THE MARRYING HABIT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3699, 7 December 1912, Page 4

THE MARRYING HABIT.

| Mrs Theila M. <lc Beer, a widow, I seventy-eight years of age, residing at Pretoria, probably holds the world's record in matrimonial ventures. At the age of eighteen she mar- ! ried Petrus Jacobus Lubbe, who died, leaving her with one child. | Ten months later she took another j husband, a widower with three children. ! A year and five months afterwards lie also died, leaving her with four ! children. I Within five months she married for j the third time, another widower, this j time with seven children. With him j she lived for eleven years, and had seven children, when he also l died. After iivo years’ widowhood she married for the fourth time, on this occasion a widower with eight child- | ren. With him she had four children, and after eleven years lie, too, died. Five years later she married a man named Hendrick Klopper. j Another eleven years elapsed, and then her fifth husband died, leaving ! her with ten children. In two years’ time she contracted another marriage with Hendrik Van Wyk, a widower, who brought five children to swell the family. Another eleven years passed, and he, too, went the way of his five predecessors, his death occurring only re-

MATRIMONIAL RECORD OF A BOER WIDOW.

cently. Mrs de Boor is now the mother and stepmother of forty-nine children and the grandmother of 270.