Nicolaas was die seun van Johannes (Jan) van der Westhuizen en Hilletje Botes.
Nicolaas
Baptised:
1755, 21 December 1755
Father:
Johannis VAN DER WESTHUIJSEN
Mother:
Hiekke BOTES
Witnesses:
Witse Botes en Anna Piterse
Additional
notes: Dit kind sorteert ond de kerk van de Land van Waveren
Source:
Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Swartland (Malmesbury), .
ucfirst(baptism) register, 1745-1782, page 21. Repository: NG Kerkargief,
Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G5 3/2. Note: Folios 13 and 14, two sides of one
page, are almost certainly missing between the current pages numbered 12 and 13
- dates covered would be late August 1751 to early June 1752.. Transcribed by
Lizette Svoboda, from photographs of Cape Archives VC 666
Nicolaas boer in 1778 in die Klein Roggeveld. Hy trou in 1782 met Christina Joachimina Hermanisina Kruger, die dogter van Jacob Kruger en Christina Strang. Jacob was die seun van Jacob Kruger van Sadenbeck in die Pregnitz, Duitsland wat in 1714 as soldaat in diens van die H.O.I.K. aan die Kaap gekom het. Van 1714 - 1717 was Jacob senior as boerkneg aan Willem ten Damme uitverhuur en daarna aan Ernst Mostert. Sy vrou was Johanna Kemp. (Redelinghuys, J.H.: Die Afrikaner-familienaamboek. kaapstad. 1955)
Frans Kruger died "ongehuud" according to the
Liquidation Account (Boedel rekening) of his estate in which he is described as "burger der Colonie
Tulbagh". It is improbable that he ever went to Graaff Reynet. Shortly before the death of his father, Jacob
Kruger (b)l, he took over a part of Gunstfontein from him. He "abandoned" this farm six
years later and no other farm has, with certainty, been traced to him. Throughout his adult life he
appears to have lived in more or less close contact with his brother-in-law, Nicolaas van der
Westhuysen, (see (c)10, Christina J. H. Kruger), and it
is possible he, Frans, preferred to act as European servant or knegt in charge
of one of Van der Westhuisen's farms. As young men, the two, who later
became brothers-in-law, in 1777 served as dragonders or mounted infantrymen in the Company of
Capt. Jan Bernhardus Hoffman at the Annual Military Exercises held at Stellenbosch; absent were
Jacobus Alewyn Kruger (c)l and Pieter Kruger, Hendksz. (c)6.
The two brothers-in-law (1) signed with others a request, dated
1799, that Gerrit Maritz, ex-
Veldcornet, have a commando for the Mid-Roggeveld for the reason
that the farm of Floris Visser, Veldcornet for the Fore-Roggeveld, was too distant; (2) they
signed on 26.12.1799 with thirteen others, including Gerrit Maritz, a protest against the policy of
attacking the Hottentot Captain Afrikander on the Lower Zak River on the grounds that it was the
wrong season, there would be no bread with men away in the harvest time, the position of his
kraal unknown, the Commando too small and because Afrikander had not attacked them and might,
being well armed, wreak vengeance on the Mid-Roggeveld, ; (3) they signed, too, a joint letter
referring to a Hottentot servant, Kakkerlak, who had been attacked by a slave.
After 1785 Frans Kruger, Jacobsz. (c)6 and Jasper Kruger,
Hendriksz. (c)10, of whom little is known, are associated in the Census returns for Stellenbosch
until 1790, 27 that is, long after Jasper's parents, Hendrik Kruger and Francina Cloete, had gone to Graaff
Reynet.
Frans Kruger (c)6 appears to have lived the typical bachelor and
when he died intestate, Nicolaas van der Westhuizen and Gerrit Maritz made the arrangements for
his funeral and the inventory of his possessions. He possessed two horses and a saddle, which is
described as good but lent him by
Dolf van der Westhuizen. A gun, silver watch, 3 pairs of silver
buckels and a pair of silver buttons, a looking-glass and change of clothes with two shirts, in which,
Gerrit Maritz and Van der Westhuizen explain, they buried their friend and therefore had
not included their value in the inventory. Frans Kruger's heirs were his sisters, Christina
(c)10, the wife of Van der Westhuizen, and Johanna Catharina (c)l, and the children of his dead
brother, Carel Kruger, and the children of his dead sisters, Hendrina Cecilia (c)2 and Anna Maria (c)4. (https://archive.org/stream/Krugers-EarlierLives/Krugers-earlierLives_djvu.txt)
‘n Trekboer se
plaaswerf in die Roggeveld, deur W.J. Burchell 1811.
