Jan Thomas Martens 
Jan was born on January 14th, 1888 in Kranskop and his baptism took place on April 4th, 1888. Jan's father was Dewald Johannes Martens and his mother was Anna Margaretha Frederika Van Rooyen. His paternal grandparents were Jan Thomas “Tommie” Martens and Anna (Sibella) Catharina Elisabeth Pretorius; his maternal grandparents were Johan Christiaan van Rooyen and Isabella Elizabeth Steenkamp. He had three brothers and three sisters, named Jan, Dewald , Lukas, Isabella , Girlie and nn. He died at the age of 38 on July 27th, 1926 in Lilani Hot Springs, Greytown.Death Notes
Lilani Hot Springs
Story about Lilani Hot Springs:
My grandfather, John BLAINE, travelled from Durban to the States in 1922 to study medicine. He met and married my grandmother, Dorothy PELMULDER (Dutch) in Los Angeles and my father Cyril Delabere BLAINE was born there in 1928. After further studying at Edinburgh, Scotland, John brought his family - now including another son Robert - to Durban in the early 1930s and thence to John's parents' "resort" at Lilani Hot Springs, near Greytown. My grandmother's introduction to South Africa, she told me, reminded her of the stories her father and grandfather told about dealing with the Indians in the "wild west." Apparently, two tribes were at war and the losers happened
to be working for the BLAINE family at Lilani. Granddad Cyril Maud BLAINE, John and other members of the family held off the attackers with a single .22 calibre rifle - convincing the warriors that there were several armed men in the house by tossing the gun back and forth and firing it out the different windows. The attackers broke off after about a day.
General Notes
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Farmed on Paul's Rust
Martens, Jan Thomas (2), (of Paul's Rust?)(son of DJ Martens?) d. at Lilani Hotsprings on 27 July 1926 (m. to Wilhelmina Christina Martens b. Celliers?)
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
Rod Gregory The old road down to Lilani was only wide enough for one car width....with a warning of hooting at the many blind bends drivers warned others coming in the opposite direction.....there were only a couple of wider plateaus on some bends where one had to halt to allow the other cars to pass. Also there were no security railings along the route.......I last went down there in 1954 and it was one hairy experience.In bad weather it was next to Harikiri ...in good weather you needed your fingers crossed as a passenger !!!!!! Breathtaking and very rewarding once you were there. My mother (from Kranskop and family ( Freese from Crammond) frequented the spa in their youth.
Natal Marriages: Entry #1874
Husband: Jan Thomas MARTENS
Wife: Wilhelmina Christina CILLIERS
Date: 9/25/1917
The Lilani Hot springs are situated about 12 miles, as the crow flies, to the east of Greytown, but the intervening country is so rough that in order to get there a journey of about 18 to 20 miles has bo be undertaken. The Springs are on the side of a very steep hill. The Springs were developed by the late Dr Matthews. A large house was built and the water led into bathrooms, and many people visit Lilani to enjoy the healing properties of the waters, which are very soothing to sufferers from rheumatism, gout and similar complaints. The property is now leased by Mr H J Comins, of Seven Oaks, who sub-lets apartments to visitors.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.01 Jan 1727 in Messdorf, Altmark, Brandenburg, Prussia d.02 Feb 1774 in Cape of Good Hope
- b.~ 1760 d.< 1849
- b.06 Oct 1737 d.1770
- b.1800 in Cape of Good Hope d.20 Feb 1877 in NearTable Mountain, Natal
- b.~ 1744
- b.29 Mar 1771 in Western Provence, Cape of Good Hope d.30 Apr 1849 in at the house of her grandson Gabriel Stephanus Maré, Graaff Reinet
- b.03 Oct 1751
- b.15 May 1829 d.08 Jun 1910 in Highbury, Ixopo
- b.1742 d.08 Oct 1788
- b.04 Oct 1760 d.11 Nov 1842
- b.1741 in Cape d.1801
- b.24 Jul 1808 d.20 Nov 1879 in Natal
- b.1767
- b.21 Dec 1861 in Greytown d.30 Mar 1925
- b.1741
- b.09 Nov 1783 d.14 Nov 1856 in Middelburg CP
- b.16 Oct 1809 d.29 Aug 1870 in Welverdiend, Wakkerstroom
- b.26 Jun 1788 d.06 Jul 1840 in Middelkraal, Tarka, Cradock
- b.22 Apr 1839 in Pietermaritzburg d.22 Jul 1883
- b.1814
- b.14 Jan 1888 in Kranskop d.27 Jul 1926 in Lilani Hot Springs, Greytown
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- b.05 Aug 1810 d.18 Jul 1889 in Kranskop
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- b.23 May 1847 in Kranskop, Natal d.28 Nov 1894 in "Pauls Rust", Natal
- b.19 Mar 1816 in Graaff Reinet
- b.24 Mar 1869 in Greytown d.18 Aug 1958 in Greytown
- b.28 Nov 1851 d.15 Jun 1910
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Details of Jan's family with Wilhelmina Christina Susanna Cilliers
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