h.7. Johannes Petrus, geb. 30/11/1882, ged. 21/01/1883, Utrecht, oorl. 28/11/1965, Dundee x 14/03/1922 met Cecilia Jacoba BUYS, geb. 22/04/1892, oorl. 15/12/1969, d.v. Stephanus Bernardus Buys en Susanna Maria Francina Meyer. Wed van Willem Hendrik van der Westhuizen.
Johannes Petrus was die seun van Stephanus Nel en Martha Louisa Lotter.
REGISTER FOR STEPHANUS NEL 1886
Stephanis Nel born 13 July 1840 married 15 August 1870 to Martha Lowisa Lotter born 8 December 1848
h1 Martha Louisa Nel was born 29 May 1871
h2 Philip Jacobus Nel born 3 October 1873
h3 Christina Helena Nell born 30 August 1876
h4 Jacob Lowies Poklenberg Nell 21 June 1878
h5 Elizabetha Louretta Nell born 15 January 1881
h6 Stephanis Nell born 15 January 1881
h7 Johannis Petrus Nell born 30 November 1882
h8 Anna Maria Nell born 14 December 1884
h9 Willem Mateus Johannes Nell born 24 Febr 1886(Anita Campbell)
Uit hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1929:
FAMILYSEARCH
Uit hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1932:
FAMILYSEARCH
Surname
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NEL
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Name
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JOHANNES PETRUS
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Age
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18
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Address
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EDINBURGH
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District
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PIET
RETIEF
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Where Captured
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WEBER
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When Captured
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1901/06/09
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Camp
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MORGANS
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Country
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BERMUDA
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Ship (To)
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Onbekend
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Ship (Back)
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Number
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20077
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Ref ID
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19160
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(http://www.wmbr.org.za/view.asp?pg=research&pgsub=databases&pgsub1=2&head1=Prisoners%20of%20War&strGlobalTerms=NEL&opt=dset&fld=fldVan)
On the 9th June, the columns of Plumer and Knox swooped from the north upon Piet Retief. Seven were captured at Weeber.
Rimington making a detour, wheeled round the south of the town and blocked all southerly exits. But, warily, the Boers had made off and the place was deserted. Colonel Rimington however contrived to cut off a Boer convoy lumbering along towards the Vryheid Road, accompanied by the escaping Landdrost of Piet Retief William Emmett (brother-in-law of Gen. Louis Botha), who were forthwith taken prisoners together with twenty eight more of their compatriots at Zwartwater(bottom right).
South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke VOL VII – The Guerilla War
Top left is farm Edinburg, with Idalia
and Kromrivier to the right of that.
Weeber is to
the left of Piet Retief town area.
These three brothers were captured at WEBER on 09/06/1901
and sent away as POWs:
Nel Jacob Louis Poplenburg
Nel Philip Jacobus
Nel Johannes Petrus
Their address is given as EDINBURGH District PIET
RETIEF
A local resident has informed me that the farm name
was WEEBER and it is slightly south of due east from P Retief. It was
completely destroyed (still is) during ABW.
The three brothers were of a group of seven
apprehended at that location. Two came from Adalia (Idalia is the farm
adjoining Edinburg on the southern boundary) and one from Witkop (one farm
removed to the south of Idalia).
This day is significant and been recorded in AWB
accounts as columns of Plumer and Knox were able to swoop from the north upon
Piet Retief, while that of Rimington making a detour, wheeled round the south
of the town and blocked all southerly exits and cut off a Boer convoy lumbering
along towards the Vryheid Road, accompanied by the escaping Landdrost of Piet
Retief and William A Emmett, who were forthwith taken prisoners together with twenty eight more of
their compatriots. The three van Rooyen men in this group came from
Edelgesteente, the farm bordering Edinburg to the West. (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BUITENPOSTEN/2013-11/1385670282)
(Anita Campbell)
eGGSA library Gravestones in South Africa Kwazulu-Natal Kwazulu-Natal, DUNDEE, Urban area Kwazulu-Natal, DUNDEE, Old main cemetery N - Vanne :: Surnames - N NELL Johannes Petrus 1882-1965 & Cecilia Johanna BUYS 1892-1969
Photo
taken early 1940s
Left-to-
right: JP Nell 1882-1965, Johannes Petrus Nell 1928-2005 (Hannes), Stephanus
Bernardus Nell 1922- 1964, Cecilia Buys 1892-1969, Phillipus Cristoffel Nell
1930- 1992.
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Entry Family Bible
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This map
shows that RE/1872 Scott’s Fontein
abuts parts 2 and 3 of 1322 (Kafferspoort).
The family of J P Nell were raised on Kafferspoort,
his son Stephanus Bernardus Nell taking over the farming responsibilities
by 1950 but pre-deceasing his father.
14088=Merino
Kloof
1984 = Birds
Spruit; owned originally by PJ Nel, then his daughter A M Nel Lotter
2021 = Scotts
Hoek; Owned PP Lotter and A M Nel Lotter, then van Rooyen grandsons
1990 = Mormond
or Buffelshoek; Owned PP Lotter, then van Rooyen grandsons
