According to De Villiers/Pama, the genealogy of the Du Plooy
family in South Africa starts with Symon Ploijer ( a.k.a. Simon du Plooy), of Krommenie
in North-Holland, bapt. 1666, died 1733. He was first married to Adriaantje, (parents unknown) and secondly to
Catharina Koopman, parents also unknown.
4. Symon Pieterszoon PLOIJER, or
Simon Pieters DU PLOOY
He was baptised at Krommenie 29 Augustus 1666. On 22.9.1715
he married Catharina Koopman, his second wife and our ancestress. At that time
his age was 49.
DeVilliers/Pama states that Simon's first child was a son:
Pieter Simon. No dates are given. This
Pieter was probably the son of Adriaantje, Simon's first wife, because the
second child, Willem, was baptised on 5 Januarie 1716,four months after the
marriage to Catharina.
DeVilliers: "Geslachtregsiters van de Oude Kaapse
Familiën" gives Simon's children as
follows:
(i) Pieter Simon
(ii) Willem, baptised 5 Januarie 1716,
married 30.9.1742 Johanna Petronella Basson. They had 4 children.
(iii) Michiel, bapt. 31.3.1717, married
25.5.1755 Aletta van Wijk. They had 10
children.
(iv) Maria, bapt11.8.1720, married
Johannes Frederick Botha.
(v) Adriana, bapt 5.9.1723,
married Cornelis Vermeulen.
(vi) Cornelis, our ancestor (see 5. Cornelis DU PLOOY below).
5. Cornelis DU PLOOY:
bapt 1 February 1744. He was a citizen of Stellenbosch and married (i) Margaretha WILLEMSE 17 April 1768.
His second wife was (ii) Anna Sophia CAMPHER, whom he
married 24 August 1788, when he was 44 and she was 19 years old. (SEE NEXT
POST FOR HER STORY)
6. Dirk Wouter DU
PLOOY married Catharina Susanna ROUX, a daughter of Pieter Hendrik ROUX and
Elizabeth STEENBERG. She was born 31 July 1796 in Tulbagh, and died at
Maartenspan, Hopetown, 23 October 1868, four days before her husband. (Why?
What happened? There's a story here, if only we knew it!)
Dirk Wouter and Catharina had 4 children:
i. 7. Cornelis Willem DU PLOOY born 21
December 1813, Beaufort-Wes (our ancestor)
ii. Pieter Hendrik
Rudolf, born 5 December 1816,
Beaufort-Wes
iii. Catharina
Susanna Petronella, born 28 Jan 1821, Beaufort-Wes
iv. Willem
Andries, born 22 Feb 1823, Beaufort-Wes
7. Cornelis Willem DU
PLOOY: born 21 December 1813 in Beaufort-Wes, baptised 13
Feb at 1814 Graaff-Reinet.
On 3 Februarie 1837, when he was 24 years old, he was
offered the appoinment of field cornet for the Gamka District. He turned it
down because he was about to leave the Colony. He left in July 1837, joining
the trek of Jacob de Klerk. Hy was present at the Battle of Blood River.
(source: Voortrekker Stamouers - J C Visagie, page 61.)
On 3 July 1837 at Beaufort-Wes (aged 34) he married Johanna
Marguerite Jacoba Susara NEL, born 13 December 1820: a daughter of Jacobus
Frederick NEL and Maria Johanna WILKERS. The bride was 17 years old.
He died on 2 June 1881 at Maartenspan, Hopetown, at the age
of 68.
Cornelis Willem DU PLOOY and Johanna M.J.S. NEL had eleven
children: 6 sons and 5 daughters.The third child and second son, Jacobus Frederick, is our ancestor.
8. Jacobus Frederick
DU PLOOY: born 29 July 1843, baptised 2 October 1843 at Colesberg. He
married Cornelia Carolina DU PRE. Their children were:
i. Cornelis Willem born about 1870 at
Hopetown.
ii. Jacobus
Frederick
iii. Rudolph
It is possible that there were more children, but we don't
know of any.
Cornelis Willem is our Oupa Neels who married Ouma Annie de
Villiers.
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