Jacobus Johannes Petrus du Plessis

21 June 1869 – 20 June 1941 · du Plessis line · unidentified

Connection to the Koup

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

burial Remhoogte 167 farm cemetery (first ground) 1941
event Rossel Erf cut out of Reim Hoogte1908-06-15

Names

Given: Jacobus Johannes Petrus
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.

Three generations around this person

Daniel Jacobus du Plessis 1802 Susanna Johanna Catharina van der Westhuizen 1803

Johannes Gysbertus du Plessis 1826

Thomas Philippus van Rooyen 1804 Susanna Frederica Sophia Kamfer 1808

Johanna Elizabeth van Rooyen 1831

Jacobus Johannes Petrus du Plessis 1869

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Immediate family

Father: Johannes Gysbertus du Plessis
Mother: Johanna Elizabeth van Rooyen
Brothers and sisters: Cecelia Maria du Plessis

A life in the record

21 June 1869 born Born
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.
1941 land Buried there, Reim Hoogte No. 167
1941 buried Buried, Remhoogte 167 farm cemetery (first ground)
[Ter ge]dagtenis aan / JACOBUS JOHANNES PETRUS DU PLESSIS / GEB. 21 JUNIE 1869 / GES. 20 JUNIE 1941 / [a verse follows, largely under soil and only partly legible: '... die weg ... die le[we] ...' - possibly John 14:6, marked as a guess and not read]
20 June 1941 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1) held it · 15 June 1908
Reim Hoogte No. 167 buried there · 1941

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.

*** [23 Aug 2026] NAMED, FROM HIS OWN GRAVE ON THE FARM HE BOUGHT. *** GRV-0711 at the Reim Hoogte 167 farm cemetery reads JACOBUS JOHANNES PETRUS DU PLESSIS 1869-1941 - the initials, the farm and the age all agree, so this row is no longer 'J.J.P.'. [TO VERIFY] on deed 3908 itself.

Superseded: answered below *** AND HE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY CECILIA MARIA DU PLESSIS'S BROTHER. *** He lies in the same small plot as JOHANNES GYSBERTUS DU PLESSIS (PER-001879, 1826-1913) and JOHANNA ELIZABETH VAN ROOYEN (PER-001880, 1831-1913), who are her parents; born 1869, he would be their son by a mother of 38. No parentage row is written on that alone - a shared farm plot is strong and is not a register - but it is the likeliest reading and it is the thing to check next. LEAD-0275.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE DISTRICT: the du Plessis were not visitors who married in. Cecilia Maria's father and mother are buried on REIM HOOGTE No. 167 and her probable brother BOUGHT a portion of it in 1908.

*** [23 Aug 2026] HIS HEADSTONE, READ FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH: 'GEB. 21 JUNIE 1869 / GES. 20 JUNIE 1941'. *** Dates sharpened from years to days. He died the day before his seventy-second birthday. The stone confirms the full name in full capitals, which is what turns the initials on deed 3908 into a person: JACOBUS JOHANNES PETRUS DU PLESSIS, buried on the farm whose Portion 1 he took transfer of in 1908. GRV-0711.

*** [23 Aug 2026] LEAD-0275 ANSWERED: YES. JACOBUS JOHANNES PETRUS DU PLESSIS (1869-1941) IS CECILIA MARIA'S BROTHER. *** A FamilySearch family view supplied by Frans gives JOHANNES GYSBERTUS DU PLESSIS (1826-1913, KC34-PVM) and JOHANNA ELIZABETH VAN ROOYEN (1831-1913, L631-CW5), married 27 NOVEMBER 1848 AT GEORGE, with NINETEEN CHILDREN - among them CECILIA MARIA 1857-1895 (GHW4-KDS, the id this project already held) and JACOBUS JOHANNES PETRUS 1869-1941 (GHLG-66D), whose years match his Reim Hoogte headstone to the day.

SO THE MAN WHO BOUGHT ROSSEL ERF ON REIM HOOGTE No. 167 IN 1908 AND IS BURIED ON IT WAS THE BROTHER OF THE WOMAN BURIED ON RONDABEL. The du Plessis were not visitors who married into this district: the parents lie on Reim Hoogte, a son bought a portion of it, and a daughter married into the Theron-Oosthuizen circle at Rondabel.

HIS PARENTS ARE CONFIRMED TOO, matching the fan chart exactly: Daniel Jacobus du PlessisM 1802-1879 (LC5W-JYL) and Susanna Johanna Catharina van der WesthuizenM 1803-1852 (9WVN-24K), married 4 AUGUST 1822 AT GEORGE, eight children.

BOTH MARRIAGES ARE AT GEORGE, which is the district the Olifants prequel ground sat in - so this family was George-district before it was Prince Albert.

THE SIBSHIP IS NOT IMPORTED. Nineteen children is exactly the bulk 6 says not to pull; the ids are recorded here so any of them can be fetched when something ties them to this ground.

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.

Open questions

Identify R du Plessis of Remhoogte and his daughter Miemie priority P2 · LEAD-0336
Which du Plessis owned Reim Hoogte 167 in February 1901, and who was the ten-year-old Miemie whose memory carries the whole story? Neither is identified and both are one degree from the only war grave in this district.

What would settle it A transfer or a valuation roll naming the holder of Reim Hoogte 167 in 1901.

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 Jacobus Johannes Petrus du PlessisH 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.

Elders

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