Engela Susara Niehaus, born Botes
about 1837-05-02 – 24 July 1886 · Niehaus line
Connection to the Koup
Buried in this district, at Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1) (1886-07-24).
Names
- Surname
- Niehaus
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.
Immediate family
- Married
- Hendrik Willem Storm Niehaus 8 October 1855
A life in the record
- about 1837-05-02 born Born
- 8 October 1855 married Married Hendrik Willem Storm Niehaus
- 24 July 1886 land Buried there, Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
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24 July 1886
buried
Buried, Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1)
Hier rust het lijk van ENGELA SUSARA NIEHAUS geb BOTES, overleden op den 24 July 1886. Met den ouderdom van 49 jaar 2 maanden en 22 dagen. Then Revelation 14:13: 'Zalig zyn de dooden die in de Heer sterven van nu aan, ja zegt de gees, opdat zy rusten mogen van hunne arbeid, en hunne werken volgen met hen. Openb. 14:13.' Cut in a fine cursive hand across the whole slab.
- 24 July 1886 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) buried there · 24 July 1886
Stories
- subject Eight stones on Varsche Fontein
- subject Vredendal: three surnames on the stones, one family in the house
Research notes
[FS 99RG-WFT] THE WOMAN ON THE 1886 STONE AT VREDENDAL, GRV-0025. 'Hier rust het lijk van ENGELA SUSARA NIEHAUS geb BOTES, overleden op den 24 July 1886, met den ouderdom van 49 jaar 2 maanden en 22 dagen', with Revelation 14:13 below. The age counts back to a birth about 2 MAY 1837 and FamilySearch gives her as 1837-1886, which agrees. She married HENDRIK WILLEM STORM NIEHAUS at PRINCE ALBERT on 8 OCTOBER 1855 and they had FIFTEEN CHILDREN between 1856 and 1880. He outlived her by twenty-four years and remarried at Aberdeen in 1888. [FAMILY] HER MOTHER WAS A STORM, per Frans. That is the join this project had been circling: the Storms, the Botes, the Niehaus and the Botma are one connected group across these farms, not four separate surnames. [TO VERIFY] against a baptism or her own death notice. SHE DIED ON VREDENDAL WHEN IT WAS STILL PART OF SPREEUWFONTEIN. The farm name in 1886 was Spreeufontein No. 26; Vredendal is the werf name it carries now.
[7 Aug 2026, FS 99RG-WFT] HER PARENTS ARE NOW KNOWN: Andries Stephanus BotesL [K4PY-V4B], 1797-1872, and Anna Magdalena PieterseM [LC3M-HN3]. Her father is one of the fifteen children of Jacobus Abraham BotesL and Elsje Dorothea GouwsM, so THE LINE FROM ENKHUIZEN TO THIS STONE IS NOW UNBROKEN: Wietse Botes of Enkhuizen, at the Cape 1744; Jacobus Abraham 1768; Andries Stephanus 1797; Engela Susara 1837, the Vredendal stone; Engela Susara Niehaus 1860; Engela Susarah 1881. FIVE GENERATIONS CARRYING THE ONE NAME.
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.
Open questions
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Read the graves ACROSS the farms, and against the online grave indexes
priority 1 · LEAD-0127
Storm, Botes, Niehaus, Botma, Beukes and Freysen appear on stones on Varsche Fontein and on Vredendal/Spreeufontein, and they intermarry. What does the picture look like when the burial grounds are read as one body of evidence rather than farm by farm, and what do the published grave indexes add?
What would settle it Nothing settles a question this shape. What it produces is a map: which families are buried where, who married whom, and which farms they moved between.
Elders
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