Notes

Jacobus Johannes Vos, baptized at the Cape on 28 August 1785, was the son of silversmith Johan Hendrik Vos and Elisabeth Rossouw. He married Susanna Sophia Lotter, linking him to the prominent Lotter silversmithing family. Although there is no direct documentary evidence confirming that Jacobus himself practiced as a silversmith, the likelihood is strong given his family ties-both his father and two of his sons were silversmiths. This intergenerational association with the trade, along with his marriage into the Lotter family, supports the assumption that he may have been involved in the craft. He died o an unknown date before 1820, as records from that year list his wife as a widow.