Peter Benjamin Kolbe
27 SEPTEMBER 2026 — STILL IN NO DOCUMENT, AND NOW THAT IS A TESTED STATEMENT RATHER THAN AN ABSENCE OF TRYING. The Cape Dutch Reformed registers were searched for Peter, Benjamin and Rector together: five records in the entire collection, and every one of them somebody else — two Petrus Jacobuses, a Pieter Joubert Kolbe, and the two fatherless entries this family already has. NO COLESBERG BAPTISM FOR 1840. THE NIL IS CONTROLLED BUT IT IS NOT STRONG, and the reason is visible in the same result set: this collection indexes his own brother's 1838 baptism with the father as the bare word “Kolbe” and no forename, and his eldest sister's the same way. AN INDEX THAT LOSES THE FATHER'S NAME CAN LOSE A CHILD'S, so this is evidence that he is not in the index and weaker evidence that he was never at the font. THE MAN WHO MAY EXPLAIN THE RECTOR, AND WHO IS IN NO DOCUMENT. This archive has carried him as “KEETOR Peter Benjamin”, born 1840 at Colesberg, from the family list. KEETOR IS NOT A NAME. The 2012 Barry report gives the same person as PETER RECTOR KOLBE, and Rector is — so on the ordinary reading, “Keetor” is “Rector” misread out of a hand, and the compiled report is the better witness to the form of the name even though it is the weaker source overall. THAT MATTERS BECAUSE OF A CHILD BORN FORTY-TWO YEARS LATER. This archive holds ANTON RECTOR KOLBE BARRY, born 3 November 1882 and baptised at Burgersdorp in 1883, and has never been able to say where his Rector came from. A great-uncle of the name would say it, and namesake reasoning is how the Fortunatus name was traced across three families. BUT THE SAME REPORT SPLITS HIM IN TWO, listing PETER RECTOR and BENJAMIN as separate children where the family list has one man carrying all three forenames — so the report inflates its own count, and this is one of the places it does it. AND THE DOCUMENTS DO NOT HELP HIM. The Settler’s 1845 notice names ten children and he is not among them; Margaret Downing’s 1867 notice names the survivors and he is not there either. A boy born in 1840 would have been four when his father died and a minor children’s name is exactly what a death notice records. SO HE DIED BEFORE 1845, OR HE DOES NOT BELONG TO THIS FAMILY, and the archive has not been able to tell which since it first raised it. NOTHING HERE IS ADOPTED: two compiled sources agreeing about a forename are still two compiled sources. A Colesberg baptism for 1840 would settle him, and it has not been read.
The record
| Name | Peter Benjamin Kolbe |
| Also written | Keetor Peter Benjamin · Peter Rector |
| Born | 1840, Colesberg — from the family list only |
| Died | — |
| Line | Kolbe |
| Confidence | Testimony |
| From a tree | not documented Everything about him is compiled. He is in no document this archive holds, and he is absent from BOTH death notices that name his supposed brothers and sisters. — the rest of this record rests on documents this archive has read, and that part does not. |
What the archive holds
27 SEPTEMBER 2026 — STILL IN NO DOCUMENT, AND NOW THAT IS A TESTED STATEMENT RATHER THAN AN ABSENCE OF TRYING. The Cape Dutch Reformed registers were searched for Peter, Benjamin and Rector together: five records in the entire collection, and every one of them somebody else — two Petrus Jacobuses, a Pieter Joubert Kolbe, and the two fatherless entries this family already has. NO COLESBERG BAPTISM FOR 1840. THE NIL IS CONTROLLED BUT IT IS NOT STRONG, and the reason is visible in the same result set: this collection indexes his own brother's 1838 baptism with the father as the bare word “Kolbe” and no forename, and his eldest sister's the same way. AN INDEX THAT LOSES THE FATHER'S NAME CAN LOSE A CHILD'S, so this is evidence that he is not in the index and weaker evidence that he was never at the font. THE MAN WHO MAY EXPLAIN THE RECTOR, AND WHO IS IN NO DOCUMENT. This archive has carried him as “KEETOR Peter Benjamin”, born 1840 at Colesberg, from the family list. KEETOR IS NOT A NAME. The 2012 Barry report gives the same person as PETER RECTOR KOLBE, and Rector is — so on the ordinary reading, “Keetor” is “Rector” misread out of a hand, and the compiled report is the better witness to the form of the name even though it is the weaker source overall. THAT MATTERS BECAUSE OF A CHILD BORN FORTY-TWO YEARS LATER. This archive holds ANTON RECTOR KOLBE BARRY, born 3 November 1882 and baptised at Burgersdorp in 1883, and has never been able to say where his Rector came from. A great-uncle of the name would say it, and namesake reasoning is how the Fortunatus name was traced across three families. BUT THE SAME REPORT SPLITS HIM IN TWO, listing PETER RECTOR and BENJAMIN as separate children where the family list