Person:Ignacio Ferreira (1)

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Ignacio Leopoldo Ferreira
b.1695 Portugal
d.24 Aug 1772 Gouritz river, Eastern Cape
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  1. Ignacio Leopoldo Ferreira1695 - 1772
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m. 6 Nov 1735
  1. Maria Magdalena Ferreira1733 -
  2. Petrus Hendrik Ferreira1736 -
  3. Hester Ferreira1741 -
  4. Thomas Ignatius Ferreira1743 - 1814
  5. Stephanus Ferreira1746 -
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Name Ignacio Leopoldo Ferreira
Gender Male
Birth? 1695 Portugal
Christening? 1 Nov 1695 Igreja Paroquial de Nossa Senhora Da Ajuda (lisboa)
Immigration? May 1722 Table Bay, South Africasurvivor of the sinking of the British East India Companz ship, Chandos
Marriage 6 Nov 1735 Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africato Martha Terreblanche
Death? 24 Aug 1772 Gouritz river, Eastern Cape

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The first known Portuguese to settle in South Africa permanently were Ignatio Leopoldo FERREIRA and Manuel João D’OLIVEIRA.

Inacio (Ignatio or Ignatius) Ferreira was a sailor with the British East India Company aboard the Chandos. On its way from Bengal to England during June 1722, the ship hit a storm and was stranded near Table Bay. The Extracts from Précis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1732) state that on 16 May 1722, six hundred men of the Chandos, Zoetigheid, Lakeman, Nightingale, Addison, Schotse Lorredraayer, Rotterdam and the Standvastigheid drowned in and near Table Bay. Ferreira made it to shore and decided to stay at the Cape. He joined the Dutch East India Company as a soldier. In 1737 became a burger, farming at De Hartebeeste Kuil near Stellenbosch.

Inacio was possibly baptised in November 1695 at the Nossa Senhora da Ajuda church in Lisbon. His parents were Manuel Ferreira and Antonia Francisca da Costa who lived in Alcantara, according to the only baptismal entry that possibly matches. In the opgaafrol J316 of 1752, Ignatio is listed with nine sons and three daughters. In the opgaafrol J317 of 1762 for Swellendam, he is listed with three sons and one daughter. He died on 24 August 1772.

Thomas Ignatius Ferreira settled at Algoa Bay in April 1776 on the farm Papenkuilsfontein (Paapenkuilsfontein), meaning bulrush fountain. Some early maps refer to the nearby river as Ferreira’s River. In March 1799, British troops built a small mud fort, Star Fort, nearby. On 04 December 1782, six sailors from the Grosvenor ship wreck reached Papenkuilsfontein, one being William Hubberly, after walking nearly 500 km in four months. A search party was immediately sent and a further 12 sailors were found. On 10 August 1799 and in September 1802, the Ferreira family was attacked by Xhosas and had to seek refuge at Fort Frederick. The family lived at the farm until 1806 and sold it in January 1812 to Frederick Korsten. When Sir John Francis Cradock visited the farm, Korsten renamed it to Cradock Town, which later became Cradock Place. In the 1850s, Thomas Baines painted a rural scene which depicted a farmhouse with a windmill and a group of picnickers. This was Cradock Place. The once-productive farm with orchards and oak-lined avenues is now a ruin. The old farmstead burnt down in 1909.

Source: Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa

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