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PLEASE NOTE: If you do not see a GRAPHIC IMAGE of a family tree here but are seeing this text instead then it is most probably because the web server is not correctly configured to serve svg pages correctly. see http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG:Server_Configuration for information on how to correctly configure a web server for svg files. ? m: Susanna is married to Jacobus who is the son of Hendrik Jacobus & Elizabeth Maria Roos Jacobus first marries his cousin Elizabetta Catharina (daughter of JT) and then his niece, Susanna Elizabeth daughter of Jacobus Cornelius and Margaretha Susanna Cloete Hendrik Jacobus is married to Anna Maria Isabella, who is the daughter of Tommie Martens & Anna Maria Pretorius Anna Maria is married to Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe (Lang Hendrik)son of HendrikJacobus & Elizabeth Maria Roos m: 18 Nov 1787 Tulbach 1747 Tweede Vryheidsoorlog is daar n HJ en JT Maartens oorlede toe n groot menigte kaffers op hulle klein kommando groepie toegeslaan het. 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1907 at the house of C F Snyman Harrismith Distrik ■No more children Marriage (seven children) 4 May 1904 Yorkshire Wolds, Pietermaritzburg 1882 - 1961 Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens 79 79 Dates from gravestone at Sophiadale
Extract from Getaway:
The area is reached via the tarred R600 and leads up the Sterkspruit River Valley, offering dramatic views of the rounded dome of Champagne Castle, the jagged-edged Sterkhorn Peak and the rock massif known as Cathkin. The last-mentioned is also known as Mdedelelo, which means 'the bully' in Zulu and describes its apparent eagerness to push the lesser peaks in the area out of its way.

These mountains were being tackled by climbers in the late 1800s but it was not until the 1920s that the full recreational potential of the area was recognised. In July 1928 the Natal Mountain Club held its annual July Camp at Oom Hendrik Martens's farmstead. It was a raging success and within two years Oom Hendrik had established the Champagne Castle Hotel.

oleft something to around 54 relatives, the 1st 2nd and 3rd respondents being Bud Martens, Petrus Hendrik of Krugersdorp and Hendrik Jacobus vd M (b. 1919) and their children getting 2/3, and the rest each 1/13th portions of:
"The remainder of Subdivision B of the farm "Hearsease" situated in the county of Weenen, provence of Natal, in extent 1616 Acres 3 Roods 38 perches, and a sum of 896 punds 18 shillings & 8 pence in certain undivided shares."
 1882 - 1962 Catharina Maria Snyman 79 79 SNYMAN STAMBOEK: 3337 g5 Catharina Maria SNYMAN (3329/x),
∗ 25.11.1881, ≈ 02.04.1882, † 26.02.1962,
Ω Sophiadale x Woning van C F Snyman,
Bernhardina, distrik Harrismith 04.04.1907,
Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe MARTENS
(s.v. Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe MARTENS &
Anna Maria Isabella MARTENS), ∗ 25.02.1882,
† 04.12.1961

Dogter van f8 Coenraad Frederik SNYMAN (3310/x),
∗ 16.12.1847, ≈ Bloemspruyt. 27.12.1848, † Weenen
11.10.1925
x Pietermaritzburg 10.10.1870, Aletta Bernhardina
OOSTHUYZEN (d.v. Marthinus Jacobus
OOSTHUYZEN & Aletta Bernardina RUDOLPH),
∗ 31.10.1854, ≈ Pietermaritzburg 25.03.1855,
† Bernhardina, Harrismith 25.12.1934 1880 - 1919 Jan Thomas Martens 39 39 Last will signed on the day he died
"Married on Yorkshirewolds, Rosetta". This reference comes from the fact that the marriage was held on the farm Yorkshirewolds Pietermaritzburg

BENC only has the first three children. 1905 - 1952 Elizabeth Johanna Susanna Martens 46 46 According to Hettie she had a child out of wedlock 1907 - 1984 Anna Maria Isabella Martens 76 76 Friom Wuthering Heights, Nottingham Rd. 1908 - 1976 Jansie Thomina Martens 67 67 From Wuthering Heights when she got married. On the certificate it states that she had the permission of the Judge President to get married., 1910 - 1984 Hendrik Jacobus Van der Merwe Martens 73 73 Posted by Chris and Petra Lombard

Extract from online magazine: http://www.suntimes.co.za/
"The doyen of South African fowl fanciers, Bud Martens, was murdered on his plot near Durban many years ago. Another leading breeder, Errol Boy of East London, was gunned down this year. "It's a dying sport today and many have left the game," says Barnard. "
Last known address TENSMAR PK BERGVILLE
1912 - 1989 Petronella Hendrina Martens 76 76 According to idendity no search she was born 19150402 1915 - 1982 Petrus Hendrik Vermaak Martens 67 67 AKA Pieturas Henry Martens. See source. 1919 - 1981 Wilhelmina Hendrika Martens 62 62 1834 - 1909 Cornelius (Basheesha) Jacobus Martens 75 75 Voortrekker
Bought FAIRFIELD in 1870
Sold farm in 1927 to his grandson Frederick in 1927
Farmed Groenkop, Eastwood, Fairfield and Burleigh

Double wedding with Maria Magdalena Isabella Martens who married Charles Liversage. 1840 - 1914 Victoria Liversage 74 74 Father    
Samuel Liversage           
Birth:  About 1794 , Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa      
Marriage:  About 1816  , Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
Death:      04 JUL 1872      
Mother    
Harriet Elizabeth Bond       
Birth:      About 1798  , Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
Marriage:  About 1816  , Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa

Notes from Shelagh Spencers work now available online
1840.03.13    b. (HBL). Fort Beaufort (SAG [SS])
1840 04.16    bapt. Fort Beaufort. (SAG [SS])
1840.04.26    bapt. by George Green, Fort Beaufort Meth. Church. (AS)
1856.10.20    Aged 16, of Umgeni, she m. Cornelius Jacobus Martens, 22, farmer, Doornhoek. (R. DRC Pmb.)
1872.06.04    Samuel Liversage d. at the residence of his dau. Mrs C. Martin [sic] near the Seven Oaks. (NM  11.06.72). He d. at Mrs C. Martens’ Fairfield, Seven Oaks. (R.Wes. York [JL])
1874.09.17    Beneficiary in her parents’ estate. Lives near the huts, Umvoti Flats, Natal. (RSC 1/8/57 no.5331)
1909.10.05    Husband Cornelius Jacobus Martens, farmer, d. aged 75 at Greytown. (MSC 253/1909)(Tomb GT)
1914.06.28    Victoria d., Greytown (SAG [SS])
1914.07.28    Victoria d. (Cilliers p.312. Date taken from gravestone)
  1904 - 1983 Marion Dugmar Marshall 79 79 Martens, Marion Dugmar, n. Marshall m. JSS
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
Last known address 4 ELIZABETH PLACE 50 ROBERTS ROAD CLARENDON PIETERMARITZBURG 1884 Petronella Hendrina Vermaak After the death of Jan Thomas she was appointed as "Tutrix Dative" (guardian) of the children.
Died after JT

From Loskop when she married Killian. 1890 - 1973 Henry Frederick Harris 83 83 1896 - 1947 Maria Magdalena Catharina Martens 51 51 From Groenkop at time of marriage.
Was in "Spitskop" Lydenburg at time of death. Marriage (four children) 5 Aug 1759 Tulbach Marriage (seven children) 9 Feb 1832 Graaff-Reinet Marriage (fourteen children) 1823/07/07 Graaff Reinet Widowed (eleven children) 11 Jan 1855 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (a child) 15 Jan 1872 Doornhoek Marriage (a child) 21 Nov 1864, "Doornhoek", Pietermaritzburg ■No more children Marriage (seven children) 05 Mar 1874 Bishopstowe Pietermaritzburg Widowed (four children) 04 Apr 1912 East Meshlynn, Estcourt Marriage (four children) 26 Apr 1946 Widowed (two children) 22 Feb 1972 Wolseley Marriage (two children) 4 April 2009 Centurion Marriage (eleven children) 7 Mei 1820 Graaff Reinet Marriage (four children) 01 Feb 1909 Durban Marriage (three children) 9 Apr 1983 Widowed (three children) Marriage (two children) 28 Jan 2001 Pretoria Marriage (three children) 20 Dec 1917 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (six children) 20 OCT 1856 Pietermaritzburg Widowed (four children) 20 Jul 1898 Pietermaritzburg Divorce 09 Mar 1929 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (four children) 21 Oct 1933 Durban Marriage 6 Apr 1968 Marriage Marriage (four children) 5 October 1927 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (two children) 6 Feb 1960 Marriage (two children) 14 Nov 1959 Marriage (two children) 16 Dec 1950 Greytown Divorce 13 Jul 1920 Greytown Marriage (four children) 25 Apr 1907 New Germany Marriage (two children) 12 Jul 1941 Durban Divorce (two children) Widowed (two children) Widowed (ten children) 9 SEP 1880 Greytown Widowed 12 Jul 1923 New Germany ■No more children Marriage (three children) 12 Jul 1917 New Germany, Natal Marriage (two children) 23 Jul 1908 Sydenham, Durban Marriage (three children) 23 Jul 1948 Greytown Marriage (two children) 25 Jul 1986 Marriage (three children) Marriage 27 May 1949 Greytown Marriage (two children) 22 Apr 1944 Durban Marriage (two children) 3 Jul 1971 Marriage (two children) Marriage (a child) Marriage Widowed (four children) 06 DEC 1881 Greytown Marriage (a child) 22 Dec 1919 Durban Widowed (three children) 16 Oct 1911 Kranskop NG kerk Marriage (six children) 20 Jul 1934 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (three children) 11 Jul 1881 Greytown Marriage (seven children) 07 DEC 1886 Greytown Marriage (seven children) 13 Oct 1891 Coalfields,Dundee Marriage 09 Aug 1922 Greytown Marriage 07 Mar 1940 Durban Marriage 17 Feb 1933 Isipingo Marriage 26 Jan 1933 Durban Marriage (two children) Marriage (six children) 5 Feb 1901 Greytown Divorce (three children) 04 Mar 1920 Pinetown Marriage (two children) 07 Jun 1916 Kroonstad Widowed (two children) 28 Jul 1943 Greytown Widowed 31 Dec 1883 "Highbury", Greytown Divorce (two children) 14 Jan 1920 Greytown Marriage Marriage (six children) 6 Sep 1841 Graaff-Reinet Marriage (nine children) 1 Nov 1841 Graaff-Reinet Marriage (four children) 21 June 1886 Greytown Widowed (a child) 14 Dec 1946 Greytown Divorce Widowed (a child) Widowed Marriage 14 Mar 1899 Greytown Widowed 29 Sep 1884 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (five children) 8 Sep 1956 Marriage (six children) 2 January 1946 Sophiadale Marriage 02 Apr 1937 Durban Marriage (two children) 29 Mar 1952 Omaruru, SuidWes-Afrika Marriage (five children) 01 Oct 1949 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (two children) 1 Jun 1968 Widowed (three children) 21 Sep 1903 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (a child) Bloemfontein Marriage Marriage (two children) 24 Oktober 1892 Vryheid Widowed (a child) 26 Apr 1905 Pretoria Marriage (eight children) 16 April 1883 Newcastle Divorce Marriage 04 Apr 1916 Jammerdal, Kranskop Widowed (three children) 25 Sep 1917 Greytown Marriage (eleven children) 18 Nov 1787 Tulbagh Widowed (three children) 15 April 1920 Pietermaritzburg Widowed (two children) 12 Aug 1903 Vryheid ■No more children Marriage 11 Oct 1938 Vryheid Marriage (nine children) Marriage (four children) Marriage (a child) 10 April 1948 Greytown Widowed (a child) 17 Oct 1935 Pietermaritzburg Marriage 28 May 1955 Scottburgh, Umzinto, Natal Marriage 02 Jul 1925 Kranskop Divorce (a child) 19 Oct 1920 Greytown Marriage 11 Dec 1951 Stanger Marriage (three children) 09 Jun 1934 Durban Marriage (a child) Johannesburg Divorce (three children) Divorce Marriage (two children) Marriage Divorce 31 Jul 1929 Pietermaritzburg Widowed Divorce Marriage Divorce Marriage (a child) 04 Jul 1936 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (a child) 20 Mar 1954 Marriage (four children) Marriage (two children) 22 Mar 1958 Marriage (three children) 19 Dec 1959 Marriage (three children) Widowed (four children) Marriage (three children) Marriage 20 Dec 1952 Estcourt, Natal Divorce Marriage Marriage (two children) 18 Dec 1923 Greytown Marriage (two children) 5 Sep 1942 Marriage (five children) 10 Dec 1977 Marriage (four children) 31 Oct 1967 Marriage (two children) 14 Jul 1914 Dundee Marriage Marriage (four children) Marriage (eight children) 25 Jul 1905 Heilbron Marriage (five children) 31 Jul 1964 Springs Marriage 22 Apr 1912 Divorce (a child) Marriage (three children) 10 Nov 1979 Marriage (a child) Widowed 10 Jan 1860 Marriage 27 Jan 1903 Greytown Divorce (two children) 12 Oct 1892 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (a child) 02 Jun 1920 Newcastle Marriage (twelve children) 30 May 1912 Eshowe Divorce Divorce (two children) 19 Jun 1924 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (two children) 4 Mar 1944 Marriage 18 May 1977 Divorce (two children) 17 Mar 1995 Marriage (a child) Marriage (two children) 7 Feb 2004 Marriage (three children) 27 Jan 1968 Marriage (two children) 5 Oct 1991 Widowed (two children) 29 Feb 1864 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (twelve children) 28 May 1867 Greytown Widowed (seven children) 20 Oct 1903 Vryheid Marriage (fifteen children) 28 DEC 1874 Broedershoek Marriage (a child) 08 Nov 1924 Vryheid, Natal Marriage Marriage 12 Dec 1927 Vryheid Marriage (three children) 02 Mar 1934 Vryheid Marriage Divorce (a child) 23 Oct 1948 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (five children) Marriage 24 Sep 1935 Greytown Marriage Marriage (two children) 05 Aug 1924 Divorce (three children) 16 Aug 1934 Pietermaritzburg Marriage (four children) 4 April 1959, St Saviours Church PMB Marriage (two children) 16 April 1983 St Peters Kamberg Marriage (a child) 4 Oct 1946 Marriage 30 Mar 1968 Widowed (a child) Married in Ndola in Northern Rhodesia Divorce Marriage (three children) 4 Nov 1962 Methodist Church, JHBurg Marriage (two children) Marriage (a child) Marriage (two children) 25 Oct 1997 Divorce Marriage 24 Jun 1988 Marriage (two children) 4 Dec 1999 Pretoria Marriage (three children) Divorce (a child) 28 Feb 1928 Durban Marriage (a child) Divorce (two children) 30 January 1982 Committed relationship and separation (a child) Marriage 11 Feb 1989 Marriage (three children) 4 May 1894 Pretoria Marriage (ten children) 28 May 1907 Heilbron Marriage 07 Oct 1930 Greytown Divorce (a child) 30 Dec 1988 Marriage (a child) 19 Oct 1917 Harrismith Marriage (seven children) Marriage (ten children) 30 Jul 1881 Graaff Reinet Marriage (six children) Standerton Marriage (three children) 16 Dec 1938 Met Hoeksteenlegging van Voortrekkermonument Marriage (two children) Marriage (two children) Marriage (three children) Divorce 7 Jan 1920 Div. 1926 Love Affair Divorce 4 Jul 1952 Marriage (two children) Marriage Marriage (a child) Marriage (three children) Marriage (a child) Marriage (four children) 10 Aug 1940 Marriage (a child) 18 Oct 1997 Marriage (seven children) Marriage Marriage 08 Feb 1955 Vryheid Natal Marriage 18 Jun 1955 Marriage (seven children) 9 Jul 1949 Marriage 05 Dec 1896 in Botha's House, Melmoth Marriage (three children) 5 Aug 2007 Widowed 05 Sep 1942 Vryheid Marriage Widowed Divorce (five children) m. 12 May 1917 div 1949 Marriage (three children) Marriage (a child) Marriage Divorce (two children) Divorce (three children) Marriage Marriage (a child) Marriage (two children) Widowed (six children) Potchefstroom Marriage (fourteen children) 20 Aug 1894 Heidelberg Tvl. Divorce (two children) Divorce 1983 Marriage (eleven children) 19 Nov 1894 Potchefstroom Marriage (three children) Marriage (three children) Upington Marriage (a child) Widowed (a child) Marriage (a child) Marriage 3 Nov 1941 'Skaaprivier", Windhoek Marriage (three children) 3 Feb 1942 Marriage (two children) 17 May 1927 Marriage (three children) Marriage (two children) Marriage (two children) Marriage (a child) Marriage (two children) Marriage Marriage (three children) 14 Jun 1969 Windhoek-Eros, Suidwes-Afrika Marriage Marriage (twelve children) Potchefstroom Marriage (two children) Heidelberg Tvl Marriage Marriage (two children) 3 Jul 1917 Heideberg Tvl. Marriage (three children) Marriage (four children) 11 Aug 1962 Windhoek-Wes, SuidWes-Afrika Marriage (a child) Marriage (two children) 25 Mar 1926 Gibeon, Gobabis, Namibia Marriage Marriage Marriage (two children) Marriage Marriage (a child) Marriage (three children) Marriage (two children) Marriage (three children) 6 Nov 1954 Leonardville, Namibia Marriage (a child) Marriage (eight children) 21 Dec 1885   Heidelberg dist. Potchefstroom Marriage (five children) Divorce Marriage 15 May 1941 Pietermaritzburg Divorce 10 Apr 1911 Ladysmith Widowed Marriage (five children) 16 Jun 1945 Dannhauser, Newcastle Marriage (two children) 31 Mar 1914 Greytown Marriage (a child) 01 Jun 1940 Vryheid Marriage (a child) 03 Feb 1951 Pietermaritzburg Marriage 03 May 1941 Pinetown ■No more children Marriage (three children) 07 May 1919 Greytown Widowed Marriage 07 Jun 1947 Greytown Marriage 10 Jul 1936 Greytown Widowed Marriage 15 Aug 1942 Vryheid Widowed Marriage 13 Nov 1943 Port Shepstone Widowed Marriage (three children) 01 Oct 1912 Greytown Widowed Divorce Marriage 27 Jan 1934 Durban Marriage 24 Aug 1945 Durban Marriage 4 Jan 1941 Greytown Divorce 08 Apr 1950 Durban Divorce 23 Aug 1941 Pietermaritzburg Marriage Marriage Marriage 26 Aug 1961 Marriage (two children) 19 Oct 1985 Marriage 26 Apr 1986 Marriage 9 Nov 1991 Marriage Widowed Divorce 15 Jul 1919 Volksrust Marriage Marriage (four children) 9 Sep 1944 Marriage (three children) 8 Oct 1977 Marriage (a child) Divorce (two children) 6 Nov 1971 Marriage (a child) Jan 23 2009 Sandton Marriage (two children) 6 Jan 1990 Marriage Marriage 16 Nov 2013 Westcoast Marriage (two children) 27 Aug 1977 Marriage Widowed (a child) Marriage (a child) 8 Aug 1938 Marriage (a child) 24 Aug 1968 Divorce (two children) 1983 Port Elizabeth Divorce 1 Dec 1982 Marriage (four children) Marriage (two children) 28 Mar 1969 Windhoek, Namibia Marriage (three children) Durbanville, Cape Marriage (three children) Divorce (a child) Marriage (four children) Marriage (a child) Marriage (two children) 25 Sep 1942 Divorce (a child) Divorced twice Divorce 12 Mar 1918 Pietermartizburg Marriage Marriage Marriage 27 Oct 1948 Marriage Marriage Marriage 27 Apr 1963 Marriage 26 Feb 2015 Smallest Church In Afica, van Reenen Marriage 17 Dec 1956 Marriage (three children) 31 Dec 1965 Heilbron Marriage 21 Dec 1940 Germiston Marriage (four children) 20 Dec 1930 Potchefstroom Marriage 15 Nov 1941 Marriage 9 Dec 1964 Marriage 15 Feb 1947 Divorce (two children) Marriage (three children) 16 Aug 1947 Modderfontein Marriage (three children) 04 Sep 1948 Durban Marriage 16 Apr 1946 Isipingo Marriage 26 Nov 1949 Isipingo, Natal Marriage 05 Jun 1943 Isipingo Marriage 23 Nov 1990 Marriage 4 Jun 1949 Marriage 19 Jan 1963 Marriage 30 Jul 1949 Greytown ■No more children Divorce (three children) m. 1 Oct 1983 Divorced 2002 Marriage Divorce Marriage Marriage 2010 Marriage (a child) Marriage (a child) Marriage (three children) Marriage 11 Jan 2003 Sabie Marriage 28 Mar 1987 Marriage 15 Dec 1945 Marriage (three children) 24 Apr 1965 Marriage 6 Apr 1990 Marriage 2 Jun 1979 Marriage 28 Mar 1980 Marriage 26 Nov 1988 Divorce (two children) 6 Nov 1970 Divorce 14 Dec 1985 Marriage 26 Jun 2004 Port Elizabeth Marriage 14 Nov 1980 Divorce Divorce Widowed Divorce Marriage Divorce 10 Nov 2001 Centurion Marriage (two children) 22 Oct 1988 Marriage 11 Jun 1994 Marriage 4 Nov 1989 Marriage 9 Jun 2001 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Came to South Africa with the DEIC Arrives 2 Mei 1747 in Kaap de Goede Hoop as a soldier on the ship De Kasteel van Tilburg.
Captained by Abraham Zwart the Kasteel van Tilburg departed from Texel on the 2nd of May 1747 with 254 souls onboard [129 seafarers, 115 soldiers, 2 craftsmen and 8 passengers].  In the holds would have been up to 7 tons of gold, silver and ingots for trading, as well as fresh water and food supplies for the journey.

1748-50 Staljong. 1751-54 soldaat; 1755 staljong en burger in 1756; timmerman op Stellenbosch. Trou 5.8.1759 met Jacomina van den Berg
Joachim Hendrik of Heinrich Maartens of Martens,

He definitely was ill when he arrived, probably with Scheurbuik or something similar as he was hospitalised immediately upon arrival. Twent others had died during the voyage to the Cape.
When eldest son Jacobus was born they were living in the Veldkornetskap of Veldkornet S. Coetzee
In 1762 he was under command of Kaptein Josias de kock

5 Aug 1759
1759, den 5 Augst:
Jochem Hendrik Martens
"uijt het Oldemark , Brandenburg , Matsdorp", jongman
burger aan Stellenbosch
met
Jacomina van den Berg
van Cabo de Goede Hoop, jonge dogter
Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Tulbagh, Western Cape. marriage register, 1744-1839, page 9, entry no 6. Repository: NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G4 9/1. Transcribed by Trysie Joubert, Marelize Keyter, Marie Greyvenstein and Annatje Erasmus as part of the eGGSA Project, from VC 664, Cape Archives Repository

Alternative names from Baptism Register of his daughter.

What we know is that our patriarch Joachem Heinrich Martens is that he came to the Cape with the VOC in 1747 and died about 1774. On his marriage certificate he is described as Jochem Hendrik Martens and his papers from the VOC has him as Jochem Heinrich Martens. His second son was Joachim Hendrik Martens so that the Joachem was probably the original name.

His origin on his marriage certificate is given as "uijt het Oldemark , Brandenburg , Matsdorp",

My interpretation was;
Name; changed to suit Cape community.
Origin;
Brandenburg (as is)
Oldenmark I interpreted as "Altmark"
Matsdorp I interpreted as "Messdorf"

If you look at; https://translate.google.co.za/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.stadt-bismark.de/de/meszdorf.html&prev=search

It all seems to come together.
The area described on the website does seem to be Saxony-Anhalt

Then I found a source at Familysearch that provides me with the following details on a Joachem Heinrich Martens.
Birth;  1 Jan 1727 - Meßdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Death; 2 Feb 1774 - Cape Town, South Africa
Parents; Christoffer Hinrich Martens b. 1886 married to Mrs Christoffer Hinrich Martens b. 1886

The church in Meßdof seems to date to the 12th century and has not been destroyed in the war.
 ~1763 - ~1765 Anna Margaretha Martens 2 2 ~1765 - 1852 Joachim Hendrik Martens 87 87 Described a VryBurger van Stellenbosch

Joachim Hendrik MARTENS (AFN:1BNS-003)
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=search_all1.asp&clear_form=true
Have Sterftekennis
 ~1768 - 1802 Matthÿs Daniel Martens 34 34 He was a Burger in Graaff-Reinet
Previous records indicated that he died 1852/07/03.  I changed this, however as a record from the Orphan Chamber Reference no.: MOOC8/55.3a has him dying intestate leaving all to his widow Susanna Haarhoff. At that point Susanna Elizabeth was 4 years old and Joachim Hendrik 1 year old.  This puts his death at after January 1802. The will was concluded 28 January 1802. He had 20  Rd:s in cash plus Rd:s 596.. His belongings were sold for Rd:s 298. He is described as a burgher and a farmer. There is no record of the house and farm.  His belongings are listed below:
een oude wagen met zijn toebehooren     30:--
een klijne zeeppot     8:--
een kookpot     2:--
twee spanzaagen     2:--
vier schaven     1:--
drie bijtels     1:--
een rasp en een vijl
vier klijne booren     1:--
een halfduijmsboor
een omslag     1:--
een snijmes
een dissel     4:--
een handbijl
een houtbijl
een koegelform     1:--
een nijptang     1:24
een klijne hamer
een passer
twee haaken en krammen     0:36
een emmer     1:--
een strijkijzer     1:24
een keetel     1:--
een kommetje     0:24
een trekpot
een booterpotje     1:--
een kandelaar
een lantaarn     2:--
twee bottels     0:12
een klijne aarde kan     0:24
een klijne aarde pot
vier tinne borden     3:--
een tinne schootel
zes tinne lepels     1:24
zes forken
een potlepel     0:24
een groote kist     8:--
een halfsleete zadel en toom     15:--
drie halfsleete zakken     3:--

Beestiaal
    Rd:s
negen trek ossen     108
zeven jonge ossen     70
vijfthien aanteelbeesten     75
een hondert zes en zestig schapen     166
twintig bokken     15

Contanten
    Rd:s
een sommetje van twintig rijxdalers     20
Invoegen den boedel zuijver rendeert     Rd:s596

 ~1789 - 1853 Maria Magdalena Martens 64 64 Marriage:  29 JUN 1806 [She married 06 AUG 1810 Kaapstad, Cape Of Good Hope.

Parents lived in Waveren which was Tulbach in those days.
Her mother's DN does not mention her. So, either she did not belong or she died before 1849. ~1794 - 1851 Jacomina Frederica Elizabeth Martens 56 56 Her mother died in their house. Her daughter was a widow at the time.
Also found at:
http://geneagraphie.com/getperson.php?personID=I1372676&tree=1
Look at her husband's brother Gabrielo Stephanus Mare for the origen of the song Sarie Marais.,
First Graaff Reinet entry I found under baptisms. They witnessed the baptism of Jacob Phillipus Marias on 26 Feb 1823.
Before her death she lived at Buffelshoek, Graaff Reinet.
DN date of deayh illegible and could also be 1857

 ~1796 - 1870 Josua Joachim Francois Martens 74 74 SPELT MARTENS in ref below
I have him in Graaff Reinet. Recorded by Orphan Chamber Reference no.: MOOC8/37.42 where:  inventaris van alle zodanige goederen en effecten als er door wylen Daniel Petrus Boshof en desselfs nagelaten huisvrouw Hermina Johanna Petzer in gemeenschap bezeeten, en door eerst gem:de ab intestato met er dood ontruimd en nagelaten mitsgaders heeden op genomen en in waaren weezen zyn bevonden geworden, te weeten. He is listed as a debtor for 2 months debt by the estate of Daniel Petrus Boshof. 1798 - <1849 Jacobus Daniel Martens 51 51 Witesses at baptism were;
Matthys Daniel Martens
Jacobus Francois Naude
Susanna Haarhoff
Elizabeth Joubert

Not mentioned on his mother;s DN of 1849. 1800 - 1877 Jan Thomas(1) Martens 77 77 Voortrekker
Lived in Agter Sneeuberg before Trek.
Started Trek between May 1838 and April 1941 according to Jan C Visagie. According to other sources it would have been the earlier date as some sources list him as being in Natal by 1839. Family sources give date as 1836.
Tant Hettie notes;
Moves from Graaff Reinet 1836. Got 6000 acres on "Table Mountain".

Donor: Voortrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg, 1936; 4ff.              
SUMMARY   +    Miscellaneous items: card in memory of Voortrekker  Jan Martens, died 1877-02-20; Bochompoel versus Bochompaal, a poem by TJA Mare.   

Was op Boedrivier Du Toit p. 74
ook JT JUNIOR - SAME REFERENCE.
DU TOIT, A.G. en L. STEENKAMP (reds), Bloedrivierse Eeufeesgedenkboek. Pietermaritzburg 1838
Additional references Lys 47, 2/4/1840: Lys 48, 4/4/1841, no 41; J Opgaafrol Somerset, Agter Sneeugerg 1825 no 145, KAB, de V, pp149, 156; GAFN, pp 83, 340; Manuaskrip van Dr. J.A. Heese, RGN library.
They were in Natal in 1836/9
My info ex Hettie = 1836 to Pmb
(=Hettie)They lived on DOORNHOEK)
Gets 6000 acres @ Table Mountain
16 children
Doorn Hoek granted to Jan Thomas in 1847
Refer also to http://www.pmbhistory.co.za/portal/witnesshistory/custom_modules/Supplement_PDFs/William_Hursthouse's_Pietermaritzburg_Journal.pdf

This journal gives views of William Hurst and describes hunting party and visit to Doornhoek abt 1848. Also meniotns and provides picture of Table Mountain near Doornhoek. 1801 - 1887 Hendrik Jacobus Martens 85 85 Voortrekker
Lived in dist Graaff Reeinet before Trek.
In July 1839 he was already in Natal.
Was op Bloedrivier met Jan Thomas. Volksraad ken n erf in PMB aan hom toe in 1839 TPX/G/136;Visagie p.135
visagie, j. Voortrekkerstamouers 1835-1845 Pretoria, 2000 1805 Nicolaas Johannes Zeeberg Martens South Africa, Cape Province Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970    
spouse:    Jacobus Maartens
child:    Nicolaas Johannes Zeeberg Maartens     
record title:    South Africa, Cape Province Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970
name:    Nicolaas Johannes Geeberg Maartens
event:    Baptism
event place:    Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
father:    Jacobus Maartens
mother:    Maria Magdalena Joubert
digital folder number:    443439

"South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VFTS-CYC : accessed 10 Nov 2012), Jacobus Maartens in entry for Nicolaas Johannes Zeeberg Maartens, 1805. 1808 Anna Margaretha Jacoba Martens Baptised Maartens. 1815 Anna Margaretha Elizabeth Martens New entry from Family Search mormon site.  Not in previous records, 1810 - 1887 Elizabeth Maria Roos 77 77 Voortrekker
REGISTER VAN VOORTREKKERSTAMMOEDERS
(Uit: Visagie, J.C. 2000. Voortrekkerstamouers, 1835-1845.
Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria) SAG gives her names as Elizabeth Maria Roos but from her son Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens DN she is given as Anna Katriena Elizabeth.
Gravestone is Elizabeth Maria
 1833 - 1909 Susanna Kathrina Martens (Gertrude) 75 75 Voortrekker
Owned propert on farm "Klipspruit", Utrecht,.


 1839 - 1903 Elizabeth Maria Martens (Hendrika) 64 64 Voortrekker
Birth: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp
On baptismal register they are Martins.
Her DN states that there are no chidren. In her will everything is left to her niece and daughters e-enforcing the story that her "niece" is actaually her daughter adopted by Jacobus Joshua Martens and Elizabeth Catharina Jacoba Maria Martens

Voortrekker Baptisms Transcript. Kinderen door Ds. Daniel Lindley te Pietermaritzburg gedoopt, entry number 37. Repository: National Archives Repository, Pretoria., FK 2290, which is a transcript of a number of the early baptismal register now in churches in the Free State and the Transvaal..





1841 - 1915 Jacobus Joshua Francois Martens 74 74 ABW
POW
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp
See also transcripts scanned by Rod under
JJF Martens ABW for a description of the battle.
Another reference is the retelling of a ABW war story and life during those times by SMS HOLDER born Coetzee from a scan by Rod and now as a freebie at CD Booksrus.; http://www.cdbooks-r-us.com/freebies/coetzee-abo.pdf

Prisoners Of War:
Number:         30886
Surname:         MAARTENS
Name:         JACOBUS JOSHUA FRANCOIS
Age:         61
Address:         VRIJHEID
District:         VRIJHEID
Captured Where:    LANGEGELEGEN
Captured When:    1902/02/20
Camp:         ONBEKEND
Country:         ONBEKEND
Ship (To):         ONBEKEND
Ship (Back):     N/A

Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. ~1844 - >1895 Maria Magdalena Martens 51 51 1846 - 1912 Wilemina Magdalena Martens 65 65 Gravestone erected by her sister-in-law Anna Maria Isabella.
Unmarried. 1848 - 1919 Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens 71 71 He farmed on Wuthering Heights as some of his children came from there at time of marriage.
According to his DN he was living at Sophiadale at the time of his death. When he died the following children had already died;
Jan Thomas
Jacobus
Dewald Johannes
Gert Lucas signed his DN.
According to the Will the following;
Charles Gustav gets Whiterock, 3000acres
Jacobus Martens gets 2600 acres of Raw and Greehams Land, name unknown.
Gert Lucas gets Welverdient,
Paul Petrus and Stephanus Johannes equally gets Vlakvarklaaget and Sophiadale.
Then there was a trus fund set up and the children gall got one eighth shares.
NOW; Zondana, 2123 acres and Toggekry, 600 acres to make up Wuthering Heights.
The other farms mentioned are Onrust (part of Welverdient)  and Heartsease in Weenen county, as well as Krantzkloof (rented). Also Malingane which was a portion of Wuthering Heights.

What was disconcerting is that in the execution of the will half of Wuthering Heights and Togekry was to go to "Dewald Johannes Van der Merwe Martens, son of Dewald Johannes Martens minor (deceased son of the late H.J.Martens)".