has one man carrying all three forenames — so the report inflates its own count, and this is one of the places it does it. AND THE DOCUMENTS DO NOT HELP HIM. The Settler’s 1845 notice names ten children and he is not among them; Margaret Downing’s 1867 notice names the survivors and he is not there either. A boy born in 1840 would have been four when his father died and a minor children’s name is exactly what a death notice records. SO HE DIED BEFORE 1845, OR HE DOES NOT BELONG TO THIS FAMILY, and the archive has not been able to tell which since it first raised it. NOTHING HERE IS ADOPTED: two compiled sources agreeing about a forename are still two compiled sources. A Colesberg baptism for 1840 would settle him, and it has not been read.
Blood relatives
…The links do not — here they are.…
The documents
…The official record at the end of his life calls him simply an agriculturist , and he died on his own farm. Those are not contradictions — they are a life in sequence — but the archive should stop leading with "missionary". Ten children, and one who is missing The notice names ten. Keetor Peter Benjamin Kolbe , whom the tree gives a birth in 1840, is not among them — nor among the ten in his mother's 1867 notice. He died young, or he does not belong in this family. Julia Kolbe , whom MyHeritage flags as born two years after her father's death, is likewise absent, as she must be. 21 September 2026 — and “Keetor” is not a name.…
…He died young, or he does not belong in this family. Julia Kolbe , whom MyHeritage flags as born two years after her father's death, is likewise absent, as she must be. 21 September 2026 — and “Keetor” is not a name. A compiled register report of 2012 gives the same man as Peter Rector Kolbe , which is a name, so the tree has been carrying a misreading. It matters because this archive holds Anton Rector Kolbe Barry (1882) and has never been able to say where his Rector came from. A great-uncle of the name would say it. Nothing is adopted — he is still in no document, and the same report splits him into two children, which is how it inflates its count.…
Households
…bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe inferred George Kolbe inferred Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe inferred 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. 1840 the family tree Petrus Jacobus Booysen and Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 9 head born 10 May 1812 – 1884 (probate) a record read here Married at Cradock 4 November 1838. He signed her death notice in 1863; it names her parents and their eight surviving children. The 1863 death notice Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 15 May 1844 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b.…
The Kolbes
…Two lists made from different things, a hundred and sixty years apart, describing one man’s movements. The draft → And one of them travels. Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe (1839) becomes Frederick Fortunatus Barry (1863) becomes Frederik Fortsenatus Booÿsen (1899) — one name carried across three surnames and sixty years, degrading slightly at each handover.…
The Marriages
…11 Jun 1794, Westminster — Mary Elizabeth Kolbe — bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate Mary Kolbe the elder c. 1768 2 Aug 1814, buried 5 Aug 1814, German Lutheran Church Mary Kolbe the younger c. 1788 15 Aug 1824, German Lutheran Church P.J.…
The forenames
…On 21 September a compiled register report supplied the answer by spelling correctly a name the family list had been spelling wrongly. Who When What they are to the name Keetor — read Rector — Peter Benjamin Kolbe b. 1840, Colesberg THE PROBABLE SOURCE, AND HE IS IN NO DOCUMENT. The family list has carried him as KEETOR, which is not a name; a 2012 compiled report gives the same man as PETER RECTOR KOLBE, which is. On the ordinary reading the tree has been carrying a misreading of a hand.…
The People
…It was resolved from Margaret Downing's 1867 death notice. The Burgersdorp register of 23 October 1853 shows it instead: the two sisters baptising a son each, two entries apart, on one page. The Barry fonts Disputed The Women Peter Benjamin Kolbe also written Keetor Peter Benjamin · Peter Rector Testimony 1840, Colesberg — from the family list only — 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 — STILL IN NO DOCUMENT, AND NOW THAT IS A TESTED STATEMENT RATHER THAN AN ABSENCE OF TRYING.…
…The 1819 marriage allegation gives her no father either — only that she was “a Spinster of the age of Twenty-one Years and upwards”, and that age is false. The name comes from FamilySearch, which cannot even hold it steady: 1769–1839 in one tree, 1765–1839 in another. REGRADED TO TESTIMONY on the archive’s own precedent — Peter Benjamin Kolbe is «lore» and described as still in no document — and because the matching mother, Mary P King, was never given a record here at all. One of the two was admitted and the other refused, on identical evidence.…
