Michiel Josias Botes

26 February 1874 – 9 May 1947 · Botes line

Married into the family

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Maria Johanna Oosthuizen (1895-07-01).

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

Names

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.

Immediate family

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 July 1895
Children: Christina Johanna Koen, Gabriel Stefanus Botes

A life in the record

26 February 1874 born Born
1 July 1895 married Married Maria Johanna Oosthuizen
1 July 1895 event 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 May 1947 died Died

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

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

Research notes

[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.

Open questions

When did Maria Johanna Botes born Oosthuizen actually die? priority 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?

What would settle it 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 priority 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?

What would settle it 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? priority 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?

What would settle it 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

FamilySearch profile LVP9-KMN