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1005_051005_bird_flu.html
Two strains of Spanish Flu hit SA in Sep 1918. The less virulent strain entered via Durban and spread rapidly to the Witwatersrand whist the second and more virulent strain entered Cape Town from Freetown, Sierra Leone on 13 Sep 1918. It spread quickly on two axes causing many deaths. Estimates range from 140000 -300000 dead in SA alone, whilst it is estimated that one billion people or half the world’s population was infected.

 1856 Jan Thomas Martens 1858 - 1943 Anna Maria Isabella Martens 84 84 Have Death Notice
Her father was Jan Thomas & mother Anna Catarina Elisabeth Pretorius. So she and her husband were cousins. She was born on Broedershoek, Kranskloof.
NOTE: Her death certificate states that her fathere was John Thomas Martens and her mother Elizabeth Maria. My records indicate her father as Jan Thomas and her mother as Anna Catharina Elkizabeth Pretorius.
After he died, she lived in Voortrekker Str. Greytown.
On her Death Certificate her mother is given as "Elizabeth Maria Martens".
1878 - 1879 Hendrik Jacobus Martens 8m 8m 1883 - 1919 Jacobus (Koos) Martens 35 35 Lived at Vlakvarkvlakte, Umvoti
 1886 - 1919 Dewald Johannes Martens 32 32 Have Death Notice

Lived at Wuthering Heights at time of marriage.
 1768 - 1829 Hendrina Magdalena van der Merwe 60 60 Hendrina Magdalena VAN DER MERWE (AFN:1BNS-019)
Familysearch:     Film Number:      471810

Christianing: 26 JUN 1768

Father: David Schalk Van Der Merwe 1739 Drakenstein  - 1800 [also Died 4 May 1798 in Camdeboo;              Veldwagmeester and Heemraad of Graaf-Reinet.
Mother: Anna Maria Pretorius      m Tulbach 25/5/1760

Her brother: "Source: Hendrik Louw database.
b2c9d6e1 David Schalk VAN DER MERWE * 19.4.1761 ~Tulbagh 26.4.1761 [son of
David Schalk 1739 - 1800 and Anna Maria Pretorius]"
 1808 - 1879 Anna (Anne) Maria Isabella Coetzee 71 71 Voortrekker
Father: Cornelis Jacobus Coetzee b. 1760, Mother: Maria Sibella Swanepoel
Acording to Jan C Visagie she was b7c7d1e9, not e10
She was 15 when they got married.

REGISTER VAN VOORTREKKERSTAMMOEDERS
(Uit: Visagie, J.C. 2000. Voortrekkerstamouers, 1835-1845.
Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria)
Opgedra aan ons stammoeders

EGGSA translated inscription to born; 1806 and died 1871. 1824 - 1892 Jacobus Cornelis Martens 68 68 Voortrekker
DN has his death date as 6 MAR 1892.
Lived in the Agter-Sneeuberg (vroeer ondedr Graff-Reinet en later onder Cradock.) , Somerset.
South African Genealogies; GAFN, p340; Manuskrip van Dr J.A.Heese, RGN Library states: It is possible that he moved to Natal much later after his father as his 5th child (&after?) was born in PMB  Visagie tells the same story in Voortrekkerstamouers.
At the time of his birth his parents were living in the Veldkornetskap of Veldkornet S. Coetzee
He was only 10 in 1834 when the Trek started. It must be assumed that he possibly moved back to Graaff Reinet as his parents would not have left him behind at that age. I question Heeses's assumption. 1829 - 1910 Jan Thomas Martens 81 81 Voortrekker
Probably last wife Maria van Rooyen on photograph. He was 70y and she abt 27y old.
With parents on Somerset, Agter Sneeugerg - refer to father
*       Lived at Broedershoek, Greytown (maybe).
Farmed Highbury
Was abt 7 during the Great Trek
Farmed on Doornhoek at time of marriage
Martens, Jan Thomas (4) m. Anna Catharina Elizabeth n. Pretorious
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
 ~1831 - 1890 Martha Elizabeth Johanna Martens 59 59 Previous b. 1832
Voortrekker
From SAG unallocated : Martha Elizabeth Johanna Maartens x Johan Hendrik RIES 1830 - 1884 Maria Isabella Magdalena Martens 54 54 Voortrekker
From Doornhoek at time of marriage to Charles 1838 - 1866 Elisabetta Catharina Jacoba Martens (Maria) 28 28 Voortrekker
Her birth in abt 1842 according to marriage certificate.
Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. 1842 - 1874 Gertruida Christina Martens 32 32 Born 1853 according to marriage certificate. 1844 - 1897 Josua Laurens Francois Martens 52 52 1847 Hendrik Jacobus Martens 1849 - 1935 Hendrik Jacobus Martens (Philippus) 86 86 Also farms on Doornhoek.

When he married Elizabeth he was farming on Table Mountain/

He built the homestead on Doornhoek, Bishopstowe.
Hendrik Jacobus Philippus Martens (1849-1935)(son of Jan Thomas 1st who was granted land for a farm in that area). Over the years Doornhoek was divided up into about 5 lots. The house was built from shale quarried from the farm lands, cement and mud, and took about three years to complete. Yellowwood was used for the beams and ceilings. Today the roofing is still the original galvanised iron and is still leakproof. Hendrik built the house for his bride Elizabeth Magnus who had come out to South Africa to stay with the Bishop of Colenso. When Hendrik died his son Alexander Phillip took over the farm and from him it passed to his son, the present owner, Alexander Magnus Martens and his wife Norma. In the valley which Doornhoek overlooks is a small cemetery encloised with a stone wall that contain the graves of early settlers including that of Hendrik.

1849 Johannes Stephanus Martens (Pieter) Also given as 1847. 1839 - 1883 Anna Catharina Elisabeth Pretorius 44 44 Father: Dewald Johannes Pretorius
Mother: Elisabeth Jacoba Pretorius
She was a sister of Andries Pretorius ...question the relationship.
Her parents were Voortrekkers and she was born in PMB in 1839. 1833 - 1906 Charles Liversage 72 72 Father:      Samuel Liversage     Family
Mother:  Harriet Elizabeth Bond

Father      Samuel Liversage | F12583 Group Sheet
Mother      Harriet Elizabeth Bond | F12583 Group Sheet
http://www.1820settlers.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Genealogy&file=familygroup&familyID=F12593&tree=1
Under 1820 settlers he travelled to Natal with his parents and a Voortrekker group but  not listed in Voortrekkerstamouers.

Notes from Shelagh Spencers work now available online
1840.08.26    Charles bapt.  Fort Beaufort (SAG [SS])
1856.10.20    Aged 23, farmer of Umgeni, in Pmb. m. Maria Isabella Magdalena Martens, 21, of Doornhoek. (R.DRC Pmb)
1856.10.20    Aged 23, farmer of Umgeni, in Pmb. m. Maria Isabella Magdalena Martens, 21, of Doornhoek. (R.DRC Pmb)
1861.12.18    Purchased farm Groenkop from Peter Brewer. [Bruwer, Pieter. (SO’BS)]  (RSC I/5/63 no.929)
1868.07.26    Sub. C of Nooitgedacht transferred to Thos, Wm and Charles Liversage. (D/T via JKG)
1869.10.04    Member of Greytown Mounted Rifles. Issued with an Enfield and a Terry. (GTN RM’s CB)
1874.09.17    Beneficiary in parents’ estate. Living near Ficksburg, OFS. (RSC 1/8/57 no. 5331)
1884.09.07    Wife Maria [Isabella] Magdalena d. (MSC66/1907, MSCE 27/177)
1885.11.04    m. Susannah Petronella Britz at Lydenberg. MSC 66/1907, MSCE 27/177). Formerly Rossouw. (AS)
1891.10.00    Was of Riet Vlei, Standerton, when he made his will. (MSC 66/1907)(MSCE 27/177)
1906.08.22    Charles d. aged 72yrs 10mths 3dys at Vryheid. Was of the farm Vriesnet, Vryheid District. (MSCE 27/177)(MSC 66/1907)

 1840 - 1921 John McKenzie Cameron 81 81 1827 - 1861 Anna Cornelia Maria Martens 34 34 Voortrekker
BENC has her names as Anna Cornelia Maria
Fairfield

REGISTER VAN VOORTREKKERSTAMMOEDERS
(Uit: Visagie, J.C. 2000. Voortrekkerstamouers, 1835-1845.
Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria)
Opgedra aan ons stammoeders
Die persone wat genoem word “eggenoot van ...” is almal vrouens wie se mans reeds in die Kolonie oorlede is en as gesinshoof of gewoon saam met haar kinders aan die Trek deelgeneem het.  Waar “vrou van ...” genoem word, is dit ’n blote indeksering van die vrou omdat haar man reeds alfabeties in die hooflys of teks verskyn.
Die woord stamouers is nogal problematies: by ons in Suid-Afrika word dit verstaan dat dit die oorspronklike ouerpaar is wat na Suid-Afrika gekom het.  Skrywer het die term Voortrekkerstamouers gebruik in die sin dat dit die ware Trekkers of vroegste Trekkergesinshoofde was en nie hulle kinders of afstammelinge nie.  Hier slaan dit dus ook op die woord “oorspronklike”, hoewel nie die ware stamouers van die familie nie.  In ’n paar gevalle was daar wel ware stamouers van ’n familie wat Voortrekkers geword het, soos enkele Nederlanders en Duitsers. Gewoonlik is hulle meegesleur deur die trekaksie omdat hulle vrouens en skoonouers meegegaan het en hulle hul mettertyd volkome met die Trekkers se ideale vereenselwig het. — dr. Jan Visagie, skrywer 1809 - 1880 Jan Abraham Joubert 71 71 Voortrekker
Father: Josua JOUBERT c: 10 Oct 1779 in Drakenstein
Mother: Hester Jacoba BOTHA c: 29 Jun 1791 in Swellendam

UID: 559C37B451A5465E98118619BF5FFF9D7813
ID: I6699
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=erikkriel&id=I6699
Before trek lived either at Baviaansrivier, Somerset or adjoining Winterberg Albany
Date of trek possibly 1837
Settled in Natal and later in Lydenburg

 1773 - 1807 Abraham Andreas de Villiers 34 34 Father: Pieter de Villiers, Mother: Elisabeth Joubert

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp ~1772 Francois de Nicker 1892 - 1957 Jacomina Louisa van der Westhuizen 64 64 Problem here. W do not know about Ouma ever remarrying. Also birthdate according to marriage certificate given as 1894.
In NAAIRS Death date for estate given as 1967 1913 - 1987 Anna Magrita Isabella Martens 74 74 From Heartsease, Estcourt, Natal.
Last known address : SOUTPANSBERGWEG 39 RIVIERA PRETORIA 1914 - 2001 Devilla Martens (Jacomina) 87 87 1915 - 1916 Christina Martens (Hertzogina) 8m 8m 1919 - 1986 Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens 67 67 Saasveld Forestry College is a college for the training of foresters, situated on the Garden Route in South Africa between George and Knysna. Before moving to its present location in 1932, it was located at Tokai, Cape Town.
Built on a rise between the Outeniqua Mountains and the Indian Ocean, the college commands sweeping views of fynbos-covered mountains and indigenous high forest. Between 1932 and 1985, it trained about 1300 foresters who were subsequently employed by the State and private companies such as Mondi and Sappi.
During the 1800s development in the Cape Colony led to an increased demand for structural and furniture timber. This led to an unhealthy strain on the indigenous forests of the Southern Cape, which had been exploited since the days of Jan van Riebeeck. Farsighted planning obviously called for the establishment of plantations of fast-growing exotic trees and the necessary trained foresters to manage them. To meet this need, the South African College Schools (SACS) started a course for forest rangers in 1902, but was superseded by the Tokai School for Forest Apprentices in 1912. At that stage forestry fell under the Department of Agriculture and was more conservation-oriented than concerned with afforestation; consequently the output of foresters was very small at that time. With the rapid growth of the timber industry, it was decided to relocate Saasveld to its present position on the farm Pampoenkraal, due to its proximity to indigenous forest, open areas suitable for plantations of exotics, sawmills in the vicinity and drying kilns in George. Many explorers, naturalists and botanists such as Thunberg, Sparrman, Le Vaillant, Drège, Ecklon and Zeyher had visited the farm in the preceding two centuries. In 1854 the farm was subdivided and the portion on which the college would eventually be built, was bought by the baroness Gesina van Rede van Oudtshoorn, and named Saasveld after her ancestral castle in Overyssel in Holland. In 1867 Thomas Bain, the famous road-maker, had surveyed the main road heading east to Knysna and passing through Pampoenkraal. In those days a toll gate was sited near the present entrance to Saasveld. In 1917 Saasveld was bought by the George Forest Timber Co., and later acquired by Searles Limited. In 1928 ownership of the land finally passed to the State and work started on construction of the College.
 1925 - 2013 Helena Hendrina Catharina Venter 88 88 Last known address 84 Aspen Crescent, Zwartkops X4, Centurion.
 1948 Dewald Johannes Martens 1952 Daleen Martens 1957 - 2015 Marius Martens 57 57 1961 Henda Louise Martens 1945 - 2011 Johanna Susanna van Schalkwyk 66 66 1974 Tanya Martens 1977 Hendrik Jakobus Van der Merwe Martens 1958 Robin Dixon 1981 Jana Brown 1803 - 1850 Anna Catharina Maria Pretorius 46 46 Father:      Roelof Gerhardus Petrus Pretorius     Disc #145     Pin #4062400     
Mother:      Anna Catharina Hatting     Disc #145     Pin #4062401
Anna Catharina Hatting    Compact Disc #145     Pin #4062401

According to TAB her estate was filed in 1862.
REFERENCE O/19764                                                              
PART      1                                                                    
DESCRIPTION          MAARTENS, ANNA CATHARINA MARIA. (PRETORIUS).                         
STARTING  18620000                                                             
ENDING    18620000                                                             
REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE JOZUA JOACHIM FRANCOIS MAARTENS.        1885 - 1934 Aletta Helena Isabella van der Westhuizen 49 49 Van Letha;
My ma se ouers was van der Westhuizens. Baie eng godsdienstige mense. My ma het die wonderlikste stories oor hulle vertel.  Ingesluit dat Oupa vd Westhuizen gesê het dat sy dogter nooit-ooit met die goddelose Martense sal trou nie! Toe het Lettie en Koos Martens “elope”. Hulle was drie jaar getroud sonder dat oupa dit agter gekom het. Koos het elke aand met ‘n leer deur die venster na die boonste verdieping geklim om by sy vrou te slaap. 4.30vm Was hy op, en weg op sy perd. Die dag toe sy swanger is moes sy vir oupa sê!
Toe forseer hy ‘n groot familie troue op hulle! Hulle was ontsettend gelukkig getroud.  Koos Martens was baie suksesvolle boer en het ‘n wonderlike sin vir humor gehad.  My ma het dit van hom geërf!  Sy was 1 jr oud toe hy met die Spaanse griep sterf.
 1911 - 1992 Willem Louw Maritz 80 80 Inherits according to Mother's last will and testament the farm Mount Maria Lot A of Waaiplaats in Weenen dist. 1005 acres. Abraham Botha 1975 Paul Botha 1975 Delia Botha 1973 Debi Botha 1954 Jeanette Ann Tolmie 1986 Margo Martens 1988 Fraser Martens 1988 Anchen Martens 1960 - 2001 Sydney Reginald Esbach 41 41 1988 Dane Louise Esbach 1991 Wian John Esbach 1992 Tanika Helena Esbach Wayne Cox 1969 Frans Jacob Hermanus Labuscagne 1999 Matthew Dixon 2001 Justine Elizabeth Dixon 2006 Kyle Bradley Dixon 2005 Lara Labuscagne 2009 Stephan Labuscagne 1882 - 1950 Alexander Philippus Martens 68 68 Farms on Doornhoek - his father's farm
Check also for a possible marriage to Norma Hacking ~1891 Hedwig Anna Maria Meyer From Bishopstowe at marriage 1877 - 1936 Henry John Thomas Martens 58 58 Hluhluwe
On Doornhoek at time of marriage
In his Estate file he clearly owns part of Doornhoek and leased The Gums as two parcels from the gov.
Henry John Thomas Martens according to his Death Notice.
Birthplace was PMB but his nationality is given as British
Residence = "The Gums" Hluhluwe
BENC gives names as Hendrik Johannes Thomas Martins
He settled The Gums in Hluhluwe.
Michelle Hutson (grandaughter) told on FB that Harry donated a 3-legged hen to the Natal Museum. 1884 - ~1961 Meta Isabella Martens 77 77 Think they also lived on Doornhoek 1887 Gertrude Eveline Martens From Doornhoek at time of marriage.
Marriage register signed by her oldest brother and Frederich Schroenn. 1889 - ~1965 Elizabeth May Martens 76 76 Spinster
According to Marriage certificate she should have been born around 1909.? 1920 - 1988 Alexander Magnus Martens 67 67 From Doornhoek when married to Norma.
Last known address DOORNHOEK PO BISHOPTOWE  1857 Harriet Elizabeth Martens Left only 1 shilling in her father's estate "for various reasons" but the two grandsons got equal shares in the farm Lootshoek. 1859 - 1919 Jan Thomas Martens 59 59 From Umvoti when he married Susanna.
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
Martens, Jan Thomas (1), b. 1859 m.Susannah Engela Vermaak, 9 children, m. Anna Magritha Wessels (of Honeyfontein), 2 children Regina and Johannes Bernadus, d. intestate on 1918.
He farmed at Honeyfontein
Must also have been on Fairfield as his son Cornelius Jacobus was born on Fairfield.
(NOTE: Honeyfontein was also the birthplace of Louis Botha sic "Born on the farm Honeyfontein (Heuningfontein) in 1862, Louis Botha went on to become the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1919.)
Also: A cairn on the farm Honeyfontein situated on the Pietermaritzburg road marks the spot where in 1862 Louis Botha was born, the 8th of 13 children. 
The Heine Spruit was in flood and his mother couldn't make it back to Greytown to the family farm Onrust! 
He attended the Hermannsburg Mission School and left the district at the age of about 12.
Louis was to become Commandant-General of Transvaal forces after distinguishing himself at Ladysmith, Colenso and Spioenkop during the South Africa War. Later in 1910 he became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa and in 1919 he attended the peace Conference in Versailles. 

According to Nicola Harris, Annie grew up on Groenkop, Seven Oaks 1861 - 1929 Samuel Jacobus Martens 67 67 Death Notice: Residence given as Greytown
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Must have farmed on Groenkop as Auwinius was born there. 1866 - 1920 Cornelis Jacobus Martens 54 54 Rhy Hill, Seven Oaks

 1868 - 1920 Jacobus (Klein Koos) Cornelis Martens 52 52
1877 - 1941 Maria Francina Scheepers 64 64 Martens, Jacobus Cornelius m. Maria Francina n. Scheeper
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick

Lived at pavillion Hotel in Durban at time of marriage to Johnson. 1899 - >1919 Cornelis Jacobus Martens 19 19 Death date unknown but signed his parents joint Will in 1919. 1902 - 1983 Johannes Stephanus Scheepers Martens 80 80 Martens, Johannes Stefanus Scheepers b. 28 March 1902 d. son of JC and MF, m.Marion Dugmar Marshall d.21 Jan 1983
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
Last known address 4 ELIZABETH PLACE 50 ROBERTS ROAD PIETERMARITZBURG  1907 - 1985 Fredrick Francis Martens 77 77 Alternative names from marriage certificate.

http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
Martens,Frederick Francis, b 7 Oct 1906 m. Lulu Ann (b. Mc Cleod) children Valerie Joy,Charles Creighton, Dudley Richard and David Felix, d.26 March 1985
Fairfield was bought from his grandfather Basheesa in 1927.
Fairfield Sub D in extent 18,1274 ha Description changed to Lot 3 (not 4 as one would have expected)
transferred from Francis Freidrick Martens to Edith Elizabeth Comins on 28 November 1939 by Deed of Transfer T6335/1939
Last known address 33A OKES STREET GREYTOWN
1905 Helena Salomina Martens Fairfield Sub B in extent 128 acres 34,014 sq feet
•    transferred from Helena Salomina Hobbs (b Martens and married to Leonard Beechener Hobbs, commercial traveller) and Friedrick Francis Martens to John Rudolph Torlage on 6 July 1931 by Deed of Transfer2297/1931
 ~1908 Leonard Beechner Hobbs 1910 Lulu Ann Mc Cleod 1936 Valerie Joy Martens 1939 Dudley Richard Martens 1940 Charles Creighton Martens 1935 David Felix Martens 1936 Ferdinand Gustav Erlank NN NN 1970 Meridy Elizabeth Veenstra nn Martens nn Martens nn Martens 1932 Moira Jean Martens Estimated date of birth on marriage certificate is 1928. 1932 John Cracoft Martens From wife's DN 1933 - 2015 Gillian Mary Wimbush 82 82 Alternative spelling from voters rolls.
The Mercury / Daily News Wednesday 9 Dec 2015
MARTENS nee WIMBUSH Gillian Mary 10 Feb 1933 ----3 Dec 2015. Memorial at
Howick Methodist Church on 11 Dec 2015 at 10am. OAKLEIGH  033 3426116.
Death notice at Masters Office; https://icmsweb.justice.gov.za/mastersinformation/MastersOfficeWebPortal/DeceasedSearch
Her son James Eric was executor. ~1924 Dennis Arthur Plint From Stone Rd, Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town 1961 Anthony Paul Martens Lived in Dundee in Dec 2016 1964 Vanessa Jean Anne Martens 1961 James Eric Martens Class of 78 Maritzburg College
In 1986 his address was Inverallan 11, Keswick Road 36, Morningside
 1962 Janet Frances Martens Girls High School Pietermaritzburg class of 79 Simon John Plint Andrew Charles Plint 1861 - 1904 Angenita Adendorff 42 42 From Hope Farm when married Samuel.

Angenita pre-deceased Samuel (she died in 1904.)
Not clear what children she had. Seems clear that Samuelina Susanna Elizabeth was daughter of 2nd wife as names are similar

SAG gives her name as Agnieta

Parents: SAG: Johan Christoffel * 6.11.1825 ≈ Paarl 22.1.1826 x Maria AVELING 1884 - 1951 Cornelius Christopher Martens 67 67 Alternative spelling from marriage certificate 1887 - 1969 Johan Jacobus Adendorff Martens 81 81 This was where the The Battle of Gingindlovu on 2nd April 1879 took place to break the siege of Eshowe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gingindlovu

Will dated 4th February, 1950 and signed at Plot 64 Benoni Small Farms, district Eshowe, Zuluand. In the estate Plot 122 was sold to P.J. Malan for R12,500.

A document that can be seen at the archives in PMB:-
NAB; SOURCE    NDR; TYPE      LEER; VOL_NO 5/3; REF. V 3341(A)/1908; DESCR. NATAL MILITIA FORCE: VOLUNTARY ENROLMENT FORMS: UMVOTI MOUNTED RIFLES. HENRY JOHANNES DAFEL; THOMAS FRED GREENAWAY; LOUIS LAATZ; HEINRICH WILLIAM LILGE; JOHN JAMES LISTER; GERT BOTHA MARTENS; JOHAN JACOBUS ADENDORFF MARTENS; DANIEL ADRIAN NEL; CHARLES         
NORTHCOTE TYLER; IGNATIUS LEOPOLD VAN ROOYEN.  START 1908...END 1909 ~1894 - <1904 Victoria Benjamina Liversage Martens 10 10 1897 - 1958 Louise Johanna Martens 60 60 From Groenkop when she married Volek.
Lived at 3 Enfield Court, Umbilo, Durban when she married the second time. 1894 - ~1959 Heinrich Frank Edmund Volek 65 65 From 14 Myrtle Rd Durban when he married Louise. ~1897 - ~1962 Harold William Bulley 65 65 1863 - 1939 Elizabeth Susanna Prinsloo 75 75 Have Death Notice
Lived at Catrhcart St. , Greytown as a widow when she died. 1879 - 1960 Louisa Sophia Konigkramer 81 81 1908 Sylvia Eliza Angenita Martens 1914 - 1952 Herwald Wynand Martens 38 38 1916 - 1994 Alwyn Martens 78 78 Last known address 17 OTTAWA COURT 110 GILLESPIE STREET DURBAN  1920 - 1997 Dodo Alexandra Pieterse 76 76 Last known address 17 OTTAWA COURT 110 GILLESPIE STREET DURBAN  1942 - 2008 Barry Martens 66 66 1944 Wendy Martens 1925 David Ross 1965 Sean Michael Martens (Heyns) 1967 Allanho Martens 1974 Elisa Martens 1968 Vicky Ross 1970 Karen Ross 1923 - 2006 Hazel Eva Ristow 83 83 1952 Anne-Marie Georgia Paizis 1952 Margaret Reid 1980 Martin Alan Braylsford Hammond Paul Jonathan Hammond 1980 Nicolas Yves Hammond An update on my son, Nicolas - he is living in Bangkok, Thailand, teaching English to matriculation students and adults. It seems he is happy and after 3 years there I suspect he will stay. 1911 - 1912 Alwyn Samuel Martens 1 1 1909 Cyril Graham Hearn ~1881 Anna Margaretha Wessels Martens, Jan Thomas (1), b. 1859 m.Susannah Engela Vermaak, 9 children, m. Anna Magritha Wessels (of Honeyfontein), 2 children Regina and Johannes Bernadus, d. intestate on 1918
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick 1918 Johannes Bernardus Martens In 1986 he was a pensioner and living at Gondor Hall 3, Commissionerstr 30, Nigel
 1916 Regina Martens From Honeyfontein when she married Coetzee 1900 - 1932 Christiaan De Wet Martens 31 31 Fom marriage cert. was from Greytown when married
Have Death Notice
 ~1899 - 1926 Adele Lina Wilhelmina Konigkramer (Therise) 27 27 From Westville 1898 - 1977 Anna Martens 78 78 From Honeyfontein when they married.
http://www.greytown.co.za/family%20trees/martens/anniemartens.htm#Marriage%20and

Nicola Harris, her great-granddaughter wrote the school project from her diary.
 1893 - 1976 Alfred John Harris 82 82 Was a clerk when they married.
Estate agent, auctioneer, mayor
Alfie was the son of Mr and Mrs G. W. Harris, a large cartage contractor in Greytown.
Bought Quarme 13484 on 16 April 1948 for his son to farm 1894 - 1961 Thomas Izak Martens 67 67 Lived in Yorkst. Greytown when he married Johanna. 1897 - 1948 Carolina Maria Elisa Konigkramer (Eleanora) 50 50 From Westville 1890 - ~1966 Harriet Elizabeth Martens 75 75 1884 - 1967 Louis Nel Maritz 82 82 1888 - 1919 Cornelius Jacobus (Majuba) Martens 31 31 Illegible on Death Notice - Looks like "Misdeg" Seven Oaks D. 1957 Margaret Lillian Garbutt From Sydenham in Durban.

Martens, Cornelius (Majuba) m. Margaret Lillian Garbutt, 2 children JT(5) and Robert Garbutt Oliver, d. before his wife who died in 1957
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm

Martens, Margaret Lillian  n. Garbutt, m. C, d. 9 Feb 1957
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick 1885 - 1945 Johanna Susara Dorothea Martens 60 60 ~1882 - ~1958 George Charles Frederick Harris 76 76 1883 - 1959 Victoria Engela Martens 75 75 1881 - 1944 Casper Hendrik Short 63 63 1881 - 1966 Susanna Victoria Engela Martens 84 84 From Groenkop. 1880 - 1948 Gerhardus Adriaan Rall 67 67 1850 - 1929 Thomas Perry 78 78 1904 - 1990 Johanna Margaretha van Heerden 86 86 Lived on farm Keerom when she married Thomas.
Last known address BETSIE VERWOERD TEHUIS CONRADRYLAAN 76A BLAIRGOWRIE  1919 - 2002 Eric Vernon Martens 83 83 Marrried by special licence in Presbyterian Church.
Worked at Howick Military Hospital at time of marriage.
Last known address 203 HARINGTON VILLAGE OF HAPPINESS
At time of voter registration have Eric Vernon, Heather and Cedric at The Gate Store, PO Munster.  1921 Doreen Eunice Martens 1928 - 1971 Desmond Frank Martens 43 43 1926 - 2006 Stella Anna Johanna Thole 80 80 Last known address 239 YORK ST GREYTOWN
Also had a birth date as 15 Jul 1926 1949 Stella Lynette Martens 1950 - 2011 Desmond Ray Martens 60 60 011411/2011    PIETERMARITZBURG MASTERS OFFICE
In 1986 he was living in Springs. 1956 - 2010 Andre Thomas Martens 53 53 023935/2012    JOHANNESBURG MASTERS OFFICE 1960 Marianne Haussner 1954 Judy Hepworth 1980 Andrew Martens 1982 Craig Martens 1985 Claire Martens 1948 Stephen Wessel Fouche ~1918 Johannes Albertus Gerhardus Nel 1923 - 2014 Doreen Yuill Cadman 90 90 Estate number 002679/2014    DURBAN MASTERS OFFICE 1946 Cedric Yuill Martens 1948 Caroline Maree Martens 1946 Heather Sheila Braithwaite 1933 Paul Daniel Strydom 1974 Garth Lance Martens 1976 Lindy Gaye Martens According to ID NO search she was born 10 Aug. 1975. 1909 - 1966 Jan (Jack) Thomas Martens 56 56 Martens, Jan Thomas (Jack)(5), b. 23 Sep 1909 m. May Martens, children Shirley Anne and Jan Harold, d. at Westville on 26 Feb 1966
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick

There is a "Jack Martens Street" in Westville 1915 - 1961 Robert Garbutt Oliver Martens 46 46 1908 - 1986 Alice May Waddilove 77 77 http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
Martens, Jan Thomas (Jack)(5), b. 23 Sep 1909 m. May Martens, children Shirley Anne and Jan Harold, d. at Westville on 26 Feb 1966.
Last known address 44 JAN HOFMEYER ROAD WESTVILLE  1924 Alice Marshall 240423 0046 00 7
 1933 Shirley- Ann Martens 1940 Jan Harold Martens 19400928 5000 00 0
 1939 Bridget Cunningham Hopkins 19390805 1000 00 0
 1860 - 1950 Jan Thomas Martens 90 90 Descibed as "........of Broedershoek" in his last joint will

Martens, Jan Thomas (3), b. 1859/60 m. Susanna Maria van Rooyen on 6 Dec 1881 (age on marriage certificate given as 21) d. 24 Aug 1950 Letters of Executorship 1966/1950 in favour of Percival Claude Manning dated 21 September 1950
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
After he retired he moved to Greytown ("Stiilewoning" in Sergeant Street) & married Ivy
 1868 - 1920 Roelof Gerhardus Petrus Martens 52 52 They lived and were buried on the farm "Jammersdal" in the Kranskop area
Have Death Notice
He farmed on Jammerdal, Kranskop
Estate number 5833

Alternative names taken from his marriage certificate.

