Martha Louisa Malan

Martha was born on February 9th, 1846 in Glen Lynden. Martha's father was Jacobus Nicolaas Malan and her mother was Margaretha Magdalena Smith. Her paternal grandparents were Jacobus Malan and Margaretha Maria Swart; her maternal grandfather was Pieter Johannes Smith and her maternal grandmother is Aletta Dorothea Coetzee (Johanna). She had three brothers and four sisters, named Petrus, Pieter, Daniel, Margaretha, Helena, Johanna and Martha. She had six half-brothers and a half-sister, named Jacobus, Petrus, Jacobus, John, Henry, Hercules and Johanna.