Aletta Francina Bothma
10 September 1794 – 5 January 1871 · Bothma line
Names
- Given
- Aletta Francina
- Surname
- Bothma
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
- Mother
- Johanna Barendina Visser
- Married
- Petrus Jacobus Theron
- Children
- Stephanus Johannes Theron
A life in the record
- 10 September 1794 born Born
- 22 October 1839 witness Witnessed a baptism
- 5 January 1871 died Died
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for Aletta Francina Bothma baptism · 22 October 1839
Stories
- mentioned Two farms called Vrolykheid
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
- Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/
Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: father/mother Stephanus Johannes TheronL (PER-000047). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
[3 Aug 2026, SRC-200] STOOD AS A BAPTISM WITNESS at Beaufort West in 1839 (BWB-230-06), in the veldkornetskap Veldcornetschap Hatting. Identified on name + date + tree id, never on the name alone: 22 of 52 unique-name matches from this register were rejected because the person's own dates forbade it. [TO VERIFY]
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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