Johanna Botha
active 1755 · Botha line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Ockert Oosthuizen baptised as "Ocker" (1755).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Johanna
- Given
- Johanna
- Surname
- Botha
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.
A life in the record
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1755
event
Ockert Oosthuizen baptised as "Ocker"
[SRC-091] Son of Jacobus Oosthuijsen and Diena Carola Brits, with OCKER BRITS and Johanna Botha as witnesses. Second son, so by the naming pattern he takes his mother's father's name - and that grandfather is standing at the font. No Almero: the family name at this point is simply Ocker, and it came
- 1755 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755)
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1755) baptism · 1755
dates known, no other trace here
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- 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.
Sources
- Baptism 1755: Ocker, child of Jacobus Oosthuijsen and Diena Carola Brits FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark 3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WT5C; cc=1478678; register pages 30-31, ANNO 1755, entry 9
Research notes
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