On 15 December 1956 in Pretoria, he married Margaret “Peggy” Yvonne Leach (born Louis Trichardt, 8 July 1935), the only daughter of Ronald Leonard Leach of Louis Trichardt, Transvaal, South Africa (Pretoria, 31 August 1910 – Louis Trichardt, 18 December 1964) and wife (Lovedale Park, Louis Trichardt) Faith Kleinenberg (Louis Trichardt, 20 July 1913 – Louis Trichardt, 11 June 1968), paternal granddaughter of Charles Ronald Leach (Whittlesea, Cape Colony, 26 March 1887 – Eshowe, 7 December 1953) and first wife Louise Adelaide Zeederberg (? – Whittlesea, 5 June 1922) and maternal granddaughter of Johannes Petrus Stephanus Kleinenberg (25 June 1874 – 1925) and wife (16 February 1898) Letitia Pittendrigh Cooksley (1875 – 1941); Charles Ronald Leach was son of Charles William Leach (Poplar Grove, Queenstown, Colony of Natal, 7 January 1859 – Idutywa, 12 January 1913) and first wife Agnes Mary Bell ? – Poplar Grove, Queenstown, Colony of Natal, 15 November 1889), paternal grandson of John Leach (Uitenhage, Zulu Kingdom, 28 July 1828 – Poplar Grove, Queenstown, Colony of Natal, 1 August 1906) (son of Benjamin John Leach, who moved in 1820 to South Africa, and wife Ann Oxenham) and wife (Worcester, Cape Colony, 18 August 1849) Sara Ann Hinds (London, Middlesex, 22 July 1832 – Grahamstown, 22 November 1916) (daughter of T. W. Hinds and wife …) and maternal grandson of William Bell and wife Mary Ann Mason; Louise Adelaide Zeederberg was daughter of Hans Jacobus Zeederberg (Colony of Natal, 22 January 1851 – ?), storekeeper in Pretoria in 1878, and wife (Pretoria, Transvaal Colony, 3 July 1878) Jessie Gray (Colony of Natal, 1855 – 12 December 1899), paternal granddaughter of Petrus Hans Zeederberg (Cape Town, Cape Colony, 25 September 1814 – Erf 35, Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal, 12 June 1884) (son of Roelof Abraham Zetterberg, later Zeederberg, from Strömstad, Sweden, and wife Margaretha Elisabeth Louw) and wife Sophia Margrita Ruisch, and maternal granddaughter of John Gray and wife Ann Young; Johannes Petrus Stephanus Kleinenberg was son of Bauke Theunis Kleinenberg (Drenthe, Netherlands, 3 August 1823 – Potchefstroom, Colony of Natal, 15 October 1899), who emigrated in 1852 to South Africa, teacher and lecturer in Piketberg and Calvinia, married firstly in Piketberg, Cape Colony, on 10 April 1854 Maria Susanna Theron (Vlermuisdrift, later Bridgetown, near Athlone, near Cape Town, Cape Colony, June 1813 – Calvinia, Cape Colony, 30 December 1863), and second wife (Calvinia, Cape Colony, 26 April 1864) Maria Magdalena Margaretha Coetzee (26 April 1847 – ?), paternal grandson of Teunis Kleinenberg (Rolde, Drenthe, Dutch Republic, 8 June 1794 – Amen, Rolde, Drenthe, Netherlands, 25 February 1864), farmer (son of Bauke Tonnis Kleinenberg and wife Grietien Hindriks) and wife Gebke Kerkhof and maternal grandson of Dirk Johannes Coetzee (near Cape Town, Cape Colony, 3 March 1805 – Piketberg, Cape Colony, 26 Abril 1857) (son of Johan Hendrik Coetzee and wife Johanna Catharina Reeder) and wife (Cape Town, Cape Colony, 6 September 1829) Johanna Sophia Boonzaaier (near Stellenbosch, Cape Colony, 26 November 1809 – Piketberg, Cape Colony, 18 June 1853) (daughter of Petrus Johannes Boonzaaier and wife Hermina Dempers); Letitia Pittendrigh Cooksley was daughter of John Skinner Cooksley (Barnstable, Devon, 3 February 1837 – 16 February 1898), trader in South Africa, in Port Elizabeth in 1862, and wife Mary Pittindrigh (1844 – Lovedale Park, Louis Trichardt, 1937) and paternal granddaughter of William Cooksley and wife … Skinner. They had three children:
