Notes

As per the custom at the Cape she would not have assumed surname of her husband upon marriage!
Her surname was never ever Botha .

• Maria KICKERS had nothing to do with Jan Coenraadsz VISSER. She is probably confused with Maria KIKKERT, an unsourced partner of Jan Coenraad VISSER in SAG. During her divorce proceedings, and again in the adultery case of 16 November 1706, she stated that all her children had been fathered by Friedrich BOTH.

However we all know now that she lied.

ménage à quatre (plural ménages à quatre) A household or relationship whereby four people live together as lovers. A sexual act involving four people; a foursome.

Maria Kickers and 3 different men !

• * See below and : http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5168.htm
• But, regarding her affair with Ferdinand APPEL, and subsequent son by him
  • See : Theunis Botha
• Her youngest child Anna was baptised in c. March 1702 at Stellenbosch as the daughter of BOTHA. - JS

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Marriage 11 July 1783 : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ML-49Y7-J

• Birth Date : estimated before 1669
• Death Date : 12/2/1723
• First Name : Maria
• Last Name : BOTHA
• Maiden Name : KICKERS
• Gender : Female
• Birth Location : Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Death Location : Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa

Maria KICKERS

• certainly made up for unknown parentage, by having an eventful life. You will notice that she married Friedrich BOTHA after several of their children were born. In fact she was still married to Jan CORNELISZ when BOTHA and Ferdinandus Appel each fathered some but not all of her children -- Theunis confirmed son of

Ferdinandus Appel and how many others unable to confirm ? 🤔

• Criminal records show that she and BOTHA were charged and convicted of several offences viz, adultery, assault and cattle rustling
  • She had not been given leave to marry again after her divorce from Jan Cornelisz - the adultery charges related to her relations with BOTHA, whom she eventually married on 21 June 1714 at Stellenbosch. - JS
• They were both sentenced to banishment to Mauritius for ten years, although they reappear again in the Cape after two years.
• The case also shows that she had an extra marital affair with a man called Frederik APPEL.
  • Think she was Maria 'Bombam' from her many affairs
    • Jan Conelisz. van Oud Beijerland, wiens wede., door de wandelingh Maria 'Bombam' genoemd, in leeven en desselfs dogter getrouwt is met Jan Barentsz. SIGER, als mede nogh drie sonen, Theunis, Jacobus en Willem Bota.... ƒ81:05:-

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Wees meisie Web se Maria Friedriech BOTH getroud. 21 June 1717. Stellenbosch : http://home .mweb.co.za/el/elijo

• SEE : Marriage to Frederik BOTA / BOTHA of Wagenheim (=Wageningen?) married Maria KIKKERS of Amsterdam on 21 Jun 1714 : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LX3-V8P?i=7&cc=14...

Maria KICKERS - born Amsterdam

• Her first marriage was to Jan Cornelius van Outbeierland. The marriage ended in divorce. 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.
• In 1706 she and Frederick were found guilty of co-habiting, as far as I can gather because this still constituted adultery on her part, even though her husband had divorced her in 1700, presumably because she was not given leave to marry again. Before this court she declared, rather en- dearingly, it seems to me, that she and Frederick had sworn troth to each other, just as though they were truly married to each other and that they
• In 1713 Jan Cornelis van Oudbeijerland died and they were free to marry.
  • He divorced her in 1701. He was granted the right to remarry but she was not.
• Richard Ball http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/lombard/I411.html

Huwelik

NGK Kaapstad - ao' 1683 eodem dito (den 11 Julii) Jan Cornelisz van Outbeierlant vryman, en Maria Kickers Jonge dochter.

