eGGSA Graves, Western Cape: PRINCE ALBERT district, Spreeuw Fontein 26, Vredendal, farm cemetery
online grave index · consulted 2026-08-07
- Type
- online grave index
- Repository
- eGGSA (Genealogical Society of South Africa), gravestone photographic library; album photographed 27 June 2019, captions by Annel Meyer
- Reference
- Cemetery ID 6615; Google Earth Cemetery Initiative GPSID 7930; 4 images
- Consulted
- 2026-08-07
The citation as it was given
'There are some unmarked graves. Album complete.' Four images: an overview, BOTMA CORNELES JACOBUS 1867-1910, BOTMA J.M.M. 1861-1939, and SWANEPOEL GERTRUIDA JOHANNA 1915-. TWO OF THEIRS ARE OURS, ONE OF THEIRS IS NEW TO US, AND ONE OF OURS IS MISSING FROM THEIRS. The two Botma stones are GRV-0027 and GRV-0026. The SWANEPOEL is a grave this project did not have. And eGGSA DO NOT HAVE the 1886 stone of ENGELA SUSARA NIEHAUS BORN BOTES, which is GRV-0025 - the oldest and, until today, the worst-read stone in that plot. THE COORDINATE IS A NEAR-EXACT MATCH. eGGSA give -32 57.367, 22 16.995, which is -32.956117, 22.283250. This project's figure, from the geotag of a 2012 photograph written in software five years later, is -32.956136, 22.283269. THREE METRES APART. That geotag has been carried as a soft claim about location all day; against an independent GPS reading it is as good as a survey, and it carries the Vredendal-is-Portion-1 identification with it. RIGHTS: photographs not copied; captions are facts and are recorded; images linked.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.