Marij Zacharias
1660 – ?
Names
- Surname
- Zacharias
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Maria van Bengale (b.1638)
A life in the record
- 1660 born Born
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
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Research notes
[TREE] Added 6 Aug 2026 under LEAD-0116, to make a descent this site ALREADY ASSERTS walkable in its own data. Generation 12 of the anchor family's direct ancestry, on one of the ten lines set out in [S021]. NO PLACE IMPORTED, per 5. Dates as the tree gives them. This row exists to carry a link, and a tree is not a register: nothing here is established until the Cape records are read, which is what S021's provisional banner says.
[SRC-301, 6 Aug 2026] SHE IS NOT JAN NYS'S MOTHER AND THIS ROW IS NOW A DEAD END IN THIS MODEL. Jan Nys came from Duesseldorf as a soldier and married at Mauritius in 1694; he has no Cape parents. Whether this row is a real Cape woman, a daughter of Maria van BengaleM, or the Amsterdam Janna Marij Bousijn under a wrong surname, is now a question about the tree and not about this family's ancestry - LEAD-0119. The row is kept because it is named on a published page of this site and removing it would hide the correction.
[15 Aug 2026, FS] FamilySearch id filled from the FamilySearch id field of the family tree exports, matched on this row's own tree id and accepted only because the tree's NAME AND YEARS agree with this row. It is a door to the sources, not a source: nothing here is taken from the profile.
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Open questions
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Who was Jan Nijs's mother? Twenty-one years say Jacob had two wives
priority 1 · LEAD-0118
Where does the Maria van BengaleM (b.1638) descent actually run? The tree gives Marij ZachariasH born 1660, married December 1672, with a son born about 1671. Which date is wrong, or is a generation missing between them?
What would settle it A baptism naming Jan de Nys's mother, or the 1672 marriage entry itself. Failing those, any record naming Jacob Jansz de Nijs's wife before 1692 - if she is not Marij ZachariasH, this descent is not this family's.
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Jan Nys of Duesseldorf has the wrong parents on FamilySearch, both of them. Who were they?
priority 3 · LEAD-0119
Jan Nys came from Duesseldorf as a VOC soldier, so neither Jacob Jansz de Nijs of Amsterdam (LJR9-74B) nor Marij ZachariasH (LJR9-7H8) is his parent. Who were his parents, and what is the Marij ZachariasH row actually?
What would settle it A marriage entry for Jacob de Nijs naming Janna Marij Bousijn, which would place her in Amsterdam and leave any Cape Marij ZachariasH as a separate woman.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LJR9-7H8