Maria Margaretha Magdalena Niehaus

about 1866 – ?

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936) (1885-08-17).

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: Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936) 17 August 1885

A life in the record

about 1866 born Born
17 August 1885 married Married Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936)

Stories

subject The Botmas of Spreeufontein

What we don't know

No death date is recorded.
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

[SRC-589] Nineteen and a BOERIN in her own register line, of [?Oswater], when she married the twice-widowed Frans Stephanus BotmaL at Prince Albert on 17 August 1885. Birth about 1866 from her stated age. Her fate after the marriage is not yet in this record - Aletta Magdalena de KokerM follows as a later wife. No FS id yet. The Niehaus family reappears around this household for decades: the groom's sister married one, and his father sold Lot C to Jacob A. NiehausM in 1909.

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