Martha Louisa Malan

Martha was born on May 31st, 1852 in Cradock. 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, Martha, Helena and Johanna. She had six half-brothers and a half-sister, named Jacobus, Petrus, Jacobus, John, Henry, Hercules and Johanna. She died at the age of 74 on November 20th, 1926 in Cala, Transkei.