Van den Berg Family History
Jan Adriaan Hendrik Crous
1843 - 1933 (90 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Jan Adriaan Hendrik Crous was born 17 Feb 1843, Swellendam (son of Sebastiaan Jacobus Crous and Elizabeth Hendrika Oostenwaldina Eksteen); died 20 November 1933, Knoppiespan, Kroonstad. Jan married Sophia Catharina Myburgh 2 Dec 1867, Prins Albert. Sophia (daughter of Jan Andries Myburgh and Maria Magdalena Vrey) was born 4 Jun 1850, Prins Albert; died 10 Nov 1934. [Group Sheet]
Children:- Johannes Andries Crous was born 23 Aug 1930, Viljoenskroon; died 14 Jun 1933, Parys; was buried , Parys.
2. Sebastiaan Jacobus Crous (son of Hendrik Bartholomeus Crous and Catharina Carolina Rothmann); died 19 Jul 1848, Swellendam. Sebastiaan married Elizabeth Hendrika Oostenwaldina Eksteen 4 Jul 1830, Swellendam. Elizabeth was born 21 Jun 1811; died 14 Jan 1894, Witkop, Kroonstad. [Group Sheet]
3. Elizabeth Hendrika Oostenwaldina Eksteen was born 21 Jun 1811; died 14 Jan 1894, Witkop, Kroonstad. Children:
- 1. Jan Adriaan Hendrik Crous was born 17 Feb 1843, Swellendam; died 20 November 1933, Knoppiespan, Kroonstad.
Generation: 3
4. Hendrik Bartholomeus Crous (son of Johannes Hendricus Crous and Johanna Dorothea Gildenhuyzen); died 23 May 1856. Notes:
The couple lives in the Buffelsjachtsrivier.
Hendrik married Catharina Carolina Rothmann 12 Feb 1804, Cape Town. Catharina (daughter of Sebastiaan Rothman and Maria Elizabeth Rogge) died 17 Jul 1863. [Group Sheet]
5. Catharina Carolina Rothmann (daughter of Sebastiaan Rothman and Maria Elizabeth Rogge); died 17 Jul 1863. Notes:
Stay at Buffeljachts River
Children:
- 2. Sebastiaan Jacobus Crous died 19 Jul 1848, Swellendam.
Generation: 4
8. Johannes Hendricus Crous (son of Heinrich Bartholomeus Crous and Johanna Magdalena Smal). Notes:
Waterverf portretjies van Johannes Hendricus Crous (ook bekend as "Groot Jan") en sy vrou Johanna Dorothea Gildenhuyzen wat in 1822-1823 deur 'n Mnr. Keet geskilder is, word in die argief van die Drostdy Museum, Swellendam bewaar.
Miemie Rothmann het dit later gekopieer en die portrette word in die museum uitgestal.
Johannes Crous dien as diaken in die N.G. Gemeente in 1802. In 1813 het ene Johannes Hendrik Crous aan die kerk gewerk.
Johannes Hendricus het in 1799 die Engelse regering aan die Kaap gehelp om die tweede opstand onder die burgers van Swellendam te onderdruk.
Volgens Tomlinson (1943 : 84-85) het 40 boere op sy plaas Kliprivier aangedoen onderweg na Swellendam.
Ewe vriendelik het Crous kos voorgesit en liberaal met die wyn uit sy kelder te werk gegaan.
Nadat die manne gaan rus het, het hy al 40 gewere buite aksie gestel en vir Landdros Faure op Swellendam in kennis gestel van die teenwoordigheid van die opstandelinge op sy plaas.
Dit was die einde van die opstand.
Hy het later 'n groot jagvriend van Lord Charles Somerset geword en vir sy dienste die leningsplaas Somersetsgift as geskenk van die goewerneur ontvang.
(Tomlinson : 1943 : 85).
Information compiled by A de Witt.Johannes married Johanna Dorothea Gildenhuyzen 1778. [Group Sheet]
9. Johanna Dorothea Gildenhuyzen (daughter of Hendrik Gildenhuyzen and Cornelia Swart). Children:
- 4. Hendrik Bartholomeus Crous died 23 May 1856.
10. Sebastiaan Rothman was born 1753; died 1 Dec 1803, Swellendam. Other Events:
- Emigration: 1774, From Keulen to Cape Town
Sebastiaan married Maria Elizabeth Rogge 18 Nov 1780. [Group Sheet]
11. Maria Elizabeth Rogge (daughter of Johann Christoffel Rogge and Martha de Jager). Children:
- 5. Catharina Carolina Rothmann died 17 Jul 1863.