Andries Stephanus Botes (1797-1872)
1797 – 1872
Names
- Given
- Andries Stephanus
- Surname
- Botes
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
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1792Catharina Botes (1792-1827)
- 1793Jacobus Abraham Botes (b.1793)
- 1794Engela Susanna Botes (b.1794)
- 1797~Magdalena Frederica Botes
- 1801Elsje Dorothea Botes (1801-1841)
- 1802Anthonie Johannes Lourens Botes (1802-1874)
- 1805Anna Johanna Maria Botes (1805-1878)
- 1807Petrus Johannes Botes
- 1808Aletta Catharina Johanna Jacoba Botes (1808-1847)
- 1809Johanna Petronella Botes (b.1809)
- 1811Abraham Adriaan Botes (1811-1892)
- 1812Hester Botes (1812-1884)
- 1816Sybrand Lourens Botes (1816-1877)
- Married
- Anna Magdalena Pieterse (1801-1854) 6 February 1820
- Children
- Engela Susara Niehaus, born Botes
A life in the record
- 1797 born Born
- 6 February 1820 married Married Anna Magdalena Pieterse (1801-1854)
- 7 October 1839 witness Witnessed a baptism
- 1872 died Died
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 Andries Stefanus Botes baptism · 7 October 1839
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/
Research notes
A child of Jacobus Abraham BotesL [LB6D-WKC] and Elsje Dorothea GouwsM [LC3S-HTS], fifteen children in all. Brought in because their daughter Magdalena Frederica married into the Storms of this district. Per 9a the Botes are a tool for stitching stones on this ground, not a family to follow outward. [FS]
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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The Botes hold no ground here - are they a district family this project can write about at all?
priority 2 · LEAD-0194
The Botes turn up constantly in these records and hold NOTHING. Zero ownership rows, zero residences, no grant, no diagram, no farm. What the model does hold is 255 eGGSA captions naming Botes, 78 curated Botes gravestones, 50 stones in the Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery alone, and a striking run of marriages into this district: Storm twice in two generations, two Botes brothers marrying two Niehaus sisters four months apart in 1880, plus Kruger, Combrink, Theron, Swanepoel and Oosthuizen. So: were the Botes ever ON this ground as occupiers, or are they a Beaufort West and Prince Albert town family that this district married?
What would settle it One Botes name on a deed, a valuation roll or an opgaafrol for ground in this district - or a documented absence across those three, which would settle it the other way.
Elders
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