Robert James Crozier
(1822-1913)

Robert James Crozier ²

Born: 9 Jun 1822, , , South Africa
Christened: Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Marriage (1): Hester Anna Maria Cloete on 23 Sep 1854 in St. Mary's Church, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa
Died: 16 Nov 1913, , Cape Province, South Africa aged 91
Buried: Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Hester Anna Maria Cloete

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://familytrees.genopro.com/gjmurrell/Murrell/family-RobertCrozierAndJohannaMagdalenaVanRyneveld-F323.html

bullet Christening Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MXPR-1F7

bullet Death Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/12374421/person/632794654

And

http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2149512215

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/733
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 3445
PART 1
DESCRIPTION CROZIER, ROBERT JAMES. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 19130000
ENDING 19130000

And

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=553993

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=553993

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://familytrees.genopro.com/gjmurrell/Murrell/family-RobertCrozierAndJohannaMagdalenaVanRyneveld-F323.html

And

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SR5P-9G2

And

http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2149512216

And

"International Genealogical Index (IGI)", database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MM6L-R57 : accessed 2013-01-29), entry for Robert James Crozier.

• Children. They had eight children.

George Rowland Henderson Crozier \endash 1924
Maria Johanna Crozier
Phillip Albert Crozier
Robert Crozier
Johanna Magdalene Crozier (1857 \endash 1943)
Rosa Sophia Crozier (1860 \endash 1958)
Robert James Crozier (1862 \endash )
Ida Crozier (1868 \endash 1912

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/12374421/person/632794656

A number of records show a son Dupre Alexander Napier Crozier born in 1918. This is impossible as his mother would be in her eighties.

• Education. SACS 1831-1837
http://ancestry24.com/?srchName=robert&srchSurname=crozier&group=on&s=search

• General Comment. The official who made much the greatest impact on Stellenbosch was Robert James Crozier (Cape Town March 1822 - 16 November 1913).

He was the third son of Robert Crozier of Caledon in County Tyrone (1784 - Cape Town 11 Match 1852) who had married Johanna Magdalena van Ryneveld (24 March 1795 - Cape Town 18 December 1866) in the Dutch Church in Cape Town on 13 March 1815. Robert was Post Master General of Cape Colony 1815 - 1852 and by 1827 was also ' the "District Agent" for Stellenbosch.

Alexander William, another son, rose to be Surgeon General of India.

On 6 February 1851 Robert James was appointed chief clerk to the resident magistrate £l60 a year (later raised to £300) plus £60 (later £80) for rent of a house. He was elected one of the first church wardens of St. Mary's on 21 April 1852, became clerk of the Divisional Council on a further £80 in 1865, was chairman of the Stellenbosch Agricultural Society and a member of the board of managers of the Gymnasium (later the University). He then served as magistrate of several other districts and finally retired to a home in College Square where he and his wife died. There are windows in St. Mary's to each of them and another to their daughter Maria Johanna (1855 - 6 June 1871). Crozier House at 11 Victoria Street is a double-storey built in 1900, with a facade which was declared a national monument on 10 August 1979. And there is also a Crozier Street. His wife Hester Anna Cloete of Klapmuts died on 26 June 1925. They had ten children. One of the sons, another Robert James, born and educated here, followed his father as a resident magistrate.

Extracted from "The Early Stellenbosch British" JJ Langham-Carter \endash Familia 1992 vol 3&4

Robert married Hester Anna Maria Cloete, daughter of Phillipus Albertus Cloete and Maria Catharina Elizabeth Versveld, on 23 Sep 1854 in St. Mary's Church, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa. (Hester Anna Maria Cloete was born on 6 Oct 1833 in Klapmuts, Cape Province, South Africa, died on 26 Jun 1925 in Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa and was buried in Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SR5P-9G2

And

http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gjmurrell&id=I900&ti=5538

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/12374421/person/632794656

And

http://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216:south-african-commercial-advertiser-1854-3-july-to-september&catid=1:south-african-commercial-advertiser&Itemid=2

Saturday 30 September 1854 MARRIED in St.Mary's Church, Stellenbosch on the 26th Sept by the Rev F. Carlyon BA, Robert James CROZIER Esq, son of the late Robert CROZIER Esq, Postmaster-General of this Colony, to Miss Hester CLOETE, daughter of P.A. CLOETE Esq of Klapmuts.

And

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M3QT-9WW

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Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years

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Robert James Crozier ²