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Person PER-001279

Johan Nicolaas Botha

No dates recorded · Botha line

No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1865, because their child born 1881, so at least 16 years earlier. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

Names

Surname
Botha

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Immediate family

Married
Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1849)
Children
Anna Elizabeth Botha, Ida Violet Botha

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What we don't know

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Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: spouse of Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL (b.1849). Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[25 Aug 2026] VERY LIKELY THE 'OOM KLAAS BOTHA' OF THE DAGBOEK (SRC-586, STO-0048), who alone ploughed with a span of donkeys in the Kouwveldt years: Klaas is the noemnaam of Nicolaas, he married Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL (PER-000156), daughter of Jan Adriaan - making him the diarist's uncle by marriage, 'oom' exactly - and a J.N. BOTHA (PER-000325) co-held Vaste Water on Middelwater ground per the 1884 LT plan: right name, right ground, right decade. Frans pointed at the identification THREE ROWS, NOT MERGED: whether PER-000325's J.N. is this man needs the Vaste Water papers. [TO VERIFY]

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