 1864 - 1930 Jacobus Cornelis Martens 65 65 Have Death notice
Check birth - Death Notice gives his age as 64yrs & 4 mnths
In his estate filles at;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7P-23V7-X?i=353&cat=229462)
he owned trhe following properties which were to be sold at auction;
Farm Highbury comprising of;
1. Lot B of Hartebeestvlakte 200 acres
2. Remainder of Hartebeestvlakte 547 acres
3. Remainder of subdivision A of portion D of Hartebeestvlakte
4. Subdivision B of Subdivision C of subdivision AB of Broedershoek 16 acres

THE NATAL AFRIKANER AND THE ANGLO-BOER WAR
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03072006-095936/unrestricted/08chapter8.pdf
Acting on information provided by an Afrikaner loyalist from Greytown, Jan (TJ) Nel, and without
informing the magistrates of either the Umvoti or the Kranskop districts, Mills removed the
following individuals to Pietermaritzburg: FE van Rooyen (stock inspector), LMJ van Rooyen jnr
(Wonderfontein), PH van Rooyen (Good Hope), Ds GS Malan (Greytown), John Keyter (Frogmore),
LMJ and PJ Nel (Ongegund), TJ, JPC and PR Nel (Spitzkop), AJJ Nel (Berning), LL Nel
(Greytown) and JC Martens, LJ Potgieter and JP van Rooyen (all of Broedershoek). The men had no
idea why they were removed but attributed it to the fact that they did not instantly comply with
earlier commandeering orders issued for their wagons and oxen.108 According to Missionary
Hofmeyr, who worked in the Umvoti area, the men were removed for collecting money for the
support of the wives and children of the imprisoned rebels and the rebels themselves.109 What irked those removed the most was that they were relocated soon after the first rains, which meant that they
could not plough and plant.110
On investigating the removals the magistrate of Kranskop concluded that most of the men were sent
away as undesirables and because of minor disputes with the military, such as the loyalist John
Keyter who had not instantly complied with a commandeering order and LMJ van Rooyen (jnr) who
had a disagreement with the military over 25 sheep and 10 oxen that were commandeered from
him.111 This was only partly true. Mills had acted on information that the men were disloyal and that
they would join the Boers if they were to invade.112 Furthermore, this was the first time since the war
had broken out that reliable evidence could be procured against Afrikaners from Umvoti, thanks to
Jan Nel breaking the ranks. The military therefore possibly felt that they had to act.
Two of the men who were removed, JC Martens and JP van Rooyen, did not take kindly to the fact
that they were sent to reside in the Pietermaritzburg Concentration Camp. In a letter to the colonial
secretary they made their sentiments clear:
We have been told we can live in the Boer Refugee Camp in a Bell Tent at Government
expense - we are not able to do this without being subjected to great inconveniences, and we
desire to live at an Hotel in Maritzburg and we beg to request that an allowance may be made
to enable us to do this, and we shall be glad if you will deal with this matter or forward this
application to the proper Authorities in order that it may be dealt with. Apart from the
inconvenience of living in the Boer Camp it is distasteful to us at the present time to have to
live amongst Dutch Refugees.
Not surprisingly their request was rejected.113
The removal of the men from the Umvoti county infuriated several leading local Afrikaners who
believed the treatment was unfair. A father and son, LMJ and JS van Rooyen of Welgevonden, felt
so strongly about the matter that they were prepared to stand security to the amount of ,10 000 for
six of the men.114 The strongest petition for the liberation of the men came from Theuns (TJ) Nel a
former MLA. Nel made it clear that the men in question, as landowners, all had vested interests in
the Colony and valued the protection and privilege provided by the British Empire. It would
therefore have been unwise for them to be disloyal at that stage of the war. He proceeded to point
out that the men in question had complied when wagons, oxen and horses were commandeered, and
would suffer economically if they remained away from home for much longer.115Prime Minister Hime, in response to Nel=s petition, advised the GOC that the men in question should
be allowed to return home since he thought: AThey had a severe lesson.@ A month later, after the
Natal Police had unsuccessfully investigated the complaints against them, the GOC allowed all the
men except LL and TJ Nel and PH and FE van Rooyen to return home.116 This brought an end to
their six week exile to Pietermaritzburg.117 Soon afterwards the remaining prisoners, except for JE
van Rooyen, were released and allowed to return home.
The DRC congregation which suffered the least disruption was that of Greytown and as a result the
church managed to continue functioning in an unhindered manner, that is apart from the six week
period in late 1901 when Ds GS Malan and several leading members of the congregation were
removed under Martial Law to Pietermaritzburg.180 The war was generally not discussed during the
church council meetings of the Greytown DRC. The meeting of 22 September 1900, however, was
different since letters of brotherly love were sent to the sister congregations at Weenen, Ladysmith
and Newcastle. The issue of the war was only raised again roughly a year later. At the meeting of 24
August 1901, S Martens suggested that a special collection be held so as to provide the
AAfrikaansche gevangenen@ in Pietermaritzburg with coffee.Although not reflected in the minutes of the church council meetings, the Greytown congregation
endlessly supported fellow Afrikaners who suffered due to the war. Firewood and other gifts were
sent to the Pietermaritzburg Concentration Camp from time to time.182 Afrikaners in Northern Natal
especially were recipients of charity from Greytown. On two occasions Ds Schoon received ,5 from
funds collected in Greytown for Afrikaners banned to Pietermaritzburg,183 while foodstuffs were
also forwarded to individual Afrikaners in need. In one such case Mrs JM Pieters of Paddafontein,
Dundee, received a bag of flour, a pocket of sugar, a box of candles, and 20 pounds of coffee.184 The
Newcastle congregation also benefited from donations made by the Greytown Afrikaners. On 3
October 1900, 18 bags of flour, sugar, salt, rice, coffee, and soap arrived in the town. The military
immediately confiscated the goods to prevent Afrikaners suspected of treason from distributing it.
Requests by the Bosmans for the goods to be released did not to sway the military. The provost
marshal eventually used a wagon and members of the Natal Police to distribute the goods to the
poorest of the poor amongst the Newcastle Afrikaners, some of whose clothes were in tatters and
who were reduced to begging. 1857 - 1930 Elizabeth Jacoba Martens 73 73 1875 - 1949 Joshua Lourens Francois Martens 74 74 Scottsdale - dist Kranskop
Farmed on Highbury when he got married.
According to his grandson he also farmed on Broedershoek.
Birth date also given as abt 1879

Have letter from grand daughter where she expresses her sorrow that he sold his farm as they would have liked to move to the farm.
Stories abt him: refer to sources matrix printer printout.
Tell story abt the pig that went missing and was found birthing inside a pumpkin.
Tell story abt lion hunt where lion was too close and he he missed. Practised short shots only to find lion practsing short jumps.
Another story was that whilst he was dipping cattle the government inspector arrived and told hiim that the dip mixture was not strong enough. he agreed to increase the strength on condition that if it was too strong, he would chuck the inspector into the dip. The story would not have been told if, after the cattle emerged with burn spots, the inspector was chucked in and left the farm dripping wet.
He loved cowboy books and after reading them claimed their as his own experiences.
His nickname amongst the Zulu was "Maboelalashlega" aparently meaning "he laughs while he kills". According to stories handed down he was a cruel man. One story tells how he caught one of his sheepherders killing a sheep with a long needle (so that the cause of death could not be found). He gave the man a hiding with a shambok and then hung him upside down. He then called the police to say that he had killed the man, but the man had not died. On another occasion he was attacked by a worker in the kraal and then tied the man to a wagon wheel and whipped him as the wheel was turned. According to legend this man became so loyal to him that when they moved to Johannesburg to retire (as result of asthma attacks) this man followed him.
Another story attibuted to him was when, on their way to church, the hymn book had faled from the wagon. Upon their return they found a troop of baboons lustily singing from the book. Dewald Johannes Martens 1864 - 1930 Susannah Maria van Rooyen 66 66 Een van 3 susters wat onderskeidelik met Jan Thomas, sy jonger broer en pa getroud was. 1839 - 1884 Cornelia Hendrina Bester 44 44
second marriage. previously de Kock

also have these details: Which jan thomas? Formerly Gibson, born de Swardt Died 4 June 1943...see Estate file 80 of JT Martens

Martens, Ivy Millicent b. de Swardt, m. Gibson m. Jan Thomas Martens (which one?)
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick

 1884 - 1961 Jan Thomas Martens 76 76 Farmed on Broedershoek when he got married to Jacomina Aletta van Rooyen.
Farmed on NKonka when Susanna Maria got married.

Remarried on 10 April 1948

Martens, Jan Thomas, (6) (Tom Nkonka) son of (3) m. Jacomina Aletta n. van Rooyen m. SC Martens on 19 April 1948 d.9 Sep 1961
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick 1888 - 1953 Gert Helgert Martens 64 64
Of the farm "Impahlasini" Kranskop
Martens, Gert Helgert, of Impahlasini Kranskop, son of Jan Thomas (3) and brother of JT (4) m Isabella Elizabeth n. Nel, daughter Philippina Aletta Johanna Nel, d.5 July 1953
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick 1886 Anna Catharina Elizabeth Martens
Lived in Sargeant St. Greytown after her divorce.
 1881 - 1936 William Sidney McKenzie 55 55 1883 - ~1969 Edward Frederik Gommo 86 86 Lived at 26 Oldham Rd at the time of their marriage. 1896 - 1983 Isabella Elizabetha Nel 87 87 Martens, Isabella Elizabeth, b. 19 July 1912  n. Nel m. Mare m. Gert Helgert Martens d. 1984
Check date of death as the 1986 voters roll has her living at Sargeauntstraat 177, Greytown

According to : http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm
She was born on 19 Jul 1912 and died 1984

Last known address SARGEAUNTSTRAAT 177 GREYTOWN  ~1930 - 1972 Philippina Aletta Johanna Martens 42 42 From Kranskop when she married the first time.
She was a widow from Greytown when she married the second time. ~1914 Johannes Petrus Cornelius Nel Johannes (Boet) Petrus Cornelius Nel Jan Albertus Hendrik Ferreira Jeanette Nel Jacolene Nel nn Nel 1912 Isabella Elizabetha Martens Nel was first marriage. On certificate is indicated that she is from Inadi. ~1917 Susanna Maria Martens From NKonka, Kranskop 1923 - 1981 Janie Christina Martens 58 58 ~1913 Martin Potgieter Lived in Pietermaritzburg when he married Janie. ~1917 Barend Willem Jacobus Potgieter (Christoffel) ~1905 - 1944 Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz Nel 39 39 WW2 Jacobus Johannes Potgieter 1910 - 1993 Susanna Catherina Cronje 82 82 From Frere Rd 22 Durban at time of marriage to Jan Thomas.
Last known address TUINSIG 404 COWEYWEG 12 DURBAN  1907 - 1976 Naomi van Zyl 69 69 Gravestone posted by Lombard family. 1863 - 1911 Martha Elisabeth Martens 48 48 Have Death Notice
On will: Two farms (see husband) 485 morgen of Klipfontein & 687 of Klipfontein, Vrede plus
14 horses
500 sheep
22 head cattle
wagon
spider 1866 - 1928 Maria Magdalena Martens (Isabella) 62 62 Spelt MARTINS on daughter Iris' DN. 1873 - 1949 Cornelia Jacoba Victoria Martens 76 76 From Highbury at time of marriage 1863 - 1917 Dina Marthina Johanna Martens 54 54 26 aug 1863
Alternative names from marriage certificate. 1857 - 1929 Adrianus Agenitus Fuhre 71 71 Alternative names from marriage certificate. 1882 Margaretha Cloete Fuhri 1885 Wilhelmina Maria Agnita Fuhri 1889 Ludwig Paul Fuhri 1823 - 1893 Margaretha Susanna Cloete 70 70 Voortrekker
Father:        Gabriel Francois Cloete
Mother:        Susanna Elizabeth Van Zyl
b2,c1,d4,e8,f10,g3, from Prins Geneology

According to the familiy bible she was born on the 26th Jul 1823 and was 70 yrs and 12 days old when she died.

REGISTER VAN VOORTREKKERSTAMMOEDERS
(Uit: Visagie, J.C. 2000. Voortrekkerstamouers, 1835-1845.
Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria)
Opgedra aan ons stammoeders 1867 - 1941 Johannes Petrus van Rooyen 73 73 Father:  Gert Renier Van Rooyen
Mother:  Johanna Sophia Adriana Buys 1876 - 1968 Hermanus Philippus Van Rooyen 92 92 Father:        Johan Christiaan Van Rooyen
Mother:        Isabella Elizabeth Steenkamp 1881 - 1959 Anna Sara Martens 78 78 http://www.safamilytree.com/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I3453&tree=Primary

# [S10] GAFN, B Cilliers, (1985), Page 509 (Reliability: 2).
# [S41] Estate File van Rooyen, Annie Sarah (born Martens) NAB MSCE 2901/1959 x Hermanus Philip van Rooyen.
Calculated from age on Death Notice
# [S41] Estate File van Rooyen, Annie Sarah (born Martens) NAB MSCE 2901/1959 x Hermanus Philip van Rooyen.

Person ID      I3454      South African Family Tree
 1861 - 1925 Dewald Johannes Martens 63 63 Martens, Dewald Johannes, Letters of Executorship No 10259 dated 24 June 1925 in favour of Anna Magritha Frederika Martens (surviving spouse) and Dewald Johannes Martens (see Deed of Transfer 2781/1936)
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm
I have another source that mentions him having four children. A daughter was known as "Girlie" Vermaak. (Letter in green ink). 1869 - 1958 Anna Margaretha Frederika Van Rooyen 89 89 Father: Johan Christiaan Van Rooyen
Mother: Isabella Elizabeth Steenkamp 1870 - 1939 Mary Elizabeth McKenzie 69 69 Have Death Notice
Only the twins are listed on her DN
Lived on Jammerdal before her death.
Mary Elzabeth's mother was Mary McKenzie (nee Clark b 08/08/1842 d.23/05/1920). She too was buried at "Jammersdal" as she was living with her daughter at the time of her death. Her father was John McKenzi
Mary's mother, Mary Clark Mckenzie, went to live with her daughter after the death of her husband John Mckenzie. She died at Jammersdal and I am told, was buried there. John was buried at Talana near Dundee. His gravestone was recently relocated to the Talana museum.
Also have record from Eric Martens (FacebooK) that she was born in Liverpool.
She wrote two books:
"A woman of small account" & "A daughter of sin"
Daughter ofsin is about a white South African woman who has a baby by a black man. In such an eventuality, the law required that the man be given 25 lashes and two years' imprisonment with hard labour. The woman was also to receive two years' hard labour, so one presumes the baby was removed from her care. Mary Martens dedicated this book to 'the women of Natal who have to suffer under this wicked law'.
It was under Section 16 of the Natal Colony's Act 31 of 1903 that these provisions were laid down. It appears that this law was repealed only in 1957 and was replaced by the Sexual Offences Act-better known as the Immorality Act.

Mary Elizabeth Martens (nee McKenzie) was born in Liverpool in 1870. She married Roelof Gerhardus Petrus Martens, and they lived on the farm Jammerdal in the Kranskop district. They had seven  children.
http://www.natalia.org.za/Files/30/Natalia%20v30%20notes-%20queries%20C.pdf 1893 - 1949 Jan Thomas Martens 55 55 Secretary of Darnell Health Society
Signwriter when he married, farmer in his will.
 1895 Mary Georgina Martens From Kranskop. ~1897 - ~1964 Anna Catharina Martens (Elisabeth) 67 67 1902 - ~1961 Phyllis Sidney Martens 59 59 From Jammerdal, Kranskop at time of marriage. ~1895 - ~1971 Henry George Newmarch 76 76 1902 - ~1950 Ruby Petronella Martens 48 48 Alos have her marrying Hutcheson ~1893 - ~1955 Francis Herbert Brickhill 62 62 1905 - 1968 Eric Dewald Martens 63 63 Change in names from marriage certificate. Both from same address in Camperdown at time of marriage. ~1911 Lillian Erica Hull 1909 - ~1961 Howard Clarke Martens 52 52 Was a farmer in Kranskop when he married Winnifred. 1912 - 1992 Winifred Eileen Campbell 79 79 Last known address 3 MKLUHLWO CRESCENT UMTENTWENI  1832 - 1918 Jozua Francois Martins 86 86 Buried on Modderfontein
According to his father's death certificate he was born on 2 Jun 1833 (1855?)
ACCORDING TO HIS WILL HE OWNED JACHTFONTEIN AS WELL AS SHARES IN HARTEBEESTFONTEIN. 1823 - 1888 Roelof Gerhardus Petrus Martens 64 64 1893 - 1966 Charles Gustaf Martens 73 73 "Oom Hendrik en Tant Anna se "mooiste" seun. Hier by sy verloofde maar haar naam is onbekend.

Have Death notice

Natal Whos Who 1933
Was POW in SW Africa but escaped from the Germans.Nat. Party olitician contested Weenen County against the late J.W.Moor.
Vice Chairman of the Nat. Party Kliprivier in 1933.
Keen sportsman and brilliant public speaker. Johanna Christina Human Have request from her to purchase 8 morgen of the property WITBANK at Ermelo on behalf of her children (see doc photos 1839 - 1898 Sarah Elizabeth van Niekerk 58 58 She was only 14 when married to James
According to J.T's estate she died 1 Jun 1899
She was the great-grandmother of Gary Player.  No children were born to them.
Refer to photograph Maria Catharina van Rooyen (2nd wife)
Married by Wesleyan Minister A. Rurden in the home of (Illegible) Mr Dirvu? after granting of special licence. 1872 - 1935 Maria Catharina Johanna van Rooyen 63 63 wife no 4
Her two sisters would later marry two of JT's sons 1883 - 1945 Jacomina Aletta van Rooyen 61 61 From Scottsdale Kranskop at time of marriage. Jozua was her first marrigae

She was the youngest sister of Maria Catharina van Rooyen who married Jan Thomas (4th wife)

 1875 - 1945 Anna Catharina Elisabeth Martens 69 69 Children deduced from photograph

vergeetagtig 1869 Charles James Laurens † Godparents were his Father Philippe or Philip Laurens and Mother, Ann Le Sueur.
† He appeared in the census in 1871 in St Helier aged 1. The address was: Aquila Road, St Helier 1885 - 1888 Maria Magdalena Martens 2 2 1888 - 1890 Gert Lucas Martens 1 1 1898 - 1966 Stephanus Johannes Martens 68 68 Look for second wife = van rooyen
He gave his place of residence as Pinetown on his marriage certificate to Alida. Married Alida by special licence. His brother Paul Martens one of the witnesses. 1897 - 1988 Alida Helena van der Riet 90 90 Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. 1922 - 2014 Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens 92 92 1926 Sophia Ecclesia Henrietta Martens Lived on Sophiadale when she married Maritz 1933 - 2015 Paul Oscar Martens 81 81 1891 - 1897 Maria Magdalena Martens 5 5 2010 Mishael Daniel Martens 1946 Johanna Hendrika Martens 1890 - 1945 Gert Lukas Martens 54 54 Farm Welverdient which was part of the original farm Onrust 1235.
Greytown in memoriam"
Martens, Gert Lukas, of Welverdient m Susanna Elizabeth Martens, son Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens(who had a daughter Johanna Hendrika Martens) and a daughter.
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm
According to marriage certificate he was from Wuthering Heights at time of marriage.
She was from Kroonspruit.

When he married at age 25 he is described on his marriage Certificate as being from Wuthering Heights. Oom Charles (Charles Gustav was a witness at the wedding.)
 1893 - 1948 Susanna Elisabeth Pretorius 55 55 Ancestry.com
http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=flakey&id=I101749966&ti=5542
Father: Jacobus Francois PRETORIUS b: 16 Aug 1854 c: 9 Sep 1855 in Potchefstroom
Mother: Anna Catharina JORDAAN b: 20 Oct 1859

spouse:    Susanna Elizabeth Pretorius
spouse's residence:     Kroonspruit
spouse's age:     23
spouse's marital status:     Single
spouse's estimated birth year:     1893
entry number:     147
page:     248
film number:     1670571
digital folder number:     004763140
image number:     00146

 1920 - 1986 Hendrik Jacobus Van der Merwe Martens 65 65 I found that Steffen and Carol were both students in 1986 and living at 5 Savell Place, Scottburgh South, Scottburgh

Oom Merwie was a Landros and lived in Amanzimtoti when I saw him around 1984. Remember a curry chicken Dad and I had with him accompanied by a very hot sauce. I put on too much of it and suffered the whole meal. (sic, my own comment).
When he married Johanna van der Merwe he was a soldier.
His family has his birth date as 16 Jul 1920.
Last known address ?? 1917 Anna Catharina Martens Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. ~1920 - 1947 Johanna Maria van der Merwe 26 26 Killed by lightning whilst on the phone talking to Merwie. Babygirl fell off her lap and was saved. She was from Lady Grey. 1895 Dewald Johannes Martens On Jammerdal at time of marriage.

Will in envelope 510 and signed on 16 Feb 1943. Witnessed by Gert Helgert Martens of Impahlasini 1901 - 2001 Wilhelmina Christina Du Plessis 99 99 Last known address H/V CRADOCK & POTGIETERWEG LYTTELTON  1822 - 1896 Jacobus Marthinus Martins 73 73 Maria Margritha Nieuwoudt
Marriage:      
06 SEP 1841 Graaff-Reinett, Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa

On her Death Notice he signed J.J.Martins 1825 Anna Catharina Barendina Martens 1829 - 1896 Maria Magdalena Marthina Martens 67 67 Her DN states Maartens for her as well as her father. 1824 - 1879 Johanna Aletta Christina Maartins 55 55 Could this gravestone have incorrect dates?
Married to Brits Johanna Catharina van der Merwe 1825 - 1826 Maria Marthina Magdalena Martens 7m 7m Not identified by BENC - probably because she died young 1821 - 1907 Maria Margaritha Nieuwoudt 85 85 Have Death Notice
Ref: "Johan Pottas" <PottasJ.RD@ufs.ac.za>
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BUITENPOSTEN/2008-01/1201082531
SOURCES
1. South African Genealogies Vol 06: N. p357 a.
2. Ibid. p357 a.
3. Ibid. p357 a.
4. Ibid. p357 a.
Father: Johannes NIEUWOUDT (b 17 Apr 1764)
Mother: Elsje Johanna JOUBERT (b 5 Dec 1797) 1843 - 1909 Elsie Johanna Martins 66 66 ~1839 - 1911 Abraham Francois van den Berg 72 72 1823 - 1879 Gideon Petrus Brits 56 56 Jachttfontein 1844 - 1895 Susanna Elisabeth Martens 51 51 1873 - 1970 Jacobus Cornelius Martens 97 97 ABW
Had du Plessis laer at first, maybe still correct.
He was already a pensioner when he married the second time

When he married the third time, he is describe=d as a butcher on his marriage certificate.

2 NAB MSCE
4308/1970
Verkorte Sterftesertifikaat
# 860504 uitgereik 21/10/1970
Inscription on gravestone is only from the children. why? 1876 - 1942 Francois Martens 65 65 Lived in Vryheid
On Elsie's marriage certificate she is described as a widow.
1881 - 1902 John Thomas Martens 21 21 ABW

Murdered at Holkrans with his brother. See Hendrik Jacobus Martens. 1867 - 1931 Margaretha Francina Martens 63 63 According to Rosemary Gebhard's photos SHE was Tant Nonnie. 1870 Frederika Susara Martens 1872 - 1954 Paulina Martens 82 82 1878 Maria Sophia Martens 1882 Christina Gertruida Martens 1884 - 1965 Marthina Hendrina Martens 81 81 On marriage certificate her birth year is estinated as 1891. 1887 - 1943 Wilhelmina Magdalena Martens 55 55 According to DN her birth year should be1885.
From Vaalbank, Vryheid when she married Harper.

NAAIRS:
DEPOT     NAB                                                                  
SOURCE    MSCE                                                                 
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 0                                                                    
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 38246/1943                                                           
PART      1                                                                    
DESCRIPTION          HARPER, WILHELMINA MAGDALENA. (GEBORE MARTENS) (S/S HARPER, JAMES    
           ALBERT).                                                            
STARTING  1943                                                                 
ENDING    1944 1859 - 1920 Jan Thomas Martens 60 60 11 May 1859
Father: MARTENS, Jacobus Cornelis
Mother: CLOETE, Margaretha Susanna

According to BENC there are only three children. He does not identify Gert Botha Martens.

According to jeanne Maartens birt date was 11 Nov. 1846 - 1911 Anna Margeritta Martens 65 65 Date of birth changed from 1948 (from father's Estate File)
Emily Charlotte Cloete Turpin told the family she was on the wagons given a free pass through one of the battles in 1879 by Cetewayo - she would have been about 3 years old and been with, I presume, her mother Annie Margritta Martens.

At death her address was ; St. Lukes Mission, Engabeni, Alfred division, Natal.
 1848 - 1899 Margaretha Susanna Martens 50 50
From Greytown at time of marriage. 1853 - 1927 Maria Sophia Martens 74 74 10 April 1853 from father's DN.
Also 1 April 1850 according to family sources (Jeanne Maartens). Gravestone, however, is clear. 1854 - 1942 Jacoba Cornelia Martens 88 88 1856 Geertruida Christina Martens 24 Nov 1852 given as DOB but cannot be months after her elder sister. 1857 Martha Hendrina Martens 16 oct 1857 ~1838 - 1912 Philip Alexander Turpin 73 73 A1 according to BENC which means that he is patriarch of the Turpin family in SA.
On his marriage certificate he is Phillip Henry Turpin aged 26 which gives his birth date as 1844. He is also descibed as a schoolmaster but could possibly have become a missionary. The difference in names and DOB cannot be explained. Doubtful if that two Turpins could hgave married on the same date to two girls with same names although spelling on marriage certificate is Maartens. Ref for marriage certificate at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6WJQ-8SS?i=286&cc=2063749 1852 Roelof Gerhardus Rood (Petrus ) Was a widower when he married Margaretha. 1853 - 1911 Gabriel Nel 57 57 Died 1922 according to wifes DN 1865 Heila Magdalena Elizabetta Botha 1887 - ~1958 Jacobus Cornelius James Martens 71 71 1906 - 1906 Jan Thomas Martens 8m 8m 1908 - 1979 Peter Schalk Martens 70 70 Peter Schalk Martens (my great grand father) was in umr/nmr Natal mounted rifles. He worked as a plant engineer for Dunlop. He lost his right arm in the press and taught himself how to write with his left hand. He later worked as the senior director for Bantu Affairs. He is buried in Pietermaritzburg.
Ref; Chantelle Steenkamp 1899 - 1958 Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz 58 58 1928 Louis Almero Klopper Chief of Traffic police Greytown 1905 - 1970 Theunis Jacobus Kuun 64 64 1927 - 1995 Johannes Lodewicus Fourie 68 68 1933 Elisabeth Gertruida Rossouw 1925 - 2005 Elenore Snyman 79 79 Father      Willem Snyman
Mother      Eleonore de Neufville

From Johannesburg when she married Hendrik.
Last known address 10 WILSON AVENUE MESSINA  ~1879 - ~1964 Wilhelm Rudolf Julius Schroenn (Heinrich) 85 85 From Hillcrest, Durban County at time of marriage. ~1875 - ~1954 Alfred John Byron 79 79 1919 - ~1967 Phillip Hendrik Martens 48 48 1926 - 2013 Ronald Fritz Martens 86 86 ~1934 Pauline Kemp Walter? Martens Anna Maria Martens 1929 - 1982 Norma Violet Hacking 53 53 Desribed as "Hacking" on marriage certificate but got Hackey from previous research.
From Empangeni when married to Alex.
Last known address DOORN HOEK PIETERMARITZBURG
DOORN HOEK POSTE RESTANTE PIETERMARITZBURG  1950 Alexander Warren Martens 1952 Larry Andre Martens In 1986 they were living in Pietermaritzburg. Sandra Jane Martens Karen Martens 1965 Marilyn Martens 650409 0128 00 5
In 1986 she lived on Doornhoek.
 1930 - 1993 Maureen Mapstone 63 63 Last known address 64 CHRISTIE RD PIETERMARITZBURG  Elizabeth Ann Martens Mary Anne Martens 1883 - 1910 Regina Elisabeth Bester 26 26 From Pietermaritzburg 1904 - 1925 Regina Elisabeth Paulina Martens 21 21 Have Death Notice
Unmarried
Doornhoek
According to her Death Notice there were also twins born on 9 Oct. 1925.
1906 Sheila Helen Martens 1910 - 1993 Henry John Thomas Martens 82 82 He and Peggy were living at Golden Pond at Hilton
According to his marriage certificate it was a civil marriage signed by the magistrate, Family records indicate that he was married at Boschoff St Methodist Church but I have no record of that. It could possibly have been solemnised there.
Did another search (Jul 2013) and could not locate his marriage to Peggy at all under Natal marriages.

Make sure that it was him who married Kathleen Goldman. Otherwise there is another Henry with the same birth year.
Last known address 17 GOLDEN POND 8 SOMERSET PLACE HILTON  1937 Walter Stanley Martens 1880 Anna Kathrina Maria Vorwerk She wrote the Martens Diaries in the Documents library.
Married Harry (Hendrick Martens) after death of her husband. 1896 - 1973 Cecil Robert Harris 77 77 Storekeeper at Ulundi Margaret Craig Her second marriage nn Walters 1931 John Craig Martens He died before her. 1873 Amanda Amelia Pretorius 1897 - ~1930 Cornelius Jacobus Martens 33 33 1905 Bryan Bromwich Martens 1874 - 1944 Anna Catharina Elisabeth Scheepers 70 70 1894 - 1960 Ds. Jan Thomas Martens 66 66 When his father died in 1930 he was a minister in Port Elizabeth.
He and his brother Philip Rudolf Nel  Martens apparently owed the farm Silverstreams in the far past;   and it was sold. I believe the  Aquelle  springwater is now bottled at Silverstreams.(Eleanor Gous)
NG Gemeente Waterval, in die weste van Johannesburg teenaan die grens van Roodepoort met sy kerkgebou in die voorstad Newlands
Soos Ons gemeentelike feesalbum dit in 1952 stel: "Die akker wat so lank braak gelê het, het groot eise aan die eerste arbeiders gestel." Martens het net 'n trapfiets gehad waarmee hy die geestelike werk in die uitgestrekte gemeente kon doen en tog het hy volhard en sowat £1 000 vir 'n kerkboufonds ingesamel.
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG_gemeente_Waterval 1895 - ~1956 Philip Rudolf Martens (Nel) 61 61 From Elenor Gauch:
Philip Rudolf Nel  Martens apparently owed the farm
Silverstreams in the far past;   and it was sold.
I believe the  Aquelle  springwater is now bottled at Silverstreams. Is that correct?
Philip also worked on a farm Langehoop;  now the Lions Park where hefarmed with cattle and mealies etc. on the farm of Mr FrikkieScheepers;   the second husband to Christina. Her first husband was a MARTENS.  Initials unknown to me. 
I have a very old photograph here of a lot of  Uncles unknown to me. It was given to me  by Marthinette Martens(she married a Valentini(late) and she still
lives in Pietermartizburg. 
Philip was married twice and had 4 daughters; 2 from each marriage. Richard Guy Ogle (Chaloner) ~1889 Robert Foggo Hutcheson From Umfolozi. 1888 - 1926 Jan Thomas Martens 38 38 Have Death notice
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. 1895 - 1952 Wilhelmina Christina Susanna Cilliers 57 57 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

Her birth year 1926 estimated from marriage certificate.
On her marriage certificate to Prinsloo her birth date is estimated at 1896.
True dates from Martha Louise Martens.
 1919 Hendrika Christina Martens From Nottingham Rd. 1922 Anna Magrietha Frederika Martens From Muiden 1925 - 1997 Dewald Johannes Martens 71 71 Last known address LOT 235 OPPOSITION STREET MELMOTH

~1760 - <1849 Jacobus Martens 89 89 Orphan Chamber records: Reference no.: MOOC8/50.105a: nventaris mitsgaders taxatie van alle sodanige goederen als ab intestato metter dood zijn ontruijmd ende naargelaten door Johanna Elizabeth du Plessies ten voordeele van haar nagelatenen man den landb: Philip Jacob Naude ter eenre en hunl: bij malkanderen in huweluk verwekte ses kinderen.  The estate owes Jacobus 34 Rijkdaalers.

IGI- Africa: #1 Gender Male Marriage: 18 November of Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope South Africa.
#2: Gender Male Mariiiage about 1785, of Kaapstad Cape of Good Hops.

EPOT     KAB                                                                  
SOURCE    CO                                                                   
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 3871                                                                 
SYSTEM    00                                                                   
REFERENCE 107                                                                  
PART      1                                                                    
DESCRIPTION          MEMORIALS RECEIVED. JACOBUS MARTENS. APPLICATION FOR GRANT OF LAND   
BETWEEN JAN BIEJES KRAAL AND HENDRIK BEK'S PLACE, CAPE DISTRICT.    
STARTING  1809                                                                 
ENDING    1809    

DEPOT     KAB                                                                  
SOURCE    NCD                                                                  
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 1/9                                                                  
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 59                                                                   
PART      1                                                                 
DESCRIPTION          NOTARIAL PROTOCOL. NOTARY, JJF WAGENER. SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY.   
           JACOBUS MARTENS TO CAREL PHILIP ZASTRON.                            
STARTING  17950000                                                             
ENDING    17950000  

Never had the "Daniel". Found it in the DN of his daughter  Jacomina Frederika.

DEPOT     KAB                                                                  
SOURCE    CO                                                                   
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 3952                                                                 
SYSTEM    00                                                                   
REFERENCE 85                                                                   
PART      1                                                                    
DESCRIPTION          MEMORIALS RECEIVED. JACOBUS MARTENS. REQUEST FOR A TITLE DEED.       
STARTING  1831                                                                 
ENDING    1831

DEPOT     KAB                                                                  
SOURCE    NCD                                                                  
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 1/43                                                                 
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 957                                                                  
PART      1                                                                    
DESCRIPTION          NOTARIAL PROTOCOL. NOTARY, JJF WAGENER. DEED OF TRANSFER. GUSTAAF    
           VON BRATT AS EMPOWERED BY JAN JACOBUS MARTENS TRANSFERRING THE      
           SLAVE POCONINO AZORUS TO JOHAN ABRAHAM MOES.                        
STARTING  18020000                                                             
ENDING    18020000    1771 - 1849 Maria Magdalena Joubert 78 78 Her mother was Jacomina's youngest sister which means that she and Jacobus were cousins
 1909 - 1970 Anna Margaretha Isabella Martens 61 61 She married Poisson after divorcing Meyer. At that time she was living at 481 Bulwer St. and he at the same address, so they must have been living together.

When she married Grey, her father had already passed away.
Buried in Durban 1912 - 1988 Aletta Helena Martens 75 75 1916 - 1955 Hendrik Jacobus Martens (van der Merwe) 38 38 On Oupa Grootjies will his birthdate is 28 Nov 1918. 1918 - 2005 Beyerina Wilhelmina Augusta Martens 86 86 1897 - 1927 Paul Petrus Martens 29 29 Have Death Notice

Vlakvarkvlakte near Seven Oaks 1897 - ~1963 Elizabeth Johanna Susanna Vermaak 66 66 From Spekfontein, Kranskop when she married Paul 1921 Sarie Susanna Martens 1922 Anna Maria Isabella Martens (Pauline) From Paul Petrus Death Certificate 1926 Elizabeth Johanna Susanna Martens 1877 - 1965 Elsje Magdalena van Rooyen 88 88 3670/1961 HARPER,James Albert 1.HARPER,Elsie Magdalena(formerly MAARTENS)
b VAN ROOYEN
SOURCE: NAAIRS

From Bloemendal, Vryheid when she got married to Francois. 1904 Jeremina Jacoba Martens ~1884 - 1946 Abel Pienaar 62 62 1908 Susanna Elisabeth Martens ~1908 Petrus Johannes van Rönge 1916 - 1961 Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Martens (Dreyer) 45 45 1920 - 1963 Hendrik Jacobus Martens 43 43 Not Oom Merwie according to the children he was cramated and memorial in Durban.
This couple died together in a car accident in 1963. 1836 - 1883 Dewald Jozua Martens 47 47 Have Death notice signed by the Veldkornet Geldenhuis
States "groot nagelaat".
Here is irony:
His Death Certificate states "Martens"
His Estate file is Martins
A legal letter by his wife gives her name as "Hester Johanna Martins"
The court appoints her as "Hester Cornelia Martins".
DN gives his mother as Anna Aletta Pretorius but father is correct.

 1839 - >1883 Hester Cornelia Pretorius 44 44 Have letter of appointment  as Voogd over the children , (in the name of Hester Cornelia, sister of Hester Johanna) Joshua Joachem, Hester Johanna, Hercules Albertus,Dewald Joshua, Jacobus Marthinus Johannes, Marthinus Wessel.
Have a sworn affadavit from her (in the name of Hester Johanna)  that the name of Catharina Elizabeth on the Death Notice of Dewald Joshua is incorrect and has to be changed to reflect the name Anna Catharina.


