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Persoon PER-001578

Jacobus Abraham Botes (1768-1852)

1768 – 1852 · Botes line

Name

Given
Jacobus Abraham
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

Married
Elsje Dorothea Gouws (1775-1833)
Children

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 1768 gebore Born
  2. 1852 oorlede Died

Ander van dieselfde naam

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.

Wat ons nie weet nie

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

Navorsingsnotas

A child of Jacobus Abraham BotesL [LB6D-WKC] and Elsje Dorothea GouwsH [LC3S-HTS], fifteen children in all. Brought in because their daughter Magdalena Frederica married into the Storms of this district. Per 9a the Botes are a tool for stitching stones on this ground, not a family to follow outward. [FS] THE OLDEST BOTES THIS PROJECT HOLDS. Almost certainly the Jacob Abraham born to Antonie Botes of Enkhuizen and Engela Erasmus, who married on 26 March 1766 - a birth in 1768 fits that marriage exactly, and Jacob Abraham is one of the nine children published for it. He is the father of Magdalena Frederica BotesH [PER-001522], who married Hendrik Willem StormM and whose death notice says she was born in the GOUPH. That places this household in the Koup by the 1790s.

[7 Aug 2026] A GENERATION IS MISSING HERE AND IT IS NOT GUESSED. He is NOT a child of the stamvader Wietse Botes and Antje PijtersM, however tempting the line looks: ANTJE PIJTERS DIED IN 1767 AND HE WAS BORN IN 1768, so she cannot be his mother. HIS FATHER IS ANTONIE BOTES, born Enkhuizen 11 September 1740, who married ENGELA ERASMUS on 26 March 1766 - the stamvader's son, so this man is the stamvader's GRANDSON. Antonie and Engela are not yet in this model with FamilySearch ids and the row will be made when they are, not before. [TO VERIFY]

[14 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-001533 into this row. Both are the man named as father of Magdalena Storm born Botes on her 1884 death notice (SRC-306), with the same wife, Elsje Dorothea GouwsH. PER-001533 was created from that notice with no dates; PER-001578 came from FamilySearch [LB6D-WKC] with 1768-1852, the same wife and the same fifteen children including Magdalena Frederica. Same name, same spouse, same daughter, and the notice's own detail is what the FS household describes. Surfaced by matching the ASBotes family-tree: the death-notice row was the only Jacob Abraham Botes here without an FS id, which is what made me look at it. Moved across: line=Botes. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Jacobus Abraham BotesL (1768-1852)', PER-001533 said 'Jacob Abraham Botes'.

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