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Name: CLOETE, Anna Magdalena, Mrs
Nee: Bruwer
Birth Date: 22 May 1865 S. Africa
Death Date: 2 June 1944 Eldoret
First Date: 1919
Area: Eldoret
Married: In Bethlehem, Free State, S. Africa 4 Apr 1882 Christian Johannes Cloete (1857-2.7.1912)
Children: See below
Book Reference: KAD, Hut, Gazette
General Information:
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau South - Anna Magdalena Cloete
Hut has Mrs A. Magdalene Cloete, Concordia
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll
Children:
(1) MARIA ELIZABETH (21/02/1883 – 21/03/1963), she was known as ‘Meta’. Meta was a school mistress in Kenya and was married late in life to a man called Joseph Anthony Henry Wells Diesel. They married in South Africa and lived there. He was quite a bit older than her and died a few years after they were married. After his death Meta returned to Eldoret, where she later died.
(2) ALIDA ELIZABETH JOHANNA (17/09/1884 – 02/07/1950), she was known as ‘Alie’. m. James ‘Jim’ Madden Robinson. Alida was very musical. James died on the 18th. September 1924 of, it is said, Blackwater Fever. James’ family came from Belfast in the Transvaal, SA. I do not know when he arrived in Kenya. James and Alida both died in Eldoret. Alida and James had three children:
i LEONIDA (05/01/1917 – 01/11/1970), known as ‘Pixie’, was born in Kampala, Uganda in the CMS Mengo Hospital. She went to school at Loreto Convent Msongari, Nairobi. She married Elbert Lukas Steyn jr. Pixie was very active in the Eldoret branch of the East African Women’s League. Pixie and Elbert had three children: Elbert Lukas, James Madden and Johannes Brewer (see Steyn family tree). Pixie died in Eldoret.
ii CHRISTIAN ANNA CLOETE (29/04/1920 – 27/09/2002), born in Eldoret, known as ‘Christie’, m. Reginald Herbert Addison. They had one child, a daughter called Anne. Christie died in England.
iii JOYCE MADDEN(23/09/1924 – 03/05/1993) m. Colin Cherry, who worked in Tanzania, Uganda and at some point for the PTT in Eldoret. I don’t know information of children. Joyce died in England.
(3) ANACREON (18/12/1889 - xxx). He was married twice (in Eldoret). His first wife was Marguerite Muriel Arnoldi and his second wife was Beatrix Gertruida Schutte. I don’t know information of children.
(4) SCHALK WILLEM (04/08/1891 – xxx). Unmarried, I think.
(5) FROLIE (04/11/1892 – xxx) m. Eduard De Waal. I don’t know information of children.
(6) CORNELIA (30/09/1894 – xxx), known as ‘Corrie’. I don’t know information of husband and children.
(7) AGATHA (10/01/1903 – xxx), known as ‘Bonnie’, m. Kosie Boshof. I don’t know information of children.
(8) VALERIUS (04/12/1907 – xxx), known as ‘Sonnie’, m. Johanna Magdalena De Bruyn. I don’t know information of children.