Appel Botha Cornelitz : the abc of a three hundred year old divorce case
dc.contributor.author | Greeff, Jacobus Maree | |
dc.contributor.author | Erasmus, Johannes Christoff | |
dc.contributor.email | jaco.greeff@up.ac.za | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-11T06:51:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-11T06:51:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 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.librarian | hb2013 | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by Grant 77256 from the National Research Foundation to JMG. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://www .elsevier.com /locate/fsig | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Greeff, 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.issn | 1872-4972 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1878-0326 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | /10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.06.008 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32007 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_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.2013.06.008 | en_US |
dc.subject | Y-STR | en_US |
dc.subject | Afrikaner | en_US |
dc.subject | Non-paternity | en_US |
dc.subject | Adultery | en_US |
dc.subject | Pedigrees | en_US |
dc.subject | Genealogy | en_US |
dc.title | Appel Botha Cornelitz : the abc of a three hundred year old divorce case | en_US |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_US |