Sri Lanka Burgher Genealogy

KRASSE - Family #1184

(i) Lt. Krasse – born in Amsterdam (1767); landed in Ceylon (1796) died in Jaffna 1827.

(ii) John William Krasse – born in Jaffna (1801); died in Trincomalee August 29, 1840; + (iii)

(iii) Fredrica Krasse – born February 1803; died December 12, 1871;

(iv) Robert Henry. Krasse – born in Jaffna May 8, 1824;, married at Kandy in Feb 1843,

died in Kandy April 7, 1900;  + Margaret Ferdinands (v)

(v) Margaret (Ferdinands) Krasse - born in March 19, 1834 died in December 25, 1906; ] They had 5 children.

(vi) James Jordan Krasse – born 1853, married at Kandy in 1876 to Margaret Ferdinands, and had ten children of whom

Ottelie Agnes Matilda was the 5th,  confirmed November 27, 1908 by the Lord Bishop of Colombo

at St. Paul’s Church, Kandy - E. Taylor, Vicar;

(vii) Agnes Krasse born September 24. 1884; died June 11, 1962 in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor,

Malaysia – Married Cecil Lionel Edmonds.

(viii) son of (vii): Cecil Lawrence Edmonds

Other Krasse names found in the Burgher Family pages:-

Family #1087: Emma Francis Krasse + Frederick Bulner

Family #1045: Benedicta Krasse + Jacob Daniel Herft b:1775

Selina Angelina Krasse + Theodore Christopher de Jong b:14-Jun-1848 (s/o Louis Richard de Jong + Caroline Barbara Taylor)

children: Theodore Pledgworth de Jong b:3-Jun-1879 + Grace Helen Aldons

Horatio Tidbury de Jong b:14-Jun-1881

Lawrence George Krasse + Nancy Elizabeth Dias

children: Henrietta Primrose Krasse b:5-Mar-1921 + Warkus Annesley Brian Siebel