Catharine Sophia Maria Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
George Augustus Kolbe
…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. 1840 family tree Sibling John Gottlob Kolbe the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 10 of the 14 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified. The Kolbes → A tailor of Conduit Street, Mayfair.…
George Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
Johan Casimir Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
John Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
John Paul Downing
…The 1819 marriage allegation gives her no father either — only that she was “a Spinster of the age of Twenty-one Years and upwards”, and that age is false. The name comes from FamilySearch, which cannot even hold it steady: 1769–1839 in one tree, 1765–1839 in another. REGRADED TO TESTIMONY on the archive’s own precedent — Peter Benjamin Kolbe is «lore» and described as still in no document — and because the matching mother, Mary P King, was never given a record here at all. One of the two was admitted and the other refused, on identical evidence.…
Julia Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
Margaret Downing
…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. 1840 family tree the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 7 of the 13 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 3 come from the family tree and are unverified. Margaret's father ON THE TREE AND IN NO DOCUMENT.…
Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe
…bef. 23 Oct 1863 — intestate John Kolbe 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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 19 of the 23 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
Marian Kolbe
…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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 8 of the 12 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
Mary Elizabeth Kolbe
…7 Sep 1853 record 9 siblings Margaretha Wilhelmina Elizabeth Mary Kolbe 1826 – 2 Aug 1912 John Kolbe 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. 1840 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 10 of the 14 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified.…
Peter Benjamin Kolbe
…3 are inferred from one. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified. The Kolbes → Married 1819 — both were sixteen, and the Nautilus passenger roll of 1820 overstates both their ages by four years. Every record naming Peter Benjamin Kolbe → The record Name Peter Benjamin Kolbe Also written Keetor Peter Benjamin · Peter Rector Born 1840, Colesberg — from the family list only Died — Line Kolbe Confidence Testimony From a tree not documented Everything about him is compiled. He is in no document this archive holds, and he is absent from BOTH death notices that name his supposed brothers and sisters. — the rest of this record rests on documents this archive has read, and that part does not.…
…The Cape Dutch Reformed registers were searched for Peter , Benjamin and Rector together: five records in the entire collection , and every one of them somebody else — two Petrus Jacobuses, a Pieter Joubert Kolbe, and the two fatherless entries this family already has.…
The Register
…record ↗ South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 Paul Kolbe Death Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990 Percy Donald Kolbe Birth 1906 · with: Lilian May Jenkinson record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Peter Benjamin Kolbe reconstructed 1840, Colesberg — from the family list only no public link reconstructed by this archive Peter John Kolbe Death 26 Dec 2003 | Burial 31 Dec 2003 Cape Good Hope, South Africa | Birth 1927 record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Peter Kolbe Birth 1888 | Burial 19 Aug 1928 Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Peter Kolbe…
Sources
…place=westfalen returns 0 while seven of eleven records on the page are Westphalian; dataset plus year returns 0 where the dataset alone returns 952. A filter that answers 0 for a place printed in its own results is not filtering. Why this matters → Internet Archive — full text Rector Kolbe , Casmier Kolbe , Peter Benjamin Kolbe Void, not nil. The full-text endpoints answer HTTP 000 and 404 while advancedsearch.php answers 200 — the host is fine and its full-text API is gone.…
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