J.J.P. du Plessis (Rossel Erf, 1908)

active 1908 · du Plessis line · unidentified

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1) (1908-06-15).

event Rossel Erf cut out of Reim Hoogte1908-06-15

Names

Given: J.J.P.
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

15 June 1908 land Held it, Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1)
15 June 1908 event Rossel Erf cut out of Reim Hoogte
25 morgen surveyed in March 1908 by A.I. de Villiers - the beacons pointed out by the owner and the adjoining proprietors - and transferred to J.J.P. du Plessis.

Ground they are on record on

Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1) held it · 15 June 1908

What we don't know

No birth date is recorded.
No death 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.

Research notes

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Took transfer of Rossel Erf on deed 3908 of 15 June 1908 (DOC-0127). INITIALS ONLY, not matched. Worth flagging that du Plessis is already in this model on adjoining ground - Ignatius Michael du PlessisM held half the opstal on Rondabel in 1818 (OWN-000025) - but 1818 and 1908 are ninety years apart and no relationship is claimed.

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.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1908 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1) was worked as far as 1908-06-15, with J.J.P. du PlessisH (Rossel Erf, 1908) the last owner on record. 118 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.