Johanna Maria Magdalena Bothma

31 March 1861 – 14 May 1939 · Bothma line

Connection to the Koup

Buried in this district, at Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1) (1939-05-14).

marriage Cornelis Jacobus Botma 1887-04-11
event Johanna Maria Magdalena Bothma buried at "Gatsplaas"1939-05-14

Names

Baptismal name: Johanna Maria Magdalena
Given: Johanna Maria Magdalena
Surname: Le Grange

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.

Photographs

The grave of J.M.M. Botma (1861-1939) in the Botma burial ground on Vredendal / Gatsplaas: a marble open book on a... — The grave of J.M.M. Botma (1861-1939) in the Botma burial ground on Vredendal / Gatsplaas: a marble open book on a concrete kerb, fully legible, with Psalm 84:1. — Frans Oosthuizen

Three generations around this person

Johanna Maria Magdalena Bothma 1861 Cornelis Jacobus Botma m. 11 April 1887

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Immediate family

Married: Cornelis Jacobus Botma 11 April 1887

A life in the record

31 March 1861 born Born
11 April 1887 married Married Cornelis Jacobus Botma
14 May 1939 land Buried there, Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
14 May 1939 event Johanna Maria Magdalena Bothma buried at "Gatsplaas"
Her official death notice gives the intended place of burial as "Gatsplaas, distrik Prins Albert" - the earliest documentary use of the name so far found.
14 May 1939 buried Buried, Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1)
ter gedagtenis AAN ONS MOEDER J.M.M. BOTMA, GEB. 31 MAART 1861, OORL. 14 MEI 1939. Beside it, on the open book: 'my [hele?] hart roep uit tot God die leef' - PSL. 84:1.
14 May 1939 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) buried there · 14 May 1939

Stories

mentioned The aardvark's hole and the Gatsplaas gold rush, 1871-1892
subject Vredendal and its people
subject The Botmas of Spreeufontein

What we don't know

Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.

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

Sources

Form of Information of a Death - Johanna Maria Magdalena Bothma, 1939Prince Albert district registrarB.M.D.2, entry no. 40, 14 May 1939

Research notes

Widow, died aged 79 at Nuwestraat, Prince Albert; buried at "Gatsplaas". Her maiden name is LE GRANGE, confirmed [FS KLYS-H7N]: she married Cornelis Jacobus BotmaH (PER-001505) at PRINCE ALBERT on 11 APRIL 1887 and they had nine children. Not in the family tree - included because her death notice is the documentary evidence for the name Gatsplaas.

[GRAVE GRV-0026] HER STONE HAS BEEN FOUND AND IT DATES HER. 'TER GEDAGTENIS AAN ONS MOEDER, J.M.M. BOTMA, GEB. 31 MAART 1861, OORL. 14 MEI 1939', with Psalm 84:1 beside it. THE DEATH DATE MATCHES THIS ROW TO THE DAY, which is what identifies the grave as hers. THE BIRTH IS NOW DATED AND THE OLD VALUE WAS AN INFERENCE: birth_edtf was 1859/1860, derived from the death notice's 'died aged 79'. The stone gives 31 March 1861, so she was 78 years and six weeks, and the notice's age is a year out - which is ordinary in a death notice and not ordinary on a stone a family paid for. Adopted 1861-03-31; the disagreement is recorded rather than tidied away. AND HER BURIAL PLACE IS NOW LOCATED. The notice says buried at 'GATSPLAAS' and that was the documentary evidence for the name. The grave sits at -32.956136, 22.283269, inside Spreeufontein Portion 1 - the same ground Frans knows as Vredendal. The surname on the stone is BOTMA; this row and the death notice write BOTHMA. Both kept, per 5a note 6.

[26 Aug 2026] SHE IS ONE OF TWO LE GRANGE WOMEN WHO MARRIED BOTMA BROTHERS. She married Cornelis Jacobus (PER-001505) at Prince Albert in 1887; three years earlier his brother Frans Stephanus (PER-001925) had married MARIA JOHANNA LE GRANGE of Groot Waterval in the same church (SRC-588). Sisters is the obvious reading and it is NOT established - LEAD-0309.

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Open questions

A duplicated burial in the Botma ground on Vredendal priority P2 · LEAD-0310
Two grave rows stand for Johanna Maria Magdalena Botma in the Botma burial ground - a hand-made row from a family photograph and a promoted eGGSA caption. Which survives, and how is the merge recorded?

What would settle it on which id keeps the burial, with the other's external_url folded into it.

Elders

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