Willem Hermanus Pieterzen

…So of the three figures the archive had, the marriage register is the outlier : it gives his age as 22 in December 1879, when he was 28 . His 1905 death registration says 55 , which is right within a year. The 1879 entry is wrong by six years. And he was named for his godfather The witnesses are Willem Hermanus Pieterzen , Maria Catharina Magdalena Potgieter and Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen . (The archive scan corrects this archive's earlier reading of the surname as Pietersen — see below; the first given name, earlier read as Iwerus , is still not certain.) Johanna Catharina Mountjoy's half-brothers were Pieterzens — the sons of Anna Catharina Sleer by her first marriage.…

…12 Mar 1809 — Willem Hermanus Pieterzen — — Willem Slier — — William Henry Keys 1854 — William Henry Keys the younger 10 Jun 1882, baptised 23 Jul 1882 at Dordrecht — Xaverius Hermanus Pieterzen — — Held on 69 a record read here · 12 inferred.…

…31 May 1908 Baptised at Indwe, entered “onecht”, his grandmother standing godmother. Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen 1925–1996 Eldest of the Johannesburg family. William Herman Daschner b. c. 1915 And out through a daughter into a third surname. THIS SET USED TO BEGIN WITH THE WRONG MAN. It opened on “Willem Hermanus Pieterzen, d. bef. 1817, Anna Catharina Slier's FIRST husband”, a person assembled out of two documents that spell him differently — the 1817 marriage register's HARMANUS PIETERZE and the 1840 death notice's WILLIAM PIETERSEN. De Villiers's volume 3 separates them: the husband is HERMANUS, and WILLEM HERMANUS is the boy baptised in 1809. The page's own argument survives and improves.…

…De Villiers, volume 3: “HERMANUS PIETERSEN, NAMEN VAN OUDERS ONBEKEND, gehuwd 5 APRIL 1807 met ANNA CATHARINA SLIER — (b) 1 Willem Hermanus, gedoopt 12 Maart 1809; 2 Johan Christiaan, gedoopt 28 April 1810.” The entry here used to read “Willem Hermanus Pieterzen, her first husband”, built from two documents that spell him differently — the 1817 marriage register's HARMANUS PIETERZE and the 1840 death notice's WILLIAM PIETERSEN — and two spellings looked like one long name. THEY ARE A FATHER AND A SON.…

…De Villiers, volume 3: “HERMANUS PIETERSEN, NAMEN VAN OUDERS ONBEKEND, gehuwd 5 APRIL 1807 met ANNA CATHARINA SLIER — (b) 1 Willem Hermanus, gedoopt 12 Maart 1809; 2 Johan Christiaan, gedoopt 28 April 1810.” The entry here used to read “Willem Hermanus Pieterzen, her first husband”, built from two documents that spell him differently — the 1817 marriage register's HARMANUS PIETERZE and the 1840 death notice's WILLIAM PIETERSEN — and two spellings looked like one long name. THEY ARE A FATHER AND A SON.…

…His surname, spelled with a z by the same clerk, is what emptied this archive's name argument. Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Mountjoy No household in this archive names this person, as a child or as a parent. They are here because a record names them, and that record stands alone.…

…Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Willemina Christina Pieterzen with: Leendert Labùschagne record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Anna Willemina Pieterzen Birth 18 Jun 1831 | Baptism 17 Jul 1831 Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa · with: Marie Elisabeth Van Deventer · Willem Hermanus Pieterzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 Armanes Pieterzen Birth 1914 | Death 29 Dec 1916 Vergelegen, Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972 Bartholomeus Wilhelm Pieterzen with: Hendrina Maria Pieterzen record ↗ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994…

…The father is written BOOYZEN with a z — and so, three lines below in the same hand, are the godparents PIETERZEN. The z is the clerk's Dutch, not the family's claim. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Achter Sneeuwberg 7 Jun 1852 Document Petrus Jacobus Kolbe baptised, five weeks old Born 4 May 1852. Sixty-seven years later a Pieter Kolbe, son of J. Kolbe and A. v. d. Merwe , died at Bloemfontein aged sixty-seven — the same year of birth and the same parents reduced to initials. This archive joins the two and says the join rests on a year and two letters.…

…She is not the mother of the box below her. She is the reason the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis cannot all share one. Her page → Willem Hermanus Pieterzen also married Anna Catharina Sleer (1787 – 1885) Her first husband, dead before 1817. The relative who completed James Montjoy's death notice could name him — and still could not name Montjoy's own parents. Her page → Where the line folds back Hendrik Nicholaas Barry — His parents are John Augustus Barry I and Margaretha Kolbe — two boxes already standing on the father's side of this chart.…