Martha Johanna Pretorius

Martha was born in 1845.  Martha's father was Henning Petrus Pretorius (Nicolaas) and her mother was Martha Johanna Muller.  Her paternal grandparents were Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and Susanna Elizabeth Viljoen. She had six brothers and a sister, named Albertus, Diederik, Christiaan, Johannes, Ignaas, Koert and Susanna.  She was the oldest of the eight children. She had seven half-brothers and a half-sister, named Marthinus, Barend, Henning, Hendrik, Andries, Johannes, Jacobus and Johanna.  She died at the age of 22 in 1867.