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Hercules Botha (1762 - abt. 1830)

Hercules Botha
Born in Cradock District, Cabo de Goede Hoopmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married [date unknown] in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
Husband of — married 29 Sep 1782 (to about 1800) in Cradock Districtmap
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 67 in Cradock District, Cape Colonymap
Profile last modified | Created 18 Feb 2015
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Table Bay, South Africa (1762)
Hercules Botha was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Biography

Name

Hercules Botha[1]

Birth

Date: about 1762[1] / in 1762[2]

Family

b1c7d9 Hercules BOTHA= 21.3.1762 [Botha-1878]
x 29.9.1782 Petronella Christina DE JAGER [de Jager-406]
xx Elizabeth Petronella FOURIE [Fourie-34]
e1 Anna Margaretha = 26.10.1783 [Botha-4512] x F.A. SMIT [Smit-1882]
e2 Elizabeth Maria = 26.6.1785 [Botha-4661] x F.W. DE BEER [de Beer-341]
e3 Petronella Christina = 22.7.1787 [Botha-349] x W. PRETORIUS [Pretorius-3469]
e4 Maria Catharina = 18.12.1788 [Botha-2937] x J.A. DE WET [de Wet-751]
e5 Philip Rudolph = 2.5.1790 d. Dordrecht 26.9.1868 [Botha-1386]
x Aletta Maria BOSCH [Bosch-168]
xx Uitenhage 31.12.1830 Carolina Margaretha Aletta BOTHA [Botha-4269] same as [Botha-55] merge proposed
e6 Hercules = 7.10.1792 [Botha-]
x Graaff-Reinet 2.4.1815 Johanna Catharina Christina DE BEER
e7 Josephus Johannes = 27.11.1793 [Botha-3453]
x Graaff-Reinet 8.9.1816 Martha Louisa VENTER [Venter-2732]
e8 Elsie Petronella = 10.7.1798 [Botha-]
e9 Theunis Christoffel = 25.8.1799 [Botha-7173]
x Cradock 7.1.1821 Geertruida Jacoba Elizabeth ROBBERTS [Robberts-155] [Robberts-137]
e10 Margaretha Aletta = 21.10.1804 [Botha-] x Cradock 1.7.1820 John GOCH
e11 Anna Susanna = 21.10.1804 [Botha-3228]
x Somerset-Oos 8.12.1833 Lourens Erasmus BESTER [Bester-633] [3]

Death

Date: about 1805[1] / about 1830[2]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 WikiTree profile Botha-7998 created by Francois Joubert 28 Nov 2022. Source:
  2. 2.0 2.1 Added by Laura Steyn, Wednesday, February 18, 2015.
  3. "Heese, J.A. & Lombard, R.T.J. “South African Genealogies 1” Human Sciences Research Council, 1992, ISBN 0-620-23962-1 v.1 pp. 371-2" Added on 14 Mar 2023 by Ian McArthur




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  • Deon Botha Find Relationship : Y-Chromosome Test 13 markers, haplogroup R1b
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Botha-7998 and Botha-1878 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate profile. You will need to sort out the parents and the spouse as well
posted by Mary (Pistorius) Rudd
The following Master of the Orphan Chamber documents appear to refer to Hercules Botha:

http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/make_pdf.cfm?output=pdf&id=MOOC8/46.28 , see page 131, and http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/make_pdf.cfm?output=pdf&id=MOOC8/26.30

posted by Jo Fourie