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About Gerrit Kruger, de Oude, b7c2
Gerrit Kruger was the great grandfather of Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Paul) Kruger born 10 October 1825. Paul Kruger was President of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900. Gerrit Kruger was born 1750, He's father was Hendrik Kruger born 1725. His parents were Casper Kruger and Elsie Steyn. In 1836 they joined the Potgieter trek.
Gerrit Kruger was ‘n boer in die Graaff-Reinet omgewing, Hy is op sy plaas oorlede, en daar is hy ook begrawe
Plaas Rheboksfontein, Agter Zuurberg , District Graaff-Reinet
Earlier lives of the Krugers extract (c)2 Gerrit, b. 21.5.1750; md. (1) Susanna Lasya Buys on 12.10.1769, d. of Stephanus Buijs and Maria Elisabeth de Vries; (2) on 15.5.1808 Anna Sophia Venter, widow of Phillip Snyman (CO 2567, Matrimonial List G.R., Item No. 16). Marriage omitted in Geslacht Register. Gerrit Kruger would have been about twelve when the family moved from Oliphants- berg near the shores of Table Bay. No farm grant in the Roggeveld has been traced to him and though he married when about twenty he does not appear to have made an "opgaaf" (census return) before 1772. In 1778 he is in the Stellenbosch Roll as owning only twenty horned cattle (runderen) and a hundred sheep. 11
The father of his bride, who died very shortly before Gerrit's marriage, was Stephanus Buijs, a Roggeveld farmer who left an estate valued at Rds. 737. That the Buijs were neighbours of the Krugers in the Roggeveld is shown by the fact that the inventory of Stephanus Buys was made by Gerrit's brother Johannes Jacob (c)l and their uncle Pieter Ernst (b)7 on 19.2. 1769 12
In 1778, too-noticeably the year in which his father Hendrik (b)6 vacated de Plaat - Gerrit was at the October Militia Exercise at Stellenbosch as a mounted man in the Company commanded by Capt. Phillipus Wouter de Vos. It is probable, however, that Gerrit, like his father and brothers, was in Graaff Reinet before or during 1780, for though his farm Leeuwenkuyl was only officially granted in 1785 it does not follow that he was not there some years before the grant. Like other burghers known to have been in Graaff Reinet his census return continues to be in the Stellenbosch Roll until 1787, when the Drostdy or Magistracy of Graaff Reinet was established.
Gerrit Kruger's progress as farmer is reflected in the returns he made:
1777 wife, son, daughter and a horse.
1785 family, two hundred sheep, twenty cattle, a horse, no slave or knegt.
1791 one thousand sheep, one hundred cattle.
1804 nine hundred sheep, fifty hamels, six horses for breeding, three for saddle, three hundred goats. For labour twelve Hottentot servants-male, female and children.
He, at that time, was probably at Brandvlei and certainly in the Veldcornetcy of FC Willem Sterrenberg Pretorius. With him was his wife, two of his sons and two daughters. He had some years before 13 been "on the farm of the Hon. Nicolaas van der Walt". This was Grootfontein. In 1798, already called d'oude, he took a leading part in an act aimed at pacifying Bushmen. The burghers of Agter Sneeuwberg joined in collecting cattle and sheep for presentation to such of the savages as professed willingness to cease their raids and become pastoralists. On 18.11.1798 283 sheep, given by burghers, were collected at Grootfontein and on 17.12.1798 most of these were distributed among 118 Bushmen by Nicolaas v. der Walt, Jacob Venter, Gerrit Kruger and G. Meyburg. Their signatures which certify to Landdrost Bresler, the place of distribution, great grandfather of Paul Kruger has been found to read Gert Kruger Hendriksz. See Gerrit
Kruger (e)2, son of Hendrik Bernhardus (d)2 (p. 251).
Farm or locality: 1785 Leeuwenkyl, aan de Brakke R. agter de Sneeuwberg (R.L.R. 33, p. 163).
1786 Zoutpansdrift, onder de Brakke R. (R.L.R. 34, p. 279). 1802 Brandvalleij en Rietpoort, inde
spruit van de Brakke Rivier agter de Renocerberg (G.R. 14/16, List No. 1, Item 34).
