Ivone / Mota "Yvonne" Figueiredo
de Witt
4 Mar 1922–14 Mar 2010
Listed in the register’s surname index.
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What the record says
Born 4 March 1922 · died 14 March 2010, at home at Rua Nova das Marinhas 82, Gulpilhares, Vila Nova de Gaia
| What | When | Where | Noted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | Mar 4 1924 | Lourenso Margues, Mozambique | |
| Marriage to | Before 1941 | ||
| Marriage to | Feb 2 1948 | Germiston, Johannesburg, South Africa· At the time: Britain and its colonies per the Record Atlas | "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZHT-WSJM : Sun Mar 10 09:11:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Kurt Luwinski and Ivone De Witt, 19 Jun 1948. |
| Marriage to | June 19 1948 | Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa· At the time: Britain and its colonies per the Record Atlas | "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZHT-WSJM : Sun Mar 10 09:11:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Kurt Luwinski and Ivone De Witt, 19 Jun 1948. |
| Divorce filed from | After June 1948 | Attempted Divorce Filed. http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?2025062212450319D99540&DN=00000016 | |
| Divorce from | 1951 | http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?2025062212134560675D80&DN=00000018 | |
| Divorce filed from | 1951 | ILLIQUID CASE RESTITUTION OF CONJUGAL RIGHTS KURT LUWINSKI VERSUS IVONE (FORMERLY DE WITT, BORN FIGUEIREDO). | |
| Marriage to | Feb 13 1953 | "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZHR-B6Y3 : Sun Mar 10 04:15:20 UTC 2024), Entry for Morris Isaac Salkow and Ivone Luwinski, 13 Feb 1953. | |
| Partner | After 1953 | ||
| Death | Porto, Porto, Portugal | ||
| Burial | Porto, Porto, Portugal |
Where this comes from
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The tree this register is built from: one MyHeritage harvest, which is somebody else’s research and has not been checked here beyond what is said below.
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Notes and corrections
Corrected marriage to Da Rocha, before 1941 — the tree was right and this archive was wrong
The family record said: This entry formerly read: "marriage to Unknown Da Rocha, before 1941 · WAS: married · NOW: NO SUCH MARRIAGE — she was a spinster in February 1948", sourced from the Germiston Duplicate Original Marriage Register no. 34 of 1948, column 5 Personal Status: SPINSTER. On that basis the Ivone page published "She had never been married", "it did not happen", and "there is no marriage record to find, because there was no marriage".
This archive now has: *** WITHDRAWN 27 SEPTEMBER 2026. THE MARRIAGE HAPPENED AND THE FAMILY TREE HAD IT RIGHT. *** Ivone married FREDERICO PINTO DA ROCHA on 18 NOVEMBER 1939 at the 1.ª Conservatória do Registo Civil de Lourenço Marques, and that marriage was dissolved by divorce, by a sentence of 6 DECEMBER 1945. Both facts are averbamentos on her own birth registration. She was therefore not a spinster at Germiston in February 1948 but a divorcée of two years, and the Portuguese state still recorded her as DIVORCIADO on her death certificate in 2010.
Assento de nascimento n.º 447-D, fls. 224, Conservatória dos Registos Centrais, Lisboa, 7 May 1987, transcribed from the 1.ª Conservatória do Registo Civil de Lourenço Marques; averbamentos 1 and 2. Photographed from the family's own papers and supplied on 27 September 2026. WHY THE GERMISTON REGISTER LOST: it records what was declared in a South African office about a status acquired in another colony, while the assento is the continuously maintained register of her own civil status, naming a husband, an office, a wedding date and a court sentence. A divorcée declaring herself single abroad is ordinary; a registrar inventing all four is not. THE LESSON IS THE COST: this archive struck a true fact out of the family record on one word in one column, and then built three panels on the strike. Working in data/ivone-assento-nascimento-1922.tsv.
Corrected born
The family record said: 1924, from the family tree, and repeated on her page as the heading "Lourenço Marques, 1924".
This archive now has: 4 March 1922
Assento de nascimento n.º 447-D, Conservatória dos Registos Centrais, Lisboa — "dia quatro, mês Março, ano mil novecentos e vinte e dois" — and independently her 2010 death certificate, which carries 04/03/1922 in its own boxes. Her own declared ages contradict each other and both: 22 at Germiston in February 1948 and 24 in June 1948, when she was 25 and 26.
Corrected died
The family record said: no death recorded. The page said only that she died and was buried at Porto, and called the missing date "the largest single hole in this archive".
This archive now has: 14 March 2010, at home at Rua Nova das Marinhas 82, Gulpilhares, Vila Nova de Gaia
Certificado de óbito n.º 12893536, Ministério da Saúde: died at 04:30 in a private dwelling, of cardio-respiratory failure with dementia contributing, aged 88. Supplied by the family 27 September 2026. The day is confirmed by the family and is consistent with the form: the physician signed on 16 March, two days after. This archive first read the boxed digits as "the 16th or the 17th" — the 17th was impossible on the certificate's own evidence, since a doctor cannot certify a death that has not yet happened.