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Miriam Creagh Kirsten (née Scully) 1917-2000

Miriam Kirsten was born to Gerald Creagh Scully and Muriel Powell on the 21st of May 1917 in the small Welsh village of Queensferry, Hawarden. At the time, her father was working an Industrial Works Chemist for De Beers in South Africa.

Miriam was known in South Africa as a prominent member of the Progressive Party as well as an armature artist. She lived at 146 Prince's Avenue in Benoni.

On the 2nd of February 1946, she married Stephen Peter Kirsten.