When George William Ninow was born on 5 November 1916, in Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, his father, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ninow, was 43 and his mother, Engela Frances Schubach, was 40. He married Margaretha Magdelena Smit on 20 November 1937, in Maitland, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. In 1937, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as painter and sign writer at the time of marriage in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. He died on 14 June 1975, in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 58, and was buried in Western Cape, South Africa.
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Founding of Afrikaner Broederbond, a secret, exclusively male and white Protestant organization in South Africa dedicated to the advancement of Afrikaner interests.
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
South African parliament enacts Status of Union Act claiming full sovereignty for South Africa.
German: probably a variant of Nienau, a topographic name from Middle Low German nie ‘new + ouw(e) ‘watery, grassy, fertile land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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