 ~1857 - 1934 Anna Aletta Martens 77 77 1867 - 1924 Hester Johanna Margaretha Maartens 56 56 ~1877 - 1960 Dewald Josua Maartens 83 83 ABW
According to N his mother was Anna Aletta Pretorius
Previous DOB 18 Jan 1870 to be investigated as he appears to have been born only 3 mnths after his elder brother. Hois marriage cert. gives him as born abt 1877
Have children
League Of Veterans:
Viewing single entry:
Surname:         MAARTENS
Full Names:         DEWALD JOSUA
Date of Birth:         18.1.1870
Address 1899:         PALALA, POTGIETERSRUST
Name of Last Officer:         GENL BEYERS
Date Surrendered / Captured:         11.4.1902
Date Killed / Past Away:         N/A
Name of Widow:         N/A
Current Address:         NABOOMSPRUIT
Branch:         NABOOMSPRUIT
Notes:         SEKRETARIS
 1876 - 1969 Jacobus Marthinus Johannes Maartens 93 93 POW
ABW
Burger under Gen. Beyers in Anglo boer War. POW

Prisoners Of War:
Number:         31696
Surname:         MAARTENS
Name:         JACOBUS MARTINUS
Age:         24
Address:         VLAKFONTEIN
District:         WATERBERG
Captured Where:    MALIPSPOORT
Captured When:    1902/04/11
Camp:         KAKOOL
Country:         INDIE
Ship (To):         MOHAWK
Ship (Back):    N/A

League Of Veterans:

Viewing single entry:

Surname:         MAARTENS
Full Names:         JACOBUS MARTINUS JOHANNES
Date of Birth:         11.6.1876
Address 1899:         PALALA, POTGIETERSRUST
Name of Last Officer:         GENL BEYERS
Date Surrendered / Captured:         11.4.1902
Date Killed / Past Away:         N/A
Name of Widow:         N/A
Current Address:         NABOOMSPRUIT
Branch:         NABOOMSPRUIT
Notes:         N/A
 1861 - >1898 Josua Joachim Francois Martins 37 37 1870 - 1898 Sophia Elizabeth Frederika Bronkhorst 28 28 Have Death Notice

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REFERENCE O/15644                                                              
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DESCRIPTION          MARTINS, SOPHIA ELIZABETH FREDRIKA. (BORN BRONKHORST).               
STARTING  1898                                                                 
ENDING    1898                                                                 
REMARKS   NAGELATE EGGENOOT JOZUA JOACHIM FRANCIOS MARTINS.
1892 Hester Cornelia Martins Lived at Krokedilrivier when baptised 1894 Dewald Josua Martins 1897 Rudolph Johannes Martins Hendrik Jacobus Van der Merwe Martens 1930 Maria Johanna Magrietha Martens 1850 - 1929 Lucas Johannes Potgieter 79 79 At the time of their marriage they were both on Broedershoek

Have Death Notice
Veeboer van MEMEL, Dist Vrede
Father: Lucas Johannes Potgieter
Mother:Petronella Susanna van Rensburg

Farm name = STRYDPLAATS
According to last will they only owned an erf in Memel.
 1874 - 1879 Anna Maria Victoria Martens 5 5 1889 - 1974 Jan Christiaan Martens 84 84 Le Havre Farm, Gatooma 1891 - 1973 Isabella Elisabeth Martens 81 81 From Jammerdal when she married Ayre-Smith.
Great-aunt of Gary Player. ~1888 - 1919 Mandeville Ayre- Smith 31 31 1900 Lukas Marthinus Johannes Martens 1900 - 1973 Emilie Frederike Magdalena Duvel 72 72 From Elandsvlei 1908 - 1995 Anna Catharina Elizabeth Martens 87 87 THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928 natal-witness
VERMAAK-MARTENS. - The engagement is announced of Miss Girlie MARTENS, youngest daughter of the late Mr. D.J. MARTENS and Mrs. MARTENS, of Jammerdal, Krantzkop, to Mr. S.J. VERMAAK, second son of Mr. Gert VERMAAK, Tweefonteen, Vryheid. 2367
http://eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/natal-witness/511-natal-witness-1928.html ~1899 Claudia Philippa Loots From Cooper street Greytown. nn Martens 1903 Anna Catharina Martens (Elisabeth) From Broedershoek, Kranskop at time of marriage, 1891 Hester Magdalena Liversage From Entumeni, Eshowe. Elizabeth Susanna Martens ~1898 Stephanus Christiaan van Rooyen Spelling Stefanus from marriage certificate 1905 - 1984 Josina Loretta Martens (Francina ) 78 78 Sy het pragtige hekelwerk gemaak waarop sy baie trots was.
She was  a nurse who treated a wounded Scottish soldier, Samual Hamilton who spoke fluent Afrikaans. She married him after he had recovered. 1876 - 1958 Samuel Hamilton 82 82 He was a Scot who spoke fluent Afr,.  Was a wounded soldier treated by Josina who was a nurse when he was in hospital. Matrix. 1922 - 1973 Colin Munik Ayre Martens 51 51 Neither him or Alwan wanted to go and farm on Scottsdale
Worked on the mines.  He married a widow and Eugene was born from this marriage. Huibrecht Aletta Johanna Basson ~1950 Eugene Martens 1923 - 1966 Priscilla Naomi Martens 43 43 It was with her that Joshua (Jolie) and Tant Jakkie went to stay in their old age.
In 1941she was headgirl in Voortrekker High School PMB.
Excellent outgoing and friendly personality.

 Gert J.J. Nieuwenhuisen Lived on Princess plots near Roodepoort
 ~1910 Philippus Arnoldus Coetzer From Port Elizabeth when marrying Anna. 1948 Leila Martens No children. 1951 Marguerite Martens 1952 - 1983 Lorna Helen Martens 31 31 Grave at Sophiadale. 1959 Karen Eleanore Martens 1964 Alexander Carl Martens 641112 5196 00 9 Henriette Kuun Adopted by Hettie? 1957 Elizabeth Helen Martens 1958 Stefanus Johannes Martens 1964 Johan Rossouw Martens 1971 Hendrik Jacobus Martens Went to Hilton College
Played for Springboks
Also Gary Teichman and Bobby Skinstad Oubaas Coetzee 1923 Gideon Lefebre van der Spuy Chris Bunce 2010 Lily Bunce 1953 Willem Abraham Swanepoel ~1893 Charles Andrew Grey D. ~1945 Barney Godfrey Smuts Enslin Captain Enslin - air force died in plane accident Adriaan Albert Visser nn Nauhaus Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius ~1918 Pieter Diedericks ~1910 - >1952 Marthinus Laurens van Zuydam 42 42 ~1896 - ~1953 George Richmond Ledward 57 57 John Amos Brown He died in Cathcart.  I was at his funeral there. 1954 Jonathan Amos Brown NN 1940 - 2009 Jan Thomas Martens 69 69 005729/2009    GRAHAMSTOWN MASTERS OFFICE
In 1986 their address was Pantserweg 6, Doornkop Militêre Basis, Johannesburg
 1942 Christina Martens 1945 Petronella Martens 1949 - 1966 Adriaan Albert Martens 17 17 1907 - ~1960 Horace Vivian Burdon 53 53 1924 Mary Dawn Martens 1934 John Edwin Congdon 1959 John Henry Congdon 1961 Stephen Congdon 1935 Margaret Martens 1934 Willem Hendrik Scheepers 1937 - 2017 Jan Thomas Martens 79 79 1960 Linda Martens 1962 Jeanne Martens 1944 Valmai Martens According to identity search she was born on the 14th of January. 1945 Carol- Lynn Martens 1909 Petrus Jacobus le Roux Twins with Hermanus Francois: Oom Manie 1909 - 1986 Hermanus Francois le Roux 76 76 1920 - 1999 Constantina Bargiacchi 79 79 Her mother was Italian, name Rosalina Raffelo Bargiacchi
Laeveld W/S 5, Wildevylaan 14, Phalaborwa
 1913 - 1994 Albert Richard Poisson 81 81 1943 Eugene Jacobus Hendrik Martens (van der Merwe) 1945 Conradt Raffaello Martens 1950 Rosalina Yolande Martens 1950 Adriana Johanna Cornelia Maria Lottering (Martha) 1967 Lance Carlo Martens 1972 Nicolette Jordaan 1993 Guille Anthony Martens 1946 - 1949 Stephanus Johannes Martens 2 2 1894 - 1895 Talitha Kumi Martens 1m 1m ~1910 Fritz Theodore Bernard Reneken 1879 - 1879 William Frances Martens 3m 3m 1901 - 1979 Johannes Petrus Martens 77 77  According to letter in green ink, she also married a Bezuidenhout.
"kwaai van geaardheid" matrix
Got man's name because she was the eldest
From Broedershoek when she got married to Prinsloo.
 ~1892 Hendrik Wilhelm Prinsloo Nico Prinsloo Ina Prinsloo SB Van Vuuren Boer in Groot Marico 1911 - 1984 Alvan Erich Martens 72 72
Went to school in Greytown. Then to Stellenbosch where he played for 1st team with Flippie Lochner.  BSc.in 1933. 
Scotty was for "" Scottie Mac Boot" because he kicked so well.
Mine surveyer in JHB.

I think "Oom Boy" was Hamilton

Not Alvan or Colin wanted to farm on Scotsdale so it had to be sold upon retirement of Francois..
Last known address STEELE WEG 54 PELHAM PIETERMARITZBURG
His DOB with identity nos is 1911. 1954 Francois Martens Good swimmer. Studied in BFN. got Springbok colours for swimming. Studied at UOVS and received MSc in Geology.
Also an avid claypigeon shottist. Extract from mail sent to me:
"Ek (Geb 11 Aug 1954) en my suster (Riette Martens Hugo, Geb 7 April 1948) is in Pietermartzburg gebore en ons pa was "Scotty" (Alvan Erich Martens geb 10 Junie 1911). My ma was n nooi Hamann van Noord Transvaal. My oupa was Joshua Lourens Francois Martens en het op die plaas Broedershoek buite Greytown in KZN geboer. Hy is een van die direkte afstammelinge van Jan Thomas Martens & Seun van dieselfde naam, wat in die slag van Bloedrivier (aan die blankes se kant !!!) geveg het. Hentie Martens wat Springbok rugby gespeel het se Oupa Fanie was my Pa se Neef en vir wie hy baie lief was.
Ek was self op 16 jarige ouderdom n Springbok swemmer in Natal en ook later Internationaal kleiduif geskiet. Ek is n geoloog van beroep en vlieg na verskeie wereld dele vir my werk. Ek bly in die Vrystaat naby Frankfort waar ek met beeste boer.  1954 Catharina Elizabeth Maas 541117 0001 00 6
 1920 - 2002 Maria Gertruida Hamman 81 81 191101 0007 00 0
In 1986 she was living at Steeleweg 54, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg

DOB given as 1 Nov 1919 on death notice in ID search as well as the 1986 Voters Roll. Last known address 18 ANDANTE PATRYS STREET KUILSRIVIER. Is this possible another  Agnes Martens Hamilton Samuel Martens Hamilton John Martens Hamilton  Ek dink John leef nog - hy het 'n apteek in Durban gehad (Durban North Pharmacy) maar hy is ouer as ek en kan dalk al dood wees. Hulle het die Afrikaanse Martense as "country bumpkins" beskou en my pa en ma was nogal seergemaak oor die benaming. (sic. From Riette Martens 1948 Anna Mariette Martens I think matrix printout written by her. 1945 Pieter Johannes Hugo 1968 Pieter Johannes Hugo 1971 Erich Francois Hugo 1980 Francois Daniel Hugo 1984 Jean Mariette Hugo 1979 Isabel Martens 1980 Mia Martens 1985 Francois Erich Martens 1987 Nicolaas Johannes Martens 1987 Karin Martens nn Stals nn van Zuydam 1836 - 1895 Charles Gottfried Krös 59 59 In 1972 there is a Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Kros 1920 - 1963 Daphne Alice Beland 42 42 1887 - 1965 Wilhelmina Catharina van der Merwe 77 77 From Martfontein 1886 Jacoba Elisabeth Pretorius Sourced from Pretorius stamboek

http://www.pretoriusfamilie.info/pret1/I27537.html

 1945 - 1998 Jacobus Josiah Francois Martens 52 52 Francois had his mine accident in Springs on 24 April 1998 and lived for 18 months and died in Johannesburg in 1998.
Last known address 67 GROOTVLEI MINE SPRINGS
P O BOX 10139 STRUBENVALE  1946 Rosemary Noeline Gebhardt 1891 Gert Botha Martens According to BENC there are only three children. He does not identify Gert Botha Martens. Christina Connie McPhail Estate no. 22220 PMB
no children Eric Marthinus Walter Martens Source LDS records and Ben Cilliers
Submission to LDS Genealogies gives it as abt 1877. Submitted by R.R.Richards gives him as a son of JT Martens 1st but contested by estate files.
Not on J.T.'s estate file so died before 1910? 1838 - 1923 Hester Magdalena Geldenhuys 85 85 1955 Martha Louise Martens From Greytown 1955 Antonie Charl August van Rooy From Reitz.
Identity number gives marriage as 2 Feb 2006 in Sasolburg. Maybe divorced and married a second time?
http://www.identitynumber.org/research/marriage-transcriptions-maiden-results1.php?id=19569412 1788 - 1841 Jacob Gerhardus Mare 53 53 Father: Jacob Philippus MAREE     Disc #122     Pin #495080 Mother:      Sara Susanna DU TOIT     Disc #122     Pin #495081

At his son's (Hendrik Jacob Gerhardus) baptism his name is entered as Jacob Gerhardus Marais  1849 - 1944 Johannes Jacobus Philippus Maree 95 95 On KLIPFONTEIN (1450) morgen Dist. Vrede
Also SWEETVALLEY 106 1200 morgen
Have original Mortgage bond 1912 - 1957 Jacobus Willem Adriaan van Heyningen 44 44 Hotel owner Champagne Castle & Phoenix Hotel, Ermelo 1858 - 1943 Anna Maria Isabella Martens 84 84 Have Death Notice
Her father was Jan Thomas & mother Anna Catarina Elisabeth Pretorius. So she and her husband were cousins. She was born on Broedershoek, Kranskloof.
NOTE: Her death certificate states that her fathere was John Thomas Martens and her mother Elizabeth Maria. My records indicate her father as Jan Thomas and her mother as Anna Catharina Elkizabeth Pretorius.
After he died, she lived in Voortrekker Str. Greytown.
On her Death Certificate her mother is given as "Elizabeth Maria Martens".
1848 - 1919 Hendrik Jacobus Martens (Van Der Merwe) 71 71 He farmed on Wuthering Heights as some of his children came from there at time of marriage.
According to his DN he was living at Sophiadale at the time of his death. When he died the following children had already died;
Jan Thomas
Jacobus
Dewald Johannes
Gert Lucas signed his DN.
According to the Will the following;
Charles Gustav gets Whiterock, 3000acres
Jacobus Martens gets 2600 acres of Raw and Greehams Land, name unknown.
Gert Lucas gets Welverdient,
Paul Petrus and Stephanus Johannes equally gets Vlakvarklaaget and Sophiadale.
Then there was a trus fund set up and the children gall got one eighth shares.
NOW; Zondana, 2123 acres and Toggekry, 600 acres to make up Wuthering Heights.
The other farms mentioned are Onrust (part of Welverdient)  and Heartsease in Weenen county, as well as Krantzkloof (rented). Also Malingane which was a portion of Wuthering Heights.

What was disconcerting is that in the execution of the will half of Wuthering Heights and Togekry was to go to "Dewald Johannes Van der Merwe Martens, son of Dewald Johannes Martens minor (deceased son of the late H.J.Martens)".

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1005_051005_bird_flu.html
Two strains of Spanish Flu hit SA in Sep 1918. The less virulent strain entered via Durban and spread rapidly to the Witwatersrand whist the second and more virulent strain entered Cape Town from Freetown, Sierra Leone on 13 Sep 1918. It spread quickly on two axes causing many deaths. Estimates range from 140000 -300000 dead in SA alone, whilst it is estimated that one billion people or half the world’s population was infected.

 1841 - 1915 Jacobus Joshua Francois Martens 74 74 ABW
POW
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp
See also transcripts scanned by Rod under
JJF Martens ABW for a description of the battle.
Another reference is the retelling of a ABW war story and life during those times by SMS HOLDER born Coetzee from a scan by Rod and now as a freebie at CD Booksrus.; http://www.cdbooks-r-us.com/freebies/coetzee-abo.pdf

Prisoners Of War:
Number:         30886
Surname:         MAARTENS
Name:         JACOBUS JOSHUA FRANCOIS
Age:         61
Address:         VRIJHEID
District:         VRIJHEID
Captured Where:    LANGEGELEGEN
Captured When:    1902/02/20
Camp:         ONBEKEND
Country:         ONBEKEND
Ship (To):         ONBEKEND
Ship (Back):     N/A

Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. 1844 - 1895 Susanna Elisabeth Martens 51 51 1953 Johan Gerhard Duvenhage enigste kind van Jan Jacobus en Anna Susanna nee Visser 1992 Dene Karen Duvenhage Adopted by Karen Eleanore Martens (b.1959) & Johan Duvenhage.
die biologiese agter-agterkleindogter van Koos en Lettie Martens 1945 Johan Andre Burger 1737 - 1770 Jacomina van den Berg 33 33  Sy was die kleindogter (5 de kind van Jacobus v d Berg) van Jacobus van den Berg (die van den Berg Stamvader): Originally from "Bergen". Baptised 8 February 1671 in Breskens, Zeeland. Hy trou op 8 Oktober 1700 met Jacomina CARTENIERS van Oudenaarde in Vlaandre en verwek sewe kinders, 2 seuns en 5 dogters by haar. Hy is die stamvader van die meerderheid draers van hierdie van in Suid-Afrika. Hy het hy 'n verhouding met Alida CORNELIS, gedoop 15 Maart 1676 dogter van Cornelis Claasen en Catrijn van Malabar. Kind uit hierdie verhouding: Miggel gedoop 13 November 1689. Jacobus van den Berg was vermoor in die huis van Catharina Bombam en Robbert Jansz in 1714.

[source AFN:Q445-MD) Christianed 08 FEB 1671 Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland (also Abt. 1676, Netherlands). Father: JAN VAN DEN BERG  Mother  JACOMIJNTJE JACOBSE BAES. He marries Jacomina CARTENIERS (AFN:Q445-NK) Born: Abt. 1680 in Oudenaarde, Flanders.  Marriage 8 Oct 1700 in Paarl.  They have 7 children of which

1923 - 1996 Alexis van der Spuy 72 72 He married Shirley Anne Martens daughter of Jan Thomas 1909

Kaptein in Lugdiens, vlieënier, o.a in Korea-oorlog waarin hy groot roem verwerf het. Sluit later aan by Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens as vlieënier.

Quote by Leon Bezuidenhout:
(If he would have been captured, we would have won the war‐ He would have made the communists laugh them
self to death) 1892 - 1956 Jacobus Stephanus Martens 63 63 According to Father in law's estate he was Johannes Stephanus 1893 - 1961 Anna Margaretha Aletta Cadle 68 68 Arend Josias de Kock 1874 Anna Christina Cameron Johannes Hendrik Cloete 1882 - 1961 Johannes Petrus Martens 78 78 1868 - 1945 Jan Harm Van Rooyen 76 76 1874 - 1944 Hendrina Christina Nel 70 70 1895 - 1925 Auvinus Martens 29 29 Have Death Certificate
Born on Groenekop
Murdered by 6 workers on the farm. After his death his wife moved back to Dannhauser where Samuel grew up.
~1896 - 1982 Elisabeth Johanna Sofia de Jager 86 86 From Onetree, Dannhauser at time of marriage to Auwinus. 1903 - 1991 Victor Liversage Martens 88 88 He was from Greytown at time of first marriage. ~1922 - ~1980 Samuel Andries Eugene Martens 58 58 Must have been adopted between 1925 when Auvinus died and 1929 when Samuel died. Indicated as child 7 on Samuel's death certificate.

I assume that this is the right person by virtue of the timelina as well as the A.Martens signatory. previously I only had his name as Eugene Martens.
According to his granddaughter Marie Elizabeth he does not appear to have been adopted. They emigrated to Rhodesia in 1947. nn Grey ~1901 Fredrich Gottfried Meyer 1937 Vivian Grey 1926 Eudora Aletta Sophia Meyer 1921 Jacob Johannes van Rheede van Outshoorn 1948 Christiaan Hendrik van Rheede van Outshoorn 1970 Eugene Frederich Rheede van Outshoorn Marina NN 1944 Dianne Beverley 1964 Contessa Bianca Martens 1964 Jurgen Jacobus Smit 1995 Kyra Martens 1968 Celeste Adriana Martens Lives at Kriel 1959 Abel Albertus Pienaar 1991 Elena Adriana Pienaar 1993 Jacques Ruan Pienaar 1974 Marino Conradt Martens 1983 Elaine van Deventer or 26 Sep 1982 according to ID no search. 1947 Hyletje Maria Badenhorst In 1986 she was living at Hoogellegenstr 14, Witrivier
 1969 Charmaine Martens 1975 Erika Martens 1979 Lorna Martens 1969 Christoffel Cornelis Arnoldus du Toit 1994 Niel du Toit 1996 Pia du Toit 1839 - 1903 Elizabeth Maria Martens (Hendrika) 64 64 Voortrekker
Birth: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp
On baptismal register they are Martins.
Her DN states that there are no chidren. In her will everything is left to her niece and daughters e-enforcing the story that her "niece" is actaually her daughter adopted by Jacobus Joshua Martens and Elizabeth Catharina Jacoba Maria Martens

Voortrekker Baptisms Transcript. Kinderen door Ds. Daniel Lindley te Pietermaritzburg gedoopt, entry number 37. Repository: National Archives Repository, Pretoria., FK 2290, which is a transcript of a number of the early baptismal register now in churches in the Free State and the Transvaal..





1838 - 1866 Elisabetta Catharina Jacoba Martens (Maria) 28 28 Voortrekker
Her birth in abt 1842 according to marriage certificate.
Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. ~1863 William Arthur Harris 1881 - 1936 Catharina Elizabeth Steenkamp 55 55 Father: Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Dreyer Steenkamp
Mother: Cornelia Christina Kriel

Photo supplied by Rod Gebhard via mail from : mwrose64@mweb.co.za. Sent: 2011/11/15 03:36:06 PM
Message: Oupa Steenkamp en sy dogters

Tant Annie (gebore )Steenkamp  getroud met William Craig
Tant Cornelia Christina Steenkamp getroud Hans van Niekerk
Ouma Cathrina Elizabeth Steenkamp getroud Jacobus Cornelius Martens (Francois' Grandmother)
(top next to her father)Tant Regina Steenkamp getroud met Ernest Dorsen Nursey
(bottom)  Clara Steenkamp getroud met Robert Craig

*Tant Annie se klein dogter Rona was getroud met die seun van Goveneer Generaal Jansen.

Cant make out the name pf the guy she married, need a magnifing glass.
check it out man lots of new names. The guy you have a photo of is named......Roelof Petrus Gerhardus Dreyer Steenkamp. Hy was 'n lid van die Volksraad...Nuwe Republiek van Vryheid. 1904 - 1983 Cornelia Christina Martens 79 79 1906 Susanna Elizabeth Martens From Rosemary Gebhard
Die stam waarvan ons Martens familie gekom het was aan my oor vertel deur Tant Sannie (Suzanna Elisabeth van Rooyen geb Martens) Sy was alreeds amper blind en ek was ‘n baie jong 27 0f 28 meisie.  Tant Sannie en Oom Neels het ‘n winkel gehad had in Ulundie en toe hulle aftree  het hulle die winkel aan Theo Killan nie sy van nie maar hy was getroud met Sonja die dogter van Tant Corrie (Cornelia Christiana Martens) Corrie was die oudste van die Martens kinders, Tant Katie Eindlik Katrina Elizabeth Rabe geb Martens, Oom Roelfie(Roedolf Martenhet met Tant Lilla( Elizabeth van Heerden) getrou, Tant Sannie en toe my man se pa Hennie(Hendrik Jacobus Martens).  What I omitted to tell you is that when I married Jacobus Johsia Francois Martens, all the Aunts came from Vryheid.  It was 1964 and Oom Roelfie was deceased already having been hit byatruck in the night.I have several photos with names on the back but no dates and unfortunately as you and Rod have discussed names like Tant Nollie.  I will scan get my grandson to scan in as I was on Vista and have just bought windows 7 which my grandson runs quite astutely, lazy in my old age!  Hennie was married Daphne Alice Baur, it was her second marriage she was born Beland. Their issue were Denise Renelsa Heinrich nee Martens born 19th June 1942- next was Jacobus Cornelius Martens, named after his grandfather, born 7th June 1943- Joseph Beland Martens(named after Daphne’s father believed to be in England) born 29th May 1944 last was my husband Jacobus Johsia Francois named after his great grandfather. born 11th June 1945 and fatally injured in a mine accident died April 1998. I had five children, who all had one name only as their father had to drag those three names along on short lines; so Cathrine was born 23rd January 1965 and died October 2010.  She had two children Monique and Jan Hendrik Branken, I am now their guardian as well as their grandmother lol. (Laugh out loud) bbm talk, ask your grandchildren lol lol. Noeline was born on the 19th December 1965; she married Wayne George Cooke, Lisa (Elizabeth de Jager) nee Martens was born on 15th September 1968. She had to be named after her great grandmother as she was born on the 15th of September year?? Great grandma was Elizabet Katrina Steenkamp who was married to Oupa JC Martens. As there already was a Cathrine we just used the Elizabeth. after that my Youngest daughter Suzanne was born on the 17th February 1971, lastly my son Francois(Frank) Martens was born on 8th March 1974 he is Married to Melissa Baur Moinahan and resides in Houstan Texas.  My first two children were born in Springs Tvl. The last 3 were born in Evander, near Secunda.  I was Married in Springs. Francois had his mine accident in Springs and lived for 18 months and died in Johannesburg in 1998.
I have watched the Rugby like a good girl Argentina versus SA and WP versus Cheetahs, so at this late hour I bid you good night.
I am sure Rod has got all my info in his transcripts.
I have just looked in my memory book and see that Aunt Corrie was born on 20.07.1904 and died on 09.09.1983 Buried at Vryheid out of Die Groote Kerk. I was born on 02.02.1946.  I must say I am glad I don’t drink otherwise I would remember nothing.
 1908 Catharina Elizabeth Martens 1877 - 1953 Elizabeth Maria Martens 76 76 1871 - 1946 Wynand Wilhelmus Haveman 74 74 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2006-06/1150688486

They bought Bell Park for 17 shillings per acre
 ~1892 - 1969 Pieter Willem Jordaan 77 77 Cornelius van Rooyen ~1894 Wilhelinus Petrus Rabie 1914 - 2007 Maria Sophia Martens 93 93 1905 - ~1998 Jacobus Andries Rudolph 93 93 From Durban when he married Maria. 1822 - 1894 Johann Heinrich Ries 72 72 Johann Heinrich RIESE (AFN: 1SJG-K3S)     
Martha Elizabeth MAARTENS (AFN: 1SJG-K41)

From SAG unallocated : Martha Elizabeth Johanna Maartens x Johan Hendrik RIES 1862 - 1912 Susana Engela Vermaak 49 49 From Pietermaritzburg when she got married
Martens, Jan Thomas (1), b. 1859 m.Susannah Engela Vermaak, 9 children, m. Anna Magritha Wessels (of Honeyfontein), 2 children Regina and Johannes Bernadus, d. intestate on 1918
http://www.greytown.co.za/deaths.htm#Martens,%20Frederick
 Andrew James Steyn Adopted 1964 Carol Martens 1922 Maria Susanna Catharina Du Plessis ILLIQUID CASE. DIVORCE. MARIA SUSANNA CATHARINA MARTENS (BORN DU PLESSIS) VERSUS HENDRIK JACOBUS VAN DER MERWE MARTENS AND PHYLLIS  EVANS.
1952 ~1884 Louis Jacobus Nel Maré 1949 - 1979 Jan Thomas Martens 30 30 1897 - 1943 Ivy Millicent de Swardt 46 46 ABW

Father: Adam Marthinus de Swardt
Mother: Annie Elizabeth

Formerly Gibson so she was first married to Gibson.
She owned a house in Marquard. Her parents are buried in Clocolan
Lived in "Stllewoning" Sargeant St. Greytown at her death

Name: ?Cb?DMiss Ivy de Swardt?C/b?D Born in camp? No Died in camp? No Gender: female Race: white Marital status: single Nationality: Free State Registration as child: Yes Unique ID: 100316 Camp History Name: ?Cu?DWinburg RC ?C/u?D Age arrival: 4 Date arrival: 23/04/1901 Date departure: 08/08/1902 Reason departure: returned home Destination: farm Farm History Name: ?Cu?DKaraba / Karba ?C/u?D District: Winburg Relationships ?Cb?DMiss Ivy de Swardt ?C/b?Dis the daughter of ?Cu?DMr Adam M Adrianus de Swardt ?C/u?DSources Title: SRC 90 Winburg CR Type: Camp register Location: Free State Archives Repository Reference No.: SRC 90 Notes: p.34
 ~1810 Hendrik Christoffel Jansen van Rensburg Voortrekker
Probably lived at Winterberg, Albany before the Trek

Could also be VAN RENSBURG, Hendrik Christoffel Janse
Birth : C 1801
Death : 27 FEB 1839
Gender: Male
Parents:
Father: VAN RENSBURG, Hendrik Christoffel
Mother: PRINSLOO, Sara Elizabeth
in which case he married BOTHA, Cornelia Sophia
Birth : C 1801
Gender: Female
Parents:
Father: BOTHA, Johannes Lodewikus
Mother: MARAIS, Abigael Jacomina 
But on this tree no mention of Johanna Christina Martens 1810 - 1884 Johanna Christina Maartens 73 73 Voortrekker
REGISTER VAN VOORTREKKERSTAMMOEDERS
(Uit: Visagie, J.C. 2000. Voortrekkerstamouers, 1835-1845.
Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria)
Opgedra aan ons stammoeders
Baptised Maartens.



  Aletta Susanna Botha But not this one;
DEPOT     TAB                                                                  
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DESCRIPTION          JANSE VAN RENSBURG, ALETTA SUSANNA. BORN BOTHA.                      
STARTING  19450000                                                             
ENDING    19450000                                                             
REMARKS   PREDECEASED SPOUSE HENDRIK CHRISTOFFEL JANSE VAN RENSBURG. 1912 - 1988 Doreen Thelma Worman 76 76 Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. 1934 Doreen Martens 1936 - 2013 Henry John Meredith Martens 77 77 1938 Leonie Adeline Anderson .leonie came from Richard Brannegan Hulley. Grahamstown settlers. Andersons owened Quarry in PMB.came from large family.
From Michelle Hutson
In 1986 she lived at Albert Falls Public Resort, Natal Parks Board, PO Box 31, Cramond
 1960 Christopher John Martens 1960 Carol Barnes 1920 - 1996 Peggy Pearl Jones 76 76 2004090058082
Last known adress 17 GOLDEN POND 8 SOMERSET PL HILTON  1947 Victoria Gail Martens 1866 - 1911 Elizabeth Maria Catharina Martens (Jacoba) 44 44 1865 - 1950 Anna Maria Isabella Martens 85 85 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. 1865 - 1950 Anna Maria Isabella Martens 85 85 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. 1961 Michelle Martens 1963 Craig Douglas Martens 630412 5159 00 4
He was a Naval Cadet in 1986 and address given as Plot 111, Lilyvale. 1974 Grant Henry Martens 1993 Frances Rae Martens 1994 Grace Ellen Martens NN Margaret NN Carol NN 1945 Patrick John Lewis Williamson Christopher Hatting Christiaan NN 1944 Lynnette Rochelle Vivienne Hellyer 1958 Karen Lee Hatting Shaun Norris 1978 - 1979 Kerry Lee Norris 8m 8m 1987 Stacy Norris 2010 Kayla 1962 Kim Ingrid Martens 1953 Graham Arnold Magnus Thorne 1963 Brett Martens 1964 Corinne Dale Walker Lana Martens NN 1958 Anthony Paul Hutson 1960 Catherine Anne Murray 2003 Celeste Martens 2006 John James Martens 1992 Keegan Rhet Martens 1998 Britney Martens 1904 Grace Gordon Currie 1929 Samuel Jacobus Martens Currently residing in Kettering, UK 1928 - 2006 Sybil Anne Rowbotham 78 78 Durban 1958 Kevin Joseph Martens 1959 Shirley Anne Gordon Also 30 Oct. 1984 Clinton Brian Martens 1987 Jared Keegan Martens 1987 Carlo Arnaldo Martens I am currently a technician at Sandvik in Delmas. And I live in Kriel Mpumalanga. My aunt Celeste Pienaar (Martens) also live in Kriel and is married to Albertus Pienaar. They have a son and a daughter.

