The family van der Pluijm originates from Dussen/Hank, since 1814 Noord-Brabant, formerly Zuid-Holland. A very nice book with much data is "The history of Dussen". Probably the first van der Pluijm's, that were catholic, moved from the area of Den Haag/Leiden to the largely catholic Dussen Munsterkerk around 1670, in the time that polderland was regained from the lands that were drowned in the Elisabeth flood of 1421 , where now lies the present-day Biesbosch. On instruction of the States of Zuid Holland and Westfriesland the area of the  (nowadays) Zuidhollandsche Polder was measured and the lots were described, in 1669.
Due to numerous offspring, the family van der Pluijm in Dussen and the later village Hank became the dominant family in  number. Professions were mainly farmers, fishermen. From about 1750 a large emigration started, namely from Oosterhout to Rotterdam. It was there that many van der Pluijm became (all kind of) workers, but particularly skippers and bakers are strongly represented. Mainly after 1900 the further spreading over the Netherlands takes place.