Christina Johanna Botes, born De Wit

9 Oktober 1839 – 30 Junie 1917

Name

Given: Christina Johanna
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.

Naaste familie

Married: Jan Melchior Petrus Botes (1834-1893)
Children: 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

1874Michiel Josias Botes

1877Catharina Dorothea Botes (1877-1973)

1879Jan Melchior Petrus Botes (1879-1967)

1880Margaretha Elizabeth Botes (1880-1970)

1882Hester Cornelia Swanepoel, born Botes

'n Lewe in die rekord

9 Oktober 1839 gebore Born
1917 begrawe Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
30 Junie 1917 oorlede Died

Wat ons nie weet nie

Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.
Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Navorsingsnotas

Part of the household of Jan Melchior Petrus BotesL [93TP-ZNC] and Christina Johanna De WitM [LVPM-7TL]. Brought in as the key to the Botes gravestones: this project holds 78 Botes stones and had identified three. THE JOIN TO THIS FAMILY IS A MARRIAGE - their son Michiel Josias BotesH [PER-000491] married Maria Johanna OosthuizenM [PER-000408], who is already here. Per 9a the Botes are a TOOL for stitching stones on this ground, not a family to follow outward. his wife. HER STONE IS IN THE PRINCE ALBERT NG KERK CEMETERY - eGGSA read it 'BOTES Christina Johanna nee DE WIT 1839-1917'. [FS]

[14 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-001556 into this row. One woman entered twice on the same day, 7 Aug 2026, by two routes that did not know about each other: the eGGSA gravestone sweep read the Prince Albert NG Kerk stone and matched her in the private tree by her MAIDEN name, while the FamilySearch household import brought her in as the wife of Jan Melchior Petrus BotesL [93TP-ZNC]. Both rows describe the same stone, the same 1839-1917 span and the same son Michiel Josias BotesH. The survivor holds the FS id LVPM-7TL; the tombstone's full dates, 9 Oct 1839 and 30 Jun 1917, are more precise than the survivor's bare years and move across. Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1839 -> 1839-10-09; death_edtf 1917 -> 1917-06-30. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Christina Johanna Botes, born De WitH', PER-001556 said 'Christina Johanna De WitM'; given: kept 'Christina Johanna', PER-001556 said 'Christina Johanna De'; surname: kept 'Botes', PER-001556 said 'Wit'.

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.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

The Botes hold no ground here - are they a district family this project can write about at all? prioriteit 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?

Wat dit sou uitmaak 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

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