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Anna Johanna Botes, SM/c8d5 - Date of Death - Anna Johanna Botes

Started by Pieter Jacobus van Aswegen on Tuesday, April 17, 2018
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Second page of the Will of William Terence Fitzgerald and his second wife Anna Carolina Fourie note 10 October 1860 as the death date of Anna Johanna Fitzgerald born Botes). The will is dated 20 July 1870, just ten years after her death.
Most likely a more reliable date than that on her Death notice.

Anna Johanna's death notice was probably filled in by Veldkornet John Kelly and someone else - there are two distinct handwritings on the death notice. Her children were too young. We have no way of knowing where they got this information from. Her surviving spouse, William Terence Fitzgerald, though he completed a will ten years after her death was more likely to have known her correct birth date. So we are left with contradictory information.

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