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At 18, Margaretha answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod ( 1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928 ) who was living in the then Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) and was looking for a wife.

Margaretha married Rudolf in Amsterdam on 11 July 1895.

He was the son of Captain John Brienen MacLeod ( a descendant of the Gesto branch of the MacLeods of Skye ) and Dina Louisa Baroness Sweerts de Landas.

This was significant as the marriage enabled her to move into the Dutch upper class and her finances were placed on a sound footing.

They moved to Malang on the East side of the island of Java and had two children, Norman-John MacLeod ( 30 January 1897 – 27 June 1899 ) and Louise Jeanne MacLeod ( 2 May 1898 – 10 August 1919 ).