I have two half brothers living with my mom in Langebaan. NN 1998 Devon Joel Smit 1957 Elena Oelofse ~1870 Anna Wilhelmina Christina Hoffman ABW
Name:    Mrs Anna Wilhelmina Christina Maartens
Born in camp?    No
Died in camp?    No
Gender:    female
Race:    white
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as head of family:    Yes
Unique ID:    128510
Camp History
Name:    Irene RC
Age arrival:    31
Date arrival:    28/06/1901
Age departure:    32
Date departure:    29/07/1902
Reason departure:    transferred
Destination:    Camp II
Tent number:    RT 1538
Farm History
Name:    Rhenosterdrift
District:    Pretoria
Relationships
Mrs Anna Wilhelmina Christina Maartens
      is the wife of Mr Herculaas Albertus Maartens
      is the mother of Master Carl Ferdinand Maartens (Carl F )
      is the mother of Miss Susanna Cornelia Maartens
      is the mother of Miss Hester Magdalena M Maartens
Sources
Title:    DBC 62 Irene CR
Type:    DBC 62
Reference No.:    DBC 62
Notes:    p. M 09 1869 Herculaas Albertus Maartens ABW
Birthdate problem as he is born only months before his younger brother.
Pretoria regiment
Farm History
Name:    Renosterdrift / Rhenosterdrift
District:    Pretoria

Name:    Mr Herculaas Albertus Maartens
Born in camp?    No
Died in camp?    No
Gender:    male
Race:    white
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Unique ID:    128511
Camp History
Name:    Irene RC
Age arrival:    33
Date arrival:    16/01/1902
Age departure:    34
Date departure:    14/07/1902
Reason departure:    transferred
Destination:    Camp II
Tent number:    RT 1538
Farm History
Name:    Rhenosterdrift
District:    Pretoria
Relationships
Mr Herculaas Albertus Maartens
      is the husband of Mrs Anna Wilhelmina Christina Maartens
Sources
Title:    DBC 62 Irene CR
Type:    DBC 62
Reference No.:    DBC 62
Notes:    p. M 09 1901 - 1901 Carl Ferdinand Maartens 6m 6m ABW 1892 Susanna Cornelia Maartens ABW
Name:    Miss Susanna Cornelia Maartens
Born in camp?    No
Died in camp?    No
Gender:    female
Race:    white
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    128513
Camp History
Name:    Irene RC
Age arrival:    9
Date arrival:    28/06/1901
Age departure:    10
Date departure:    14/07/1902
Reason departure:    transferred
Destination:    Camp II
Tent number:    RT 1538
Farm History
Name:    Rhenosterdrift
District:    Pretoria
Relationships
Miss Susanna Cornelia Maartens
      is the daughter of Mrs Anna Wilhelmina Christina Maartens
Sources
Title:    DBC 62 Irene CR
Type:    DBC 62
Reference No.:    DBC 62
Notes:    p. M 09 1898 - 1901 Hester Magdalena M Maartens 3 3 ABW
DIED IN CONCENTRATION CAMP 1926 - 2008 Jacobus Stephanus Rudolph 81 81 1938 Catherina Elizabeth Rudolph 1940 Jacobus Cornelius Rudolph 1886 - >1974 Carolina Ignasia Johanna Labuschagne 88 88 Addisionele inligting omtrent Jakkalskop:
TOIT J.N., du 1912-1933
Addisionele inligting ontvang:-

neef van BC Labuschagne
Bykomende inligtin a.g. Jakkalskop
Nicolaas du Toit se moeder was Susara Johanna Gesina Labuschagne * 20-10-1879 (Ɨ 28-11-1918), die jongste suster van CJ Labuschagne graf 12. Sy was getroud met ene Jacobus Labuschagne wat kort na hul huwelik gesneuwel het in die Boere Oorlog (September 1901). Hulle seuntjie is op 14-6-1902 gebore en al in Desember oorlede. Toe is Susara getroud met Louis Cornelius du Toit * 15-6-1880 (Ɨ 27-11-1918). Hulle is ’n dag na mekaar oorlede aan die Spaanse Griep. Hulle het vyf kinders gehad, wat na die dood van hulle ouers deur CJ en MSD Labuschagne (grafte 12 en 13) in huis geneem en opgevoed het: Anna Elizabeth * 9-10-1904; Martha Susanna Cathrina * 28-12-1905; Susara Johanna Gesina *16-8-1908; Johannes Nicolaas * 30-10-1912 ( Ɨ 20-6-1933); en Frederik Jacobus * 27-4-1914 (Ɨ 28-1-1976). Nicolaas en Frederik (Frik) het na die dood van CJ Labuschagne graf 12 (Julie 1932) as plaashulpe by BC Labuschagne graf 18 gewerk. Nicolaas het dubbele longontsteking gekry en is na ‘n paar dae oorlede. Frik het nog ’n paar jaar as plaashulp gewerk, maar is rondom 1937 getroud met ’n meisie Eksteen en het weggetrek. (Inligting verskaf deur Prof CJ Labuschagne, seun van BC Labuschagne graf 18, in Maart 2011.)

Daar is nog begrawe onder andere Pretorius. Vir detail gaan na Eggsa http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1683647 1868 - 1902 Hendrik Jacobus Maartens 33 33 ABW
POW
refer also to scan: SKBMT36140331055100PDF
According to the war records he was from Vryheid, town.
The inscription on the official records states: "deur Zulus vermoor".
Burger Deaths:
Surname:         MAARTENS
First Names:    HENDRIK JACOBUS
Age:         34
Address:         N/A
Commando:     VRYHEID
Battle:         HOLKRANTZ, VRYHEID
Date:         06/05/1902
Buried:         N/A
I posted four pictures of the Holkrans Battle. There appears to be two memorials to the incident.
"A marble memorial commemorating the Holkrans incident stands in the grounds of the Dutch Reformed Church in Church Street, on it appear the names of the 56 Boers who were murdered. Most of the Boers were re-interred here on 20 January 1905. Veld-Cornet J.H. Potgieter's and L. Potgieter's remains were transferred to the same place on 6 May 1972. The remains of J.H. Labuschagne, the last of the 56 Boers to be re-interred under the memorial, were moved in 1976. On 6 May 1962 a plaque commemorating those who escaped or were captured was unveiled by P. B. Pratt and P.J. Fourie -two of the survivors still living exactly 60 years later."


Both HJ and JT Matens appear to have been from the Transvaal according to the historical caption below.

http://www.angloboerwar.com/forum/8-events/177-the-battle-of-holkrans

THE BATTLE OF HOLKRANS

On 6 May 1902 at Holkrans near Vryheid, men of a Zulu tribe, the abaQulusi, attacked a Boer commando that had been burning the homes of Zulus in the vicinity, destroying their crops and taking their livestock. There were heavy casualties on both sides, but the abaQulusi prevailed and retrieved their stolen cattle. This unusual battle came late in the war and was the first in which an indigenous impi clashed with one of the main protagonists of the war, the Boers. Histories of the Anglo-Boer War have mostly paid it scant attention. It has become a little-known footnote in a war of great battles and political events that that marked the acme of Imperial Britain and changed the course of history in South Africa.

In the December 2000 newsletter of the Durban branch of the South African Military History Society it was revealed that the military historians Ken Gillings, S B Bourquin and Tania van der Watt had researched the Battle of Holkrans with the view to publishing an article in the S A Military History Journal. Unfortunately for the historical record of the war, the issues relating to this battle were so controversial, the project was abandoned. Ken Gillings did, however, address the Durban branch of the SAMHS on the subject and the salient points of his talk were recorded in its newsletter, which can be accessed on the Internet. They are further abbreviated here.

In the dying days of the Boer War a stalemate existed in the occupied Boer territories of Utrecht and Vryheid. The British occupied the towns and patrolled near them, but the Boers still held sway in outlying areas, where they lived off the land. This brought them into conflict with the abaQulusi tribe. After several Boer farmers were murdered, General Louis Botha instructed his commandos to destroy abaQulusi settlements in the area.

A commando under Jan Potgieter raided and destroyed the abaQulusi settlement at Holkrans on the night of 3 May 1902. Potgieter allegedly insulted the local abaQulusi chief (Inkosi Sikobobo) and challenged him to come and retrieve his cattle. Sikobobo responded by attacking the Boer camp at Holkrans early in the morning of 6 May 1902. The abaQulusi overran the camp and most of the commandos were killed. Those that escaped the initial onslaught fought desperately and a few did get away. A total of 56 Boers were killed and three young boys were taken prisoner. The abaQulusi took back their cattle as well as all the Boer horses and their provisions. By the time avenging commandos arrived, the abaQulusi had dispersed.

That is essentially how history books have recorded the events of this battle, but it is worth adding Ken Gillings’ final assessment:

“This action crippled the Boer Forces in Northern Natal and, coming as it did, at a critical stage in the peace negotiations, it had a major effect on the “Bittereinders”. When Gen. Louis Botha was told of the disaster, he felt that it was pointless to continue the struggle when even the black population was turning against them. It is for this reason that this incident, arguably, can be described as one of the most decisive actions of the Anglo-Boer War, in that it was a major factor in getting the leaders of the Boer Republics to accept the final peace Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902.”

Not surprisingly, the Battle of Holkrans is better and more bitterly remembered by Afrikaans South Africans than other elements of this so-called “Rainbow Nation”. The bitterness is reflected in a website that lists the Boer casualties as having been “murdered”, not “killed in action”. (As an aside, it would be interesting to know how the compiler of that website would categorize the 68 men of the Imperial Yeomanry who were killed by the Boers while sleeping in their tents at Tweefontein on 25 December 1901.)

It is not only the galling fact that the enemy at Holkrans were Zulus that so upset the Boers then, and their descendents later, but also because 56 of the 73-strong commando were killed. There can have been few, if any, battles in the Boer War in which such a high proportion of men from a single unit were killed in a short engagement. The effect on the Boer inhabitants of the sparsely inhabited Vryheid district must have been devastating.

While there were many other reasons for the Boers to regret and resent the British victory in the Boer War, the Holkrans incident must have been especially significant to the inhabitants of the districts of Utrecht and Vryheid. 1886 - 1961 James Albert Harper 75 75 1921 - 1998 Elizabeth Cecilia van Heerden 76 76 Roelof Martens was first marriage. She lived on Vaalbank, Vryheid at the time. 1920 - 1999 Henry Frederick Clifton 78 78 1928 nn Martens http://eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/natal-witness/511-natal-witness-1928.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1928
BIRTHS
MARTENS. – At the Sanatorium, Maritzburg, on the 17th September, to Mr. and Mrs. Farnie MARTENS (nee Marion MARSHALL), of Greytown, a daughter. 4239 1901 - 1979 Louis Lawrence Nel Botha 78 78 Was still a student in Stellenbosch when they married. 1902 - 1983 Samuelina Susanna Elisabeth Martens 81 81 ~1957 - 2008 Johannes Hendrik Zagt 51 51 ZAGT; Johannes Hendrik, in lewe van Pretoria. Verassingsdiens: AVBOB Kapel, 30/08/2008, 10:00. (Beeld – 29/08/2008) 1967 Name removed by request 1863 - 1942 Anna Catharina Maria Martens 78 78 Have her Death Notice from OFS Archives
Her parents were Martens married to Martens
From Langlaagte Heilbron at time of marriage
lLived at Buitenstraat, Parys at the time of her death ~1864 - 1925 Daniel Pieter Schoeman 61 61 From Langlaagte Heilbron at time of marriage. ~1857 Johannes Petrus Roelofse 1807 Pieter Andreas Ley D. <1870 Petrus Albertus Britz 1878 - ~1972 Lukas Johannes Potgieter 94 94 Ons weet dat hy n geweer deskundige is D. 1899 Jacob Philippus Smith Died in ABW 1897 - 1919 Muriel Wessels 21 21 Helena Elizabeth Du Plessis DEPOT     KAB                                                                  
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DESCRIPTION          DU PLESSIS, HELENA ELIZABETH. WIFE OF GERHARDUS PETRUS MARTINS. WILL.
STARTING  18840000                                                             
ENDING    18840000                                                             
REMARKS   FILED IN 1888.    1856 - 1945 Petrus Jacobus Martins 89 89 Both from Bethesda when they married. Married by special license.
Two x DN on same source. First is handwritten and identifies his parents as P.J.Martins and C.C.Martins. Rest of the DN is a mess and may welll be incorrect as far as parentage is concerned.

ABW POW
Substantiated infromation from http://eprints.ru.ac.za/3242/1/ROSS-PhD-TR96-01.pdf
Estate Ref No. 97968 (vaults in basement, Master's office, Cape Town)

Unsubstantiated. From:
http://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-194423801/martins
He was imprisoned in Graaff-Reinet during the Boer War, as the British thought he was keeping his cattle fodder for the Boers.
He was a very eccentric man and very religious. He used to say that he had no education - 'not one day's schooling' - and the only book he read was the Bible. He was well-known for his habit of writing people's names and comments next to appropriate
verses of retribution in his Bible - for their real or supposed transgressions against him (interviews
Le Roux, A. 1986; Crous, E. 1993). The clinic sister in Nieu Bethesda, Mrs Rina Retief, confirmed Piet Martin's habit of writing people's names in the Bible next to the appropriate verses concerning what they had done, and said that he used to lie on the stoep of the shop over the road with his head in a box. In later years he would taunt Helen with letters which arrived for her, and then tear them up without letting her read them. He also used to block up the keyhole of the pantry door with newspaper to prevent germs from entering.

They had 10 children but only 6 survived. 1862 - 1941 Hester Catharina Cornelia van der Merwe 78 78 Substantiated infromation from http://eprints.ru.ac.za/3242/1/ROSS-PhD-TR96-01.pdf
Estate Ref No. 97968 (vaults in basement, Master's office, Cape Town)
 1883 - 1939 Pieter van der Merwe Martins 55 55 Onderwyser en LV vir Wakkerstroom. He had a farm on Wakkerstroom where Helen and her first husband lived when they married.
Helen's eldest brother Peter van der Merwe Martins, who taught in Volksrust with her first husband Johannes Pienaar, was Member of Parliament for Wakkerstroom.
A former pupil said this of him: Mr Piet v. d. Merwe Martins was my English teacher from Std. 7 to matric. He was
obviously Afrikaans, but we all agree that he was an exceptionally good English teacher . ... Mr Pienaar was known to us as "Paa!!" ["Pole!''} He was unusually
tall. It was said, and I believe it, that he was one of the best history teachers in S.A. He lectured to us in English and Afrikaans and we took down notes in which ever
language we preferred. ... "Paal" was very well liked. He had no favourites but he had a dry humour. When the girls spoke very softly he used to bend down with his
hand behind his ear, to listen. He was the president of our Debating Society and I was the secretary.
1
 1885 - 1973 Hendriena Susanna Johanna du Preez 88 88 From Wakkerstroom
 1912 - d.Yng Esther Maria Martins 1915 - 2000 Herman Engelbertus Martins 85 85 Sussex Laan 450, Lynnwood, Pretoria.

Album van Suid Afrika 1956
Medestigterslid van Nas. Jeugbond.
Dien op Hoof en dagbestuur van Nas. Party, Transvaal.
Peter's son Herman made his mark in the world and first became Member of Parliament for Wakkerstroom, and later South African Consul-General in New Orleans. He married President Swart's daughter, and was a pall-bearer at
the President's funeral.
Last known address RUIMTESIG B7 KOEDOEBERGWEG FAERIE GLEN PRETORIA
 1914 - 2004 Barbara Jacomina Francina Botha 90 90 Sussex Laan 450, Lynnwood, Pretoria.

Last known address RUIMTESIG AFTREE OORD B7 KOEDOEBERGWEG FAERIE GLENN PRETORIA 1940 Pieter van der Merwe Martins Gerard Maraisstraat 625, Posbus 33251, Glenstantia, Pretoria.
 1941 - 2014 Johannes Hercules Martins 72 72 Plot 48, Kameeldrift, Posbus 15399, Pretoria.
Barbara Wilmot and Sybrand van Dyk executors representatives. 1916 - 1994 Theodorus Francois Martins 77 77 Last klnown address KLAVERVLEI 133 (28) VOLKSRUST  1921 - 2001 Alida Catharina Martins 79 79 211116 0011 00 6
23Rd Avenue, Parktown North.
and 16A Morningside, Summit Road, Benmore, Sandton.
 1924 - 2009 Roelof Petrus Martins 85 85 240304 5026 00 6
Tweefontein No 74, Philippolis, Posbus 2, Oranjekrag.
1910 Petrus Jacobus Martins 1888 - <1945 Philip Martins 57 57 Brother Philip spent most of his life in Kenya, where he grew Pyrethrum. He retired to South Africa, and missed Kenya very much "he used to cry". He was very attached to Kenya and Uganda. He was married twice - his first wife died.

Namen der Doopgetuigen.
Johannes Philippus Lehman
Dandelina Margaretha Jubilius
Stephanus Potgieter
Jacoba Helena van der Merwe
Johannes Gerhardus Naude
Further record:
Aangenomen.21 Junie 1918
Bevestigd. 23 Junie 1918
Aanmerkingen. Buitengewoon. Na Oos Afrika 1892 - d. Young Susan Mary Martins 1893 Anna Francina Martins Was 92 in 1968 when interviewed in Swaziland. Was called Tommy because she was a tomboy. 1895 - 1968 Alida Martins 73 73 Helen's sister, Alida Seymour, travelled extensively and seems to have introduced the exotic into Helen's later life through gifts and postcards. Alida was probably the most important person in Helen's life. She identified a great deal with her. A lot of the places that Alida travelled to, such as Egypt with its
camels, have been put into cement 1897 - 1976 Helena Elizabeth Martins 78 78 For full history see paper written by Susan Imrie Ross for her doctorate at http://eprints.ru.ac.za/3242/1/ROSS-PhD-TR96-01.pdf

http://africanhistory.about.com/od/biography/p/OwlHouse.htm

Helen Elizabeth Martins ('Miss Helen') is considered South Africa's foremost Outsider Artist. (Outsider Art was first recognized by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, who coined the term 'Art Brut', or Raw Art, and described it as "fantastic, raw, visionary art created by individuals often maladjusted, with no art training, who work outside the mainstream of the art world.")
Helen Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in Nieu Bethedsa, a small and isolated Karoo village in South Africa's Eastern Cape, the youngest of six children. She gained a teaching diploma after attending school in Graaff-Reinet (the nearest town to Nieu Bethesda, approximately 50 km away) and in 1919 moved to the Transvaal to begin working as a teacher.

In 1920 Helen Martins married a fellow teacher, Willem Johannes Pienaar. Pienaar also worked as a dramatist, and the couple traveled together appearing in theatrical productions around the Transvaal, in Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth. The marriage, however, was rocky, and Helen Martins left her husband on several occasions. They divorced in 1926 after Pienaar abandoned Martins for another woman.

Helen Martins Returns to Nieu Bethesda:

Around 1928 Helen Martins returned to Nieu Bethesda and spent the next 17 years looking after her ailing and elderly parents. Martins' mother died in 1941, and the father in 1945. Left with few prospects in a marginalized Karoo village, Martins became increasingly reclusive and isolated from the local community. Known to the residents as 'Miss Helen' and thought of as a strange and rather outlandish character, she shied away from general contact, and began transforming her house and garden.

Helen Martins' art was greeted with derision and suspicion from the village. Despite crippling arthritis, and the amputation of her small toes (her feet were disfigured from wearing narrow shoes) which left her unable to wear anything but slip-ons on her feet, Martins decorated her home with 'glass and light'.

Although she avoided people in general, once a year at Christmas she would open up the house and invite the locals to visit, enhancing the mirrors, murals and crushed-glass coated walls with the light of many candles.

Creation of Helen Martins' Outsider Art:

In 1964 Helen Martins employed Koos Malgas, an itinerant sheepshearer, to help her make the cement-and -glass statues which fill the Camel Yard outside her house. Formally the garden, this sculpture yard had over 300 figures and animals. Malgas became her foremost friend and companion, and remained by her side for the last 12 years of her life. Helen's close relationship with her Coloured assistant was viewed with great suspicion by Nieu Bethesda's Apartheid era residents.

Helen Martin's works of art, displayed in the Camel Yard, are a bustling kaleidoscope of cement sculptures. Predominant themes are the nativity, a curious mélange of Christian and Eastern philosophies (particularly the Bible and the writings of Omar Khayyam), as well as a large number of owls. Helen Martins was especially fond of owls and considering them a kind of totem animal - associated with intuition and insight and wisdom.

Helen Martins Commits Suicide:

Helen Martins' eyesight began to fail and in 1976 she took her own life by swallowing a mixture of caustic soda and crushed glass in olive oil. She could not bear the thought of going blind - a great theme in her life and work is light - and she was worried that she would be taken away from her life's work. She was discovered shortly after taking the mixture and removed from Nieu Bethesda to hospital in Graaff-Reinet, where she died three days later, on 8 August 1976.

Koos Malgas remained for another two years before relocating to Worcester, but returned in 1991 to assist in the restoration of the Owl House which had been declared a national monument and was supported by the newly created Owl House Foundation. It had been Helen Martins' greatest wish that the Owl House and Camel Yard be preserved as a museum.

More on Helen Martins and the Owl House

Helen had a difficult childhood. Her father was domineering and subversive, and her mother (who Helen adored greatly) was very sickly for most of Helen’s life. Helen’s father contracted stomach cancer, and this ailment apparently amplified his vile nature – he became very abusive in the latter part of his life. Unfortunately Helen had to return to her childhood home after completing a diploma from a nearby college, in order to care for her ailing mother and father. Her mother’s passing in 1941 devastated Helen and she “apparently slept in the room with her mother’s coffin” after her passing.
After Hester’s death, Helen refused to have anything to do with her father and a social worker was called in to look after him.
After Piet’s death, Helen bricked up the windows of his room, painted it black and affixed the words “The Lion’s Den” to the exterior. Nobody was allowed to enter and Helen had a fierce and mangy cement lion constructed to guard the door.

23-12-1897
6-2-1898
Nov 1914
1915-1918
19197
7-1-1920
Jan 1921
1922-1925
Born - Nieu Bethesda
Baptized - Nieu Bethesda
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Passed Standard VII Examinations - Nieu Bethesda
Opleidingskool - Graaff-Reinet
Taught at Wakkerstroom?
Married to Willem Johannes Pienaar at Nieu Bethesda. The couple lived on her brother Peter's farm at Wakkerstroom
Taught at Cullinan Govt. School, Premier Mine Seemingly with Johannes Pienaar, at least at times, as they appeared in theatrical productions together. However she left him on and off during this time 29-9-1925 Helen finally left her husband and went home to Nieu Bethesda 25-5-1926 Officially divorced from W J Pienaar 1926 to +1-1927129 Unknown, possibly working at Muizenberg +1-1927/29 Returned to Nieu Bethesda to look after sick mother
4-9-1939 Hattingh family move to Nieu Bethesda 1940 /1941 Relationship with Johannes Hattingh begins
10-1-1941 Death of Helen's mother - Nieu Bethesda
1-2-1945 Death of Helen's father - Nieu Bethesda
+ 1- 1945 Started work on transforming interior of house
1947 Hattingh family returned to live in Peddie
4-7-1952 Marriage to Jacobus Johannes Machiel Niemand - the marriage only lasted
for between 6 weeks and three months
21-5-1953 Offically divorced from J J M Niemand
+1- 1956/8 Death of Johannes Pienaar (during Korean War) USA
16-2-1963 Death of Johannes Hendrik Hattingh at Peddie
+1- 1964 Koos Malgas started working at The Owl House
1968 Death of Alida Martins (Helen's sister)
Sept 1971 Death of Mrs Estelle van Schalkwijk (friend)
+1-AugI972 Death of Mrs Lettie Kritzinger (friend)
1973/4? Met Jill Wenman and Francie Lund
5-8-1976 Helen drinks caustic soda
8-8-1976 Death of Helen
Nov 1989 The Owl House provisionally declared a National Monument ~1853 - 1888 Philippus Jacobus Martins 35 35 Probably around 1888.
 1860 Francina Elizabeth Martins 1943 Marieta Magdalena van de Venter Gerard Maraisstraat 625, Constantiapark, Pretoria.
 1968 Marina Francina Martins 1964 Wynand Johannes Gravett 1997 Ilse Gravett 1999 Anneri Gravett 1942 Jacoba Scherintina Harmse Plot 48, Kameeldrift, Posbus 15399, Pretoria.
 1891 - d. Young Helen Elizabeth Martins D. 1961 Willoughby Seymour 1892 - 1956 Willem Johannes Pienaar 64 64 [Helen Martins' (Little Hell-'Owls ') first husband was johannes Pienaar, brilliant son of Uncle Graatjie Pienaar, quiet, sturdy and strong; ... he was intelligent and brilliant. Married Helen Martins: Artist and matching temperament! Also a teacher. She didn't want to have children, was "afraid" they would be "black"! When he came home at lunchtime, he would find Helen sitting up in a fruit tree. She told my parents about it. Then divorce.]

Johannes was a very brainy guy . ... He came first in the Union of South Africa in
exams - I don't know if it was matric . . ,. He was an expert in languages, and got his
His cousin Dan Pienaar could expand on Johannes' future academic career:
"He got an MA in languages when my Dad was still at school. He used to help my Dad with such things as Latin and Maths. At one time he was studying for three completely different degrees at the same time. He went to America, and became a Professor, and he introduced psychology to one University. When he died there was a great oration, a long piece, in a newspaper about him."
 D. 1963 Johannes Hatting Jacobus Johannes Machiel Niemand No record of him in her biographical notes. Marie Luther nn Luther (sister of Marie) 1937 Pieter van der Merwe Martins 370811 5039 00 5
Smitstr 112, Fairland, Johannesburg.
 Cornelia Martins Hans Abrahams 1924 Maria Magdalena Theron Kiessig 240427 0012 00 0
Tweefontein, Philippolis.
 1952 - 2014 Otto Hans Martins 61 61 520226 5134 00 4
Tweefontein No 74, Philippolis, Posbus 2, Hendrik Verwoerddam.
Hermien Martins Susan Martins 1967 Corlane Martins Stephanus Lewis 1969 Herman Engelbertus Martins Celeste Koningkramer 2002 Nadia Martins 1918 Hester Helena Symington Klavervlei 133Hs, Posbus 114, Volksrust.
 Theodorus Jannie Martins Pieter van der Merwe Martins Estie Martins 1970 Herman Engelbertus Martins
1972 Barbara Martins Keith Wilmot 1869 - 1941 Hester Magdalena Martins 71 71 D. 1970 Jozua Francois Martins nn Bezuidenhout ~1888 - 1949 Christiaan Johannes Diederichs 61 61 nn Martens 1949 - 1956 Danita Martens 6 6 1926 - 1996 Dennis Martens 70 70 They had children and grandchildren.
In 1986 he was living at 7 Taftlaan, Brakpan 1933 - 1980 Martha Maria NN 47 47 Or 10 Mar 1933. 1926 - 2019 Martha Louisa Lotter Rautenbach 93 93 1870 - 1928 Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins 58 58 ABW
After wife's death Vlakfontein was sold and proceeds divided between two remaining children.
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REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE HELENA ELIZABETH MARTINS (BORN MARTINS) 1979 Lee Werner Pauls NN ~1912 - 1944 Jacobus Josua Francois Martens 31 31 Alternative spelling of Josua from marriage certificate.
WW2
POW
INFO FROM FAMILY; "presumed killed at Orvieto whilst POW" ....but belied by the facts;
Rank:Staff Sergeant
Service No:1703
Date of Death:28/01/1944
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Umvoti Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces Panel Reference: Column 121. Memorial:ALAMEIN MEMORIALAdditional Information:Son of Johannes C. and Catherina E. Martens; husband of Olive M. Martens, of Durban, Natal, South Africa
Family may still be right as Alamein Memorial includes individuals in service of the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave.
NOTE; It also appears that there were no camps or battles at Orvieto but additional info suggestes that prisoners captured in Egypt (for Umvoti Mounted Rifles almost all captured at Tobruk) were transported to camps in Italy.
I think problem solved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_Italy Pg 54 Location; Passo Corese, Fara in Sabina
35 km (22 mi) from Rome. 4,000 lower-ranked British, South African and Ghurka prisoners, mostly from the surrender of Tobruk, were held in two compounds of tents,[5] with very poor conditions and food shortages. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8 September 1943.[6] It was reorganised by the Germans, became a transit camp and was completely evacuated in January 1944 ahead of the Allied advance.[7] The 1,100 British, South African and American prisoners of war were put on a train to be taken to a camp in Germany. On January 28, 1944, they were crossing the Orvieto Railroad Bridge North in Allerona, Umbria, when the American 320th Bombardment Group arrived to bomb the bridge. Unaware that there were Allied prisoners on the train, they dropped their bombs on their targets. The Germans left the prisoners locked in the boxcars and fled. Approximately half the men were killed by the bombs, or when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river below.[ 1925 - 1941 Walter Stanley Martens 15 15 According to his father's DN it was 9 Sep. 1925 - 1930 Harold Martens 4 4 Doornhoek Diaries;
I hold him and tell him Darling your Mam is with you.
he did his last breath in my arms. at 1.p.m. to day.  1.p.m
I have no words.  my Lamb, a sacrifice to Malaria fever, My Pet you were always so sweet & happy when Mam and Dad loved you.  you loved us and you loved the garden how you watered the flowers with your little can, dear Fred had given you each one, yours with the H. & your little brothers with the W., how particular you were how you loved all your toys and every evening the two of you packed everything in its place, your can, your garden tools, your hat on its rack, your towel on its nail.  you and your brother such conscienscious little man how you used to laugh, when you were well.  how you would say Daddy take me to the garden to help you.  Mam you would say come Mam and see our peaches are ripe.  now the little heart has stopped the sweet voice we shall hear no more
 1885 - 1970 James Henry Martins 85 85 One of the earliest farmers to buy ground south of Malelane was James Henry Martins who farmed cattle on the farm Minnehaha. He built a stone house on the mountain because he was very afraid of contracting Malaria, which was (and still is) rife in this area of Mpumalanga. The stone was produced from a quarry on the farm and the wooden door and window frames were made from local timber by a builder from Wales and a cabinet maker from England. During the war years he accommodated refugees in the cellar of the house. He was known by the Swazi as "Mkulumazonke", which means, "he who can speak of everything"
Sidebar note; In addition to her father, it is also possible that Miss Helen’s brother, James Henry, also experienced some form of mental illness. This is because he was a recluse who lived out his adult life in the Lebombo Mountains (Ross, 1997). He spent his time completing crossword puzzles and would fetch provisions once a month from town, until he was eventually murdered (Ross, 1997). (A PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY OF HELEN MARTINS A thesis ...
contentpro.seals.ac.za/iii/cpro/app?id=2436597055340327..)
Maar hy't my pa onterf en was 'n baie, baie interesante karakter. Ek het 'n naam en nommer iewers van iemand wat hom geken het, ek sal dit vir jou stuur as jy belang stel om die ou stories te dokumenteer?

Sy pa, my oupa grootjie was Oom Piet wat jy van weet en sy suster was Helen Martins van die uil huis.

Ek het al die inligting op My Heritage gesit op my broer se stamboom projek. (Jacques Martins)
Dis hoekom ek nie so baie informasie op gelaai het nie.
Kyk gerus en laat my weet of ek dit reg het?
 1899 - 1970 Jacomina Elizabeth van Schalkwyk 70 70 1929 - 2010 James Henry Martins 81 81 290215 5033 00 9
Lovedale Plot 23, P K Louwscreek.

Have another birthdate by family of 15 Feb 1924
Was disinherited by his father.
Esr file 005794/2011    PRETORIA MASTERS OFFICE 1942 Johanna Louisa Kriek 421022 0012 00 0
Lovedale, Plot 23, P K Louwscreek.
 1972 Robert Martins 1979 Johanna Claire Nightingale 2013 Ava Paisley Martins 1965 Martin Martins 650621 5114 00 0
Lovedale 23, Louws Creek.
 Lizette Matthee Father: Gerhardus Johannes Rothman Matthee: b. Mar 8 1936 (age 77)
Mother: Isabella Magdalena Matthee (born Nelson): b. Nov 5 1943 (age 69) Andre Du Plessis Gerrit Du Plessis Isabelle Du Plessis Veronica NN Nicola Martins Lois Martins Henry James Martins Janine Martins 1966 Jacques Martins Lovedale 23, Louws Creek.
 1970 Belinda Maydell Brigette Martins 1920 - 1949 Christiaan Jacobus Martins 29 29 ~1917 Catharina Maria Martins 1926 - 1953 Abraham Petrus van Schalkwyk Martins 26 26 Single. ~1886 - 1949 Jacobus Petrus le Roux 63 63 Lived in Amersfoort. 1971 Anke Maree 1892 Jan Thomas Martins ABW
Name:    Master John Thomas Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    male
Race:    White
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    119253
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    9
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    9
Date departure:    08/04/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Natal
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Master John Thomas Martins
      is the son of Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17 1894 - ~1964 Louis Pieter van Eden Martins 70 70 ABW
 1890 - 1963 Jacoba Johanna Aletta Martins 73 73 ABW
Name:    Miss Jacoba Johanna Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    119252
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    11
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    11
Date departure:    08/04/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Natal
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Miss Jacoba Johanna Martins
      is the daughter of Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    
Jacoba Johanna Aletta Peens (widow of Casper Jan Hendrik Meyer,born Martins)
*!born 20!August 1890 in Heidelberg, Transvaal
*!Passed away of bone cancer; was hospitalised for 19 months prior to death. 1908 Jacob Jozua Martins Was 59 when he died ~1888 Elizabeth Jacoba Margaritha Martins ABW
Name:    Miss Elizabeth Jacoba Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    119251
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    13
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    13
Date departure:    08/04/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Natal
Tent number:    847
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Miss Elizabeth Jacoba Martins
      is the daughter of Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
      is the unknown relationship of Miss Magdalena Dorothea Truter
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17 ~1887 Rudolph Johannes Cornelis Britz ABW
Standerton RC Concentration Camp
Acording to camp records he may have been dorn in 1897 ~1870 - 1909 Jacoba Johanna van Eden (Aletta) 39 39 ABW
Her adress before death was Panfontein
Name:    Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
Born in camp?    No
Died in camp?    No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Occupation:    bywoner
Registration as head of family:    Yes
Unique ID:    119250
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    32
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    32
Date departure:    08/04/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Natal
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
      is the mother of C S Martins
      is the mother of Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
      is the mother of Miss Fredrica Martha Martins
      is the mother of Miss Jacoba Johanna Martins
      is the mother of Master Joshua Jachom Martins
      is the mother of Master John Thomas Martins
      is the mother of Master Lewis Peter Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17 D. <1901 Augusta Martins ~1903 - 1923 Johanna Elizabeth Botha 20 20 was swanger met hul eerste baba toe sy gesterf het. 1896 Frederica Martha Johanna Martins ABW
Name:    Miss Fredrica Martha Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    119255
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    5
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    5
Date departure:    08/04/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Natal
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Miss Fredrica Martha Martins
      is the daughter of Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17 1899 - 1901 Josua Joachim S Martins 2 2 ABW
Name:    Master Joshua Jachom Martins
Born in camp?     No
Place of death:    Heidelberg town
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    male
Race:    White
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    119256
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    2
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    2
Date departure:    18/11/1901
Date departure:    18 Oct 1901
Reason departure:    death
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Master Joshua Jachom Martins
      is the son of Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
      is the unknown relationship of Miss Magdalena Dorothea Truter 1901 - ~1924 Marthinus Zeeberg Smartryk Martins 23 23 ABW
Name:     C S Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Race:    White
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    119257
Camp History
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    1 month
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Date departure:    08/04/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Natal
Stock into camp:    no
Tent number:    847
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
C S Martins
      is the child of Mrs Joshua Francois Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17 1926 Josua Joachim Francois Martins 1925 Erasmina Rachel Elizabeth Martins 1928 Gert Petrus Martins 1933 Louis Pieter Martins 1933 Jacoba Johanna Aletta Martins 1887 - 1934 Casper Jan Hendrik Meyer 47 47 1)!Casper!Jan!Hendrik!Meyer
*!born!13!January!1887,!Heidelberg
*!family!original!from!Swellendam!area,!the!moved!to!Heidelberg!in!the!Transvaal.!
*!His!mother!was!from!the!Kruger!family
*!Passed!away!of!a!heart!attack!in!the!cattle!enclosure!(Suid!Wes!Afrika) 1871 - 1939 Helena Elizabeth Martins 67 67 ABW
Name:    Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Occupation:    farmer
Registration as head of family:    Yes
Unique ID:    119248
Camp History
Name:    Heilbron RC
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    28
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    28
Date departure:    03/03/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Jacobs Siding RC
Tent number:    845
Name:    Johannesburg RC
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
      is the mother of Miss Johanna Martins
      is the unknown relationship of Miss Magdalena Dorothea Truter
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17

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REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE HELENA ELIZABETH MARTINS (BORN MARTINS) ~1896 - 1935 Helena Elizabeth Johanna Martins 39 39 ABW
Not married
At time of her death only Jan Thomas and Rosali still living.
Name:    Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Occupation:    farmer
Registration as head of family:    Yes
Unique ID:    119248
Camp History
Name:    Heilbron RC
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    28
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    28
Date departure:    03/03/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Jacobs Siding RC
Tent number:    845
Name:    Johannesburg RC
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
      is the mother of Miss Johanna Martins
      is the unknown relationship of Miss Magdalena Dorothea Truter
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17 D. 1914 Jacob Nicholaas Francois Taljaard I previously had him as divorced from Maria Catharina and is still possible as his DN has the correct children +1 and no mention is made of previously deceased wife. ~1845 - 1889 Maria Catharina Christina Martens 44 44 ~1841 Susanna Catharina Elizabeth Martens ~1841 Johannes Burgers Lindeque 1914 - 1977 Joshua Joachem Martins (Francois) 62 62 1874 - ~1934 Jacobus Marthinus Martins 60 60 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.

