Jacobus Johannes Gideon Nel (1836-1916)

1836 – 1916

Names

Given: Jacobus Johannes Gideon
Surname: Nel

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Immediate family

Married: Anna Jacoba van Wyk (1842-1925)
Children: Christina Elisabeth Nel

A life in the record

1836 born Born
1916 died Died

Stories

mentioned The van der Merwes of the Hantam

What we don't know

Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[11 Aug 2026] A DIRECT ANCESTOR, named on ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS rather than taken from a tree: he is named as the father of Christina Elizabeth Nel on her 1867 Calvinia baptism entry (SRC-399) and again on her 1895 death notice (SRC-400), AND he stood as a witness at his granddaughter's baptism at Calvinia in 1887 (SRC-380). His grandson born 1888, PER-000219, carries his name entire. NO FAMILYSEARCH ID YET, which is a gap worth closing - the standing rule for imports on this project is that a row should carry one so it can be re-checked against the live tree. Name and the family link only; no dates and no place beyond what the documents give.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-412] FAMILYSEARCH ID AND DATES ADDED. This row was made this morning from a baptism index and a death notice, neither of which carries an id, and the gap was flagged on it. The son's family-tree closes it: 9F3V-N1X, 1836-1916. They married at CALVINIA on 11 JANUARY 1858 and had thirteen children.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Elders

FamilySearch profile 9F3V-N1X