Aletta Jacoba Potgieter

1766 – 1817 · Storm line

Names

Surname: Potgieter

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: Hendrik Storm (1757-1812) 11 June 1797
Children: Hendrik Willem Storm (1797-1855), Neeltje Johanna Storm

A life in the record

1766 born Born
11 June 1797 married Married Hendrik Storm (1757-1812)
1817 died Died

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 L9GD-MBH] Married Hendrik StormH at Cape Town, 11 June 1797 [FS]. Seven children: NEELTJE JOHANNA 1797 (KLYT-B5S), HENDRIK WILLEM 1797 (LHZQ-LKJ), Aletta Magdalena 1799 (G4WX-WZM), Maria Magdalena 1800 (2CBR-53L), Maria 1803 (G2V3-YR6), Hendrik 1805 (2CBR-53P), Hendrik Frederik 1807 (2CBR-535). IN SCOPE UNDER 9a AS AN ARRIVAL QUESTION, not as kin: the Storms are affinal to this family through the Niehaus-Zulch marriage, and the oldest grave on Varsche Fontein reads B. STORM 1848. LEAD-0124.

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

Two Storms on Varsche Fontein, 1848 and 1849 - who were they, and what put them there? priority 1 · LEAD-0124
Who is the B. STORM buried on Varsche Fontein in 1848 (GRV-0030), and does the grave connect to either of the two Storm lines this family already touches?

What would settle it THE LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT OF MAGDALENA STORM BORN BOTES, died Prince Albert 10 April 1884. Her death notice says she left IMMOVEABLE PROPERTY to be 'all sold immediately and the account filed'. That account names the land. It is now the single most direct route to whether the Storms held ground on or near Varsche Fontein. Failing that, the estate papers of her husband, died Prince Albert 19 August 1855.

Elders

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