Judith Margaretha Wilhelmina (Preston) Roos

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Judith Wilhelmina Margaretha Roos (Preston)

Also Known As: "Maggie"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lindley, Orange Free State, South Africa
Death: September 29, 1966 (85)
Reitz, Orange Free State, South Africa (Old age?)
Place of Burial: Reitz, Thabo Mofutsanyane, FS, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Arthur Preston, SV/PROG and Susanna Catharina Magdalena (Reyneke) Preston
Wife of Johannes Gysbertus Roos
Mother of Susanna Catharina Magdalena Hart; Anna Christina Margaretha Grové; Johannes Gysbertus Roos and Hester Elizabeth van der Merwe
Sister of Johanna Sophia Catharina Rudd; Jacobus Johannes Preston; Hester Elizabeth Preston; Susanna Catharina Magdalena Preston; Mary Jane Preston and 4 others

Occupation: Housewife
Birthday: 29 May 1881 according to baptism book.
Born in Lindley:: She was the first child of William and Susanna Preston that was born in Lindley.
Children of Maggie: She gave birth to 10 children of whom only 4 reached the ages of 60+. 5 Babies died as infants and are buried on farm Brakpan together wit Kinnie who died unmarried and childless at age 33.
Concentration camp: The Roos&Preston family from Fraaiuitzicht farm of JIP Roos, was never captured Maggie visited the Heilbron Concentration Camp a few days after Peace were declared. It seems that she was accompanier by her fiancee JG Roos’s sister Hester. My thoughts is
Marraige: 22 July 1902
Place of marraige: Weslean Church Heilbron
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About Judith Margaretha Wilhelmina (Preston) Roos

Death oh 5 children as babys..all buried in farm cemetery on their farm Brakpan, reitz.

Judith Margaretha Wilhelmina (Kinne) Roos, their 3rd child, was born in 1908 and died at the young age of 33 after a short sickness due to bronchitis complications. My granny told me that she died in the nursing home of ouma Hes, Knnies aunt. The DN written by dr Mohr states that she was sick for 6 hours before she died.

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Judith Margaretha Wilhelmina (Preston) Roos's Timeline

1881
May 29, 1881
Lindley, Orange Free State, South Africa
July 17, 1881
Lindley, Orange Free State, South Africa
1903
May 7, 1903
Bethlehem, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
1906
January 25, 1906
Lindley, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
1913
January 21, 1913
Reitz, Thabo Mofutsanyane, FS, South Africa
1922
January 2, 1922
Reitz, Phumelela Local Municipality, Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
1966
September 29, 1966
Age 85
Reitz, Orange Free State, South Africa
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Reitz, Thabo Mofutsanyane, FS, South Africa