Lives of the Earlier Krugers: the Koup field cornet, and the 1763 loan farm a Kruger ancestor was granted and never used
compiled genealogy · a copy, index or transcription · consulted 2026-11-02
- Type
- compiled genealogy
- Repository
- Anonymous, 'Lives of the Earlier Krugers', scanned and hosted at the Internet Archive, item Krugers-EarlierLives. A compiled family history that cites the Cape archives throughout: R.L.R. (loan farm registers) 45 times across volumes 11 to 38, with MOOC, MO, J-series opgaafrollen and Stellenbosch Archives references alongside.
- Reference
- Read from the Internet Archive's own OCR text, Krugers-earlierLives_djvu.txt, 2 Nov 2026. The passages used here are the Carel Kruger (c)5 entry and the Pieter Ernst Kruger D.soon (d)1 entry.
- Consulted
- 2026-11-02
The citation as it was given
Consulted 2 Nov 2026 on a question from Pieter Olckers about the origin of Van der Byls Kraal No. 265, Beaufort West. *** IT CARRIES THE ONE THING THIS PROJECT WANTED FROM THE LOAN FARM REGISTERS, AND IT IS A NEGATIVE. *** TRANSCRIBED: 'When a youth, Carel Kruger, in 1763, was granted the loan-farm Rietfontein situated "in de Kou". This word is probably an error for Koup and not intended for the Koo of the present Montagu district. ... By December, 1778, some thirteen years of unpaid rent was owing on the farm. The grant is annotated by an instruction from the Governor Van Plettenberg to the effect that Carel Kruger had appealed to him to be excused the rent as he had never made use of the farm (dat hij nooijt geen gebruik voor voorn. Plaats heeft komen te maaken), that if on investigation his assertion proved valid, the debt was to be written off and the farm re-let.' Cited to R.L.R. 18, p. 137. The same entry gives Carel (c)5 as b. 8.11.1750, d. before 10.11.1793, married 17.12.1780 to Geertruyda Margaretha Coetsee. *** AND ON THE KOUP FIELD CORNET: *** '(d)1 Pieter Ernst, D.soon, b. 8.12.1787; md. Anna Catharina van Eck ... In 1818 he was appointed Deputy Field Cornet for the Koup. On 8.12.1827 a list of Field Cornets and Officers under Landdrost Harding of Beaufort, makes a confidential report on "Field Cornet P. E. Kruger". The report mentions his very good service of 9 years 1 month. He did not speak English. His farm Van der Bylskraal is now S.W. of Beaufort West and near Merweville. Original signature: P. E. Kruger, D.zoon (MO, vol. 66, No. 57). Joint will 10.7.1818 at Dolfs Kraal, adjacent to Van der Byls Kraal. Farm or locality: Van der Byls Kraal in district Beaufort. Wilgeboschdrift and Vogelstruisfontein.' *** THE 1818 WILL IS THE EARLIEST ATTESTATION OF THE FARM NAME THIS PROJECT HAS SEEN, thirteen years before diagram B355/1831. *** It is a book and not a register: every reading above is the author's, and the archive references are the places to check it. The book's birth date for the field cornet, 8.12.1787, disagrees with the 14.9.1786 given elsewhere - recorded as a disagreement rather than resolved. [TO VERIFY]
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What rests on this source
Farms
People
- Petrus Ernst Kruger (Diederik se seun) 14 September 1786 – 10 July 1859