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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CBYLON). [VOL. XVIII. 
THREE FUNERALS OF CEYLON DUTCH OFFICIALS IN 
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
Translated from the Dutch and annotated by F. H. de Vos, Barrister- 
at-Law, and Member of the Society of Dutch Literature, &c., of 
Leyden. 
ROBERTUS Cramer, a native of Amsterdam, was Superin- 
tendent of the Galle corle circa 1735, Chief of Trincomalee 
circa 1743, and Dissave of Colombo circa 1755, in succession 
to Peter Elders Schuttrup. He died in Colombo on the 23rd 
October, 1760, and was buried there. The following is an 
account of his funeral (translated from the Dutch), to be 
found in Part X. (1761), pages 208 to 212, of the NederlandscJi 
Mercurius. I have not been able to get in Ceylon any parti- 
culars of the parentage of Robertus Cramer. He was twice 
married — firstly to Elizabeth Steenhuysen ; and secondly, 
in 1751, to Magdalena Elizabeth van Hek of Jaffna, widow of 
Frangois van de Rondewerken. By his first wife he had: (1) 
Hendrik, born in Galle, 1735 ; and (2) Catharina Magdalena, 
born in Galle in 1737. The issue of the second bed were (3) 
Maria Elizabeth, born in Colombo, 1755, married Matheus 
Petrus Rakat ; (4) Anna Henrietta, born in Colombo, 1757; 
and (5) Magdalena Theodora, born in Colombo, 1759. There 
were other families of the name of Cramer settled in Ceylon 
in the Dutch period, viz., Johannes Cramer of Batavia (1736), 
Adriaan de Cramer of Leyden (1707), and Johannes Bernardus 
Cramer of Wezel (1757). Of the Cramers present at the 
iuneral Mattheus Robertus Cramer, Dirk Cramer, and 
Gerbrand Cramer were probably the sons of Robertus Cramer. 
Hendrik Cramer (his son) was an 0 aderkoopman in 1758, 
and Storekeeper, Tuticorin, 1777, and was married in Galle, 
^th April, 1760, a few months before the death of his 
father, to Cornelia Elsebe de Salve, born in Galle, 1740, 
