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Person PER-000050

Ignatius Michael du Plessis

? – 1818 · du Plessis line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Rondabel (../1818).

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

  1. before 1818 land Held it, Rondabel
  2. 1818 died Died
  3. 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

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. 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.

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