No. 54.— 1903.] FUNERALS OF DUTCH OFFICIALS. 101 
daughter of Pierre de Saive of Leemond, Chief of Mannar, 
and Johanna Catharina Meyer. The children of Hendrik 
Cramer were : (1) Pierre Robertas Marcus, born in Galle, 
1765 ; (2) Magdalena Henrietta, born in Tuticorin, 1771 ; 
and (3) Johan Hendrik Gerrard, born in Tuticorin, 1774. 
Hendrik Cramer died in 1787. 
As was and is customary on such occasions, the relations 
of the deceased followed next to the hearse. Of these, 
leaving out the Cramers (one of whom was certainly, and 
the others probably, sons), Henricus Leembruggen was 
the son-in-law and Mattheus van Hek the father-in-law of 
the deceased. What relation J ohannes Blauwestein was to 
Robertus Cramer I have not been able to ascertain. There 
was in 1756 one Johannes Blauwestein, Chief Storekeeper 
of Colombo, who was married to Maria Elizabeth Cortsz, and 
had by her a son, Joris Johannes, born in Colombo in 1720. 
Johannes was probably the son of Joris Blauwestein of 
Rotterdam, Voorlezer in Colombo in 1688, and who died 
before the 14th February, 1697, as on that day his widow, 
Anna van Ravensway of Hertogenbosch, was married to 
Martinus Leermans of Dordrecht, an assistent in the Dutch 
service. 
Translation. 
The Funeral of Robertus Cramer, Opperkoopman and 
Dissave of the Lands of Colombo. 
On the 23rd October, 1760, there died in Colombo Mr, 
Robertus Cramer, Opperkoopman and Dissave of the Lands 
of Colombo. The funeral was attended by the following 
persons : — 
There marched in advance a company of Lascoreens of the 
Attepattoe, in command of the Muhandiram Domingo 
de Saram, and followed by two more companies from the 
Aloetkoer and Salpitty corles, with the sound of cymbals 
and with standards. 
