Elias Albertus Nel (1816-1878)

1816 – 1878 · Nel line

Names

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

Father: Elias Albertus Nel (1777-1834)
Mother: Susanna Hendrina Louisa Louw (1791-1834)
Brothers and sisters: 1810Albertus Johannes Nel (1810-1871)

1812Jacobus Gideon Nel (1812-1873)

1819Johannes Jacobus Hendrik Andries Nel (1819-1834)

1823Maria Johanna Nel (1823-1834)

A life in the record

1816 born Born
1878 died Died

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
2 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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

Research notes

[FS batch, 7 Sep 2026] Added from the FamilySearch family-group view THESE ARE DIRECT ANCESTORS OF FRANS AND THEIR SIBLINGS, which 6's scope rule admits outright - the Nel line runs to Kola's mother. Years and FamilySearch ids only, no places: the tree's place strings are hostile and none is imported. The two ends of the line are on documents - SRC-630 for the 1813 baptism, SRC-399/SRC-400 for the 1867 baptism of Christina Elizabeth NelM - and the middle is compiled tree.

A sibling of PER-002053. In scope as a direct ancestor's sibling.

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 9721-TR5