I believe I've located a possible source for Charl Prieur du Plessis (and his father Jean). Information is included below for those who have access to edit the profile.
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DU PLESSIS 1 (JEAN PRIEUR). surgeon, of Poitiers, and his wife Madeline Menanteau, arrived in the " Oosterland," which left Middelburg 29th Jan., 16SS. This couple, " with one child," figures in the Distribution List of 1690, and with "two children " among the families in Cape Dktrict 1692. There is a baptismal entry in the Cape Town Church Books of a child of theirs — Charl Prieur du Plessis — as having been christened in Salle Bay on board of the aforesaid vessel, on 19th April, 1688. Numerous descendants still living. In a short list of French refugees at the Cape in. 1690, who were otherwise provided for. and therefore did not need assistance from the funds sent out from Batavia for their relief, I find Abraham du Plessis, who also figures among the Drakenstein Burghers in 1692. There is no record of him in Church Books, and he appears not to have left any descendants. Mr. John Noble, in some old contribution respecting the Pilgrim Fathers,- relates a story of Charl in the commencement of the present century : One eld Charl du Plessis, the oldest representative of the family, was called upon to assume some ducal title, and estates in France, but the old gentleman preferred staying here, and living in simplicity.
Source:
Huguenot Society of America. cn. Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America. New York : The Society, 1894. Page 276. http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofhug35hugu.
