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According to GISA's SAG Vol 6:
b10c2d4 Jan NEL ≈ 10.2.1765 x 5.4.1789 Maria Francina VAN DER VYVER xx Swellendam 5.1.1805 Carolina BECK ≈ 4.2.1784 wed. v. Jacobus Hoffman
Recent research (See Sources) has shown the above to be erroneous.
The correct details are as follows:
b10c2d4 Jan NEL ≈ Drakenstein 10.2.1765 † c. 14.4.1814 x Cape Town 1.6.1788 Maria Catharina STRYDOM ≈ Drakenstein 4.4.1773 † c. 1804 xx Swellendam 6.1.1805 Carolina BECK ≈ Land van Waveren 4.2.1784 † c. 1818, wed. v. Johann Jacob Wilhelm (Jacobus) Hoffman; BECK xxx Swellendam 31.8.1816 Pieter van der Westhuizen ≈ Drakenstein 7.11.1756
Drakenstein (Paarl) Baptism Record.
His name is given as "Jan". He is sometimes referred to as "Johannes." Some sources erroneously add "Petrus" into the name.
His father is listed as Willem Nel.
Jan Nel - Johanna Maria Strydom Marriage Record - Version 1 (Cape Town) (top left)
Jan Nel - Johanna Maria Strydom Marriage Record Version 2 (Cape Town) (right-hand side of image)
Jan Nel - Carolina Beck Marriage Record (Swellendam) (on 6 Jan 1805, not 5 Jan 1805 as per GISA's SAG Vol 6)
Date and Place of Death: MOOC8/31.17 (See Sources)
Testator(s):
Johanna Carolina Bek
Jan Nel
14 Augustus 1814
C: Bird
"Inventaris van alle zoodanige goederen en effecten, slaaven, baaten en lasten des boedels van wijlen den ab intestato overleedenen Jan Nel Willem zoon en nagelaatene weduwe, Johanna Carolina Bek behooren, en door vernoemden Jan Nel op den veertienden April 1814 met den dood is ontruijmd en nagelaaten, zijnde deeze inventaris door mij ondergeteekende, fungeerende Secretaris van het district Tulbagh ter presentie der nagenoemde getuijgen geformeerd en in geschrifte gebragt als
De opstal der leenings plaats genaamt de Drie Fonteijnen, geleegen aan de andere zijde van de Buffels Revier, agter den Zwarten Bergh, in het district van Tulbagh"
The Estate File of Maria Catharina Strydom's Mother, Catharina Geertruyda Botha, MOOC8/50.45a, refers to the marriage of Maria Catharina Strydom to Jan Nel:
Testator(s):
Catharina Geertruyda Botha
27 November 1788
Rhenius
Inventaris mitsg:s taxatie van alle sodanige goederen als ab intestato metter dood syn ontruymd en nagelaten door Catharina Geertruyda Botha ten voordeele van haar man Daniel Jacobus Strydom ter eenre, als meede hunne by den anderen in huwelyk verwekte zes kinderen, met namen
Maria Catharina oud 17 jaren getrouwd met Jan Nel ter andere zyde
Catharina Geertruyda oud 15 jaren
Johannes Petrus oud 13 jaren
Elizabeth oud 9 jaren
Willem oud 6 jaren en
Marg:tha Strydom oud 18 maanden
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1765 |
February 10, 1765
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Drakenstein, de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony
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February 10, 1765
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Paarl, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa
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1796 |
July 30, 1796
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Graaff-Reinet, Great Karoo, Cape Colony, South Africa
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1798 |
1798
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1801 |
1801
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South Africa
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1804 |
April 17, 1804
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1807 |
1807
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1808 |
January 21, 1808
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Swellendam, Cape of Good Hope, Dutch Cape Colony
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