Gertrude
Jane
(Gertrude Jane)
Plenderleith
formerly Knight aka Maeder
Born in Colesberg, Cape Colony, South Africa
Ancestors 
Daughter of Richard Carlisle Knight
and Jane Mary (Francis) Knight
Sister of
Edward Alfred Knight [half]
Wife of
Lewis Faichney Plenderleith
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Mother of
Edward Maeder Plenderleith
Died
at age 66
[location unknown]
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Contents |
Biography
| Gertrude Jane (Knight) Plenderleith was adopted | |
| Adoptive Parents | Biological Parents |
| Father: Edouard Maeder (1841-1908) | Father: Richard Carlisle Knight (1835-1881) |
| Mother: Mary Jane (Norval) Maeder (1838-1905) | Mother: Jane Mary (Francis) Knight (abt.1839-aft.1877) |
Gertrude Jane Knight was born in 1876. She is the adopted daughter of Edouard or Edward Maeder and Mary Jane Norval.
Her birth surname was Knight. She married Lewis Plenderleith
Their children were:
- Mary Louise Plenderleith who married Edwin John King ,
- Edward Meader (sic) Plenderleith (no wife recorded),
- Irene May Plenderleith who married Cecil Lockyer,
- Lois Carlyle Plenderleith who married Leslie John Quinn.
Sources
1881 death of birth father
- [1][2]
- Name Richard Carlisle Knight
- birth place Grahamstown
- parents John Knight & Jane Knight
- age 46 years
- occupation road inspector
- Marital married to Jane Mary Francis, surviving spouse
- day of decease 2 Aug 1881
- where at his house in Colesberg
- children
- major
- John Charles
- minor
- Richard George
- William Henry
- Edward Alfred
- Elizabeth Mary Anne
- Amy Margaret
- Gertrude Jane
- Colesberg 9 Aug 1881 <signed>J C Knight son of deceased
- "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3R-65R5 : 27 April 2020), Jane Mary Francis Knight, 1880-1881.
"South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSC-3WLW : 10 August 2017), Gertrude Jane Knight Plenderleith, 05 Sep 1943, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa; citing National Archives, Pretoria; FHL microfilm 1,645,217.[1]
- ↑ Added by Esmé van der Westhuizen, 30 Sep 2018.
1949 death of husband
Death notice of her husband Lewis Plenderleith whom she predeceased.[3]
Genealogical source at familysearch which includes her parents and siblings:
- [4] FamilySearch profile of Gertrude Jane Knight
- 1943 Death notice of her husband Lewis Plenderleith whom she predeceased
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Dennis Maeder Ph.D.
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Maeder-135 and Knight-6779 appear to represent the same person because: She is the adopted daughter of Edouard & Mary Jane Maeder
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Rejected matches › Gertrude Knight (1862-)
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