Ignatius Ferreira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ignatius Ferreira

South African military personnel and businessperson (1853-1935)

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1853

Place of Birth: Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1935

Profession: businessperson, military personnel

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Colonel Ignatius Ferreira, (5 July 1840, Grahamstown, Cape Colony – 13 May 1921, Kranspoort, Louis Trichardt district, Transvaal) was a South African soldier, fortune hunter, miner and farmer of Portuguese descent.
He is more commonly known for having the earliest gold mining camp on the Witwatersrand named after him called Ferreirastown (Ferreirasdorp), which was on the edge of the farm Randjeeslagte soon to be proclaimed as the site of a new town called Johannesburg.