Daniel Jacobus du Plessis

1802 – 1879

Names

Given: Daniel Jacobus du
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.

Immediate family

Father: Jan Gysbert du Plessis
Mother: Susanna Elisabeth Steyn
Children: Johannes Gysbertus du Plessis

A life in the record

1802 born Born
1879 died Died

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

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

Research notes

Grandfather of Cecilia Maria du Plessis.

[FS] Added 23 Aug 2026 from a FamilySearch fan chart of Cecilia Maria du Plessis supplied by Frans. Thin record: name, dates and the line only. NO PLACE IMPORTED - the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence. NO FamilySearch id captured, because the chart does not show them; that is a gap worth closing, since 10 makes the FS id the citation.

*** [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 PlessisH 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.

Elders

FamilySearch profile LC5W-JYL