Egskeiding

• Cabo de Goede Hoop - Vrijdag den 22' Januarij 1700
  • Jan Cornelisze van Oudbeijerland vrijburger aan Stellenbosch woonagtig, eijscher in cas van divorcie. CONTRA : desselfs huijsvrouw Maria Kickers ged[aagd]e
  • De gedaagdesse antwoordende, segt en bekendt all hare kinderen staande huwelijck, niet bij den eij[se]r haren man; (vermits desselvs onbequaamheijdt) maar bij een ander, te weeten den voorn[oemde] Frederick BOOT, te hebben geprocrëeert ...
  • Den E.A. Rade van Justitie, partijen gehoort, soo meede de genoemde Frederick BOOT die het voor[zegde] feijt rondelijck confesseerde, en gelet op der gedaagdessen eijge vrijwillige confessie, doend regt &a, separeert de banden van hun eij[se]rs en gedaagdesses huwelijck, en gemeenschap van goederen, admitteert den eij[se]r met een andre te mogen trouwen, en cond[emneer]t de gedaagdesse in de costen.
  • Int Casteel de Goede Hoop datum ut s[upra]
  • mij present
• Melchior Kemels - [rt] & secret[ari]s - 1700.
• [Record of Divorce Proceedings, (folio) 77; CJ 3-22, Court of Justice; Court of Justice, Western Cape Archive Repository on http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/p7773.htm]

Convicted of adultery - 16 November 1706

• Sij persisteerde bij haare gedane confessie en sustineerde dat se met beloften en trouw die se mal-kanderen onder vier oogen geswooren hebben, so wel alsof se met den anderen in huwelijk waren getreeden kunnen volstaan, en dat se dierhalven als man en vrouw eenige jaren met den anderen hebben geleefd, en vleeschelijk geconverseert hebbende tesamen in deese boelasie agt kinderen geprocreert (Crim. en Civ. 1701-'08, 16 Nov. 1706. p 47)
• Botha aan d' E. Compe. nogh ten agteren zijn

Cabo de Goede Hoop

• Dingsdagh den 13e September 1718, voormiddags.
• Den land-drost, Sr. Jacob VOET, ingevolge de ordres van den Wel Edele Heer Gouverneur en voorige besluijten van desen Raad ten dien subjecte genomen, zigh geinquireert hebbende naer soodanige menschen als tot nogh toe aan de leeningh rol diverse penningen schuldigh en onder de districten van Stellenbosch en Drakensteijn sorteerende waren, ende dies bevindinge in geschrifte den hoogh gem. Edele Heer Gouverneur ter handen gesteld zijnde, heeft Zijn Edele 't selve in Raade geproduceert, bestaande in desen inhoud:
  • Volgens extract uijt de leeningh rollen zouden d' ondergesche. uijt dien hoofde aan d' E. Compe. nogh ten agteren zijn de daar voor g'extraheerde sommen, namentlijk:

...
Jan Conelisz. van oud Beijerland, wiens wede., door de wandelingh Maria Bombam gent., in leeven en desselfs dogter getrouwt is met Jan Barentsz. Siger, als mede nogh drie sonen, Theunis, Jacobus en Willem Bota.... ƒ81:05:-

[Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference code: C. 47, pp. 32-42. on http://databases.tanap.net/cgh/]

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Theunis Botha, b bef 15 April 1686. Called Botha after his mother, Maria Kickers' , 1700 divorce from Jan Cornelisz (who is shown as his father on the birth certificate). At which time she said her 7 children were Frederich Botha's. However, a recent DNA study by the University of Pretoria reveal him to have been the biological son of Ferdinandus Appel.

mtDNA results from descendant: www.familytreedna.com/public/CapeDutch/default.aspx?section=mtresults 226190 Els Maria Kickers, 1660 - 1723 Haplogroup: H HVR1 Mutations:A16129G, T16187C, C16189T, T16223C, G16230A, T16278C, C16311T, T16356C HVR2 Mutations:G73A, C146T, C152T, C195T, A247G, 522.1A, 522.2C, 315.1C

"Haplogroup H is the most common and most diverse maternal lineage in Europe, in most of the Near East and in the Caucasus region" http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_H_mtDNA.shtml

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Some of Maria Botha's children were in fact fathered by Ferdinandus Appel and it is unclear which of the two men in her life, Botha or Appel fathered Cornelia. Famous "Bothas" who have now been found to be "Apples" are Louis Botha (first president of South Africa) and P.W. Botha (later president of South Africa). All of Apple's children were given the name Botha.
Yet none of us can confirm the father of her daughters with any current tests available . We just do not know.
Maria Kickers testified all children of Botha but we now know that not to be true .

