 Mar 1847 Barry married Alida Jacoba van Ellinckhuizen inferred 9 children with Alida Catherine Mary Sophia Barry of 1871 b. 27 Mar 1871 inferred John Augustus Barry III b. 9 May 1873 inferred Margaret Elizabeth Annie Barry b. 30 Mar 1875 inferred Jacobus Ellinckhuizen Barry b. 25 Mar 1877 inferred Clarence Barry b.…

…A brother this archive did not have. Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record John Kolbe Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate George Kolbe Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Marian Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record Julia Kolbe Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe George Kolbe Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Marian Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…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.…

…The same entry gives her dates as “(1803–1867)”, WHICH IS WHAT THE BURGERSDORP STONE SAYS, from a source that had not read the stone this way. Parent John Paul Downing family tree Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 Downing married George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record 10 children with George Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 direct line Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate record John Kolbe inferred George Kolbe inferred Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe inferred Marian Kolbe record Julia Kolbe record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 record Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 record Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…

…The tree carries a Margaretha Louisa Maria who married Thomas Bedford in 1875; the notice gives her as Margaret Mary, and the archive has not reconciled the two. 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.…

…SHE SIGNED IT HERSELF , Margaret Wilhelmina Elizabeth Kolbe , and her mother consented: the register's last column reads “DE WEDUWE KOLBE, MOEDER” , which is MARGARET DOWNING giving permission fourteen months after the Settler died. The couple were living at STORMBERG SPRUIT.…

…Parents George Augustus Kolbe 7 Dec 1802 – 1 Dec 1844 record Margaret Downing 23 Feb 1803 – 25 Nov 1867 record Marian Kolbe Kolbe 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 Mary Elizabeth Kolbe d. bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe George Kolbe Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe Julia Kolbe Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe 1839 – 23 Nov 1929 Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years – 11 Mar 1906 Peter Benjamin Kolbe b.…