There is still no news on my great grandfather’s death but trawling through the several new documents available on Family Search I found that he’d had another child who died in infancy – Norman Cyril Robinson, born 1914, died 21 Nov 1916 of dysentery and peritonitis.
There was a moment when I thought I’d found PJ’s death notice but it didn’t pan out, although I am more convinced he had a second wife in Jacoba van der Heever who died divorced from him in 1945. Family legend has it that he died at an old age in Pretoria, but still no confirmation can be found.
Edit: Have now found the marriage record for Jacoba and Philip and it puts the groom’s birth date at 1890, some 12 years later than PJR was born, so the likelihood this is right has severely diminished. In other news, I’ve also found the death notice for his wife Louisa which this time gives cause of death as “carcinoma” finally ruling out the notion that she was a late victim of Spanish Flu.
too many philips 