Marij Zacharias

1660 – ?

Name

Surname: Zacharias

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Naaste familie

Mother: Maria van Bengale (b.1638)

'n Lewe in die rekord

1660 gebore Born

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Navorsingsnotas

[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.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

Who was Jan Nijs's mother? Twenty-one years say Jacob had two wives prioriteit 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?

Wat dit sou uitmaak 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.
Jan Nys of Duesseldorf has the wrong parents on FamilySearch, both of them. Who were they? prioriteit 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?

Wat dit sou uitmaak 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.