My grandfather HENDRIK JACOB RUDOLF DU PLESSIS. Born: 13 November 1880 at Phillipstown. Death: Date: Died on 11 February 1964. Details: Died in the Andrew McColm Hospital, Pretoria of cancer. Buried in grave 988, Rebecca Street Cemetary, Pretoria. Occupation: Minister of the Reformed Church in Africa married Married on 8 April 1904 to Lasya Susanna VORSTER, born at Burgersdorp on 8 April 1884, daughter of Louis Petrus VORSTER and Abrahama Johanna COETZEE. (Parental line: Louis Petrus Vorster, Casper Jan Hendrik , Louis Petrus , Casper Jan Hendrik , Barend Johannes , Barend , Jan ) Lasya Susanna died on 21 June 1973 and was buried in grave DB987 Rebecca Street Cemetary, Pretoria.
Children: 1. Willem DU PLESSIS. Born 28 December 1904 at Burgersdorp. Died 8 October 1988. Married on 30 June 1933 to Dorothy Hedwig EVA, daughter of Hugh Ervin Eva and Mathilda Meyer. 2. Louis Petrus DU PLESSIS. Born on 18 May 1904 at Potchefstroom. Died on 18 January 1988. Married on 26 June 1934 to Martha Elizabeth KRIEL, born at Montague; Died 1 July 1994 3. Abrahama Johanna DU PLESSIS. Born on 15 December 1908 at Rustenburg. Died at the age of 6 months in June 1909 at Pretoria. 4. Elsie Magdalena (Ella) DU PLESSIS. Born on 12 June 1910 at Pretoria. Married Heinz HOFFMAN. Remarried Bernardus Christoffel GROENEWALD (born 15 October 1896, died 15 Oct 1970, son of Coenraad Groenewald and Anna Aitcheson. Bernardus is buried in grave DB989, Rebecca Str. Cemetery, Pretoria) Ella is still living. 5. Hendrik Jacob Rudolf DU PLESSIS. Born 28 January 1912 at Erasmus (Bronkhorstspuit). Died …October 1998. Buried Pretoria East Cemetery. Married on 17 April 1937 to Rita Marié HEERMANS (daughter of Jan Antonie Heermans and Johanna van Dordrecht), born 27 August 1912, died 5 October 1988. Hendrik remarried on 6 March 1988 to Jantje De KAMPER, born SULMAN on 26 December 1918. 6. Marthinus Theunis Steyn DU PLESSIS. Born 3 February 1916 at Erasmus (Bronkhostspuit). Died 28 April 1927. Buried Pretoria Rebecca Street Cemetary, next to grave DB989. 7. Jan Lion Cachet DU PLESSIS. Born 3 February 1915. Died 7 December 1997 at Erasmus (Bronkhostspuit). Buried in Pretoria East Cemetary. Married on 22 September 1939 to Isabella Lourika HERMAN. She was the daughter of Matthys Johannes Hermann and Magdalena Elizabeth Opperman.
Children 6 and 7 were twins and the parentsarranged that each of them would name one of the children: My grandfather named no. 7 after his theology professor at the seminary and my grandmother named no. 6 after the President of the OFS.
The question:
Is there a link either from the du Plessis or Vorster side with President Steyn?
The closest I could get was that Tjaart Steyn, was born in 1847, to Tjaart Steyn and Johanna Catharina Margaretha Steyn (born Steyn [Venter]). Tjaart married Elizabeth Maria Steyn (Vorster).They had 10 children.
Elizabeth Maria Steyn (Vorster) was born on January 06, 1849
Middelburg, Stormberg District, Eastern Cape, daughter of Louis Petrus Vorster and Hester Jacoba
