Michiel Josias Botes

26 Februarie 1874 – 9 Mei 1947 · Botes line

Married into the family

Verbinding met die Koup

Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Maria Johanna Oosthuizen (1895-07-01).

gebeurtenis Maria Johanna Oosthuizen marries Michiel Josias Botes at Prince Albert1895-07-01

Name

Given: Michiel Josias
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.

Naaste familie

Father: Jan Melchior Petrus Botes (1834-1893)
Mother: Christina Johanna Botes, born De Wit
Brothers and sisters: 1858Wilhelmina Christina Johanna Botes

1861Andries Stephanus Botes (1861-1956)

1862Anna Magdalena Botes (1862-1923)

1864Christina Johanna Botes (1864-1966)

1867Elsje Catharina Botes (b.1867)

1868Judith Maria Kruger, born Botes

1871Susanna Elizabeth Combrink, born Botes

1877Catharina Dorothea Botes (1877-1973)

1879Jan Melchior Petrus Botes (1879-1967)

1880Margaretha Elizabeth Botes (1880-1970)

1882Hester Cornelia Swanepoel, born Botes
Married: Maria Johanna Oosthuizen 1 Julie 1895
Children: Christina Johanna Koen, Gabriel Stefanus Botes

'n Lewe in die rekord

26 Februarie 1874 gebore Born
1 Julie 1895 getroud Married Maria Johanna Oosthuizen
1 Julie 1895 gebeurtenis Maria Johanna Oosthuizen marries Michiel Josias Botes at Prince Albert
Entry 1094. He is 21, a Boer at Zevenfontein; she is given as 25 and of Prince Albert. Consent from his mother J.C. Botes and from her stepfather N. van der Westhuizen - the first sign in this model that her mother remarried after Cornelis Andries died in 1871.
9 Mei 1947 oorlede Died

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Bronne

Marriage of Michiel Josias Botes and Maria Johanna Oosthuizen, Prince Albert, 1 July 1895FamilySearch, "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974"Duplicaat Origineel Register, Prins Albert, 1895, entry no. 1094, p. 381

Navorsingsnotas

[31 Jul 2026 SRC-143 + FS LVP9-KMN] Married Maria Johanna OosthuizenH (PER-000408) at Prince Albert on 1 July 1895, entry 1094. Aged 21, 'jongman', occupation Boer, woonplaats ZEVENFONTEIN - a farmer in the district at the time of the marriage, which is why he is here at all. His mother J.C. Botes gave consent. Dates 1874-1947 from the FamilySearch profile. The 1895 register writes MichIel, the estate files MachIel and MichIel both, one 1901 baptism MichIel JosEas - recorded, not normalised. His profile absorbed L1GF-4NZ in a merge of 24 Sep 2020.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-001359 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry LVP9-KMN; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1874 -> 1874-02-26; death_edtf 1947 -> 1947-05-09.

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.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

When did Maria Johanna Botes born Oosthuizen actually die? prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0020
Her 1976 death is withdrawn as manufactured from a probate date range. She was born 14 Dec 1868 and married Michiel Josias BotesH on 1 Jul 1895. When did she die, and under what surname was her estate filed?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A death notice or estate file under Botes. Failing that, the wording of Andrew's 1976 file on whether his mother predeceased him.
Duplicate candidates from the one-degree pull, settled on FamilySearch ids prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0035
38 people added on 31 Jul 2026 share a name AND a birth YEAR with somebody already in the model, and 32 share a name with no date at all. Are they the same people?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A full birth or baptism date on either side of a pair. Name plus YEAR is not enough here and must not be treated as enough.
The Botes hold no ground here - are they a district family this project can write about at all? prioriteit 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?

Wat dit sou uitmaak 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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