Aletta Sophia Jacoba Niemann

1844 – 1890 · Beukes line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes (1862-09-22).

Names

Surname: Niemann

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

Married: Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes 22 September 1862
Children: Elizabeth Elsje Petronella Beukes, Aletta Sophia Jacoba Opperman (born Beukes)

A life in the record

1844 born Born
22 September 1862 married Married Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes
1890 died Died

Stories

mentioned Eight stones on Varsche Fontein

What we don't know

Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
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.

Research notes

[FS 27DM-B2J] Wife of PER-000029, married at PRINCE ALBERT on 22 SEPTEMBER 1862 [FS]. TWELVE CHILDREN, born 1863 to 1890 - she died the year the last was born. The children and their FamilySearch ids are recorded on PER-000029 rather than as rows here, per 9a: the family is in scope because it is on this ground, and following it outward is not. ON THIS SITE BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THIS GROUND, not because they are kin: see PER-000029 for what the surname does and does not prove.

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

Is the lone 1874 stone on Varsche Fontein a thirteenth Beukes child? priority 1 · LEAD-0126
A hand-cut stone standing apart from the cemetery reads 1874 / G F BEUKES / Juny [15?]. Is it an infant son of Gerhardus Francois Beukes whose name was reused in 1877, and why is he buried away from the others?

What would settle it A baptism or burial entry, or a death notice.
Are the Varsche Fontein Beukes related to Christa's Beukes, or is it only the surname? priority 2 · LEAD-0123
This project has recorded the Varsche Fontein Beukes as 'a cousin line on Frans's wife's side'. Is there an actual path, or was that inferred from the surname?

What would settle it A shared ancestor with both descents documented, or a demonstration that the two Beukes families are separate at the Cape.

Elders

FamilySearch profile 27DM-B2J