Who knows ? I certainly do not claim to know or claim copyright of information sourced from public records originating from FamilySearch . -- Phillipp Weyers 2024

[Annotation by Delia Robertson: I have removed some information lifted directly from FFY into this sub-section. Not only was it not attributed, nor permission obtained to cut and paste it, but to anyone familiar with FFY, it made it seem as if the entire sub-section came from FFY and that I made the claim above, without evidence that "some" of her children were fathered by Appel. As far as we know it was only Theunis.]

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- Richard Ball http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/lombard/I411.html

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Huwelik

NGK Kaapstad

ao' 1683 eodem dito (den 11 Julii) Jan Cornelisz van Outbeierlant vryman, en Maria Kickers Jonge dochter.

Egskeiding:

Cabo de Goede Hoop

Vrijdag den 22' Januarij 1700
Jan Cornelisze van Oudbeijerland vrijburger aan Stellenbosch woonagtig, eijscher in cas van divorcie.
Contra
desselfs huijsvrouw Maria Kickers ged[aagd]e
...
De gedaagdesse antwoordende, segt en bekendt all hare kinderen staande huwelijck, niet bij den eij[se]r haren man; (vermits desselvs onbequaamheijdt) maar bij een ander, te weeten den voorn[oemde] Frederick Boot, te hebben geprocrëeert ...

...

Den E.A. Rade van Justitie, partijen gehoort, soo meede de genoemde Frederick Boot die het voor[zegde] feijt rondelijck confesseerde, en gelet op der gedaagdessen eijge vrijwillige confessie, doend regt &a, separeert de banden van hun eij[se]rs en gedaagdesses huwelijck, en gemeenschap van goederen, admitteert den eij[se]r met een andre te mogen trouwen, en cond[emneer]t de gedaagdesse in de costen.
Int Casteel de Goede Hoop datum ut s[upra]
mij present
Melchior Kemels
[rt] & secret[ari]s
1700.

[Record of Divorce Proceedings, (folio) 77; CJ 3-22, Court of Justice; Court of Justice, Western Cape Archive Repository on http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/p7773.htm]

Convicted of adultery

16 November 1706

Sij persisteerde bij haare gedane confessie en sustineerde dat se met beloften en trouw die se mal- kanderen onder vier oogen geswooren hebben, so wel alsof se met den anderen in huwelijk waren getreeden kunnen volstaan, en dat se dierhalven als man en vrouw eenige jaren met den anderen hebben geleefd, en vleeschelijk geconverseert hebbende tesamen in deese boelasie agt kinderen geprocreert (Crim. en Civ. 1701-'08, 16 Nov. 1706. p 47)

Botha aan d' E. Compe. nogh ten agteren zijn

Cabo de Goede Hoop

Dingsdagh den 13e September 1718, voormiddags.
Den land-drost, Sr. Jacob Voet, ingevolge de ordres van den Wel Edele Heer Gouverneur en voorige besluijten van desen Raad ten dien subjecte genomen, zigh geinquireert hebbende naer soodanige menschen als tot nogh toe aan de leeningh rol diverse penningen schuldigh en onder de districten van Stellenbosch en Drakensteijn sorteerende waren, ende dies bevindinge in geschrifte den hoogh gem. Edele Heer Gouverneur ter handen gesteld zijnde, heeft Zijn Edele 'tselve in Raade geproduceert, bestaande in desen inhoud:
Volgens extract uijt de leeningh rollen zouden d' ondergesche. uijt dien hoofde aan d' E. Compe. nogh ten agteren zijn de daar voor g'extraheerde sommen, namentlijk:
...
Jan Conelisz. van oud Beijerland, wiens wede., door de wandelingh Maria Bombam gent., in leeven en desselfs dogter getrouwt is met Jan Barentsz. Siger, als mede nogh drie sonen, Theunis, Jacobus en Willem Bota.... ƒ81:05:-

[Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference code: C. 47, pp. 32-42. on http://databases.tanap.net/cgh/]

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Theunis Botha, b bef 15 April 1686. Called Botha after his mother, Maria Kickers' , 1700 divorce from Jan Cornelisz (who is shown as his father on the birth certificate). At which time she said her 7 children were Frederich Botha's. However, a recent DNA study by the University of Pretoria reveal him to have been the biological son of Ferdinandus Appel.

mtDNA results from descendant: www.familytreedna.com/public/CapeDutch/default.aspx?section=mtresults 226190 Els Maria Kickers, 1660 - 1723 Haplogroup: H HVR1 Mutations:A16129G, T16187C, C16189T, T16223C, G16230A, T16278C, C16311T, T16356C HVR2 Mutations:G73A, C146T, C152T, C195T, A247G, 522.1A, 522.2C, 315.1C

"Haplogroup H is the most common and most diverse maternal lineage in Europe, in most of the Near East and in the Caucasus region" http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_H_mtDNA.shtml

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Some of Maria Botha's children were in fact fathered by Ferdinandus Appel and it is unclear which of the two men in her life, Botha or Appel fathered Cornelia. Famous "Bothas" who have now been found to be "Apples" are Louis Botha (first president of South Africa) and P.W. Botha (later president of South Africa). All of Apple's children were given the name Botha.

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 in1700 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). However, in 1689 two women alleged that Theunis, Maria's oldest child, was fathered by Ferdinandùs Appel. This is born out by modern DNA tests, which have shown that direct patrilineal descendants of Theunis tested positive for the same Y-DNA haplogroup as direct patrilineal descendants of Appel Maria Kickers was a witness A DNA study has found that male descendants of Maria Kickers are from two different Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups. Known descendants of Theunis Botha share the same Y-chromosome DNA as a direct descendant of Ferdinandus Appel, while descendants of the other sons have different Y-chromosome DNA - most likely that of Friedrich Both. This evidence supports an allegation made by two women in 1689 that Theunis, Maria's oldest child, was fathered by Ferdinandus Appel. Maria subsequently testified that all her children were fathered by Both and not her husband Jan Cornelisz aka Jan Bombam. Read the attached article by Jaco Greeff who did the DNA study. with Theunis Botha.

Many published sources have included Maria Kickers as one of the orphan girls sent to the Cape. She could not have been, as the only known orphan girls arrived in 1688, and she was already at the Cape at the time of her marriage on 11 July 1683

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GEDCOM Source

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@R1200312375@ Netherlands, Baptism Index, 1569-1879 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,61284::0

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1,61284::1929657

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@R1200312375@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=106302622&pi...

GEDCOM Note

_P_CCINFO 1-692

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Original individual @I95@ (@MS_LOUWRENS FAMILY1@) merged with @I95@ (@MS_LOUWRENS FAMILY0@)

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Sy was 'n weesmeisie uit Nederland en geskeie vrou van Jan CORNELISZ. Jan CORNELISZ het in 1683 met Maria KICKERS getrou, sy het hom verlaat na twee jare. Hulle het geskei in 1700 weens owerspel deur Maria (Sy het toe alreeds een kind by Ferdinandus Appel gehad en sewe kinders by Frederik Botha met wie sy toe as man en vrou gelewe het, Kyk ook onder Botha) SAG
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GEDCOM Note

Orphan from Netherlands.