 1875 - ~1961 Wilhelmina Jacoba Devina van den Berg 86 86 Alternative name of Petronela as first namefrom David's Death Notice.
From Heidelberg district at time of marriage,
Lived in Windhoek after Jacopbus'death.
 1843 - 1901 Jan Thomas Martins 58 58 ABW POW
Farmed Panfontein, Heidelberg
then Jachfontein exchanged for
the price of 7 springboks
Jachtfontein registered under his name on 24ar 1851.

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol101ev.html
Gatsrand is geleë oos van Potchefstroom en het tot teenaan die huidige Witwatersrand gestrek. Wyk Vaalrivier het die suidelike grens gevorm en wyk Boven-Mooirivier die noordgrens.
Wyk Gatsrand, wat vermoedelik vanaf 1844 amptelik met dié naam bekend was, se blanke inwoners was feitlik almal nasate van die Trekgeselskappe wat gedurende die dertigerjare vanaf die Kaapkolonie weggetrek het. Die eerste plase in die wyk is in 1839 beset. Gedurende die dekade hierna is 42 plase toegeken. In die daaropvolgende agt jaar tot en met die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) se verkryging van 'n grondwet in 1857, het nog sestien plase eienaars gekry.(1) Al die weerbare man op die plase was verbonde aan die militêre aktiwiteite van die Potchefstroom distrik.
Na die eerste Vryheidsoorlog moes kommando's by verskeie geleenthede weer op kommando gaan om mee te doen aan oorloë teen Swartstamme. Van die vernaamste was dié teen Mapoch en Mampuru (1882), Malaboch (1894 en 1897) en Mphephu (1895-1898).(12) Veldkornet J Geldenhuys, wat die Gatsranders in die oorlog teen Mapoch en Mampuru gelei het, het tussen 1882 en 1883 veertien blanke en vyf Swartmans beboet vanweë hulle onwilligheid om op kommando te gaan. Elke wyk se opgekommandeerde burgers moes sorg vir hulle eie voedsel en vir die doel het Geldenhuys gereeld vee, meel en kontant van die burgers in die Gatsrandwyk gevra. Ammunisie is deur kommandant P A Cronjé op Potchefstroom uitgereik.(13)

VROEGSTE MILITÊRE BEDRYWIGHEDE
Volgens die Volksraadsnotules van 1850 was daar 249 weerbare man in die Gatsrandwyk wat die patrollies kon meemaak.(2) P J W Schutte van die plaas Buffelsdoorn het in sy dienstermyn as kommandant (1850-1855) die burgers van Gatsrand in die oorlog teen die Bakwenastam gelei.(3) Hulle het ook die oorloë teen Sekwati en Segali (1852), Mapela (1860), Molappo (1868) en Sekhukhune (1876) meegemaak.(4) Die burgers in die wyk van veldkornet J H G van der Schyft (Boven-Mooirivier) het in 1861 ook die hulp van wyk Gatsrand gekry toe 'n patrollie na die 'Bossiemans' uitgestuur is om gesteelde beeste terug te neem.(5)

Dit was die ZAR se betrokkenheid by die Sekhukhune-oorlog wat aan Brittanje die geleentheid gebied het om die Republiek in 1877 te annekseer.(6) In die daaropvolgende jare het die burgers hulle toegespits op die herwinning van hulle verlore onafhanklikheid. Toe dit geblyk het dat 'n verlore stryd gevoer is tydens vele onderhandelinge met die Britse regering en spanning geheers het oor die belastingkwessie het 'n volksvergadering op 8 Desember 1880 te Paardekraal besluit om die ZAR se verlore onafhanklikheid te herstel.(7)

Assistent-kommandant-generaal P Cronjé het opdrag van generaal P Joubert gekry om met 'n patrollie van 400 man vanaf Paardekraal na Potchefstroom te vertrek en die vryheidsproklamasie by J P Borrius te laat druk. Die drukkery moes terselfdertyd teen 'n moontlike Britse aanval beskerm word. Cronjé het Potchefstroom met die poskoetspad vanaf Gatsrand genader. Van die Gatsranders onder leiding van assistent-veldkornet P Martins het die patrollie meegemaak asook Gatsrand se veldkornet, A J O Oosthuizen, wat as kommandant die wyke Gatsrand en Vaalrivier verteenwoordig het.(8)

Prisoners Of War Deaths:
Surname:         MARTINS
Name:         JAN THOMAS
Date of Death:     7 OCT 01
Age:         58
Cause:         PNEUMONIA AND HEART DISEASE
Number:         3557
Location:         ST HELENA
Notes:         N/A

Great Grandfather, Commandant Jan Thomas Martins of the farm Jachtfontein was captured at Paardekraal (PAARDEBERG?)  and sent to St Helena where he died. The farm Jachtfontein is one of the farms where gold was found in 1866

http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/database-search/result.php?section=Prisoners_of_War&fldIDUnique=3267#sectionHeader

The Federal officers who surrendered to Lord Roberts after their brilliant resistance during the ten days' battle were: General Cronje, Commandant M. J. Wolmarans, Commandants Roos and J. L. Martins, Assistant Commandants R. Woest, J. P. G. Vorster, and W. L. Jooste; Field Cornets Albert Naude, J. H. L. Bosman, W. A. Lemmer, H. G. Badenhorst, Frills (Scandinavian, D. H. Hattingh, Venter, D. J. Terblanche, P. V. de Villiers, G. J. du Plessis, Assistant Field Cornet P. W. Snyman, War Commissioner Arnoldi, Assistants P. J. Jooste, and A. K. Esselen, Adjutants J. T. A. Wolmarans, A. D. W. Wolmarans, R. A. Ning, G. S. Maree, J. B. Botha, G. H. Grobler, Bomas, and Moodie; Commandants J. P. J. Jordaan, J. K. Kok, J. C. Villiers, R. J. Snyman, L. Meintjes, J. Greyiing; Field Cornets J. Cronje, C. Oosthuizen, C. van Zyl, J. Nieuwenha, N. K. Hick, J. N. van der Walt; Major Albrecht, Commander of the Artillery ; Lieutenants V. Heester, Vondewitz, and Van Angesten.

Extract From The War in South Africa (   ):
"During the afternoon of the 15th, Major-General A. G. Wavell Jacobsdai had advanced on Jacobsdai with his brigade, the 15th (Vllth th P Feb. division), the 75th Field battery, and the mounted infantry of the City Imperial Volunteers, under Lieut. -Colonel H. C. Cholmondeley. The village was held by about 200 Boers,under Commandant Martins, but after some slight resistance it was carried by the British troops, at the cost of one man killed and eleven wounded. The Boer detachment retired to Bosjespan across the Modder, the passages of which, in the  neighbourhood of Lord Methuen's camp, they continued to hold, although, as the 1st division ascertained that morning, their outposts had evacuated the ground between the Riet and the Modder. "


Het Panfontein geruil vir 7 springbokke.
Prisoners Of War:
Number:         3557
Surname:         MARTINS
Name:         JAN THOMAS
Age:         57
Address:         GATSRAND / JACHTFONTEIN
District:         VEREENIGING
Captured Where:    PAARDEBERG
Captured When:    1900/02/27
Camp:         DEADWOOD
Country:         ST. HELENA
Ship (To):         LAKE ERIE
Ship (Back):    N/A

In 1920 het die Verdedigingshoofkwartier besluit om erkenning te gee vir uitstaande prestasies gedurende die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog. Die medalje, die Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst, is in 1922 aan elf offisiere van die Gatsrand uitgereik. Hulle was kommandant J T Martins, kommandant T F J Dreyer, kommandant M J Wolmarans, kommandant F G A Wolmarans, veggeneraal J J M Breytenbach, veldkornet F O Breytenbach, assistent-veldkornet W P Grey, veldkornet P J W du Plessis, veldkornet P A Vermaas, veldkornet J F van der Merwe en veldkornet J Geldenhuys.(72)

Stories on JT on http://www.mullersgazette.co.za/Jachtfontein.html

In the settlement is a little church, nowadays used for multidenominational services. The church was inaugurated in 1891, its origin is well documented and goes back to the 1890's and Thomas Martins. The following is a translation of a typed manuscript titled 'die oorlewering van ouma Malie', the memories of ouma Malie
This story has been passed on from Maria Susanna Elisabeth Brits (ne van Wyk) (Ouma Malie), wife of Gideon Petrus Brits and also contemporary and neighbour of Jan Thomas Maartens (this is how the name is spelled in the manuscript). Told to her grandson Daniel Lourens Brits and written down by Cornelia Susanna Brits (ne Klopper) in connection with Jan Thomas Maartens.
After gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand a carriage service was introduced between Potchefstroom and Johannesburg. On the farm Modderfontein were stables where the horses could be exchanged. There was also overnighting facilities, as well as a bar. The building is still standing, see picture below. Jan Thomas Maartens was at that time a young man and a inhabitant of the neighbouring farm Jachtfontein next door. He was a regular customer of the bar and fairly often got home drunk. Tommie, an Englishman, was one of his regular drinking partners and one day he brought him home because he had no place to stay. Thomas's wife Meraai placed a a meal of offal in front of him.
His eating habits were disgusting with offal hanging out his mouth as he was eating. Thomas became very distressed at the bad manners shown by Tommie and wanted to know from Meraai whether he also behaves like this when he is drunk. Her answer was that this is nothing, he behaves even worse, with at times throwing the whole plate under the table. This affected Thomas so much that for three days he sat under a thorn tree behind the house deep in thought and prayer.
Here he promised that if God helps to free himself from the drinking devil that he will build him a church. God heart him and relieved him of this burden. Thomas kept his side of the bargain and build a church next to his house. It was a small church with a flat roof.
This church was burned down during the Boer War, re-erected and made somewhat larger and put back into use in 1905 through the initiative of Thomas's son.
A more complete description of the history of the church building has been framed and is hanging in the church.
The difference in spelling of the name, I think, was just a mistake made by the author of the memoirs. In the church and in the graveyard the spelling is Martins.
Thomas Martins

There is more to Thomas Martins than just the church story. During the second Boer War he was a Kommandant serving under General Cronje. JT and many of his commando, as well as general Cronje were captured by the British during fighting near Kimberley in February 1900. JT was sent to St Helena, where he died.
On the farm Modderfontein is the graveyard of one of the Martins family and here we found the oldest head stone dedicated to Jozua Franscois Martins who was born in 1832 and died in 1918. It is unlikely that he was the original trekker, he would have been a child at the time of the trek.
Another name mentioned in the reference is P. Martins. He was an assistent veldkornet and was send with his commando from the gathering at Paardekraal in 1879 where the independence of the Transvaal was re-declared, to Potchefstroom to protect the place of the printing firm JP Borrius where the declaration was to be printed.
....and:
http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol101ev.html
Dit was die ZAR se betrokkenheid by die Sekhukhune-oorlog wat aan Brittanje die geleentheid gebied het om die Republiek in 1877 te annekseer.(6) In die daaropvolgende jare het die burgers hulle toegespits op die herwinning van hulle verlore onafhanklikheid. Toe dit geblyk het dat 'n verlore stryd gevoer is tydens vele onderhandelinge met die Britse regering en spanning geheers het oor die belastingkwessie het 'n volksvergadering op 8 Desember 1880 te Paardekraal besluit om die ZAR se verlore onafhanklikheid te herstel.(7)

Assistent-kommandant-generaal P Cronjé het opdrag van generaal P Joubert gekry om met 'n patrollie van 400 man vanaf Paardekraal na Potchefstroom te vertrek en die vryheidsproklamasie by J P Borrius te laat druk. Die drukkery moes terselfdertyd teen 'n moontlike Britse aanval beskerm word. Cronjé het Potchefstroom met die poskoetspad vanaf Gatsrand genader. Van die Gatsranders onder leiding van assistent-veldkornet P Martins het die patrollie meegemaak asook Gatsrand se veldkornet, A J O Oosthuizen, wat as kommandant die wyke Gatsrand en Vaalrivier verteenwoordig het.(8)
Gerugte dat die soldate in die Britse fort te Potchefstroom skote gevuur het, het Cronjé onmiddellik tot aksie laat oorgaan en hy het die patrollie beveel om in vier afdelings te verdeel. Die drukkery is bewaak, die Britse fort aan die westekant van die dorp omsingel en twee afdelings is na die landdroskantoor om majoor Clarke en sy manskappe se bewegings dop te hou. Die skermutseling het begin toe 'n afdeling van die Boerepatrollie onder leiding van kommandant J Wolmarans van die plaas Welverdiend in die Gatsrand, oor die markplein na die landdroskantoor beweeg het en majoor Clarke se manne op hulle begin skiet het. In die vroeë oggendure van 18 Desember 1880 het Clarke die wit vlag gehys en die landdroskantoor is ingeneem.(9)
TWEEDE VRYHEIDSOORLOG, 1899-1902
Die ontdekking van goud in die Witwatersrand in 1886 en die daaropvolgende Uitlandervraagstuk het uiteindelik tot 'n gespanne verhouding tussen Brittanje en die ZAR gelei. Die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog het op 11 Oktober 1899 uitgebreek.(19)

Oppad na Magersfontein
Die ongeveer 550 weerbare burgers(20) van die Gatsrand het opdrag gekry om die plaas Kleinfontein bymekaar te kom. Die Potchefstroom-Kommando, bestaande uit burgers van die verskillende veldkornetswyke van die distrik Potchefstroom, het onder leiding van generaal Cronjé die Transvaalse wesfront (met Mafeking as sentrum) verdedig.(21)

Dat die Gatsranders nie 'n tekort sou hê aan wapens vir die stryd nie blyk uit assistent-veldkornet J F van der Merwe se bestelling van 20 000 Mausers en 10 000 Martini-Henry-gewere op 24 Junie 1899.(22) Dit was toe reeds duidelik dat daar voorbereidings getref is vir 'n oorlog.

Die berede burgers in die omgewing van Mafeking was elk toegerus met 'n Mauser en een honderd patrone, maar vir mondproviand moes self gesorg word. Veldkornet Martins het generaal Cronjé as kommandant bygestaan.(23) Na ongeveer twee maande het die generaal in opdrag van die regering suidwaarts vertrek om die Vrystaters wat nog by Belmont was te help om die Britse opmars te stuit.(24)


Van die opgekommandeerde Gatsranders, 1899
(Foto: J du Preez, Fochville)

Generaal Cronjé was skaars by die Vrystaters toe die regering hom opdrag gegee het om by generaals de la Rey en Prinsloo aan te sluit. Die Potchefstroom Kommando, waarvan die Gatsranders deel was, met onder andere kommandante M J Wolmarans, J T Martins en T F J Dreyer van die Gatsrand, het vroeg in Desember 1899 op Magersfontein naby Kimberley posisie ingeneem.(25) Die Boeremagte het op 11 Desember 1899 die Britse troepe oorwin. Generaal Cronjé se mag het hulle tydens die aanval onderskei en daarvoor het hulle 'n telegram van gelukwensing van president Kruger ontvang.(26)

Cronjé se mag het na die slag van Magersfontein in die omgewing van Kimberley agtergebly met die doel om die Britse garnisoen wat hulle in die dorp bevind het tot oorgawe te dwing.(27) Vir diegene wat naby die Modderrivier stelling ingeneem het, het hierdie taktiek eintlik op 'n lang rustydperk uitgeloop. Kommandant J F Martins het in 'n brief aan assistent-veldkornet J F van der Merwe onder meer melding gemank dat 'op Modderfontein(28) over het algemeen is het hier betrekkelijk stil, behalwe dat die vyand elken dag eenige aantal bommen zendt, nie over Maertins kopje, uitwerking niets dan stof.'(29)

Veggeneraal Breytenbach ontvlug

'n Burger van die Gatsrand, veggeneraal J J M Breytenbach, het opdrag van generaal Cronjé gekry om met 300 man laer langs die Modderrivier stelling in te neem om Britse omsingeling te verhoed.(30) Lord Roberts het egter Cronjé se 4000 man by Paardeberg vasgekeer. Kommandant Martins het voorgestel dat 'n biduur gehou word ten einde die Almagtige te vra om leiding aan die offisiers te verskaf en dit is deur Cronjé aanvaar. Kommandant M J Wolmarans het hom verset teen die latere voorstel dat daar deur die Britse linie gebreek moes word en Cronjé se manne is op 27 Februarie tot oorgawe gedwing.(31)

Dié oorgawe was vir die Gatsranders in die besonder 'n gevoelige verlies, aangesien die meerderheid berede burgers van die omgewing saam met kommandant J T Martins en M J Wolmarans gevange geneem en sommige na plekke soos St Helena verban is.(32)

'n Aantal burgers (waaronder kommandant T F J Dreyer) het skynbaar voor Cronjé se oorgawe daarin geslaag om van die laer weg te kom. Veggeneraal Breytenbach en sy 300 man het ook ongeskonde daarvan afgekom, aangesluit by Dreyer se burgers en teruggetrek na Veertien Strome.(33) Na Cronjé se oorgawe het Smuts vir generaal de la Rey vergesel met die doel om ontvlugte burgers soos dié by Veertien Strome in die rigting van Pretoria en Johannesburg te laat beweeg.(34)

Nadat Roberts Pretoria op 6 Junie 1900 beset het, is begin met die grootskaalse verwydering van vroue en kinders van die plase na konsentrasiekampe. Verder is 'n netwerk van blokhuislinies opgerig wat van digby Lambertsbaai in Wes-Kaapland tot by Pietersburg in Noord-Transvaal gestrek het met die doel om die spoorweë te beskerm. In die Gatsrand is blokhuise op Modderfontein, Bankstasie en Vlakfontein nr 364 gebou.(35)

Jameson Surrender:
Field Cornet with General Cronje
On the Jameson surrender
http://www.angloboerwar.com/books/70-fitzpatrick-the-transvaal-from-within/1507-fitzpatrick-appendix-g-terms-of-dr-jamesons-surrender
Extract of letters:\
His Honour H. Cloete,
Acting British Agent, Pretoria.
Appeared before me, HERMANUS JACOB COSTER, State Attorney and ex-officio J.P. of the South African Republic, PIETER ARNOLDUS CRONJÉ, Commandant of the Potchefstroom District, who makes oath and states:
I was, together with H.P. Malan (Commandant of the Rustenburg District), and F.J. Potgieter (Commandant of the Krugersdorp District), one of the commanding officers of the burgher forces in the fights against Jameson. When I noticed the white flag, I instantly ordered De la Rey to approach the enemy. Instead of De la Rey, Hans Klopper, one of the men of Commandant Potgieter, went. He brought back a note from Willoughby to me. The contents of the note were that if we left them to themselves he promised to withdraw over the boundary. In reply I sent him per Hans Klopper the following note:
'John Willoughby,—I acknowledge your note, and this serves as reply, that if you guarantee the payment of the expenses which you have occasioned the South African Republic and surrender your flag together with your weapons I will spare the life of you and yours. Please send reply within thirty minutes.'
When this reply was written by me neither Malan nor Potgieter were present. Thereupon he answered that he accepted the terms, and surrendered himself fully with all his arms into my hands. After receiving Willoughby's answer, I rode to Jameson's troops in order to meet the other commandants, in accordance with a note sent by Commandant Potgieter to the enemy. I went with Field-Cornets Maartens and Van Vuuren to Jameson's troops, and met Jameson. When I met him I gave him to clearly understand our agreement namely that he must plainly understand that the last clause was that I guaranteed his life and that of his men until I had handed him over to General Joubert. Thereupon I asked him if he was willing to lay down his flag and his arms, to which he replied, 'I have no flag; I am willing to lay down my arms.' Thereupon I asked him if he could declare upon oath that he had no flag, whereupon he declared under oath that he had no flag. Then Commandant Malan arrived, and then the three commanding officers, Malan, Potgieter and I, were present on the spot.
Before I began speaking to Malan, Jameson called Willoughby to be present. Thereupon Malan and I spoke together about the surrender of Jameson. Whereupon Malan said, 'We can't decide anything here. Jameson must surrender unconditionally, and he must be plainly given to understand that we cannot guarantee his life any longer than till we have handed him over to General Joubert.' I fully agreed with Malan, and the interpreter Adendorff was then instructed by the three commandants jointly to convey plainly in English to Jameson what the three commandants had agreed upon. After this had been done, Jameson bowed, took his hat off, and said in English that he agreed to the terms. Thereupon he issued orders to Willoughby to command the subordinate officers to lay down their arms. Then the arms were laid down. Later on, after the arms had been laid down, Commandant Trichardt arrived with orders from the Commandant-General, and his terms were the same as those we had already laid down.
P.A. CRONJÉ.
Sworn before me on this 7th day of March, 1896.
H. J. COSTER,
State Attorney and Ex-officio J.P.
We, the undersigned, Jan. Thos. Maartens, Field-Cornet of the Ward Gatsrand, District Potchefstroom, and Daniel Johannes Jansen van Vuuren, Assistant Field-Cornet of the Ward Bovenschoonspruit, declare under oath that we were present at everything stated in the foregoing sworn declaration of Commandant P.A. Cronjé, and that that declaration is correct and in accordance with the truth.
JAN. MAARTENS,
D.J.J. VAN VUUREN.
Sworn before me on this the 7th day of March, 1896.
H. J. COSTER,
State-Attorney and ex-officio J.P.
Appeared before me, HERMANUS JAC

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REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE ELIZABETH JACOBA MARGARETHA MARTINS (BORN VAN WYK).   1946 Francois Martins Amatolestraat 50, Vaalpark.

Ek is in 1946 in Windhoek, Namibie gebore en het in Outjo distrik groot geword. 1948 Maria Kritzinger Amatolestraat 50, Sasolsburg.
 1971 Sumari Martins 1975 Jacobus Marthinus Francois Martins 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. 1872 - 1941 Jan Thomas Martins 68 68 ABW
POW in St Helena
Born 1882 according to war record and family in concentration camp but it did not make sense that he married at age 12.

Farmed on Schneider, distrik Leonardville/Pretorius, naby Gobabis. 1878 - 1958 Louisa Susanna van der Westhuizen 79 79 ABW
After Jan Thomas died she married HENDRIK ANDRIES SMIT
Name:    Mrs Louisa Susanna Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    white
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as head of family:    Yes
Unique ID:    140955
Camp History
Name:    Krugersdorp RC
Age arrival:    23
Date arrival:    03/09/1901
Age departure:    24
Date departure:    10/09/1902
Reason departure:    left, 1 MR, no tent
Tent number:    1047
Farm History
Name:    Jachtfontein / Jagfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Name:    Sterkfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Notes:    [DBC 78: home address]
Status of Husband
Type:    pow
Notes:    Jan Thomas St Helena
Relationships
Mrs Louisa Susanna Martins
      is the mother of Master Jan Thomas Martins
      is the mother of Miss Elizabeth Martins (Martens, E J M)
      is the wife of Mr Jan Thomas Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 79 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 79
Notes:    p.067b
Title:    DBC 78 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 78
Dates:    Apr 1901-
Notes:    p.M 070 1896 - 1920 Jan Thomas Martins 24 24 ABW 1898 - 1898 Catherina Juliana Martins 1m 1m No Feb 29 1899 - 1902 Elizabeth Jacoba Magrieta Martins 3 3 ABW 1903 - 1903 Juliana Catharina Martins 5m 5m 1905 - 1974 Albert Martins 69 69 1910 - 1992 Frederika Martha Johanna Martins 82 82 1912 - 1969 Frans Johannes van der Westhuizen Martins 57 57 1914 - 1982 Jozua Joachim Johannes Martins (Francois) 67 67 1916 - 1958 Eva Isabella Elizabeth Martins 42 42 1919 - 1991 Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins 71 71 Last known address TORNADO PARK 5 DERDELAAN 81 GEORGINIA ROODEPOORT Johannes Hendrik du Preez 1900 Elizabeth Jacoba Magrieta Martins Tweede-oudste dogter described as Mrs. J.H. de Preez from Zeerust 1903 - 1962 Dawid Johannes Fourie Martins 58 58

name:    David Johannes Fourie Martins
event:     Death
event date:     24 Apr 1962
event place:     "Windhoek, S W A"
age:     58
birthplace:     Heidelberg
estimated birth year: 1904
first spouse:    Alice Rosaly Alice Eliza Wachsmuth Martins
second spouse:    
father:     Jacobus Marthinus Martins
mother:    Wilhelmina Jacoba Devina Van Den Berg Martins
children:     CHILD_1:Rhoda Caroline Welman Martins; CHILD_2:Eugene Martins
digital folder number:     004268381
image number:     00128 Alice Rosaly Eliza Wachsmuth Marie du Preez Theodor Krouse Willemiena Petronella Deviena Jacoba du Preez Johan du Preez Rhoda Caroline Martins D. <1962 nn Welman NN Eugene Martins 1898 - 1960 Susara Gertruida Maria Martins 61 61 ~1918 Jan Thomas Martins 1920 - 2002 Maria Elizabeth Sophia Faculin Gous 82 82 From Green Gazette;
546/2002 MARTINS (BORN GOUS) Maria Elizabeth
Sophia Faculin, Windhoek, 5 January 1920, 2001050100105,
Windhoek, 15 July 2002. Standard Bank Namibia Ltd, (Registered ·
Bank), Standard Trust, P 0 :£3ox 2164, Wmdhoek, Namibia.  1920 - 2004 Jacobus Marthinus Martins 84 84 Noordlaan 9, Kraaifontein.

Last known address SCEPTERSINGEL 39 PROTEA PARK BRACKENFELL  1925 - 2013 Elizabeth Emmerentia Holtzhauzen 87 87 2505070007089
Noordlaan 9, Kraaifontein.
 1889 - 1967 Nicolaas Francois Maartens 77 77 Previous info was that he was 37 (ie birth on 8 Jan 1929 but not according to gravestone.
Name spelt i.a.w. Nicolaas's Birth Certificate.
Die oupa was ‘n gesiene melkboer in die Springs omgewing, hoewel hy op Ermelo gebore is, hy was ‘n vrywillige Unie troep was na Duitswes opgeruk het via Upington. Vir sy deelname om die Duitsers in Duitswes te verjaag het hy ‘n plaas gekry in die Okahandja distrik, by die dorp Hochveldt. Die plaas se naam was Poodle, is nogsteeds so. Hy het blykbaar met 300 stuks vee vanaf Springs na Duitswes getrek. Presies hoe en deur watter dorpe en hoe lank weet ek nie. Hy was blybaar redelik suksesvol as melkboer op Poodle tot die depressie en droogte toe geslaan het in 1934/36. Hy het later net 8 stuks vee oorgehad, maar weer opgestaan en daarna het dit goed gegaan. Met Windhoek se ontwikkeling het hy sy plaas in die laat veertigs verkoop en met sy vee na Windhoek getrek en aan die buitewyke van Windhoek Wes ‘n melkery gehad.
 1946 Rita Martins 1942 Nicolaas Marthinus Martins 1952 Gerda Martins 28/9/1952 1901 - 1996 Jacobus Marthinus Martins 94 94 Het ook op Midgart geboer. Last known address FRANK TOWNSENDSTR 15 WITRIVIER  1904 Magdalena Margaretha de Wet Jacobus Marthinus Martins Erna Laubsher Jacolene Martins 1897 Barend Jacobus Petrus Martins Anna Sophia van der Merwe Rita Martins Joey Martins Piet Blaauw Reinet Blaauw Barend Blaauw Hilda Martins Heimat van Rensburg Annelie van Rensburg 1911 Frederika Martha Johanna Martins Cornelius Schoeman Petro Schoeman nn van der Westhuizen Wilhelmus Schoeman Katie Haima 1948 Mariana Martins 1944 Johannes Markus Hermanus Erasmus 1845 - 1913 Elizabeth Jacoba Margaretha van Wyk 67 67 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vanvuren/vanvuren/b1606.html

Daughter of Daniel Johannes Cornelis van Wijk and Frederika Martha Johanna van Wyk

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REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE ELIZABETH JACOBA MARGARETHA MARTINS (BORN VAN WYK).   1970 Anne- Marie Erasmus 1974 Johannes Francois Erasmus Barend Mattheus Thomas Olivier 1896 - 1920 Jan Thomas Martins 24 24 ABW 1898 - 1960 Susara Gertruida Maria Martins 61 61 1917 Francois Cornelius Johannes Martins Idi Dempers 1944 Wilma Martins 1942 Freddie Aggenbacht Amor Aggenbacht Stephanie Aggenbacht Diana Aggenbacht Amanda Aggenbacht D. Young Leon Martins D. young Liane Martins 1916 - 1982 Maria Dauviena Magdalena Martins 66 66 1607260002085
Last known address was RIVIERWEG OKAHANDJA SUIDWES AFRIKA. POSBUS 90 OKAHANDJA SWA  Willem Blackie They lived in Queenstown for many years. 1918 - 1982 Maria Magdalena Dorothea Martins 64 64 Willem Ignatius Ferreira 1916 - 1990 Hendrik Daniel de Waal 74 74 1841 - 1893 Elizabeth Magaretha Christina Martens 52 52 1841 - 1901 Matthys Johannes Taljaard 59 59 Father:        Johannes Cornelis Taljaard
Mother:        Sara Susanna Taljaard 1907 - 1983 Louisa Susanna Martins 76 76 Benjamin Francois Engelbrecht Greeff nn Loedolff 1878 - 1934 Anna Catharina Maria Martins 56 56 The spelling is Maartens in accordance with her daughter's death notice. 1870 - 1948 Christoffel Johannes Janse van Vuuren 77 77 1895 Jan Thomas Martins 1905 - 1905 Willem Johannes Martins 2m 2m 1906 Willemiena Petronella Jacoba Martins NN 1909 - 1910 Zeeberg Martins 5m 5m Joseph Theodor Krouse Hendrik Viljoen de Klerk Benjamin Viljoen de Klerk Elizabeth Marietjie de Klerk Laurraine Martins nn van der Westhuizen Dawie Welman D. <1962 Brunette Martins SHE MUST HAVE DIED BEFORE HER FATHER AS SHE IS NOT MENTIONED IN HIS DEATH NOTICE. NN Leslie NN ? Willa Fourie nn Schoeman nn Schoeman nn Schoeman nn Blackie ~1880 - <1901 Maria Margaretha Maartens 21 21 ABW Concentration camp records.

