Adopted. Biological child of Elizabeth Maria and Josua Lourens Adopted by Jacobus Joshua Martens and Elizabeth Catharina Jacoba Maria Martens They married with the consent of her guardians, J. Cross and Illegible. Marriage witnessed by S.J.Martens and E.J. van Rooyen. According to mother's DN she was born in 1856 not 1865. Could not be if they only married in 1864.