Appel Botha Cornelitz: The abc of a three hundred year old divorce case |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;2. CEADES Salud y Medio Ambiente, Cochabamba, Bolivia;3. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Mayor de San Simón (U.M.S.S.), Cochabamba, Bolivia;4. Laboratório de Transmissores de Leishmanioses, Laboratório de Referência em Vigilância Entomológica: Taxonomia e Ecologia de Vetores das Leishmanioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;5. Laboratori de Parasitologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;1. Research Group in Immunology and Molecular Biology, North University, Barranquilla, Colombia;2. Molecular Genetics Lab, Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia;3. GENES SAS Laboratory, Medellin, Colombia;4. Institute of Biology, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia;5. School of Health Sciences, Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, Colombia;6. School of Medicine, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia;1. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru;2. Instituto de Medicina Legal del Perú, Lima, Peru;3. DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (LDD), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil;4. Ministerio de Salud del Perú. Centro de Salud Puerto Bermúdez, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru;5. Institute of Pathology and Molecular Immunology from University of Porto, Portugal;6. Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Portugal;1. Servicio de Huellas Digitales Genéticas, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina;2. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico, CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina;1. Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria;2. Central Institute for Blood Transfusion & Immunological Department, Innsbruck, Austria;3. Blood Transfusion Service Zürich, SRC, Schlieren, Switzerland;4. Penn State Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA, USA |
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| 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 AmpFℓSTR® Yfiler™ 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. |
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| Keywords: | Y-STR Afrikaner Non-paternity Adultery Pedigrees Genealogy |
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