J.N. Botha

active 1884 · Botha line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) (1884-03-24).

Names

Baptismal name

J.N.

Given

J.N.

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

1. 24 March 1884 land Held it, Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5)

Ground they are on record on

• Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) held it · 24 March 1884

Stories

• mentioned Middelwater No. 169: a farm history

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.

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

Research notes

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.

What the record is missing

• 39 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession

  On Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5), J.D.J. Oosthuyson / O.A. OosthuysenM (reading uncertain) and J.N. BothaH is the last owner recorded from 1884-03-24, and the next entry is Susanna Maria KlueM from 1923-04-26, 39 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0076 records the later arrival but not the 39 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1884 and 1923. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.