Ellen Magdalena Webb

Ellen Magdalena de Beer was married in 1873 at 13y to Jacobus Johannes Hendrik Schoeman (17y) in the Ladybrand DRC; her father (Samuel Pieter Marthinus de Beer) had died in the same year as she was born (1860) and her mother, Ellen Magdalena de Beer (nee Potgieter) had married a second time, to Coenraad Groenewald. (Ellen had two elder de Beer sisters). Her maternal Uncle was Fredrick Coenraad Potgieter, a member of the British Army, the Head of the Cape Colony Savings Bank and a Deputy Director of the Army Commissariat. She then met and married Edward Cottington Webb in 1889, after a drawn out divorce from Schoeman. Her elder children all died, with her first child surviving to adulthood being Annie Magdalena Paton (nee Webb). Ellen died in the home of her youngest daughter, Martha Johanna "Molly" Kok (nee Webb, later O'Brien) in 1934. Ellen had the lifelong support and love of her younger half-sister, Martha Johanna Groenewald, who married an elder brother (Lucas Johannes Webb) of E C Webb. Ellen was a wonderful woman who lived through many challenging years of illness, drought, the rindepest, the loss of the farm Inverket on the Black Kei, a trek to the Reef, the Spanish "Flu epidemic 1918 - her son and daughters, and their families, are evidence of her faith and fortitude.
Sadly, Geni.com allows the ex-husband's family onto this family page; this is deemed most regrettable by Ellen's descendants.
Cause of Death: Old age; was bedridden lived with youngest daughter, Molly Kok. Her health suffered as a result of Hg treatment given as a young woman. Her children (2) from marriage to Schoeman both died, probably from congenital syphillus.

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