Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen

The marriage record

Married Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · 22 December 1879 · Lady Grey a record read hereHe signs as a BOER. The signature on this register is the one this archive has spent most of its time arguing about: is the letter a z or an s?The name →

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…10 May 1812, Graaff-Reinet d. 1884 (probate) × Johanna Catharina Mountjoy Graaff-Reinet married 4 Nov 1838 Cradock 9 children recorded Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen carries the line show ↓ hide ↑ Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 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 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Carries the line Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b.…

…Jacobus Booysen and Johanna Catharina Mountjoy (30 Apr 1819 – 19 May 1863) born 10 May 1812, Graaff-Reinet died 1884 (probate) married 4 Nov 1838 Cradock died fifteen years before the war began; signed his wife's death notice · and Johanna Margaritha Pretorius — DOCUMENTED, named by the 1870 Doop Register and by nothing else Generation4 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen and Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry (1859–1940) born 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg died 13 Sep 1905, Indwe trade farmer in 1879, mason in 1905 married 22 Dec 1879 documented parentage DOCUMENTED by two registers; died of a stomach ulcer Generation3 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen and Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (1906–1944) born 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province died 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill trade…

…Mother and daughter under the same two forenames — and the daughter who died a minor makes three. Lady Grey, which this archive already knows “Lady Grey, near Aliwal North, Cape Colony.” That is the family’s own church. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen married Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry at Lady Grey on 22 December 1879. And David Schalk Booysen, born 9 June 1848, is his brother — fourth on the 1863 death notice of their mother Johanna Catharina Mountjoy, where Willem Hermanus is sixth. Two brothers married out of one small Cape church; one went east to the coal at Indwe and died there in 1905, the other went north to Pretoria.…

…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. 10 Sep 1839 Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 David Schalk Booysen 9 Jun 1848 – after Nov 1905 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 the direct line Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b.…

…1863 Francis McCabe & Anna Jacoba van der Merwe · Orange Free State Jan Hendrik Kolbe & Rose Maria McCabe · Bloemfontein Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · Lady Grey Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk · Dordrecht James Jonathan Mountjoy & Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm · Dordrecht and 6 more at these years, too close together to name 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 Each dot is a marriage this archive can place, at the year of the record, with the town under it.…

…His own parents were unknown to the book. Willem Hermanus Pietersen bapt. 12 Mar 1809 THEIR GRANDSON AND SON, and the first person to carry the whole name — Willem for his mother's father, Hermanus for his own. Godfather at the 1851 Graaff-Reinet font, and half-brother to Johanna Catharina Mountjoy. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 1851–1905 Named at that font for the godfather standing over it. Generation four of the direct line. Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 The miner. An eighth child this archive did not know it had until the register turned him up. Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore b. 31 May 1908 Baptised at Indwe, entered “onecht”, his grandmother standing godmother.…

…THE CEMETERY AND THE DATE FIT AND NOTHING ELSE DOES. FROM THE INDEX; no image read. The 1940 estate The Documents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen · generation 4 also written Booysen (1905 clerk) Documented 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg 13 Sep 1905, Indwe Farmer in 1879, mason in 1905. Died of an ulcer of the stomach after fourteen months — he was not shot by the British. The Line The Documents The Name The Rebels Willem Hermanus “Willy” Booyzen Documented 15 Oct 1925 1996 Eldest of the Johannesburg family.…

…1863 Booyzen 8 siblings Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 15 May 1844 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 Sep 1839 David Schalk Booysen 9 Jun 1848 – after Nov 1905 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read.…

…Eleven children, five of them carrying Booyzen and Barry forenames. She died in the Transvaal in 1946 — estate TAB MHG 3734/46, found only when this archive finally searched outside the Cape, and still to be read. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 22 Apr 1891 – 1946 — West Park Booyzen married Joseph Heinrich Daschner c.…

…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. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 inferred David Kolbe Booyzen family tree Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 family tree Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen family tree Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

