Ignatius Michael du Plessis
? – 1818 · du Plessis line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Rondabel (../1818).
- event Estate inventory of Ignatius Michael du Plessis taken on the loan farm Rondabel1818-05-02
Names
- Baptismal name
- Ignatius Michael
- Given
- Ignatius Michael
- Surname
- du Plessis
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.
A life in the record
- before 1818 land Held it, Rondabel
- 1818 died Died
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2 May 1818
event
Estate inventory of Ignatius Michael du Plessis taken on the loan farm Rondabel
Half the opstal of Rondabel valued at 500 rixdollars; a half-worn ox wagon at 325; sixteen trek oxen and twenty-nine cattle. A widow and three children under five.
Ground they are on record on
- Rondabel held it · before 1818 to 1823
Stories
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- MOOC8/64.12a - Ignatius Michael du Plessis & Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea van Heerden, 2 May 1818Cape Town Archives RepositoryMOOC8/64.12a
Research notes
Estate inventoried 2 May 1818 (MOOC8/64.12a); held half the opstal of the loan farm Rondabel on the Tarka.
*** [23 Aug 2026] DU PLESSIS IS IN THE DIRECT LINE, ONE STEP ABOVE THE VENTER SIBSHIP. *** Martha du PlessisM (PER-000750, 1730-1796) married Petrus VenterM on 14 October 1753; their son JAN LOUIS VENTER (PER-000120, b.1754) fathered the sixteen Venter children of STO-0046 - among them Adriana Cecilia, who married the root Oosthuizen, and Maria Catharina, who held Rondabel by 1829. So Martha is the grandmother of the root matriarch, and a du Plessis reaching Rondabel is not merely a coincidence of a common surname.
TWO OTHER DU PLESSIS TOUCH THAT FARM AND NEITHER IS JOINED TO HER HERE: Ignatius Michael (PER-000050, d.1818), whose Rondabel the inventory places ON THE TARKA, 380 km east and probably a different farm; and Cecilia Maria (PER-001346), who died on the Koup Rondabel in 1895 and has no parents recorded at all. LEAD-0272.
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