Jacobus Marthinus Martins

JM Martins en WPDJ vd Bergh Jacobus Marthinus Martins 1874 Unie troepe saam met Smuts Vrywilligers na Duitswes

Jacobus was born on January 25th, 1874 in Jachtfontein.  Jacobus' father was Jan (Oom Thomas) Thomas Martins and his mother was Elizabeth (Meraai) Jacoba Margaretha van Wyk.  His paternal grandparents were Jozua Joachim Francois Martens  and Anna Catharina Maria Pretorius; his maternal grandparents were Daniel Johannes van Wyk (Cornelis) and Frederika Martha NN (Johanna). He had six brothers and five sisters, named Joshua, Daniel, Tommie, Paul, Frans, Zeeberg, Fredrika, Augusta, Anna, Maria and Elizabeth.  He was the sixth oldest of the twelve children. He had a half-brother named Petrus.  He died about 1934.  He was buried in Windhoek.

• General Notes

  ABW
  Farmer (on farm called Midgard Okahandja district, and Hoof-ouderling in Kerkraad (at Windhoek, maybe the NG church)
  Was corporal in ABW (under General Botha) from beginning to end.
  1914 as Captain in SWA
  Captain Jakobus Mathinus Martins, under General Louis Botha entered South West Africa through Walvisbay in1914 when South Africa invaded SWA.   Accordng to family he was the first Police Commadant to take position in Windhoek. He was also the founder of the Dingaans festives in Swakopmund SWA
  
  Aangeheg is inskrywings van die kinders van Jakobus Mathinus Martins en Willemiena DPJ vd Berg, my Oupa en Ouma, wat sy in hulle Bybel geskryf het nadat Ouma die Bybel van die destydse regering ontvang het (1910) toe sy in die konsentrasie kamp was. Omdat sy en Oupa op Panfontein, Heidelberg Transvaal gewoon het tydens die Anglo-Boere oorlog, vermoed ek sy was in die konsentrasie kamp naby Vereeniging.
  Volgens my Oom Fransie, my pa se jongste broer, van wie ek die Bybel ontvang, word die Bybel oorgegee na jongste kind wat afstam van haar en Oupa Koos se nasate. Omdat Oom Fransie se seun vroeg oorlede is en al sy kleinkinders dogters is het hy toe die Bybel aan my oorhandig wat ek toe aan my seun, Jakobus Marthinus Francois oorhandig het. Hy besit dus vandag die Bybel en wanneer sy seun, Alex nou 2 jaar oud, ouderdom bereik sal die Bybel aan hom oorhandig word.
  
  

Details of Jacobus' family with Wilhelmina Jacoba Devina van den Berg