Appel Botha Cornelitz : the abc of a three hundred year old divorce case

dc.contributor.authorGreeff, Jacobus Maree
dc.contributor.authorErasmus, Johannes Christoff
dc.contributor.emailjaco.greeff@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-11T06:51:32Z
dc.date.available2013-10-11T06:51:32Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIn 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 AmpF‘STR1 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.en_US
dc.description.librarianhb2013en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by Grant 77256 from the National Research Foundation to JMG.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www .elsevier.com /locate/fsigen_US
dc.identifier.citationGreeff, JM & Erasmus, JC 2013, 'Appel Botha Cornelitz : the abc of a three hundred year old divorce case', Forensic Science International : Genetics, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 550-554.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1872-4972 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1878-0326 (online)
dc.identifier.other/10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.06.008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/32007
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Forensic Science International: Genetics.Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Forensic Science International: Genetics, vol. 7, no.5, 2013, doi.: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.06.008en_US
dc.subjectY-STRen_US
dc.subjectAfrikaneren_US
dc.subjectNon-paternityen_US
dc.subjectAdulteryen_US
dc.subjectPedigreesen_US
dc.subjectGenealogyen_US
dc.titleAppel Botha Cornelitz : the abc of a three hundred year old divorce caseen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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