Lodewyk Botma (1856-1900)
1856 – 1900 · Bothma line
Names
- Given
- Lodewyk
- Surname
- Botma
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
- Mother
- Johanna Geertruida Brink
- Brothers and sisters
- Cornelis Jacobus Botma
A life in the record
- 1856 born Born
- 1900 died Died
What we don't know
- 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 GXH4-21C] Eldest son of Frans Stephanus BotmaM and Johanna Geertruida BrinkM, and the most likely candidate for the BOY WHO FOUND THE FIRST NUGGET on Spreeufontein in 1871 (SRC-068, STO-0020). He was FIFTEEN that year. His grandfather and namesake Lodewyk BothmaM (PER-000037) was sixty-nine in 1871 and died in 1874, so the source's "young boy" cannot be that man, and this project had the two of them as one row. [TO VERIFY] against the account itself, which names a Lodewyk without dates. The village of Gatsplaas laid out after the find may belong to either.
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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