Sophia Louisa Bestley Whitcomb

Notes:

By all accounts Sophia was an independent lady, she divorced Charles Edward and resumed her maiden name!

Bequethed:
10 Pounds to Dinah Wilhelmina Jacobs
Mahogany Wardrobe and washstand to Theodora
Remainder to Undine

Was Divoced at time of Death.

c2 Wilhelmina Johanna Louisa b. 31.10.1819 d. 15 January 1882 MOOC 7/1/379.79, MOOC 6/9/2288.1201 m. 15.1.1849 Theodore Charles WHITCOMB (b. 23.7.1818 lived in Port Elizabeth d. George 1882)
Wilhelmina Johanna Louisa Whitcomb died in Durbanville. She outlived 3 nominated executors and of whom appear to have lived in Beaufort West: Charles Pritchard d. 27 February 1905, K W Brunette d. 16 October 1910, B J Pritchard d. 17 October 1921. Eventually Theodore Charles Whitcomb Rose was appointed 30 June 1922. No offspring are mentioned.
d1 Catharina Maria b. 9.2.1850
d2 Sophia Louisa Bestley b. 29.4.1852
d3 Wilhelmina Elizabeth Stadler b. 5.9.1854
d4 Charles John b. 5.4.1856 d. 24.8.1857
d5 unnamed son d. 1859*

Birth:
need a more definite citation

Sophia married Charles Edward Guest on 18 Feb 1878 in George, Western Cape, South Africa, and was divorced on 12 Jan 1899 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. Charles (son of William Charles Guest and Jemima Pawle, 1820 Settler) was born on 11 May 1854 in George, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 7 Jan 1927 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Theodora Julia Rose Guest was born on 6 Jan 1878 in George, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Jan 1951 in George, Western Cape, South Africa.
2. Undine Louisa Guest was born on 8 Aug 1885 in George, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 17 Dec 1960 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried on 20 Dec 1960 in George, Western Cape, South Africa.