Johannes Mattheis was die seun van Johannes Nel en Petronella Calitz.
Johannes Mattheus
Baptised: 12.8.1798
Father: Johannes NEL
Mother: Petronella CALES
Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK),
Graaff-Reinet, Baptism register, 1792-1805, page 79, entry number 831.
Repository: NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch. Transcribed by Cornel
Viljoen, with consent of the NGK Archives, from Family Search Film # 008121018,
image number 62