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Lol. Too much work :-)

My step aunt? Daisy Louisa de Melker She's there under convicted criminals.

Here you go: Henri van Breda

Please add him into the text

Daisy de Melker's estate file is in the Pretoria Archives. I had he opportunity to go through it years ago and also took photos of it.

Very scary.☺

J

On the point of my 'Aunty' Daisy. (Her dining room table was a much coveted item in our family - that my real Aunt had and offered to me, but it finally sold at Sothebys for more money than it was worth :-) All her data is publicly available on the internet - I cannot see how I or closer relatives than me could have that wiped?

For the rest, Phillip, I don't know :-/

I photographed her estate, Read through it in total. But as for the court case information it is not allowed to be photographed.

That is all I have to say. As far as I could remember there were husbands, in plural form , murdered as for the children I can't remember.

Judi

Isn't Turffontein in Germiston?

A serial killer ?Daisy only charged and convicted of one murder.So legend and myth "fake news " spread.

They just didn't bother to dig up and prosecute for the other husbands, if I recall - since you can only hang someone once.

She profited from the life insurance payments.

Also, a friend of the son's who shared his lunch got very ill too, and wasn't malaria.

In March 1909, about eighteen months after the death of Bert Fuller (her fiancee from whom she inherited - and, I theorise, the natural death that got her enamoured of the attention and money following a death of a relative) , Daisy married William Alfred Cowle, a plumber, in Johannesburg. She was 23 and he was 36. The couple had five children, four of whom died. The first were twins, who died in infancy; their third child died of an abscess on the liver; and the fourth suffered convulsions and bowel trouble and died at the age of 15 months. Their last, and only surviving child, Rhodes Cecil, was born in June 1911.

A surprising number of children to die - when you take into account Rhodes - that's 100% of them - nevermind all the husbands except the one who married my uncle's mother.

They did dig them up though: The first body to be removed was that of Rhodes Cowle. The corpse was found to be in an unusually good state of preservation, which is characteristic of the presence of arsenic in large quantities.[citation needed] A state forensic pathologist was able to isolate traces of arsenic in the viscera, backbone and hair. Although the bodies of William Cowle and Robert Sproat were largely decomposed, traces of strychnine were found in the vertebrae of each man. Their bones also had a pinkish discoloration, suggesting that the men had taken pink strychnine, which was common at the time.

I want to see this: https://mg.co.za/article/2006-07-12-driving-ms-daisy/ :-)
Robert Colman’s latest drag performance, "Daisy’s Well Hung"

He has another one called ""Daisy de Melker swings/sings live" :-)