GEDCOM Note

An orphan from Netherlands (Heese Vol 1, p. 360). divorce d from Jan Cornelisz 1700. Most of her children have the father as Jan Cornelis "Saam met die weesmeisies wat Simon van der Stel na die Kaa p gebring het, was ene Maria Kickers, wat latergetroud i s met ene Jan-Cornelis Bot (later Botha) van Stellenbosch . Maar -- so vertel my groottantes uit die Kaap -- Jan-Corn elis Bot was manlik nie reg geskape nie. Gelukkig vir ons B otha-nasate het sy broer Frederick Bot as bywoner by hom op die plaas gebly, doodgewillig en baie reg geskape. Uit d ie verhouding van Maria en Frederick is al die Botha-nakom elinge gebore. En hoewel hulle later tog getroud is en ona fhanklik geword en die plaas Zanberg, die later Scholtzhof, in dieHelderburgse wyk gekoop het, was die kin ders dus almal buite-egtelik. "Systap onder die Juk., Dot S erfontein., Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad., 1969., bl 81 8 38.368SER.

• Reference: GenealogieOnline Family Tree Index - SmartCopy: Aug 1 2020, 4:46:00 UTC
• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Oct 6 2020, 22:26:56 UTC

2 years after Maria Kickers maried in 1683 , Simon van der Stel in 1685 requested orphans brides

Was Maria maybe part of the first 20 requested by van Riebeeck

'Jan van Riebeeck had already in 1659 requested that the Council of Seventeen (of the Dutch East India Company) send out at least 20 marriageable girls from Europe to the Cape settlement. In 1685 Simon van der Stel made a similar request, differing in that he asked for between 30 and 40 girls. The Council of Seventeen reacted favourably to this request and decided to send 40 farm girls to the Cape. Suitable girls were apparently no so readily obtainable and in the event only 8 orphan girls from Rotterdam,

Ariaantje Jansz van Son,

Willemijntje Ariens de Wit,

Ariaantje Jacobsz van den Berg,

Judith Jansz Verbeek,

Petronella Cornelisz van de Capelle,

Intjen Cornelisz van der Bout,

Catharina Jansz van der Zee and

Anna Eltrop

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An orphand from Netherlands (Heese Vol 1, p. 360). - but HEESE never included Maria Kickers

J.A.Heese in his article[1](based on an article in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift of 1882) gives a list of 10 young women:

Willemijntjie Ariens de Wit

Adriaantjie Jacobs

Catharina van der Zee

Anna Eltrop van Kleef

Engelte Cornelissen

Adriaante Janse

Adriana van Zon

Petronella van Capelle

Judith van der Bout and

Judith Verbeek

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Re the divorce and relations between Appel x Botha x Cornelitz and Kickers

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Appel-Botha-Cornelitz-%3A-the...
In 1683 Maria Kickers and Jan Cornelitz got married in Cape Town. Today, 330 years later, the living patrilineal descendants of Maria’s four sons, number in excess of 76,000 people. Curiously, none of them carry the surname Cornelitz – in fact, they are all called Botha and include former President P. W. Botha, general Louis Botha and Minister Pik Botha. The reason for this anomaly is also the reason why Jan got divorced from Maria in 1700. According to Maria’s testimonies she did indeed have a long term relationship with Frederik Botha, but in her defence she claimed that her husband was impotent and that he actually encouraged her. Other witnesses, presumably prompted by Jan, gave testimonies that implied that Maria was in fact licentious. We combined haplotyping with the AmpFlSTR® YfilerTM kit with deep-rooting genealogies to show that Maria’s first son was actually fathered by Ferdinandus Appel and that roughly half the living Bothas (38,000 people) actually descend from Ferdinandus Appel while the remaining three sons all stem from the same father, presumably Frederik Botha, and this implies that Maria’s husband did not father any of her sons.