When Betty Joyce Gouws was born on 21 October 1930, in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, Johannes Jacobus Martinus Gouws, was 23 and her mother, Gladys May McTavish, was 31. She married Robert James Paterson on 12 March 1949, in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 28 April 2009, in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa, at the age of 78.
Pet form of Elizabeth , dating from the 18th century. In the 17th century it is also found occasionally as a pet form of Beatrice . It is now used as a name in its own right.
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