Albert Ladbury "Bertie" Wilkins
1910 - 1970 (60 years)
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Name Albert Ladbury "Bertie" Wilkins Nickname Bertie Birth 27 Jan 1910 Nqamakwe,Cape of Good Hope,South Africa., 
[1, 2] Gender Male Death 27 Mar 1970 Umtata,Transkei,South Africa., Person ID I250 My Genealogy Last Modified 24 Apr 2026 | Edit
Father Ernest William Wilkins, b. 28 Aug 1881, Chatham,Kent,England., d. 15 Jan 1950, Shamrock Nursing Home,Stutterheim,Cape,South Africa., (Age 68 years) Mother Alma Hansine Katharine Hansen, b. 8 Jul 1884, Flensburg,Schleswig-Holstein,Germany., d. 30 Oct 1933, Umtata,Cape,South Africa., (Age 49 years) Marriage 28 Jun 1907 Elliotdale,Cape,South Africa., - _HTITL: Husband
- _WTITL: Wife
Family ID F15 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Peggy Connell Family ID F83 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Apr 2020 | Edit
Family 2 Joan Lindley Lankshear, b. Abt 1910, Cape Province,South Africa d. 7 Apr 1972, Cape Town,South Africa (Age 62 years) Marriage 27 Apr 1935 Nqamakwe,Cape,South Africa., - _HTITL: Husband
- _WTITL: Wife
Divorce Abt 1945 - DEPOT KAB
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DESCRIPTION ILLIQUID CASE. RESTITUTION OF CONJUGAL RIGHTS. ALBERT LADBURY
WILKINS VERSUS JOAN LINDLEY WILKINS, (BORN LANKSHEAR).
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ENDING 19450000 - Divorce
Children 1. Royston "Roy" Wilkins, b. Abt 1940, ,Transkei,South Africa., (Age 86 years)Family ID F82 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Sep 2021 | Edit
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Notes - PRIVATE
- Attended school in Kokstad +- 1922
Attended 'Maritzburg College' 1926
Captured at Tobruk, North Africa and taken to Italy, and then to Germany near Poland, in a POW camp.
Obituary: [Source unknown. In the possession of Pat Stephenson nee Wilkins. 2012]
Transkei sportsman dies.
East London. Albert Ladbury Wilkins, who died in Sr Henry Elliot Hoaspital, Umtata, at the week-end, was one of the Transkei's most remarkable and popular characters.
A brilliant all-round sportsman, Bertie Wilkins represented Border at rugby and cricket, and also played rugby for Western Province [during his days as a student at UCT].
An attorney by profession, he later joined the Transkei civil service as a relieving magistrate.
His irrespressible [sic] sense of humour endeared him to all who knew him. As a prisoner of war he decieved the Germans into accepting that he was an officer - although he was a private - and that he was an authority on International law, whereas his legal field was Bantu Law and Custom.
Heart Attack.
Mr Wilkins, an uncle of the Border cricketer, Chris Wilkins, had been ill for some years and suffered a bad heart attack a week ago.
His death is mourned by many Transkei Africans who called him 'Dubulingqanga' and used to applaud him all the way to the wicket and back in his active sporting years.
He was 60 years old at the time of his death, and was cremated at Cambridge yesterday afternoon.
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Sources - [S289] Church of the Province of South Africa (Butterworth, Cape Province, South Africa), South Africa, (24 April 1910. \i Family Search\i0 . https://familysearch.org/.) (Reliability: 3).
- [S289] Church of the Province of South Africa (Butterworth, Cape Province, South Africa), South Africa, (24 April 1910. \i Family Search\i0 . https://familysearch.org/.), "Baptismal record," Albert Ladbury Wilkins; accessed 3 Jan 2017 (Reliability: 3).
- [S289] Church of the Province of South Africa (Butterworth, Cape Province, South Africa), South Africa, (24 April 1910. \i Family Search\i0 . https://familysearch.org/.) (Reliability: 3).