(Emsie) Maria Christoffelina du Toit

6 September 1923 – 27 March 1993

Married into the family

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: ds Freddie S Marincowitz.

Names

Surname: du Toit

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.

Photographs

The Marincowitz headstone of ds Frederik Simon 'Freddie' Marincowitz (2.1.1921 - 7.5.2008) and (Emsie) Maria... — The Marincowitz headstone of ds Frederik Simon 'Freddie' Marincowitz (2.1.1921 - 7.5.2008) and (Emsie) Maria Christoffelina Smuts nee du Toit (6.9.1923 - 27.3.1993): an open granite book on a base lettered MARINCOWITZ, with Fil. 1:21 for him and a line on her life for the Evangelie. — Family collection / Frans's genealogy archive

Immediate family

Married: ds Freddie S Marincowitz

A life in the record

6 September 1923 born Born
27 March 1993 died Died

What we don't know

Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

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

Research notes

[MED-000114] From her headstone, which writes her '(EMSIE) MARIA CHRISTOFFELINA SMUTS (nee DU TOIT)' - Smuts recorded as the stone gives it, presumably an earlier marriage, [TO VERIFY]. Wife of ds Freddie S MarincowitzH (PER-000060); 'sy het aan ander gedink en so aan die Evangelie gestalte gegee.' No FS id yet.

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