Marthinus Jacobus was die seun van Johannes Hendrik Nel en Johanna Helena van der Merwe.
Martinus Jacobus
Baptised: 6.7.1799
Father: Johannes Hendrik NEL
Mother: Helena VAN DER MERWE
Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK),
Graaff-Reinet, Baptism register, 1792-1805, page 110, entry number 1028.
Repository: NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch. Transcribed by Cornel
Viljoen, with consent of the NGK Archives, from Family Search Film # 008121018,
image number 79