Louis Botha
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Louis Botha (1891 - 1952)

Louis Botha
Born in Vryheid, Natalmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1 Aug 1935 in Woodhouse, Vryburg, Cape Province, Union of South Africamap
[children unknown]
Died at age 60 in Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africamap
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Biography

Louis Botha was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1891.

He married Annie Maud Bruyns in Simonstown in 1935. According to the marriage register he was a divorcee aged 42 while she was a spinster aged 38, from Lakeside in Cape Town.

There were no children born of this marriage.

Louis died in Pretoria General Hospital on 6 Aug 1952, his Death Notice states that he was a "Soldier and Civil Servant"! Louis is buried in the Rebecca Street Cemetery in Pretoria.

There was an unfortunate turn of events after his death. His first wife, Agnes Evelyn Flora MacDonald, who he had divorced in Oct 1933, contested the Will. There was a Trust of £5000 set up by his mother which the "wife" now inherited; which wife was the question? Agnes was eventually sued by the Trustees; the outcome is not clear at this stage.

When Louis Botha was born on 26 August 1891, in Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, Africa, his father, General Louis Botha, was 28 and his mother, Annie Frances Bland Emmett, was 27. He married Annie Johanna Maude Bruyns on 18 August 1935, in Simonstown, Cape Province, South Africa. He died on 6 August 1952, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, at the age of 60.

Sources

  • Source: State Archives, Cape Province, KAB, Illiquid Action, CSC, Restitution of Conjunal Rights, Louis Botha vs Agnes Evelyn Flora Botha (born MacDonald), Vol 2/1/1/1243 , Ref 285, 1933.
  • Source: Simonstown marriage Register, 9/1935, dated 1 Aug 1935.
  • Source: State Archives, Transvaal, TAB, Death Notice, MHG, Louis Botha, Ref 4979/52, 1952.
  • Source: SA Genealogical Society Graveyard Project.
  • Source: State Archives, Transvaal, TAB, Opposed Application, TPD, The Trustees of the Louis Botha Junior Trust vs Agnes Evelyn Flor Botha and 18 Others, Ref 735/1953.
  • WikiTree profile Botha-652 created through the import of AJBOTHA.ged on Feb 25, 2012 by Deon Botha.




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