Marij Zacharias
1660 – ?
Names
- 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.
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.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
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.
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.
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.