← The land

Person PER-000072

François Renier Duminy

4 October 1747 – 26 May 1811 · Duminy line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: François Renier Duminy arrives at the Cape (1771).

Names

Baptismal name
François Renier
Given
François Renier
Surname
Duminy

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
Antoine Lebre Duminy
Mother
Anne le Goff
Married
Johanna Margaretha Nöthling 2 February 1777
Children

A life in the record

  1. 4 October 1747 born Born
  2. 1771 event François Renier Duminy arrives at the Cape
    A Breton foundling turned VOC sea captain, Equipage Master and Port Captain at Simonstown - and a slaver. Frans's 5x-great-grandfather.
  3. 2 February 1777 married Married Johanna Margaretha Nöthling
  4. 26 May 1811 died Died

Stories

What we don't know

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

Sources

  1. "Benjamin François Duminy" - medal provenance and Duminy descendant genealogyprivate compilation21pp

Research notes

FRANS'S 5x-GREAT-GRANDFATHER (gen 7). Born a foundling at Lorient, Brittany, 4 Oct 1747. Officer of the French East India Company, then a Dutch East India Company sea captain; Equipage Master for the DEIC 1786-87 and Captain of the Port at Simonstown 1803-06. Cartographer, farmer, public commissioner, decorated freemason at Lorient and the Cape. ALSO A SLAVER - recorded plainly because it is true. Married Johanna Margaretha Nothlingh, Cape Town, 2 Feb 1777. Died 19 Graave Street, Cape Town, aged 64. [SRC-071]

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 KCW1-83Y