Zoutpansdrift was sold by Gerrit Kruger - or since it was a loan-farm, the opstal thereon - to
Michiel Andries van der Walt (G.R. 14/16, Etraordinaire Annotatie noopens de Leening
plaatsen, 1797). It was in 1813 in occupation of Barend Rudolf Buys (md. at that time to Helena
Dorothea van Wyk), the brother of Susanna Lasya Buys.
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b7 Hendrik = 8/4/1725 x Kaapstad 5/5/1748 Francina CLOETE = 7/9/1732 d.v. Gerrit Cloete en Huibrecht Slabbert
c2 Gerrit = 21.5.1750 x 12.11.1769 Susanna Lasya BUYS † c. 1802 d.v. Stephanus Buys en Maria Elizabeth de Vries xx 15.5.1808 Anna Sophia VENTER (wed. v. P. Snyman)
- d1 Maria Elizabeth = 6.10.1771 x Michiel Andries VAN DER WALT xx 18.7.1802 Petrus Jacobus PRETORIUS
- d2 Hendrik Bernhardus = 7.3.1773 x 14.8.1791 Francina VENTER = 1.1.1775 d.v. Pieter Venter en Johanna Francina Kruger
- d3 Francina Jacoba = 2.4.1775 x 13.9.1789 Johannes Hendrik VAN DER WALT s.v. Tjaart van der Walt (Boereheld) en Anna Martha Venter
- d4 Stephanus Johannes * 15.3.1778 x 21.1.1798 Sophia Margaretha STEENKAMP = 30.3.1782 d.v. Casper Hendrik Steenkamp en Maria Magdalena Putter
- d5 Gerrit Petrus = 5.12.1779
- d6 Gerrit Hendrik Jacobus = 31.12.1780 † Agter Suurberg 7.6.1849 x 22.2.1801 Hester Jacoba VAN DER WALT d.v. Nicolaas van der Walt en Maria Jacoba Coetzee xx 17.11.1816 Anna Johanna COETZEE xxx Helletje Magdalena Maria Louisa REINEKE (sien SABW III)
- d7 Petrus = 25.8.1785
- d8 Susanna Lasya = 6.9.1789 † Smithfield 11.5.1863 x Graaff-Reinet 5.1.1806 Petrus VAN DER WALT s.v. Tjaart van der Walt en Maria Elizabeth Kruger
- d9 Martin = 16.9.1792 † 17.9.1846 x Graaff-Reinet 5.2.1809 Maria Magdalena KRUGER † 3.9.1841 xx Anna Catharina VAN ASWEGEN (wed. v. Willem Jacobus Pelser)
- d10 Alida Hendrina = Graaff-Reinet 30.3.1794 † c. 1817 x 21.2.1813 Johannes Cornelis DE KLERK
- d11 Andries Jacob = Graaff-Reinet 19.11.1797 † 15.12.1868 x Graaff-Reinet 19.2.1815 Hester Anna KRUGER † 25.1.1846 xx Magdalena Elizabeth GROBLER
- d12 Lasya Hendrina = Graaff-Reinet 4.8.1809 x Casper Jan Hendrik VAN WYK s.v. Louis Johannes van Wyk en Anna Sophia Venter
- d13 Maria Petronella * 16.1.1810 = Graaff-Reinet 10.2.1811
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Gerrit Kruger, de Oude, b7c2's Timeline
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May 21, 1750
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Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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May 21, 1750
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Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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| 1771 |
February 27, 1771
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Paarl, Drakenstein, Caap de Goede Hoop, Suid Afrika
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| 1773 |
March 7, 1773
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Cape Town, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, WC, South Africa
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| 1774 |
December 22, 1774
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Paarl, Caap de Goede Hoop, South Africa
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| 1777 |
October 19, 1777
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Paarl, Drakenstein, Caap de Goede Hoop, Suid Afrika
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| 1779 |
May 19, 1779
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Paarl, WC, South Africa
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| 1780 |
November 12, 1780
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Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1785 |
January 19, 1785
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Paarl, WC, South Africa
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