Frans Stephanus Botma (1834-1908)
30 December 1834 – 15 April 1908 · Botma line
Names
- Baptismal name
- F.S.
- Given
- Frans Stephanus
- Surname
- Botma
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Immediate family
- Father
- Lodewyk Bothma
- Married
- Johanna Geertruida Brink 19 December 1854
- Children
A life in the record
- 30 December 1834 born Born
- 19 December 1854 married Married Johanna Geertruida Brink
- 15 April 1908 died Died
Stories
- subject The Botmas of Spreeufontein
Others of the same name
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What we don't know
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Research notes
[SRC-111] Held the parent portion of Spreeufontein and Toornits Kraal by Amended Title Deed dated 14 March 1899, out of which Lot C / Portion 5 (PAR-000024) was later surveyed and sold to Jacob A. NiehausM in 1909. [FS L255-BGL, 9 Aug 2026] IDENTIFIED. He is FRANS STEPHANUS BOTMA, born in the ROGGEVELD, Ceres, on 30 December 1834 and DIED AT SPREEUFONTEIN, PRINCE ALBERT, ON 15 APRIL 1908 - so the man who took the amended title to the parent portion in 1899 died on that ground nine years later. Name, farm and dates agree across the two records. Married JOHANNA GEERTRUIDA BRINK (PER-001604) at Stellenbosch, 19 December 1854; nine children, including CORNELIS JACOBUS (PER-001505), who was born on Spreeufontein in 1867 and is buried there. His parents are Lodewyk BothmaM (PER-000037) and Elsje Jacoba MaritzM (PER-001605).
[26 Aug 2026, FS card] HIS NINE CHILDREN BY BRINK, ids as the card gives them: Lodewyk 1856-1900 GXH4-21C (PER-001606), Cornelis Jacobus Jonathan 1857- G5XW-W8H, FRANS STEPHANUS 1860-1936 L56F-CDL (PER-001925, the Wilgerfontein man of the circa-1918 family photograph), Catharina Maria Elizabeth 1864- G5XW-KSC, Elsje Jacoba 1865-1951 L5DL-SZT, Cornelis Jacobus 1867-1910 LKTV-JLQ (PER-001505), Johannes Hieronymous Paulus 1870- L6LD-8BH, JOHANNA GEERTRUIDA 1875-1946 L5DL-S84 - WHO IS THE 'NIEHAUS Johanna Gertruida nee BOTMA 1874-1946' ON A PRINCE ALBERT STONE: she married into the Niehaus family to whom her father sold Lot C in 1909, the sale and the marriage two faces of one bond - and Catharina Elizabeth 1877- GB25-Q69. Marriage to Brink was at STELLENBOSCH, 19 Dec 1854. The unheld children stay citations, not rows.
[SRC-592, 26 Aug 2026] HIS OWN DEATH NOTICE, no. 1483, filed 4 June 1908, and it is the original behind everything the FS card reported: born in the ROGGEVELD, son of LODEWYK BOTMA and ELSJE MARITZ, a FARMER, dead on 15 April 1908 AT HIS RESIDENCE 'SPREEUWFONTEIN', Prince Albert Division - nine years after he took the amended title to the parent portion, on the ground itself.
IT NAMES FIVE BRANCHES, not nine children, which is what a death notice does. His eldest, LODEWYK (PER-001606), had died in 1900 leaving seven children by MARTHA MARIA CATHARINA BOTMA - a Botma marrying a Botma - four of them still minors in 1908: Aletta Francina, Johanna Geertruida, Frans Stephanus, Lodewyk, Abraham Christoffel, Martha Maria Catharina and Elsje Johanna (LEAD-0309). And ELSJE JACOBA (L5DL-SZT) married W. N. A. NIEHAUS - so with Johanna Geertruida's Niehaus marriage, his son's 1885 Niehaus wife and the 1909 sale of Lot C to Jacob A. NiehausM, the Botma-Niehaus bond runs through four separate records.
THE NOTICE SPELLS HIS FATHER 'LODEWYK BOTMA' WHERE THIS PROJECT HOLDS 'LODEWYK BOTHMA' (PER-000037). Same man, same generation, two spellings - see that person's note.
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Elders
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