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Pretorius

Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius

1905–1944 · Barkley East, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Born3 OCT 1905, Barkley East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Baptised11 NOV 1906
Died26 FEB 1944, Forest Hill, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
CauseFALLOPIAN TUBE PREGNANCY
BuriedJohannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Record@I30@

Family

Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius3 OCT 1905–26 FEB 1944Pretorius
married 30 DEC 1924George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen1901–1947tree only
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Events, as the record has them

  • burialJohannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
  • birth3 OCT 1905Barkley East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  • death26 FEB 1944Forest Hill, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
    "Transvaal, South Africa records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9R-Y9LN-M?view=index : Nov 11, 2024), image 345 of 2754; .
  • christening11 NOV 1906
  • event
    Anna Johanna Maria Schoemann
    Namesake individualID:4000486

Notes carried in the tree

Reproduced as written, minus the automated copy-reference boilerplate. These are what the family and other researchers put down, not what this archive has verified.

DIED DUE TO FALLOPIAN TUBE PREGNANCY - INDICATIONS ARE SHE WAS FAMILY OF ANDRIES PRETORIUS FROM THE GROOT TREK HISTORY Your grandfather,s name was George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen ( he was a decendant of Lord Baltimore who was a Irish Nobleman who came to South Africa to breed horses and produce wine. Born 1st. June 1901. passed away 1947.) Granmother name was Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius Born on 3rd. October 1905 passed away 1943 age 37. Died during childbirth. Best regards to all Uncle Attie. xx ps. they are both buried in Wespark cemetery, The latest investigation were now pointing back to German origin, the Dutch Pretorius Generation. (Compare the investigated Dr. Werner Schmidt, Uber den, Deutschen Ursprung, burischer families names.) The Pretorius out their family back to the end of the 16th century in Schüttorf, Germany, when it was born in 1596 Berend Wessel Schulte ( Pretorius) shoemaker by profession, who were married in 1612 on 16 May Aeltze (Aaltje) Jansdogter of low, a town in the principality Lippe- Detmold, near Bentheim. He was the grandfather of John Pretorius, the German name Schulte became only Schout in the Netherlands, to be in the beginning of the seventeenth century, after the fashion of the time, latinised to Praetorius (Pretorius). The Latin word "praetor" (predecessor leader magistrate) has namelik agreed with the Dutch schout. The first South African Pretorius his name is still written with two sound "ae". References: 1) Petermann's Geographical Mittheilungen, 1868, S93 and S14. 2) Vs. Eg., July 20, 1881.

Sources attached in the tree

  • Geni World Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-56313041/anna-johanna-maria-booyzen-born-pretorius-in-geni-world-family-tree
  • Wandrag - Pretorius - Vermaak - Nortje — Anna Johanna Maria Booyzen (born Pretorius)

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