Hester Botes
1864 – before 1884-09-08
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936) (1880-06-14).
Names
- 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
- Married
- Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936) 14 June 1880
- Children
A life in the record
- before 1884-09-08 died Died
- 1864 born Born
- 14 June 1880 married Married Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936)
Stories
- mentioned The Botmas of Spreeufontein
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
- 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.
- 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.
Research notes
[FS] First wife of Frans Stephanus BotmaL (1860-1936); married at Prince Albert 14 June 1880, dead by 1884 leaving three children under four. Botes is a Vredendal-story surname here (S033).
[SRC-588] Dead before 8 September 1884: her husband remarries that day as 'Wed.r'. EDTF tightened from bare 1884.
[FS L2BH-4F4] THREE CHILDREN IN FOUR YEARS before she died: Frans Stephanus 1881 (PER-001931), Breggie Elizabeth 1882 (PER-001933) and Johanna Gertruida 1883 (PER-001934). Her son was three when she died and the eldest of them.
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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