Elias Albertus was die seun van Willem Adriaan Nel en Hester van Wijk.
Elias Albertus
Baptised: 1796, 21 Februarij 1796
Father: Willem Adriaan NEL
Mother: Hester VAN WIJK
Witnesses: Albertus an Wijk , Cornelia Geertruida an
Wijk
Additional notes: Gebooren den 7 November 1795
7 Mar 1818
1818, Den 7 Maart
Elias Albertus Nel
van Cabo de Goede Hoop, Jongman
Burger alhier
Met
Jannetje Sophia Steenkamp
van Cabo voorn., Jonge Dogter
Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK),
Tulbagh, Western Cape. marriage register, 1744-1839, page 107, entry no 5.
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
Willem and Hester had seven children, four daughters and three sons, and it was the last child, Elias Albertus Nel, who took over the farms. Elias married a neighbour‟s daughter, Johanna Sophia Steenkamp from Bokkefontein at Tulbagh, on the 7th March 1818. By 1819 when Rietfontein was surveyed it was in the name of Elias Albertus. (Rietfontein: A farm in the North Onder-Bokkeveld (Farm No. 631) by Nigel Amschwand -http://www.vassa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/VASSA-Journal-21-June-2009-Text-final-13-June-2009-compressed.pdf)
Elias Albertus se inskrywing is no 8.
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Cape province archive records 1792 – 1992 Clanwilliam census records 1824-1825 vol J30-j31
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Cape province archive records 1792 – 1992 Clanwilliam census
records 1824-1825 vol J30-j31
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In the tax records (Opgaafrolle) of 1827
Elias and Johanna had one son and one daughter (an earlier son had already
died), a household servant and 24 Khoisan workers of various ages. Also 5
living on their farms Avontuur, Rietfontein, Klienkloof and Doorn Rivier were
Baron Mouton with a Khoi man and woman and two children; Jacobus Stephanus
Smit; Arie Trion (Theron?) with two Khoi men, three women and five children and
Nicolaas Russouw with three Khoi men, three women and five children. One would
assume that Mouton, Smit and Russouw supervised the three outlying farms while
Nel resided at Avontuur. In 1832 Rietfontein was granted to Elias as a
perpetual quit-rent farm of 2345 morgen and 175 sq. Roods (2009 hectares). It
is not known when Elias died but his wife remarried in 1845. Rietfontein was
transferred to the ownership of Elias‟s three sons called Jan Harmse, Willem
Adriaan and Abraham Johannes Jacobus. It remained in the Nel family ownership
until the early 1900s, when it was transferred to Herman Henry Buhr (married to
Hester Christina Nel) and his son Elias and two van Zyls, Elias Albertus Nel
van Zyl and Izak Jacobus van Zyl who were also related to the Nels by marriage. (Rietfontein: A farm in the North Onder-Bokkeveld (Farm No. 631) by Nigel Amschwand -http://www.vassa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/VASSA-Journal-21-June-2009-Text-final-13-June-2009-compressed.pdf
