Elsje Jacoba Maritz (1813-1892)
1813 – 1892 · Bothma line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Lodewyk Bothma (1834-01-26).
Names
- Given
- Elsje Jacoba
- Surname
- Maritz
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
- Lodewyk Bothma 26 January 1834
- Children
- Frans Stephanus Botma (1834-1908)
A life in the record
- 1813 born Born
- 26 January 1834 married Married Lodewyk Bothma
- 1892 died Died
What we don't know
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[FS LYPT-YQ2] Wife of Lodewyk BothmaH (PER-000037), married at WORCESTER on 26 January 1834; seven children. Her eldest, Frans Stephanus (PER-000323), took the Spreeufontein title and died on the farm.
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.
Elders
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