Name:    Miss Maria Mag Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    white
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Unique ID:    140951
Camp History
Name:    Krugersdorp RC
Age arrival:    21
Date arrival:    03/09/1901
Date departure:    23/01/1902
Date departure:    illegible
Reason departure:    left for
Destination:    Potchefstroom
Tent number:    1046
Farm History
Name:    Jachtfontein / Jagfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Status of
Notes:    wife of Commandant [illegible and context not clear]
Relationships
Miss Maria Mag Martins
      is the daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Jacoba Margarieta Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 79 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 79
Notes:    p.067b ~1887 - <1901 Paul Martins 14 14 ABW

Name:    Master Paul Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    male
Race:    white
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    140953
Camp History
Name:    Krugersdorp RC
Age arrival:    14
Date arrival:    03/09/1901
Tent number:    1046
Farm History
Name:    Jachtfontein / Jagfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Relationships
Master Paul Martins
      is the son of Mrs Elizabeth Jacoba Margarieta Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 79 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 79
Notes:    p.067b 1889 - 1966 Zeeberg Martins 77 77 ABW

Name:    Master Seiberg Martins
Other Names:    Susan
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    male
Race:    white
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    140954
Camp History
Name:    Krugersdorp RC
Age arrival:    13
Date arrival:    03/09/1901
Age departure:    12
Date departure:    10/09/1902
Reason departure:    1 MR & tent
Tent number:    1046
Farm History
Name:    Jachtfontein / Jagfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Relationships
Master Seiberg Martins (Susan)
      is the son of Mrs Elizabeth Jacoba Margarieta Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 79 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 79
Notes:    p.067b
Title:    DBC 78 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 78
Dates:    Apr 1901-
Notes:    p.M 070
 1887 - 1951 Frans Johannes Cornelius Martins 64 64 ABW
Lived at Vlakplaas Tarlton at time of death.
He applied for his father's medal: 'Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst 1899-1903".
Name:    Master Frans Joh Cor Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    male
Race:    white
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Registration as child:    Yes
Unique ID:    145524
Camp History
Name:    Krugersdorp RC
Age arrival:    14
Date arrival:    03/09/1901
Date departure:    10/09/1902
Reason departure:    1 MR & tent
Farm History
Name:    Jachtfontein / Jagfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Relationships
Master Frans Joh Cor Martins
      is the son of Mrs Elizabeth Jacoba Margarieta Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 78 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 78
Dates:    Apr 1901-
Notes:    p.M 070 Susara Honiball Munro 1928 Augusta Emily Martins 1936 Beatrix Wilhelmina van Zyl Baba Martins ? 1864 - 1926 Joshua Joachim Martins (Francois) 61 61 Proof from gravestones in Namibia.
The family moved to Namibia around 1920 1866 - 1908 Christoffel Johannes Jacobus Snijman 41 41 1868 - 1898 Johannes Matthys Strydom 30 30 Hendrik Andries Smit DEPOT     TAB                                                                  
SOURCE    MHG                                                                  
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 0                                                                    
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 2957/58                                                              
PART      1                                                                    
DESCRIPTION          SMIT, LOUISA SUSANNA. BORN VAN DER WESTHUIZEN FORMERLY MARTINS.      
STARTING  19580000                                                             
ENDING    19580000                                                             
REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE HENDRIK ANDRIES SMIT PREDECEASED SPOUSE JAN THOMAS  
           MARTINS.    D. <1939 Joshua Joachim Maartens 1906 - 1994 Rachel Elizabeth Crafford 88 88 1997 Ruan Pieter Martins 2000 Ine Martins 1974 Logan Simon Wilmot Possibly from an earlier marriage of father with Cynthia Mavis James. Divorced 1978 2005 Keira Elizabeth Scherintina Wilmot NN 1853 - 1927 Maria Sophia Martens 74 74 10 April 1853 from father's DN.
Also 1 April 1850 according to family sources (Jeanne Maartens). Gravestone, however, is clear. 1841 - 1915 Jacobus Joshua Francois Martens 74 74 ABW
POW
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp
See also transcripts scanned by Rod under
JJF Martens ABW for a description of the battle.
Another reference is the retelling of a ABW war story and life during those times by SMS HOLDER born Coetzee from a scan by Rod and now as a freebie at CD Booksrus.; http://www.cdbooks-r-us.com/freebies/coetzee-abo.pdf

Prisoners Of War:
Number:         30886
Surname:         MAARTENS
Name:         JACOBUS JOSHUA FRANCOIS
Age:         61
Address:         VRIJHEID
District:         VRIJHEID
Captured Where:    LANGEGELEGEN
Captured When:    1902/02/20
Camp:         ONBEKEND
Country:         ONBEKEND
Ship (To):         ONBEKEND
Ship (Back):     N/A

Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. ~1876 Annie Fredrika Nel I have assumed that this must be him as he is the only one whose name is consitently spelt Henry John Thomas. Previously I only had two marriages for him, Vorwerk and Bester. The date also correlates with the death of Regina Bester. 1844 - 1897 Joshua Lourens Martens (Francois) 52 52 1839 - 1907 John Cross 68 68 ~1839 NN ~1926 - ~1997 Johanna Christina de Jager 71 71 ~1917 Thomas Cadle Martens 1915 - 1998 Beatrice Charlotte Laurenna Nel 82 82 Last known address INTERLAKEN W/S 503 SCHOEMANSTRAAT 731 ARCADIA PRETORIA.
Executor was Alida Aletta Martens 474 Faery Glen, assisted by Johnson and Botha. 1923 Jules Verne Martens 1928 - 2012 Phyllis Audrey Upton 84 84 1892 - 1969 Maria Aveling Martens 77 77 From Groenkop, Seven Oaks
Lived at 14 Smith St. Durban after death of Thomson.
 ~1915 Olive Margaret van Heerden 1898 - 1991 Marjory Dryden Godfrey 92 92 In 1986 she was living at 15 Cottingham, 131 Bath Rd, Glenwood, Durban
Last known address 15 COTTINGHAM 131 BATH RD GLENWOOD DURBAN nn Hall ~1916 John Castor Butler From Botha's Hill ~1909 - ~1965 Willem Hendrik Coetzee 56 56 From Nigel ~1911 - 1938 Pieter Gerhardus van Biljon 27 27 Father: Ernst Hendrik van Biljon Abrahamskraal, Hoopstad
Mother: Nellie

He lives at AMOR, Dist. Hoopstad

 nn Schoeman ~1869 Susanna Elizabeth Odendaal nn Kritzinger ~1881 Thomas Samuel Wood NN ~1891 - ~1954 Theunissina Johanna van Rooyen 63 63 NN nn Potgieter ~1889 Frank Forkin 27 Jan 1934. Civil marriage in Durban.
Frank Forkin Widower aged 44 widower, born in England, spraypainter living at 3 Gumtree Avenue, Durban married to Jacomina Louisa Martens, born van der Westhuizen, aged 40, widow and living at 2 Gumtree Avenue Durban.

A Frank Forkin born 1874 departed from Southampton for Cape Town in 1912.
Born 1889 England & Wales Births 1837-2006; Hull, Yorkshire, England ~1907 Thelma Thornton She was a widow previously married to NN Batty ~1914 Johannes Jacobus Lodewikus Coetzee From Camperdown ~1927 Cecilia Myrtle Frazer- Johnson ~1893 - ~1963 Jurie Johannes Human 70 70 ~1906 Catherina Cornelia Goldman "Catharina Cornelia Fourie Aka Kathleen Goldman" appears as her name on the marriage certificate. He was divorced when he married her. ~1897 - ~1973 Samuel Jacobus Vermaak 76 76 1946 Marie Elizabeth Martens 1943 Michael Charles McMaster 1882 Elizabeth Jacoba Margaretha Martins ABW Concentration camp records.

Name:    Miss Elizabeth Martins
Other Names:    E J M
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    white
Marital status:    single
Nationality:    Transvaal
Unique ID:    140952
Camp History
Name:    Krugersdorp RC
Age arrival:    19
Date arrival:    03/09/1901
Age departure:    22
Date departure:    10/09/1902
Reason departure:    1 MR & tent
Tent number:    1046
Farm History
Name:    Jachtfontein / Jagfontein
District:    Potchefstroom
Relationships
Miss Elizabeth Martins (E J M)
      is the daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Jacoba Margarieta Martins
Sources
Title:    DBC 79 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 79
Notes:    p.067b
Title:    DBC 78 Krugersdorp RC
Type:    Camp register
Location:    TAB
Reference No.:    DBC 78
Dates:    Apr 1901-
Notes:    p.M 070
 1871 - 1929 Lucas Rudolph Janse van Vuuren 58 58 ABW POW
Offisier, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog. Krygsgevange geneem te Jammerbergdrift. Word 28 September 1901 na Indië gestuur. Sonja Jordaan Theo Killan NN nn Baur 1942 Denise Rezelda Martens 1940 Errol Anthony Heinrich 1965 - 2010 Cathrine Martens 45 45 1961 Jan Hendrik Branken Monique Branken Jan Hendrik Branken 1965 Noeline Martens 1963 Wayne George Cooke 1968 Elizabeth Martens 1967 Baxter Rodney de Jager 1971 Suzanne Martens 1974 Francois Martens Melissa Baur Moinahan Lives in the USA, Houston Texas NN D. Young William Henry Martins 1886 - Young Hester Catherine Caroline Martins ~1895 - ~1976 Martha Margaretha Tromp 81 81 NN 1855 - 1928 James William O'Reilly 72 72 Father was John Robert O'Reilly and Catherina Hendricks ~1785 - 1812 Susanna Haarhof 27 27 Susanna Haarhof christianed on  17 APR 1785 (??)   Cape Town, Cape Of Good Hope.  Her parents were  Nicolaas Haarhof &  Susanna Joubert.
Also have a christianing date of 17 APR 1780 ref IGI
Death 1886

Widow of Matthys Daniel Martens

Inventories of the Orphan Chamber
Cape Town Archives Repository Reference no.: states that she remarried after Matthys Daniel's death to burger Paul Johannes van den Berg Pet. Schulden des boedels
aan d’ edele Jan Barend van Blerk debet over een halfaam wijn en ses vlesse brandewijn     25:Rd:s
aan Susanna Elisabeth Maartens wegens verkogte beestiaal     31:4Rd:s
aan Joachim Hend:s Maartens wegens verkogte beestiaal 31:4 Rd:s'
1) Susanna Elisabeth Maartens gebooren den 16:de Dec: 1798       deeze zijn kinderen uit het eerste huwelijk by wylen Matth:s Daniel Maartens geprocrieerd
2) Joachim Hendrik Maartens gebooren den 10 Nov: 1801
3) Petrus Jac:s van den Berg gebooren den 10 Febr: 1804 deeze zyn kinderen uit den tweeden bedde met P:J: van den Berg
4) Nicolaas Francois van den Berg gebooren den 28 Dec:br 1806
5) Paul Joh:s van den Berg gebooren den 5:de Jann: 1808
6) Abram Franc:s van den Berg gebooren den 7 Meij 1811
7) Susanna Marie van den Berg gebooren den 16 Junij 1812

 1921 - 2011 Hercules Albertus Maartens 90 90 211119 5007 00 3
1602 A Schubart Park, Vermeulen straat, Pretoria
001146/2012    POLOKWANE MASTERS OFFICE
Anna Elizabeth Maartens appointed executor. Possibly daughter-in-law. 1923 - 1999 Maria Magdalena van der Linde 75 75 1602A Schubart Park, Vermeulenstraat, Pretoria

Last known address 61 MAROELA SINGEL ONVERWACHT ELLISRAS  1946 Dewald Joshua Maartens 1979 - 1998 Monica Maartens 18 18 1981 Rene' Maartens 1949 Barend Stephanus Matheus Maartens 1956 Anna Elizabeth Steenekamp Nicolaas Maartens Albertus Maartens Marilise Maartens NN 2013 Herculaas Albertus Maartens 1952 Hester Christina Maartens D. 2006 Cornelius Johannes LaBuschagne Jack Leroy Vaughn 1972 Corne Labuschagne 1976 Ruan Labuscagne Matthew J Vaughn 1962 Albertus Maartens Schubartpark 1602 A, Posbus 952, Pretoria
 1967 Mariette Pieterse 1994 Alta Maartens Neil Maartens Joshua Joachim Francois Maartens Anna Magrietha Sophia Maartens Wilhelmina Catharina Maartens Hester Johanna Elizabeth Maartens Johannes Willem Horn D. ~1976 Johannes Petrus Jacobus Coetzee 2012 Caitlin Martens Jan Van Blerk 1956 - 1990 Margareth Georgina Prinsloo 34 34 Tieroog W/s no 1, Aurorastraat, Skanskop, Pretoria

From Klawerstraat 2, Skanskop

Last known address TOPAAS W/S 2 TANGOSTRAAT SKANSKOP PRETORIA Emarentia Pullen 1909 - 1966 Johanna Adriana Venter 56 56 1911 - 1988 James Gregory Martens 77 77 Last known address 372 JOOSTE ST KLOOFZICHT.
According to Identity no. search marriage records, his birth date was 27 Mar 1913. 1918 - 2012 May Iris Audrey Holland 94 94 1940 Gordon Gregory Vernon Martens In 1986 he was living at 30 De Winnaar Str, Po Box 526, Halfway House
 1919 - 1991 Marjorie Magdalene Milfred Martens 72 72 .The family ended up on a farm called Worthney just outside PMB in Edendale faming flowers for export.Gordon Falls was on their farm. 1914 - 2003 Douglas Ernest Clapham 89 89 Douglas Ernest born 04 November 1914. He married Marjorie MARTENS on 11 July 1940. He was a display artist and also a cyclist. He had one son, and the family lived at Worthney, Esikoleni. He died in Pietermaritzburg in 2003.

From Jon Clapham:
Most of my resorces come from my gramps Doug Clapham who belonged to the Geneology and Heraldic societey of S.A and UK as he used to do Heraldry and Family trees. I've also used other sites to confirm his resorces.He was also the curator for most of the war Museums in KZN. He also did a lot of the Coat of Arms for Schools and Cities eg Greytown, Escort etc and the Comrades Marothon badge obviously cause my Great Gramps Vic was the founder.

I believe a lot of Jan Thomas's belongings are in the Voortrekker Museum in PMB. I'm just waiting for more info which my dads cousin Gordon Martens to send me some more info and photo's Unfortunately he's in Pretoria and I'm on the West Coast in the Cape 1957 Gregory Verne Martens In 1986 Jules Verne gave his adress as the same as gregory and Debra. 1964 Debra Anne Vercuiel 1983 Candice- Lee Martens 1985 Keri Anne Martens Natalie Martens Nigel Martens Heather Martens 1960 Sandra Ann Martens Gideon Leslie Butler 1959 Steffen Etienne Martens 1949 Gerhard Leon Martens 1951 Astrid Reuter 1971 Anton Leon Martens 1972 Ingrid Michelle Martens Janetta Wilhelmina Faculin Gouws 1944 Hildegard Martins 1946 Christoffel Bernardus Enslin 1970 Gilian Enslin 1941 Stephanus Albertus Gous Martins 1857 - 1938 Johannes Nieuwoudt Martins 80 80 Inscription on grave:
Eerste Predikant van die Rand
1887-1920
http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG_gemeente_Johannesburg-Oos :  Dit was egter deur die toedoen van die NG gemeente Dutoitspan op Kimberley dat die eerste gemeente in die Goudstad, NG gemeente Johannesburg, op 14 Augustus 1887 gestig is deur prop. J.N. Martins, vir wie Dutoitspan na die myndorpie gestuur het "om die dierbare Evangelie ook aan ons broers op die goudvelde te gaan verkondig".
http://www.mondeor.kerkweb.org/sites/default/files/abf_storie_bl_1_tot_10a.pdf :
Gedurende Mei 1887 het 'n jong Proponent, Johannes Nieuwoudt Martins, van die NG Kerk uit Kimberley in Johannesburg aangekom. Hy was bestem om die eerste
NG Gemeente in Johannesburg te stig en sou later diep spore trap in die Kerkgeskiedenis om uiteindelik die ere-titel van stigter en "vader" van die Ned Herv of Geref Kerk aan die Rand (Smit AP 1948:23) verdien. Dat hy die regte persoon was vir die werk, was nie te betwyfel nie. Hy het kosbare praktiese ervaring van hierdie tipe bediening opgedoen terwyl hy nog in Kimberley was, waar hy as hulpprediker saam met Ds AP Kriel (later van Langlaagte) die delwers van die Diamantstad vanuit die gemeente Dutoitspan in Beaconsfield, met die Evangelie bedien het.
Die kerkraad van Beaconsfield het verneem van die pynlike
geestelike verwaarlosing en toenemende onverskilligheid
wat hoogty gevier het onder die mense in Johannesburg en
het toe besluit dat hulle as gemeente iets hieraan moes
doen. Op 11 Mei 1887, is Prop Martins as hulle afgevaardigde na Johannesburg gestuur met die opdrag om die Evangelie in Johannesburg te gaan bedien (Smit AP 1948:25). Die dertigjarige Proponent Martins is per Passasierskoets vervoer na Johannesburg en het eers na ses vermoeiende dae op pad in Johannesburg aangekom. Op dieselfde Saterdag as wat Martins in Johannesburg aangekom het, het daar nog 'n bekende destydse prediker van ons Kerk, Ds Andrew Murray, in Johannesburg arriveer met die doel om van naderby kennis te maak met die delwers en hul geestelike behoeftes.
http://www.maszyny ciecie.bielawa.pl/wiki/w/af/NG_gemeente_Johannesburg
Johannes Nieuwoudt Martins, 1887 - 1920 (17 Mei 1887 aangekom, 25 November 1887 tot leraar beroep, in Mei 1888 eerste maal as leraar bevestig, tree af in 1920, sy enigste gemeente).
Author of Die eerste Bybel deur God aan die mensdom gegee: die Bybel van Adam en sy geslag van die val tot Moses which was self-published in 1923.
Membership of Cape Town congregation on 11 April 1880. From Nieu Bethesda. ~1858 - 1948 Margarita Hendrika Cruywagen 90 90 http://af.gsnote.org/NG_gemeente_Johannesburg: :
Gedurende die laaste naweek van September 1947 vier die gemeente sy 60-jarige bestaan op luisterryke wyse toe kranse gelê is by die grafte van di. Martins (oorlede 14 September 1938) en Cillié (oorlede 30 Oktober 1935). Die eerste predikantsvrou, mev. Martins, is ook in eie persoon gehuldig. (Sy het destyds in Richmondlaan, Aucklandpark, gewoon en is in Julie 1948 oorlede.)  ~1894 - 1966 Jacobus Victor Martins 72 72 1905 Jacoba Elizabeth Maria Nel Carolina Elizabeth Martins Was spelt Maartens according to her son's death notice. Noel van den Berg Eleanor Martin Christina Martens Marthinus Oosthuizen Christina Oosthuizen Jan Martens cerebral palsy due to his mother having had German Measles at his birth. 1922 - 2004 Marguerite Tredoux Martens 81 81 The third and oldest sister was my mother Marguerite Tredoux Martens a Primary school teacher  married to my father Sarel Jacobus Gous later Prof at the Department of Education at UPE.  He comes from the Gous - family from Kuruman. 1912 - 1998 Prof Sarel Jacobus Gouws 86 86 The third and oldest sister was my mother Marguerite Tredoux Martens a Primary school teacher  married to my father Sarel Jacobus Gous later Prof at the Department of Education at UPE.  He comes from the Gous - family from Kuruman.
Last known address : UMKOBIRYLAAN 19 SOUTHBROOM MARGATE  1951 Elenor Marguerite Gous Now refers to herself as Gauch (meaning Gauch-proper pronounciation of Gous/Gauch a Latyn word
meaning 'the man is joyful' ; Andre Gauch coming to the Cape of Good Hope murdered by a Bekker.
My grandfather Jan Thomas Martens named 'Tommy the Dutch Reformed Minister was married to Eleanor Ann Martin.
They had three daughters:
Christina or nickname Crystel (late) married to Marthinus Oosthuizen who has a daughter with the same name who is a director. The other child Jan is Cerebralpaulsy; due to Christel who had some illness during pregnancy. I think German measles.
The other sister is Joan Martens  who still lives- very frail at
Jefreysbay Old age home. She adopted two daughters before having her own/named Marguerite.
Joan married Flippie Retief. If you go in the Website of DAMESFONTEIN /farm/farmmuseum  at Graaff-Reinet you will find it very interesting.
This was all done up by Marguerite now married to Tiefie Wolfaardt.

The third and oldest sister was my mother Marguerite Tredoux Martens a Primary school teacher  married to my father Sarel Jacobus Gous later Prof at the Department of Education at UPE.  He comes from the Gous -
family from Kuruman. She had two children: myself Eleanor Marguerite Gous(married twice to M J  Stencel and divorced) and my brother Jan Thomas Gerard Gous an
retired accountant who lives in Pretoria Sunnyside in a small bacholar flat.
M J Stencel has remarried a long time ago. I am still single.
I have one son Terence Stencel living in London United Kingdom.

I have photographs of Philip Martens and his wives and children.
Also a photograph of the Uncles unknown to Marthinette.
Do you collect photographs?

One of Philip Martens daughters Marthinette who resides at Pietermaritzburg
will appreciate a call from you. Her number is 0333963252. 1952 Michael John Stencel 1943 Jan Thomas Gerard Gous 1974 Terence Stencel Lives in the UK ~1881 - 1919 John Tudor Thompson 38 38 I had him as born in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England but his DN gives Scotland. ~1950 Sonette Elize Martens ~1954 - ~2008 Carlie Gene Martens 54 54 ~1956 Annelise Christa Martens 1961 Auvinus Eugene Martens ~1922 - ~1980 Samuel Andries Eugene Martens 58 58 Must have been adopted between 1925 when Auvinus died and 1929 when Samuel died. Indicated as child 7 on Samuel's death certificate.

I assume that this is the right person by virtue of the timelina as well as the A.Martens signatory. previously I only had his name as Eugene Martens.
According to his granddaughter Marie Elizabeth he does not appear to have been adopted. They emigrated to Rhodesia in 1947. 2001 Jordan Raffaello Smit 2005 Tenisha Martens 2012 Micayla Martens 1998 Izabella Angela Pauls 2009 Bethany Pauls 2011 Keran Faith Pauls Minnie Huber From Durban ~1894 Henry Francis Herbert Bamford 1913 - 1981 Ronald Martens 68 68 1914 - 1996 Florence Martens 81 81 Last known address: ORANJEHOF NR.A8 PINELAAN 22 KEMPTON PARK. POSBUS 7074 BONAEROPARK  ~1912 - 1957 Andries Christiaan Dormehl 45 45 Lived in Germiston at the tine of his death. Michiel Vermeulen Angenita Martens Jasper Coetzee Phyllis Martens Pieter Jacobus Lodewikus Theron 1908 Ernest John Hammond Originally from Fulham, London, England 1920 - 1998 Johan Jacobus Martens 78 78 Last known address SCOTTSINGEL 16 BRENTHURST BRAKPAN.
Executor was Albertus Stephanus Engelbrecht through ABSA Trust, His dob 19421120. He was married to Magrietha Elizabeth Muller. 1924 - 1996 Eileen Martens 72 72 1922 Philip Carel Minnaar 1927 Claude Keith Opperman 1932 Victoria Amelia Martens nn Casson 1927 George Ernest Williamson 1900 - 1966 Jacobus de La Rey Taylor 66 66 ~1910 Maria Susanna Dorothea Maartens Marriage certificate signed by P.W. Maartens and M.E.Taylor. 1846 Johannes Hendrik Martens On Mweb his dob is given as 1848.
There is still doubt about this family.
This Johannes Hendrik was born in 1846 whilst the Johannes Hendrik b. 1840 WAS married to Agnetha Maria Botha.
 1919 - 1919 Petrus Jacobus Martins 9m 9m 1919 - 1976 Philippus Johannes Retief 56 56 Eldest son.
http://www.thegreatkaroo.com/listing/damesfontein_museum.
http://www.graaffreinet.co.za/listing/historical_guest_farms
 1929 Joan Scheepers Martens 1923 - 2001 Daphne Doreen Morgan 77 77 From Sandra Ann Martens.
Last known address was SAVELLOORD 5 SCOTTBURGH SUID SCOTTBURGH
Address in 1986 given as Huw Sert Fotos, Durban. 1951 Zaria Petronella de Villiers 1933 - 1996 Margaret Jean Burberry Seale 62 62 Last known address LEOPARDS CLOSE KABULONGA LUSAKA ZAMBIA
C/O ANGLO AMERICAN CORPORATION BOX 1986 LUSAKA ZAMBIA 1944 - 1982 Marthinus Petrus Wilhelmus Maartens 38 38 Weird! - he inherited Modderfontein from his father, worked as a clerk in the post office and left the farm Modderfontein to his son, Dewald.
Last known address FISCHERSTRAAT 52 DAGBREEK WELKOM
Lived at Meckelst. 4, Hospitaalpark, Bloemfontein at the time of his death. 1946 Johanna Janetta van Wyk After his death she lived at 4 Meckle St., Bloemfontein 1905 - 1985 Petronella Andrina Janse van Rensburg 80 80 Generaal Beyersstraat 263, Pretoria Noord, Pretoria.

Last known address GENERAAL BEYERSSTRAAT 263 PRETORIA-NOORD PRETORIA  ~1904 Helena Dorothea Lindeque From Smaldeel, Parys 1904 - 1973 Martin Martins 69 69 1906 - 1990 Rachel Catharina du Toit 83 83 Voortrekkerstraat 28A, Ventersdorp.

Last known address OUETEHUIS VENTERSDORP  1909 - 1984 Maria Magdalena Wolmarans 75 75 At marriage from Elandsfontein
Last known address MODDERFONTEIN WESTONARIA  ~1904 - 1970 Jozua Francois Martins 66 66 Modderfontein 1925 Anna Maria Nieuwoudt W/S 5 Tornadoplein, 3De Laan 81, Georginia, Roodepoort.
 1921 - 2003 Francina Johanna Aletta Van Staden 81 81 Rex Court 1 Riccardstraat 28, Krugersdorp.

Last known address 11 GARRICK STREET KENMARE KRUGERSDORP  1941 - 2003 Theo Symington Martins 62 62 Klavervlei 133, Posbus 186, Volksrust.

Last known address HOSPITAALSTRAAT 7 VOLKSRUST  1940 Johanna Janetta Arangies 400105 0039 00 1
Klavervlei 133, Posbus 186, Volkrust.
 1924 - 2008 Elsie Phillipina Myburgh 84 84 1922 - 1986 Charles Liversage Martens 64 64 Last known address 37 VAN WOUW STR SASOLBURG O.F.S.  1928 - 2001 Miriam Goosen 72 72 Last known address EIKELAAN 13 PARYS
POSBUS 38 VREDEFORT  1926 - 2005 Kenneth Norman Martens 78 78 Use the text on his grave

In 1986 he was living at 3 Rossendale, 5 Robinhood Place, Montclair, Durban

[ZA-EC] THE HERALD, Thursday, 10.02.2005:
1. Deaths: MARTENS. – Ken. Missed by Trevor, Kathleen, Carmen, James and Louisa.
2. Burials: MAARTENS. – Ken. The funeral service will take place at the Walmer Methodist Church, Main Road tomorrow (Friday), February 11, 2005 at 2 pm.
Last known address was 3C GARDEN COURT 8TH AVENUE WALMER
P O BOX 13363 HUMEWOOD
My grandfather was a plasterer and brick layer. He later completed his degree in teaching and taught mathematics, building science and technical drawing at the Natal Technical High School.  He had a passion for mathematics and later taught only mathematics to all standards and was head of the mathematics departmentThe "great joy and sadness" that is written on my grandfather's memorial stone was written with my grandmother in mind.  He spoke about his love for her until the day he died. He never remarried.
Trevor and Kathleen (on the memorial stone) were family friends of my father and mother.  Carmen and James are their children and Louisa was Kathleen's mother whom has since passed away.(sic Chantelle Adriane Martens) ~1926 - 1970 Gertrude Gezina du Randt 44 44 ~1922 Keith Robertson His domicile was England at time of marriage. 1925 - 1999 Dorothy Margareth Dryden Martens 74 74 Last known address was 12 HENNET 328 MOORE ROAD GLENWOOD DURBAN. P O BOX 2081 DURBAN  ~1925 - 2002 Alexander Browning McMaster 77 77 ~1924 Shelagh Marjory Dryden Martens 1920 - 2009 Sonia Mary Dryden Martens 89 89 1915 - 2005 Joseph George Quick 89 89 last known address 16 LURGAN RD PARKVIEW ~1899 Margarietha Evangelina Martins It is also possble that there is a generation missing. On MyHeritgae she is the child of Rev. Jan Neuwoudt Martins born in 1873.

From Johannesburg 1893 - 1968 Wilfred Douglas Galpin 75 75 From Johannesburg

The Observatory Museum[edit]

Part of the analemma which amateur astronomer Galpin inscribed on the floor of the Meridian Room
In 1859, Henry Carter Galpin bought a simple double-storey establishment in Bathurst Street for £300. During the next 23 years he made extensive changes. The front was elegantly decorated, and a basement and three floors added to the back. Rooftop developments included an observatory, from which the building took its name, and what was for many years the only Camera Obscura in the Southern Hemisphere.

Born in 1820 in Dorset, England, Galpin trained as an architect, surveyor and civil engineer, as well as a chronometer, clock and watchmaker. These skills, together with his keen interest in optics and astronomy, are reflected throughout The Observatory- the most unusual Victorian home and business premises in South Africa.

Galpin's thriving watchmaker and jeweller's shop was run by three of his seven sons after his death in 1886, including Ernest Edward Galpin. They sold to Messrs Leader and Krummeck in 1939. Several businesses occupied the ground floor while the basement and upper floors were divided into flats and lodgings.

By the end of the 1970s the structure was dilapidated and unsound. The historic link with the identification of the Eureka diamond led to the purchase and restoration of the Observatory by De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited.

The building was subsequently proclaimed a National Monument and presented to the Albany Museum to form part of its History Division. Exhibits were arranged, and The Observatory Museum was opened by Mr. Harry F. Oppenheimer, the then Chairman of De Beers, on 2 February 1983. 1959 - 1996 Robert Garbutt Oliver Martens 36 36 In 1986 he was living at 525 Bulwer Street, Pietermaritzburg

Last known address 8 YVEDAWN 53 BAMBOO LANE PIENETOWN  1956 Hester Stephany Wentzel 1932 - 2014 Magrieta Johanna van Rooyen 82 82 1939 Maria Cathrina Cronje ~1921 - 1950 Stefana Salomie Martens 29 29 From Greytown. ~1921 Johannes Jacobus Venter From Pietermaritzburg 1942 Adrie Antoinette Heyns 1955 Angela Bronwyn Davies 1966 Antoinette Martens 1991 Bradley Stephen Martens 1964 Brenda Leigh Haines 1988 Brendon Martens 1974 Carmen Young 1991 Dean Thomas Martens 1963 Diana Fourie 1973 Dudley Vernon Martens 1944 Elizabeth Anne Martens 1990 Eugene Jacobus Martens 1929 Henry Bond Martens 1989 Jade Sherilee Martens 1977 Janet Anne Craig 1988 Jeanine Martens 1938 Johanna Hendrina Petronella Els 1962 Jonathan Charles Martens 1975 Lindy Lee Labuschagne 1964 Lynette Thomson Lived in Newcastlein Dec 2016 1939 Maureen Josephine Brooks 1936 Michael Stephan Martens 1963 Michele Maud Marriott 1992 Rene' Norman Martens 1945 Rita van Niekerk 1974 Rudolph Cadle Martens 1975 Sarah Louisa Munday 1945 Shannon Gale Boje 1961 Ursula Angela Venske 1919 - 2016 Anna Maria Brits 97 97 190119 0012 00 3
Bakenkloof Str 343, Wolmer, Pretoria.

Possibly Joshua Joachem Martins (Francois) 1914 to 1977.
 1960 Peter Kenneth Martens 207 Lelane. Cathcart Road, Humewood, Port Elizabeth 1961 Amarinda Gerda Visser 207 Lelane. Cathcart Road, Humewood, Port Elizabeth 1986 Chantelle Adriane Martens nn Steenkamp Henry John Steward 1970 Heather Joy Hen-Boisen 1952 Sheryl Adrianne Martens 520822 0129 00 5
 nn Fuhrer Michelle Fuhrer NN Charne NN 1956 Marcelle Geziena Martens Currently living in England nn Branson Skye Branson Jade Branson Kaia Branson ~1855 - 1932 Elizabeth Ann Magnus 77 77 Have Death Notice
FATHER: John Magnus
MOTHER: Sara Grant
John Magnus was curator of Alexander Park, he did the layout design.
Elizabeth got married iin her jodpurs (=rybroek) and rode to Doornhoek. Hendrik could hardly speak English and she had no Afrikaans. She was from Fox Well at time of marriage to Hendrik. 1935 Olive Elaine du Preez Claudia Montsiefer 1944 Joseph Beland Martens 1916 - 1990 Hendrik Daniel de Waal 74 74 Last known address RIVIERWEG 410 OKAHANDJA
POSBUS 90 OKAHANDJA SWA  1968 Lisa Ford Barbara Pauline Griffen 1979 David William Parkin 1934 Charles Edward Rogers Darryl Cuniffe Jan Jonker Willie van der Schyff Henry Thomas Sinden nn Nel Ian Frank Houston Ian is weer getroud met Lorna se beste vriendin Marilyn Buss.  Nadine Nagel nn de Villiers 1973 Catherina Elizabeth Cohen 1961 Andre Martens 1959 Jeffrey Edwin Mc Bain 1972 Rena Elizabeth Sim- Booyens 1948 Jennifer Anne Long In 1986 Voters Rolls she is Jennifer Anne Crow 1921 Daniel Lamprecht van den Berg 1919 Johannes Zacharias Petrus Lombard Ronald Ballantine 1953 David Martens 1956 Lynette Mavis de Witt 560619 0025 00 6
In 1986 she was living at 5de Laan 7, Lambton, Germiston

 1977 Sonja Martens 1979 Liesl Martens 1982 Janine Martens 2001 Henro Martens 2005 Elizca Martens 1977 Theo Josef Viljoen nn Fourie nn de Kock 1959 Jan Christiaan Vosloo 1959 Floris Johannes Gerhardus Smith 1964 Charl Anton Gous nn Keating 1943 Willem Adriaan van Deventer 1974 Susanna Sophia van de Vyver 1975 Roland Anton Lacock nn Martens NN 1929 - 2012 Anna Johanna Visagie 82 82 291202 0026 00 5 1928 - 2008 Samuel Jacobus Martens 80 80 1962 Carol Suzanne Martens 620728 0222 00 6
At the time of voter registration I have her living with Ettienne.
 1965 Philip John Cowley 1960 Gavin John Boliter 1943 Johannes van der Walt Bellingen 1943 - 2007 Merven Winston Laatz 64 64 1971 Jan Adriaan Erasmus 1912 - 1992 Casper Jeremia Maartens 80 80 Japie Krigestr 47, Unitas Park, Vereeniging

Last known address JAPIE KRIGE STR 47 UNITAS PARK VEREENIGING  1921 Anna Susanna van Tonder 211015 0037 00 5
Japie Krigestr 47, Unitas Park, Vereeniging
 1965 - 1989 Arend Jacobus Martins 23 23 650412 5017 00 9
Bellevue 399, Fouriesburg.
 1939 Alma Dippenaar 390627 0022 00 2
Bellevue, Fouriesburg.
 1962 Jacobus Victor Martins 620619 5019 00 2
Bellevue, Fouriesburg.
 1937 Johannes Victor Martins 371021 5050 00 7
Bellevue, P.K. Fouriesburg.
 1966 Susan Martins 660614 0015 00 7
Bellevue 399. Fouriesburg.
 1942 Du Preez Martins 420810 5125 00 4
Smithstraat 103, Parow.
 Du Preez Abrahams Investigate this further. Du Preez Marting vs du Preex Abrahams. 1945 Gertruida Dorothea Erasmus 450123 0082 00 3
Smithstraat 103, Parow.
 1949 Ella Van Jaarsveld 490427 0008 00 5
Krigestraat 13, Ovs.
 1944 Philippus Louis Martins 440128 5012 00 7
Krigestraat 13, Vrede, Ovs.
 Willem Nicolaas Fourie 1943 Marietjie Martins 1941 Maria Magdalena du Plooy 410803 0010 00 0
Plaas, Modderfontein.
 1957 Mariechen Alice NN 570625 0153 00 1
Villa Rosa 304, Barnesstraat, Bloemfontein.
Mariechen Alice Martins appointed Executor.
Also letter from Master's office addressed to Elmatrie Martins in Bloemfiontein.
 1942 Mary Laity 420126 0013 00 8
Smitstr 112, Fairland, Johannesburg.
 1905 - 1983 Ono Martins 77 77 Last known address BLOEKOMLAAN 14 ROBERTSON  1910 - 2004 Anna Jacoba Briers 93 93 Castellamarehof 1, Vredestraat, Durbanville.

