Profile : Frans Edward Prins : https://www.geni.com/people/Frans-Edward Prins/6000000028252976208

He is my 2nd great grandfather.

What is going on here? What am I missing?

Confusion:
He had married the 2 ladies - Maria Kok and then later Geertruida Kaltwasser
He apparently also had the other extra 1 partner Christina Kok (or was she a wife as well?)
Were there really 2 boys (or was it maybe just 1 son) ie: the 1st Stephanus Johannes Prins and then the 2nd Stefanus Johannes Prins
Can these 2 sons maybe be one person, but just with the names being spelled differently? Duplicates?

1. with his 1st wife: Maria Elizabeth Kok : Maria Elizabeth Prins (born Kok)

2. and their son: Stephanus Johannes Prins: ( note the spelling of the name Stephanus Johannes Prins) Stephanus Johannes Prins – did he maybe die young?

3. then with his 2nd wife: Geertruida J M A Kaltwasser: Geertuyda (Geertruida) Johanna Maria Alexandrina Prins (born Kaltwasser)

4. then the timeline is confusing with his ‘’partner’’ Cornelia Christina Kok (Cornelia apparently was the sister of the 1st wife Maria): Cornelia Christina Van Zyl (born Kok) (The oral tradition says her nickname could have been Neeltjie and that they were not married when having the son?)

5. and then their (maybe) – ‘’out of wedlock’’ son: Stefanus Johannes Prins: ( note the same name, but the different spelling, as the son of Maria): Stefanus Johannes Prins

6. Kindly see that on the death notice of this 2nd Stefanus Johannes Prins - it is stated that Frans Edward Prins and Christina was married – but that is not what out oral tradition says? What to believe?

7. Was this 2nd Stefanus’s name maybe the same name, just to ‘’substitute’’ the other 1st Stephanus Johannes, who might have died young? Facts anyone?

So what is going on here? What am I missing or not getting here?

Please - any help to sort out this confusion, would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.
Wilma Basson