Cronje Not a Galloway Man.
With regard toa statement aaade recently giving Scotland the credit of having sent Cicmje'B ancestors over to South Africa. Mr Weatherall, West Hartlepool, writes to the Daily News :—" As I think that may appear to be a blot on the fair name of Sootia, I enclose you a clipping from the Cape Menurj/ (the Government Gazctt". for the districts of King Williamstown, ets.>, from which you will see that his ancestors were French, and not Scottish." The following is the extract sent by Mr Weatherall:—" Now that that world is-ringing with the name of Piet Cronje,the ftvmou&Boer general, itis interesting to note that hia patronymic wasoriginally French. His ancestor—PierreCrogneft or Crosnier —was % French refugee who- left France owing to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes,, which had the effect of banishing ail. Protestants from that country. This Pierre Crognet arrived in the colony in 2693, and settled at Drakenstein, where he married Susanna Taillifer,. widow of Jean Garde,, also a French refugee. Se left six children. It is curious to find that the Boer general bears tfce Christian i:ames of his French ancestor, Pierre, it is superfluous, to add, being the French equivalent for the Dutch Pieter. Crooje is a Dutch phonetic spelling of the Freneii name Crogaet or Crosnier."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9821, 21 July 1900, Page 8
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