P.H. du Plessis

active 1891 · du Plessis line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) (1868-11-17).

grond Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) 1896-10-08
gebeurtenis Jan Koevies, a shepherd, finds the SECOND nugget on Klein Waterval - twenty years after the first1891-07

Name

Baptismal name: P.H.
Given: P.H.
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.

'n Lewe in die rekord

17 November 1868 grond Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2)
Julie 1891 gebeurtenis Jan Koevies, a shepherd, finds the SECOND nugget on Klein Waterval - twenty years after the first
Just over six pennyweights - 6 dwt 23 grains, about a third of an ounce, a lump the size of a pea. He took the rock, with a bit of yellow on it, to the farm owner John Muller, who thought a bullet had struck it; Muller showed it to Piet du Plessis of Zeekoegat, who knew it for gold. This time nobody
8 Oktober 1896 grond Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2)

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) held it · 17 November 1868 to 8 Oktober 1896
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) held it · 8 Oktober 1896

Stories

subject Die Prins Albert-goudstormloop

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen geboortedatum is aangeteken nie.
Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.

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

Bronne

"The Prince Albert goldfields, 1891" Arid Areas Research and DevelopmentRose's Roundup
Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) Karoo Development Foundation38pp cameo

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-068] Piet Hermanus du Plessis, who farmed at Zeekoegat. Identified the 1891 nugget as gold when John MullerM brought it to him, and remained an active player to the end. Took the largest single find, 100 oz, and received £5,000 for samples sent away.

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.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Wat die rekord kortkom

27 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2), Christian Hatting SeniorM is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is P.H. du PlessisH from 1868-11-17, 27 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0297 records the later arrival but not the 27 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1868. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
23 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2), P.H. du PlessisH is the last owner recorded from 1896-10-08, and the next entry is Christiaan Hendrik SwanepoelM (b6c5d7e3f7) and Pieter Johannes SwanepoelL (b6c5d7e16f1) from 1919-01-23, 23 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 23 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1896 and 1919. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

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.