Teresa Dulcie Legg

Teresa, my mother was born in Southampton. She lost her mother when in her mid teens while they were aboard a ship of the coast of East Africa. Her father's sister, known to the family as Tante Wenborn came to live at Waterhof in Cape Town, the then family residence.

She could never understand jokes, but had an impish sense of humour. She had little formal schooling but was a prodigious reader. She would have French conversations with my step grandmother, Grace Wenborn and her French companion, Marie-Louise Lame.