When Magdalena Catharina Maria Louw was born on 8 October 1899, in Paarl, Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, Christman Joël Louw, was 31 and her mother, Johanna Catharina Petronella Bestbier, was 26. She had at least 1 daughter with Charl Philippus De Kock. She died in July 1986, in Malmesbury, Cape Province, South Africa, at the age of 86.