When Johanna Petronella Humphries was born on 14 March 1822, in Bosch Fontein, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, William Stephen Humphries SV, was 25 and her mother, Martha Louisa van der Nest, was 17. She married Wentzel Christoffel Coetzer on 23 December 1838, in Somerset, Somerset, Cape Colony, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 9 August 1897, in Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 75.
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English (West Midlands): variant of Humphrey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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