Elias Albertus Nel

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e.7. Elias Albertus NEL, ged. 21/02/1796 e.7.  Elias Albertus, ged. 21/02/1796 x 07/03/1818, Tulbagh met Johanna Sophia STEENKAMP, geb. 28/04/1796, oorl. 28/10/1847, d.v. Johan Harmse Steenkamp en Maria Johanna Bock.

Elias Albertus was die seun van Willem Adriaan Nel en Hester van Wijk.

Elias Albertus Baptised: 1796, 21 Februarij 1796 Father: Willem Adriaan NEL Mother: Hester VAN WIJK Witnesses: Albertus an Wijk , Cornelia Geertruida an Wijk Additional notes: Gebooren den 7 November 1795 Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Swartland (Malmesbury), Baptism register, 1783-1809, page 112. Repository: NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G5 3/3. Transcribed by Lizette Svoboda, from photographs of Cape Archives VC 667

Willem and Hester had seven children, four daughters and three sons, and it was the last child, Elias Albertus Nel, who took over the farms. Elias married a neighbour‟s daughter, Johanna Sophia Steenkamp from Bokkefontein at Tulbagh, on the 7th March 1818. By 1819 when Rietfontein was surveyed it was in the name of Elias Albertus. (Rietfontein: A farm in the North Onder-Bokkeveld (Farm No. 631) by Nigel Amschwand -http://www.vassa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/VASSA-Journal-21...)

n the tax records (Opgaafrolle) of 1827 Elias and Johanna had one son and one daughter (an earlier son had already died), a household servant and 24 Khoisan workers of various ages. Also 5 living on their farms Avontuur, Rietfontein, Klienkloof and Doorn Rivier were Baron Mouton with a Khoi man and woman and two children; Jacobus Stephanus Smit; Arie Trion (Theron?) with two Khoi men, three women and five children and Nicolaas Russouw with three Khoi men, three women and five children. One would assume that Mouton, Smit and Russouw supervised the three outlying farms while Nel resided at Avontuur. In 1832 Rietfontein was granted to Elias as a perpetual quit-rent farm of 2345 morgen and 175 sq. Roods (2009 hectares). It is not known when Elias died but his wife remarried in 1845. Rietfontein was transferred to the ownership of Elias‟s three sons called Jan Harmse, Willem Adriaan and Abraham Johannes Jacobus. It remained in the Nel family ownership until the early 1900s, when it was transferred to Herman Henry Buhr (married to Hester Christina Nel) and his son Elias and two van Zyls, Elias Albertus Nel van Zyl and Izak Jacobus van Zyl who were also related to the Nels by marriage. (Rietfontein: A farm in the North Onder-Bokkeveld (Farm No. 631) by Nigel Amschwand -http://www.vassa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/VASSA-Journal-21...