Last known address HUIS ARISTEA KONINGINSTRAAT DURBANVILLE  1966 Teresa Martins 660218 0108 00 0
112 Smit Street, Fairland, Johannesburg.
 1918 - 1968 Johanna Isabel Martens 49 49 nn Crane 1966 Dewald Josua Maartens 5 De Jagerstraat, Fichardtpark, Bloemfontein.
He inherited Modderfontein.
 1970 - 2009 Welma Wilhelmina Cecilia Steyn 38 38 007221/2011    JOHANNESBURG MASTERS OFFICE 1970 Johannes Jacobus Maartens 1971 Marthinus Petrus Wilhelmus Maartens 1908 - 1974 Dewald Joshua Maartens 66 66 Last will and testament dd 1972. nn Hyland 1962 - 1983 Juan Victor van der Berg 21 21 Single, never married. 1938 Anna Catharina Maartens 1937 Willem Hendrik Johannes Kotzee Elma Martens nn Malan Gail Martens nn van der Westhuizen Anita Martens NN 2000 Oscar Johan Martens 2003 Kristen Lee Martens 1922 - 1990 Frans Johannes Cornelius Martins 68 68 4 Beatrix Weg, Discovery.

Last known address PLOT 173 FIONASTR DISCOVERY  1929 Susanna Christina Soekoe Beatrix Weg 4, Discovery.
 Rudi Heinrich Martins Jean Jacques Martins 1959 Frans Johannes Cornelius Martins Langebaan, Western Cape
 1955 Jeanne Ella Vermaak Makou Laan 12, Birch Acres, Kempton Park.
550509 0116 00 8
 1979 Jody Martins 1985 Richard Martins 1918 - 1995 Gilliaume Jacobus Martins 76 76 Boshoek 103, P/K Boshoek.

Last known address SIMPLEKS 2 HUIS EIKELAAN VAN RIEBEECKSTRAAT 73 POTCHEFSTROOM 1916 - 2001 Anna Maria van Wyk 84 84 Boschoek 103, P/K Boshoek.

Last known address HUIS EIKELAAN VAN RIEBEECKSTRAAT POTCHEFSTROOM  1893 - >1966 Martha Maria de Swardt 73 73 Lived in George at time of this marriage. 1907 - 1992 Anna Magdalena Oberholser 84 84 302 Mavrogato, 193 Rissikstraat, Sunnyside.

Last known address 302 MAVROGATO 193 RISSIKSTRAAT SUNNYSIDE  1915 - 2001 Jan Thomas Martins 85 85 302 Mavrogato, 193 Rissikstraat, Sunnyside.

Last known address HUIS DAVIDTSZ 310 PROESSTRAAT 113 PRETORIA  1918 - 2000 Huibrecht Catharina Nienaber 81 81 Last known address HUIS DAVIDTSZ 310 PROESSTRAAT 113 PRETORIA  1942 - 2011 Frans Johannes Cornelius Martins 69 69 Steynstraat 7, Baillie Park.

016808/2011    CAPE TOWN MASTERS OFFICE 1946 Febe Kotze Steynstraat 7, Baillie Park.
 1914 Giogio Bargiacchi Laeveld W/S 5, Wildevylaan 14, Phalaborwa
 nn Bargiacchi Rosalina Rafaelo Bargiacchi 1920 Martha Maria Martins 1929 Susanna Elizabeth Martins 1925 Elizabeth Jacoba Margaretha Martins 1939 - 1964 Jan Thomas Martins 25 25 Never married. Death registered in Gobabis.
Motorongeluk naby Humansdorp, in die Provinsiale Hospitaal in Port Elizabeth gesterf.   1892 - 1969 Helen Martins 76 76 ~1897 - 1963 James Deacon 65 65 1888 - 1974 Maria Magdalena Martins 86 86 1893 - 1976 Christoffel Frederik Theodorus Hendrikz 83 83 ~1893 - 1951 Lilian Martins 58 58 Adriaan Jacobus van Zyl 1895 Ethresia Martins nn Schultz 1897 - 1981 Amelia Martins 83 83 ~1896 Fritz Emanuel Bauling 1852 - 1892 Arthur William Strickland 39 39 MRCS (ENG) 1849 - 1923 Maria Magdalena Francina Martins 74 74 http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?2015081508240427E2386A&DN=00000003

Also spelt Maartens on Baptismal certificate of daughter Alida.

 1843 - 1894 Johannes Jacobus Nieuwoudt 51 51 1886 - 1961 James Albert Harper 75 75 1886 - 1926 Jan Johannes van Greuning 39 39 ~1849 - 1913 Johanna Maria Maartens 64 64 Signed wedding register as Martins. Willem Jacobus Burger nn Maartens nn Maartens nn Maartens nn Klinkenberg 1892 Jacomina Aletta van Rooyen Hettie says her sister married Oom Fanie D. ~1955 Hendrik Gerhardus Peens (Johannes) 1950 Mark Lindsay Martens I was schooled at King Edward VII prep school in Johannesburg and St. John's College next door where I matriculated. After a year in the SADF at 3 Loc Bty in Potchefstroom, I studied Engineering at Wits, graduating in 1973. I worked at Iscor in Pretoria for 4 years, during which time I married Anne-Marie Georgia Paizis on January 19, 1974. She was the elder of 2 daughters to Denis Milton Paizis from Parga, Greece and Regina Clarkson from Leeds, England. In 1979 we immigrated to Canada where my son Nicolas Yves Hammond was born in Vancouver, Canada on January 30, 1980. He is an only child. I formed Hammond Engineering Inc in 1983  in Vancouver to provide consulting electrical engineering services to industrial clients. The lion's share of our business was in bulk materials handling, mostly grain, canola seed and other cereal products. I divorced in 2002, retired and moved to Greece, settling on Skopelos Island in the Aegean Sea. There I met Diane Sheila Sheehy (nee' Ginnetty). Diane was the youngest daughter of Paul Edward Ginnetty and Irene Veronica Skalecki of Randolph, Ma in the USA. She is a BFA graduate from Mass College of Art. We moved to the USA in 2007 to be near her children and were married in Austin, TX on May 5, 2009 (Civil ceremony) and again on July 26, 2009 in the Greek Orthodox church, also in Austin. We watched the 3 grandchildren grow up to be teenagers and decided to move to the coast in 2014. We currently live in the tiny hamlet of Arroyo City in deep south Texas on the banks of the Arroyo Colorado River which is part of the US intra-coastal waterway system. We have access by boat to the Laguna Madre and the Gulf of Mexico. If you search for us on Google Maps you'll see us in a remote corner of the state. We are about 40 miles from Brownsville and the Mexican border.
Diane and I have a blog www.ArroyoCityNews.wordpress.com that we use as an information source for our community. Please give us a look.
We love your site. Diane has been searching for her Skalecki roots in Ruthenia (modern day Western Ukraine) but has run into all manner of brick walls. Her Ginnetty Irish side has been a little easier, but there remains some very murky episodes in the past. She loves the fact that I can trace my family back so far.
Please keep up the excellent work and if I can help you in any way, just say the word. I realize that Texas is a long way from South Africa, but we have a few ex-pats here along the Rio Grande. I am doing some substitute teaching in the local school district and the kids have asked me to coach them in a rugby team. Perhaps you will see us in the news one day as the only school in Texas with a rugby team - possibly with no one to play against! Despite the Protea push, we shall be the Springboks!
I would love to hear back from you, 1948 Christopher Alan Martens Diane Sheila Ginnetty 1952 Kevin Richard Sheehy 1908 - 1983 Petrus Johannes Maartens 74 74 Last known addtess 5DE LAAN 974 WONDERBOOM-SUID PRETORIA  1919 - 1998 Johanna Martina Els 78 78 DOB also 11 Aug 1919.,
19191911 1000 00 0
5de Laan 974, Wonderboom suid, Pretoria

Last known address 306 DHENIA W/S 10 LAAN 978 WONDERBOOM SUID PRETORIA ~1845 - 1920 Anna Catharina Martins 75 75 1855 - 1933 Joshua Joachim Jacobus Joubert Martins 78 78 1866 - 1948 Helena Elisabeth Francina van den Berg 82 82 DEPOT     TAB                                                                  
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STARTING  19480000                                                             
ENDING    19480000                                                             
REMARKS   PREDECEASED SPOUSE JOSHUA JOACHIM JACOBUS JOUBERT MARTINS.     ~1863 - 1936 Jacobus Marthinus Martins 73 73 Lived at Jachtfontein
Owned the farm Middelfontein, dist. Krugerdorp. ~1865 - 1950 Cecilia Maria Du Plessis 85 85 She was from Kalabasfontein near Potchefstroom. 1896 - 1977 Ds. Harper Martins 81 81 Present at his father's death. Also his mother later.
He was from Wepener at the time. As dominees in Wepener Harper Martins, 1931 - 1942. https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG_gemeente_Wepener.
Magalliesberg; : " Sy opvolger, ds. Harper Martins, beroep in April 1927, bly tot in Desember 1929."
NG Gemeente Pretoria wes Harper Martins, 1947 - 1952 Cheryl Lorna NN Father was Canadian Archibald Ernest Thurston and mother Portuguese, Elma Mavis Thurston (nee de Monte'). nn Edwards Garth Edwards Grant Edwards 1892 - 1957 Jacomina Louisa van der Westhuizen 64 64 Problem here. W do not know about Ouma ever remarrying. Also birthdate according to marriage certificate given as 1894. Did she have another child given up for adoption?
MAGISTRATE, PIETERMARITZBURG. STATE ADVANCES RECOVERIES. JULIA ADA MARTENS ALIAS JUNE MARTENS. MOTHER: JACOMINA LOUISA MARTENS. BORN   
VAN DER WESTHUIZEN. APPLICATION FOR ADOPTION MADE BY MRS. LARSEN.   
STARTING  19360000                                                             
ENDING    19410000
and
MAGISTRATE, PIETERMARITZBURG. CHILD WELFARE SOCIETY. JULIA EDA MARTENS OR JULIA ADA MARTENS, CHILD OF JACOMINA (JACOMIENA) LOUISA           MARTENS.                                                            
STARTING  19290000                                                             
ENDING    19350000 
and
PIETERMARITZBURG MAGISTRATE. CHILDRENS PROTECTION. REPORTS AND RETURNS. MARION ROSE BARRY, JULIA MARTENS, CHARLES EDWARD WALLACE,  
ARTHUR JACOBS, SOLOMON MAXIMILLIAN HIBBERT, ELIZABETH MUMMOI, JOHN CECIL KIRK, LESLIE CLAYPOLE, FRANCIS QINTEL, JACOBA MULLER, FELICITY THELMA NORTIER, LISTS OF PROTECTED CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S    
PROTECTION ACT.
1923
1960
and
DESCRIPTION MAGISTRATE, PIETERMARITZBURG. SOCIAL WELFARE: ARTHUR MARTIN VAN DER MERWE. CHILD OF JACOMINA LOUISA MARTENS/VAN DER MERWE AND ADRIAN VAN DER MERWE.                                                      
STARTING  19260000                                                             
ENDING    19260000 1929 June Ida Larson 1930 David Stanley Albert Young Anna Catharina Maria Martins ~1868 - 1890 Johanna Susanna Elizabeth Martins 22 22 Her father gives her names a shown but on husband's DN she is called Johanna Hermiena (which is his mother's name) ~1894 - 1933 Jan Andries Jansen van Rensburg 38 38 ~1860 - 1916 Maria Elizabeth Martins 55 55 ~1853 - 1933 Daniel Johannes Bloem 80 80 Hendrik Jacobus Kruger ~1882 - 1939 Elizabeth Martins 57 57 Boith from Jachtfontein when they married ~1884 - 1959 Gideon Petrus Brits 75 75 1874 - 1950 Jozua Joachim Francois Martens 76 76 Farmer in Potchefstroom
ABW
Address when married was Jachtfontein
Address at death was Modderfontein, Pk Jachtfontein, Potchefstroom.
League Of Veterans:

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Surname:         MARTINS
Full Names:    JOSUA JOACHIM FRANCOIS
Date of Birth:     31.1.1874
Address 1899:     MODDERFONTEIN
Name of Last Officer: KMDT T.P. OPPERMAN
Date Surrendered / Captured:     WAPEN AFGELê 1902
Date Killed / Past Away:    N/A
Name of Widow:         N/A
Current Address:         MODDERFONTEIN, PK. JACHTFONTEIN
Branch:         GATSRAND, FOCHVILLE
Notes:         76
 1880 - 1955 Maria Susanna Elizabeth Pretorius 75 75 Address when married was Modderfontein D. 1945 Hester Magdalena Martins 1876 - 1956 Jan Andries Martins 80 80 ABW POW
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Number:         1468
Surname:         MARTINS
Name:         JAN ANDRIES
Age:         24
Address:         JACHTFONTEIN
District:         POTCHEFSTROOM
Captured Where:    PAARDEBERG
Captured When:    1900/02/27
Camp:         ONBEKEND
Country:         ONBEKEND
Ship (To):         ONBEKEND
Ship (Back):    N/A (Note: does this mean that he died in camp?

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Surname:         MARTINS
Full Names:         JAN ANDRIES
Date of Birth:         16.4.1876
Address 1899:         JACHTFONTEIN, POTCHEFSTROOM
Name of Last Officer:         GENL P. CRONJE
Date Surrendered / Captured:         GEVANG CRONJE
Date Killed / Past Away:         N/A
Name of Widow:         N/A
Current Address:         PK. FOCHVILLE, POTCHEFSTROOM
Branch:         GATSRAND, FOCHVILLE
Notes:         78

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DESCRIPTION          MARTINS, JAN ANDRIES.                                                
STARTING  19560000                                                             
ENDING    19560000                                                             
REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE HELENA ELIZABETH MARTINS (BORN BURGER).    
1872 - ~1958 Helena Elizabeth Burger 86 86 DEPOT     TAB                                                                  
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DESCRIPTION          MARTINS, HELENA ELIZABETH. BORN BURGER.                              
STARTING  19580000                                                             
ENDING    19580000                                                             
REMARKS   PREDECEASED SPOUSE JAN ANDRIES MARTINS.               1918 - 1972 Maria Hester Catharina Pretorius 54 54 1939 Ronald Martens Johanna Hendrika Martens 1951 - 2014 Naomi Martens 63 63 Leonard Frederick Stapelberg 1935 - 1994 Oelof Abraham Vorster 58 58 Father: Cornelius Johannes Vorster, b. 12 Aug 1903, Aliwal Noord
Mother: Judith Maryna Sophia Adriana Olivier, b. 20 Apr 1902, Aliwal Noord 1890 Jemima Martins ~1890 - 1950 Francois Petrus Naude 60 60 Farms; Gansfontein, Welgelegen & Geelbeksfontein Maria Magdalena Martins Pieter de Waal Joubert 1870 - 1928 Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins 58 58 ABW
After wife's death Vlakfontein was sold and proceeds divided between two remaining children.
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DESCRIPTION          MARTINS, DANIEL JOHANNES CORNELIUS.                                  
STARTING  19280000                                                             
ENDING    19280000                                                             
REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE HELENA ELIZABETH MARTINS (BORN MARTINS) 1871 - 1939 Helena Elizabeth Martins 67 67 ABW
Name:    Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
Born in camp?     No
Died in camp?     No
Gender:    female
Race:    White
Marital status:    married
Nationality:    Transvaal
Occupation:    farmer
Registration as head of family:    Yes
Unique ID:    119248
Camp History
Name:    Heilbron RC
Name:    Heidelberg RC
Age arrival:    28
Date arrival:    28/10/1901
Age departure:    28
Date departure:    03/03/1902
Reason departure:    transferred camp
Destination:    Jacobs Siding RC
Tent number:    845
Name:    Johannesburg RC
Farm History
Name:    Panfontein
District:    Heidelberg
Relationships
Mrs Daniel Johannes Cornelius Martins
      is the mother of Miss Johanna Martins
      is the unknown relationship of Miss Magdalena Dorothea Truter
Sources
Title:    DBC 59 Heidelberg CR
Location:    Transvaal
Notes:    p.M 17

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DESCRIPTION          MARTINS, DANIEL JOHANNES CORNELIUS.                                  
STARTING  19280000                                                             
ENDING    19280000                                                             
REMARKS   SURVIVING SPOUSE HELENA ELIZABETH MARTINS (BORN MARTINS) D. >1939 Jan Thomas Martins 1908 - >1939 Rosali Martins 31 31 Willem Johannes Jacobus de Beer (Petrus) ~1907 - 1932 Naomi Martins 25 25 Frederick Nicholls Anna Susanna Magdalena Nienaber ~1824 - 1890 Jacob Francois van der Merwe 66 66 1831 - 1891 Johanna Aletta Christina Martens 59 59 Acccording to his DN she was a Martins 1855 - 1945 Gabriel Jacobus van Eeden 89 89 Alternative names from her father's estate execution. Hendrina Margaretha Sophia Maartens Abraham Bernardus Stephanus Cloete nn Bronkhorst Hester Cornelia Maartens Johannes Jacobus Herholdt Carolina Ingezina Maartens H P Jacobs 1922 Anna Elizabeth Maartens 1926 - 1969 Jacobus Marthinus Johannes Maartens 43 43 According to his DN his mother was still alive at his date of death. 1928 Janetta Johanna Maartens 1929 Marthinus Petronella Wilhelmina Maartens 1935 Gerhardus Jacobus Albertus Maartens 1881 - 1940 Marthinus Petrus Wilhelmus Maartens 58 58 Mother = Hester Cornelia 1867 - 1938 Fredrika Martha Martens (Johanna) 70 70 ~1865 - 1931 Izak Jacobus van Wijk 65 65 ~1870 - 1942 Andries Johannes Oosthuizen (Gerhardus) 72 72 Lucas Cornelis van der Merwe William Stanley Rogers 1906 - 1985 Jacobus Rossouw 79 79 Annie Agnes Murray 1983 Deon van der Merwe 1943 Jacobus Cornelius Martens 1888 - 1959 Hendrik Christiaan Stephanus Harper 70 70 Alternative spelling from Marriage cert.

NAAIRS
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DESCRIPTION          HARPER, SUSANNA ELIZABETH. (BORN MARTENS) (S/S HARPER, HENDRIK       
           CHRISTIAAN STEPHANUS).                                              
STARTING  1941                                                                 
ENDING    1942 ~1879 - 1941 Susanna Elisabeth Martens 62 62 Lived in Louwsburg at time of death. 1991 Wynand Andre Martens 1994 Madelein Martens 1987 Nicole Viljoen 2016 Abigail Grace Martens Michele Emslie Herman de Jager Name removed by request ~1686 Christoffer Hinrich Martens ~1686 Mrs Christoffer Hinrich Martens D. <1883 Catharina Elizabeth Martens Letter in Fathers Esate File stating that name given on his DN was incorrect and this girl died before. Name to be changed to Anna Catharina Maria Dorothea Hermina NN ILLIQUID CASE. DIVORCE. JACOBUS MARTHINUS JOHANNES MAARTENS VERSUS DOROTHEA HERMINA MAARTENS.                                          
STARTING  19580000                                                             
ENDING    19580000                                                             
REMARKS   CASE WITHDRAWN

PROBABLY DIED BEFORE DIVORCE CAME HROUGH 1928 Barrell Patricia Schoeman 1958 Marthinus Petrus Wilhelmus Maartens 1960 Casper Johannes Maartens 1960 Carolina Ignasia Johanna Maartens Johannes Petrus de Beer ~1861 - 1914 Jacob Smit 52 52 D. 1916 Francois Pretorius 1914 - >1974 Cornelia Catharina Jordaan 60 60 Modderfontein when married
She probably remarried as she is given as Labuschagne in her son's DN. 1907 - 1984 Dewald Jozua Maartens 77 77 Last known address 20STE LAAN 434 VILLIERIA PRETORIA  1909 - 1983 Eva Christina Lottering 74 74 Last known address 20STE LAAN 434 VILLIERIA PRETORIA  1865 - 1942 Cornelius Klarus Adendorff 77 77 Cynthia Mavis James ~1857 - 1919 Catharina Elizabeth Maartens 62 62 1847 - 1919 Johannes Petrus Pienaar 71 71 http://www.morgenthal.co.za/getperson.php?personID=I7556&tree=tree1

Born     13 Jul 1847     Graaff-Reinet, South Africa 
Christened     12 Sep 1847     Graaff-Reinet, South Africa 
Gender     Male
_UID     C0CA64B5E042483E8D96F333C74285648656
Died     Yes, date unknown
Person ID     I7556     Expanded Genealogy
Last Modified     4 Nov 2010

Father     PIENAAR Barend Jacobus,   b. 28 Oct 1817, Steilkrans, Graaff-Reinet ,   d. 7 Jan 1890, Nieu-Bethesda 
Mother     DU TOIT Agatha Geertruida,   b. 19 Jul 1818,   d. Yes, date unknown
Married     10 Jun 1837     Graaff-Reinet, South Africa 
Headstones    
    Gravestone of Barend Jacobus Pienaar and Agatha Geertruida Pienaar (Du Toit)
Family ID     F839     Group Sheet

Family     MAARTENS Catharina Elizabeth,   d. Yes, date unknown
Married     27 Oct 1875     Graaff-Reinet, South Africa 
Last Modified     4 Nov 2010  NN 1933 Josua Joachim Francois Martins 1937 - 1990 Maria Barendina Crafford 52 52 1946 Anna Magrietha Jacoba Steenkamp Louise Martins 1976 Renier Stapelberg Liezel Oberholzer Dante Milan Stapelberg 1866 - 1964 Josua Joachim Martins (Francois) 98 98 ABW Nikki Bunce 1916 Catharina Johanna Maria van Deventer 1935 Dewald Joshua Martins 1933 Engela Wilhelmina Martins Christiaan Andries Roets Hester Catharina van Aswegen Daniel Charl Stephanus du Toit 1853 Maria Magdalena Petronella Maartens 1865 - 1942 Cornelius Klarus Adendorff 77 77 1841 - 1915 Jacobus Joshua Francois Martens 74 74 ABW
POW
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See also transcripts scanned by Rod under
JJF Martens ABW for a description of the battle.
Another reference is the retelling of a ABW war story and life during those times by SMS HOLDER born Coetzee from a scan by Rod and now as a freebie at CD Booksrus.; http://www.cdbooks-r-us.com/freebies/coetzee-abo.pdf

Prisoners Of War:
Number:         30886
Surname:         MAARTENS
Name:         JACOBUS JOSHUA FRANCOIS
Age:         61
Address:         VRIJHEID
District:         VRIJHEID
Captured Where:    LANGEGELEGEN
Captured When:    1902/02/20
Camp:         ONBEKEND
Country:         ONBEKEND
Ship (To):         ONBEKEND
Ship (Back):     N/A

Alternative spelling from marriage certificate. 1792 Jacobus Martens 1963 Jan Thomas Martins 1960 Johanna Catharina Martins Banie Nolte Berdien Nolte 1985 Jacolien Nolte Hannes Siebert 2015 Maree Siebert 1970 Dirk Crafford Martins 1971 Helena Charlotte Marx 1998 Joshua Joachim Francois Martins Matthys Petrus Coetzee 1955 Suzette Coetzee 1962 Andolph Zondagh Coetzee NN 1994 Danette Coetzee 1968 Desireé Martins ~1999 Leanne Coetzee 1999 Dominique Coetzee 2012 Seanel Coetzee 1936 Maria Meyer 1965 Erasmina Elizabeth Martins 1958 Johanna Magrietha Martins 1958 Rachel Elizabeth Martins 1954 - 2010 Louis Pieter Martins 55 55 Plaas; "Geikous". 1952 - 2010 Elizabeth Cloete 57 57 ~1991 Gert Petrus Martins 1967 Louise Jacoline Martins 1956 Louis Pieter Martins 1960 Johanna Catharina Etsebeth 1983 Louis Pieter Martins 1984 Carika Moolman 2013 Louis Pieter Martins 1926 Pieter Arnoldus Meyer 1952 Rachel Elizabeth Meyer 1950 Izak Davis Vorster 1979 Johannes Christiaan Vorster 1976 Maria Catharina Vorster 1954 Johanna Magrietha vorster 1957 Pieter Arnoldus Vorster ~1927 Petronella Andrina Martins ~1931 Louisa Susanna Martins ~1931 Johannes Lodewicus Nel ~1924 Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger D. 1942 Andries Johannes Gerhardus Oosthuizen D. ~1934 Magrietha Salomina Lubbe D. ~1912 Magdalena Maria Burger Anna Catharina Botha D. ~1938 Petronella Andrina Martins ~1929 Pieter Johannes Jacobsz Martin Kruger Rhona Kruger Albie Kruger Yvette Jacobsz Valerie Jacobsz George Jacobsz Johann Nel Leon Nel André Nel Susan Nel Gawie Greeff NN Gawie Greeff Louna Greeff nn Coetzee Johan Coetzee Manja Coetzee Jack Delafield 1974 Jeanette Enslin 1975 Louise Groenewald 2005 Lianka Enslin 2007 Christiaan Louis Enslin 1974 Gideon Matthys Els 2006 Dylon Christiaan Els 2008 Zilde Els 1942 Hélène Jeanne Du Plessis 1968 Frans Johannes Martins 1970 Pieter Adriaan Martins 1968 Anne Maloney Jansen van Vuuren Frans Johannes Martins Pieter Adriaan Martins 1961 Reinette Elize Martins Dirk Krommenhoek Marius Krommenhoek Reginald Krommenhoek Dirk Krommenhoek 1918 - 1991 Sophia Aletta Kotze 72 72 1939 - 2016 Johannes Hermanus Martins 76 76 1944 Louisa Susanna Martins 1947 Anna Fransina Liebenberg 1971 Joshua Joachim Francois Martins 1978 Margaretha Elizabeth de Beer 1996 Elmarie Martins 1999 Annemarie Martins 2008 Johannes Hermanus Petrus Martins 1973 Eljolene Martins 1976 Lawrence Johannes Hamilton 2002 Anja Hamilton 2006 Jolene Hamilton 1980 Frans Petrus Martins 1981 Melissa Oberholster Melissa Oberholster Martins 1942 Abraham Petrus Kirsten Breggie Martins 1953 Jan Thomas Martins Aletta Martins 1957 Elizabeth Magdalena van Zyl 1977 Joshua Joachim Francois Martins 1980 Willem Gerhardus Petrus Martins 1979 Liza Viviers 2011 Ashley Martins 2012 Kian Martins 1985 Jan Thomas Martins ~1899 - 1901 Elizabeth Jacoba Magrietha Martins 1 1 Maatje Magdalena Wilhelmina Liebenberg 1931 Dion Martins 1935 Maria Martins 1931 Eugene Martins 1931 Theodor Martins Charlotte Martins nn Malherbe Ceasar Martins Jacobus Marthinus Martins 1937 Anita Martins ~1883 Willem Jacobus Martins 1886 - 1955 Johanna Elizabeth Martins 68 68 1878 - 1947 Schalk Willem du Toit 68 68 1874 - 1915 Prendergast Bennet Carlisle 41 41 ~1893 Abraham Carl Greyling 1932 Dalina Corinne Martins 1935 Jozua Joachim Francois Martins 1951 Maria Susanna Elizabeth Martins 1940 Johannes Burger Martins 1977 Lelanie Martins 1971 Madelein Martins 1964 Jozua Francois Martins 1967 Maria Magdalena Martins 1962 Catherina Maria Martins nn Oosthuizen nn D'Alebout nn Trybus Johan Daniel Mulder Hermias Cornelius Strauss 1890 Dina Margaretha Elizabeth Martins Praew Jirapha Juengkijthanawat Praew Jirapha Juengkijthanawat 1950 Anette Christina Martens 1952 Elna Naomi Martens 1956 Cathrina Johanna Martens 1962 Walda Ellen Martens 1966 Dewald Johannes Martens 1966 Lucas Cornelius Martens 1884 - >1966 Alida Susanna Nieuwoudt 82 82 ~1884 - 1913 Hendrik Johannes Dreyer 28 28 Jochem Hendrik Jochem Hendrik Martens Martens Adopted by Jacobus Adopted by Jacobus Joshua Martens and Joshua Martens and Elizabeth Catharina Jacoba Elizabeth Catharina Jacoba Maria Martens Maria Martens Adopted. Biological child of Adopted. Biological child of Elizabeth Maria and Elizabeth Maria and Josua Lourens Josua Lourens Note that she dies in Note that she dies in July 1883 July 1883 and he remarries in and he remarries in Dec of the same Dec of the same year year Renosterdrift Renosterdrift Pretoria Pretoria Renosterdrift Renosterdrift Pretoria Pretoria Jammerdal, Kranskop Jammerdal, Kranskop 1889 adress +Palala, 1889 adress +Palala, Potgietersrus Potgietersrus Vlakfontein Vlakfontein Panfontein Panfontein Heidelberg Heidelberg Moved to Namilbia around 1920 Moved to Namilbia around 1920 Rhy Hill, Seven Oaks Rhy Hill, Seven Oaks Langlaagte Heilbron Langlaagte Heilbron When m. Schoeman) When m. Schoeman) 1889 adress +Palala, 1889 adress +Palala, Potgietersrus Potgietersrus Langlaagte Heilbron Langlaagte Heilbron Died Naboomspruit Died Naboomspruit Langlaagte Heilbron Langlaagte Heilbron Langlaagte Langlaagte Begrawe op Jakkalskop Begrawe op Jakkalskop Born Graaff Reinet Born Graaff Reinet Died on Jachtfontein Died on Jachtfontein Died on Jachtfontein Died on Jachtfontein Buried on Modderfontein Buried on Modderfontein Farmed on Honeyfontein & Farmed on Honeyfontein & Groenkop Groenkop Also Fairfield Also Fairfield Birthplace of Louis Botha Birthplace of Louis Botha Doornhoek Doornhoek Doornhoek Doornhoek Born Graaff Reinet Born Graaff Reinet died Doornhoek died Doornhoek Doornhoek Doornhoek The Gums, Hluhluwe The Gums, Hluhluwe Buried in Bergville Buried in Bergville Springs Springs Died on the same day? Died on the same day? Not Oom Merwie Not Oom Merwie buried Vryheid buried Vryheid buried Vryheid buried Vryheid Buried Vryheid Buried Vryheid Buried Vryheid Buried Vryheid Doornhoek Doornhoek Scottsdale Scottsdale Groenkop, Seven Oaks Groenkop, Seven Oaks Fairfield Fairfield Born on Broedershoek, Born on Broedershoek, Kranskloof Kranskloof Broedershoek & Highbury Broedershoek & Highbury Welverdient, Umvoti Welverdient, Umvoti Farmed on Wuthering Heights Farmed on Wuthering Heights Died on Sophiadale Died on Sophiadale Pauls Rust Pauls Rust Jammerdal, Kranskop Jammerdal, Kranskop Impahlasini Kranskop Impahlasini Kranskop Doornhoek Doornhoek Fairfield 11815 Fairfield 11815 Fairfield 11815 Fairfield 11815 Ensileni, Empangeni Ensileni, Empangeni Born on Broedershoek Born on Broedershoek Farmed Highbury Farmed Highbury From Doornhoek From Doornhoek Krantzkloof, Umvoti Krantzkloof, Umvoti Modderfontein is 17.7 Km from Jachtfontein Modderfontein is 17.7 Km from Jachtfontein Gatsrand area Gatsrand area Broedershoek Broedershoek Farmed Panfontein, Heidelberg as young man. Farmed Panfontein, Heidelberg as young man. then Jachfontein then Jachfontein Moved to Namibia & died there Moved to Namibia & died there Heidelberg District Heidelberg District Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Panfontein Panfontein Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Panfontein Panfontein Heidelberg Heidelberg Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights 28 May 1867 Greytown 28 May 1867 Greytown Fairfield 11815 Fairfield 11815 Oakford, Greytown Oakford, Greytown Oakford, Greytown Oakford, Greytown Nieu Bethesda Nieu Bethesda Nieu Bethesda Nieu Bethesda Smaldeel, Smaldeel, Parys Parys Sophiadale Sophiadale Oakford, Greytown Oakford, Greytown Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Modderfontein, Heilbron Modderfontein, Heilbron Modderfontein, Heilbron Modderfontein, Heilbron Modderfontein, Heilbron Modderfontein, Heilbron Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Born - Cape Town Born - Cape Town Born & died - Graaff Reinet Born & died - Graaff Reinet No children No children Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Buried on Modderfontein Buried on Modderfontein Hester Cornelia Hester Cornelia On DN his mother is On DN his mother is Anna Aletta Pretorius Anna Aletta Pretorius On son, Dewal Jozua DN his On son, Dewal Jozua DN his mother is mother is Anna Aletta Pretorius Anna Aletta Pretorius Hester Johanna Hester Johanna Hester Johanna Hester Johanna Modderfontein Modderfontein Jachtfontein Jachtfontein Fairfield Fairfield died on Sophiadale died on Sophiadale Created using GenoPro® Click for details.