Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns (1912 - 2009)

Born 26 Apr 1912 in Rondebosch, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa

Ancestors

Wife of John Howie Cairns — married 21 Dec 1936 in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa

Died 24 Nov 2009 at age 97 in Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Biography

Margaret Constance Twentyman-Jones was born on the 26th of April 1912 in Rondebosch.^[1]

Margaret (23) married John Howie Cairns (27) (born in 1908; son of Patrick Thomas Cairns and Eliza Crawford Jackson (Howie) Cairns) on 21 December 1936 in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. She had met him at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she was a student. Margaret's sister Patricia Mary was a witness at the wedding.^{[2] [1]}

In 2004, at the age of ninety-six, she still lived in the house she was born in (Edrom).^[1]

Margaret Constance Twentyman, child of Edgar Lawrence Twentyman Jones and Margaret Josephine Shaw, died (age 97) on 24 November 2009 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.^[3]

Research Notes

FamilySearch Family Tree: G2HS-BDD

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas, Murray. "Introduction - Margaret Cairns" as viewed on journals.co.za 5 June 2023. [This is an abstract of an introduction published in CABO, Volume 8, Issue 3, January 2004.]
2. ↑ Marriage: "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-GQH8-6?cc=2821281 : 18 March 2022), > image 1 of 1; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.
3. ↑ Death Notice: "South Africa, Western Cape, Deceased Estate Files, 1951-1958", database with images
   citing Record number: 0;
   FamilySearch Record: 6XSN-3GLD (accessed 9 June 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C39L-GS9T-2 Image number 00121
   Margaret Constance Twentyman Cairns death 24 Nov 2009, child of Edgar Lawrence Twentyman Jones & Margaret Josephine Shaw, spouse of John Howie Cairns, in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

BIRTH/BAPTISM

MARRIAGE

DEATH

"South Africa, Western Cape, Deceased Estate Files, 1951-1958", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C39L-GS9T-2?cc=4319131 : 12 February 2024), > image 1 of 1. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr Joubert