Hendrik Willem Storm Niehaus
25 March 1831 – 20 October 1910 · Niehaus line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Engela Susara Niehaus, born Botes (1855-10-08).
Names
- Surname
- Niehaus
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
- Engela Susara Niehaus, born Botes 8 October 1855
A life in the record
- 25 March 1831 born Born
- 8 October 1855 married Married Engela Susara Niehaus, born Botes
- 20 October 1910 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 KLYD-KH7] Husband of the woman on GRV-0025. Married ENGELA SUSARA BOTES at PRINCE ALBERT on 8 OCTOBER 1855; FIFTEEN CHILDREN, 1856 to 1880. After her death in 1886 he married Isabella Johanna Wilhelmina Strumpher at Aberdeen on 9 January 1888 and had two more. HIS SECOND GIVEN NAME IS HIS MOTHER'S SURNAME: Neeltje Johanna STORM, who married Bernardus Christiaan Godlieb NiehausM at Paarl in 1813. Carrying the mother's surname as a given name is how these families kept the line visible, and it is why STORM turns up inside a Niehaus name. He is in the private tree as.
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
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Read the graves ACROSS the farms, and against the online grave indexes
priority 1 · LEAD-0127
Storm, Botes, Niehaus, Botma, Beukes and Freysen appear on stones on Varsche Fontein and on Vredendal/Spreeufontein, and they intermarry. What does the picture look like when the burial grounds are read as one body of evidence rather than farm by farm, and what do the published grave indexes add?
What would settle it Nothing settles a question this shape. What it produces is a map: which families are buried where, who married whom, and which farms they moved between.
Elders
FamilySearch profile KLYD-KH7