Sharon-Ann Sheina de Wet Herr says about Catrijna Both, SM
Is she not the Biological daughter of Jan Cornelisz and not Friedrich Both, SV/PROG 1
Sharon-Ann Sheina de Wet Herr says about Catrijna Both, SM
Is she not the Biological daughter of Jan Cornelisz and not Friedrich Both, SV/PROG 1
This doc seems to be key - can you find her on it?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ML-49TG-2
However - her mother puts on legal record that none of her children were biologically fathered by Jan:
Before the Council of Justice, in 1700, in the business of the divorce, she declared all her children from the existing marriage had been engendered not by her husband (due to his incapacity) but by Frederick Boot, and that her husband himself encouraged this ('en dat haren man haar daartoe selfs aanleijding soude hebben gegeeven').
The muster roll of 1701 (dated 31st January 1702) lists Frederik living in Stellenbosch with eight children, and Maria listed on her own but also in Stellenbosch , apparently living apart from them.https://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/lombard/I411.html
Ménage à trois: Between 11 June 1683 and 1700 Maria Kickers and Jan Cornelisz were legally married, but at the same time, from at least 1687 Frederich Both and Maria were lovers, apparently with the agreement of Jan. During divorce proceedings in 1700 Maria conceded that eight of her children, that is Theunis Botha, Willem Bootha, Catrijna Both, Cornelia Botha, Anna Bota, Maria Botha and Johannes Botha were fathered by Frederich Both(a) with the apparent encouragement (aanleijding) of her spouse, Jan Cornelisz, at the time. All of these offspring subsequently used the surname Both(a).https://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5169.htm#c5169.5
She is surnamed Bota at her marriage
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LX3-V8P?view=inde...