…and Mrs F. Kruger of Heidelburg, Transvaal, to WILLIAM (S.A.A.F.), son of Mr and Mrs D. KOLBE-BOOYSEN, of Port Elizabeth.” A TOWN AND TWO CHILDREN, from two notices six months apart — and the engagement spells the headline KOLBY and the body KOLBE, four words from each other. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record David Kolbe Booyzen Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

…a minor, bef. 1904 record David Schalk Booijzen the younger b. c. 1889 record 8 siblings Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 15 May 1844 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 Sep 1839 Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 20 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read.…

…Boomkweker, then Clerk, South African Railways. Married his first cousin once removed.…

…Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

…Buried 12 December in the D.R. section, GRAVE 7110/1, a double plot. In 1912 he married Dorothea Regina Barry, a daughter of his mother's brother Hendrik Nicholaas — the third Barry–Booyzen union in three generations. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

…21 Sep 1857 Booyzen 8 siblings Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 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 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1863 death notice → Married at Cradock 4 November 1838.…

…1842 – 1923 Booyzen 8 siblings Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 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 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read.…

…4 Dec 1855 Booyzen 8 siblings Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 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 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1863 death notice → Married at Cradock 4 November 1838.…

…15 May 1844 Booyzen 8 siblings Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 Sep 1839 Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 David Schalk Booysen 9 Jun 1848 – after Nov 1905 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read.…

…Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Johanna Catharina Booyzen b. 20 Jun 1889 Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c.…

…1842 – 1923 record Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 15 May 1844 record Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 Sep 1839 record Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 record David Schalk Booysen 9 Jun 1848 – after Nov 1905 record Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 direct line Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 record Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 record Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 record 4 siblings Thomas Jacobus Mountjoy 1818 – 1827 Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy 1820 – 1842 George Mountjoy b. 11 Jun 1823 James Mountjoy b.…

…The stone gives 1884-1952, which matches both the estimate and the estate year, and puts him on the East Rand rather than in Johannesburg. IMAGE LOCATED, NOT YET READ. Eldest son. Present at his father's death in 1905 and the informant — he signs Booyzen four lines under the clerk's Booysen. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Booyzen 8 siblings Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

…16 Jul 1853 Booyzen 8 siblings Jacobus Nicholas Booysen bef. 1842 – 1923 Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 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 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified All 11 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. The 1863 death notice → Married at Cradock 4 November 1838.…

…1842 – 1923 record Johanna Catharina Booysen b. 15 May 1844 record Petrus Jacobus Booysen b. 10 Sep 1839 record Anna Catharina Booysen 21 Sep 1842 – bef. 1863 record David Schalk Booysen 9 Jun 1848 – after Nov 1905 record Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 direct line Magdalena Johanna Francina Booysen b. 16 Jul 1853 record Jan Gerhardus Lodewicus Booysen b. 4 Dec 1855 record Jacoba Catharina Booysen b. 21 Sep 1857 record 2 children with Johanna Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen 19 Jan 1870 – Aug 1951 record Stephanus Francois Booyzen c. Oct 1874 – 14 May 1940 inferred 7 siblings David Schalk Booijsen b.…

…A Transvaal death registration names no parents, so this stays INFERRED. And he was NOT A SOLDIER — which kills the best explanation this archive had for his mother's military pension. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Richard Peter Booyzen c. 1894 – 25 Oct 1918 Booyzen 8 siblings John Barry Booyzen b. c. 1884 Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 David Kolbe Booyzen Henry James Booyzen 12 Aug 1887 – 8 Dec 1956 Gertruida Alexandra Booyzen Johanna Catharina Booyzen b.…

…And then the grave register closes it: GRAVE 6889 holds “Boysen, William” and, thirty-six years later, SUSANNA ADRIANA BOOYZEN, buried 29 August 1968 — the woman he married at Indwe in 1908. Husband and wife in one grave. Parents Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen 4 May 1851 – 13 Sep 1905 record Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 4 Aug 1859 – 1940 record Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Indwe c. 1886 – 29 Jul 1932 Booyzen married Susanna Adriana Roodt c. 1892 – buried 29 Aug 1968 record married Catharina Maria Elizabeth Roodt b. c. 1890 record 1 child with Susanna Willem Hermanus Booyzen of Dugmore b.…