Louis Simenhoff, school principal, was the son of M.B. Simenhoff, who came from the United States of America. He appears to have been a teacher of geography at the Wynberg Boys' School at some time. He also became a well-known local philatelist who compiled The standard priced catalog of postage and airmail stamps and entries of the Union of South Africa (Pretoria: Philatelic Society, 1930). On 7 January 1924 he married Christina Susanna Magdalena Du Toit.

Simenhoff was the author of Geography of the Barkly West district (Cape Town, 1917, 21 pp).

List of sources:

British 1820 Settlers to South Africa: Transcribed marriage entries for Simenhoff. https://www.1820settlers.com/genealogy/settlerbrowsemarrs.php?name=SIMENHOFF Retrieved 14 October 2020.

FamilySearch: Louis Simenhoff. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JXP-H8RF?lang=en AND https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-R36V-7?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:8B7V-F4ZM&action=view&cc=3732506&lang=en&groupId=

Heese, J.A. South African genealogies. Pretoria: HSRC, and Stellenbosch: Genealogiese Instituut van SA, 1986-2008.

National Union Catalogue, pre-1956 imprints. London: Mansell, 1968-1980.

South African bibliography to the year 1925. London: Mansell, 1979.

Compiled by: C. Plug

Last updated: 2025-12-04 12:34:02