Fredrik Jacobus Botha
before 1776-07-21 – 11 November 1825 · Botha line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Estate inventory of Fredrik Jacobus Botha (1826-02-23).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Fredrik Jacobus
- Given
- Fredrik Jacobus
- Surname
- Botha
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
- Father
- Frederik Botha
- Mother
- Hester Venter
- Brothers and sisters
- Jan Hendrik Botha
A life in the record
- before 1776-07-21 born Born
- 11 November 1825 died Died
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23 February 1826
event
Estate inventory of Fredrik Jacobus Botha
Died intestate 11 Nov 1825.
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.
Sources
- MOOC8/40.55 - Fredrik Jacobus Botha & Maria Petronella Venter, 23 Feb 1826Cape Town Archives RepositoryMOOC8/40.55
Research notes
Died intestate; estate inventoried 23 Feb 1826 (MOOC8/40.55).
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.
What the record is missing
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An estate taken on ground we cannot place
second order · B6 loose-doc
DOC-0034 (MOOC8/40.55, 1826-02-23) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It names no place at all. No parcel is attached, so the family it describes sits nowhere on the map.
What would settle it The inventory's own heading usually names the farm and the field-cornetcy; where it does not, the deceased's quitrent or opgaaf entry for that year will. This is the shape that produced the de Bruin/Rondabel find.
Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand,
each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data.
The whole set is on the
questions page.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LHS4-WVM