Maria Elizabeth Margaretha Magdalena was die dogter van Elias Albertus Nel en Elizabeth Catharina Frier.
Kinders:
h.1. Sybrand Albertus STRAUSS, geb. July 26, 1889
h.2. Elizabeth Catherine STRAUSS, geb. 27/06/1892, Beeswater, Calvinia x Jacobus Nel van der Merwe.
h.3. Maria Magdalena STRAUSS, geb. 18/07/1894, Beeswater, Calvinia , oorl. 19/09/1896
h.4. Ruberta Julia Frier STRAUSS, geb.. 07/02/1897, Beeswater, Calvinia, oorl. 26/9/1983, Kaapstad x Jan van der Merwe Wapenaar.
h.5. Jacoba Hendrika Maria STRAUSS, geb. 21/04/1899, Beeswater, Calvinia x Ernst Berthold Grosskopf.
h.6. Jacobus Gideon Nel STRAUSS, geb. 17/12/1900, Calvinia, oorl. 07/03/1990 x Joy Carpenter.
Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, known as Koos Strauss,
Kosie Strauss or J. G. N. Strauss, was a South African politician who was the leader of the South
African United Party from 1950 to 1956. He had earlier been minister of
agriculture in the cabinet of Jan Smuts from 1943 until the defeat of the Smuts
government in 1948. In the 1953 election the United Party under Strauss lost
seven seats, while their opponents the National Party gained twenty-five more
seats and a majority in Parliament. Following this election, the United Party
suffered two splits, creating the Liberal Party and the Union Federal Party. In 1954, a further split resulted in the National
Conservative Party. In 1956, while plagued by ill health and convalescing in
England, he asked his party to decide whether they wished to keep him on as
leader. They declined to do so: the first time the leader of a South African
political party had been forcibly removed. Strauss was succeeded as United
Party leader by De Villiers Graaff. As opposition leader, Strauss accepted political and
social segregation of races but opposed the National Party government's
disregard for the rule of law and its removal of "Coloured" voters
from the electoral rolls which had been entrenched in the South African
constitution but arbitrarily removed by the apartheid government. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Gideon_Nel_Strauss)
h.8. Hendrik Johannes STRAUSS, geb. 21//03/1907, Beeswater, Calvinia, oorl. 20/01/1983, Houtbaai x Gladys Davidson xx Elizabeth Clive Agard Pocock.
