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Person PER-000482

Elizabeth Caroline "Lizzie" Rill

23 June 1887 – 13 November 1968 · Rill line

Connection to the Koup

Buried in this district, at Vrolykheid farm cemetery (1968).

Names

Called
Lizzie
Given
Elizabeth Caroline
Surname
Rill

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

A life in the record

  1. 23 June 1887 born Born
  2. 1968 land Buried there, Marinco (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 3)
  3. 1968 event Elizabeth Caroline "Lizzie" Marincowitz buried on Vrolikheid
    She died at Mount Pleasant outside Port Elizabeth and was brought back to Vrolikheid for burial, eighteen years after her husband. Hers is the only burial on that farm the record names.
  4. 1968 buried Buried, Vrolykheid farm cemetery
  5. 13 November 1968 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Stories

What we don't know

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

  1. Nasate van Ger(H)olm Marincowitz (SAG descendant report)GISA / LegacySAG Vol 1-17

Research notes

[SRC-008] 31 Jul 2026, from the SAG descendant report: born 23 Jun 1887 at Cape Town, daughter of Hermann Ferdinand Wilhelm Rill and Carolina Theodora 'Lina' Roeler; married Vincent Charles 'Winnie' Marincowitz (PER-000045) at Johannesburg; died 13 Nov 1968 at Mount Pleasant, district Port Elizabeth, aged 81, AND WAS BURIED ON VROLIKHEID - 'begrawe te Vrolikheid, Distr. Prince Albert'. Added under the people-related-to-the-land rule: she is the only burial on that farm the record names.

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