| Introduction | Inventaris ... van Ellert Croes de oude zalr. in sijn leven steencooper binnen deser stede, ende Stijntgen Jans zijn nagelaten weduwe, competerende soo ende sulx die bijde voors. Ellert Croes de oude ende Stijntgen Jans, te samen int gemeen gepossideert ende beseten, mitsgaders bijde voors. Ellert Croes de Oude metter doodt ontruijmt ende nagelaten zijn. Gemaeckt op't aengeven vande voors. Stijntgen Jans ende ten versoecke vanden eersame Dirck Grijp als bijde E. heeren Weesmeesteren ... gestelde voogdt over Ellert Croes de jonge, Joost Croes, Maria Croes ende Cornelis Croes allen kinderen ende erfgenmen van wijlen de voors. Ellert Croes de oude zalr. hen vader. Ende sijn in eenen wegen getaxeert ende gepriseert als achter d'selve staet uijtgetrocken .... Postscript: Aldus getaxeert bijde schatsters binnen Amsterdam de x-en december 1646 ...Postscript: Aldus gedaen binne Amsterdam ter presentie van Jan van Swol ende Albert Jansz. inwoonders deser stede als getuygen hier over gestaen den tienden elffden ende xx-en decemb. 1646. |
| Commentary | The religion of the collector has been inferred from the print of a Lutheran predikant and from a debt to the estate from the Luterse Kerck. It is presumed that Ellert Croes de oude (I), stone dealer, is identical with Ellert Croes steenhouwer (stone carver or sculptor), who was said to be 40 years old in a document dated 6 August 1635 (NA 597, fol. 55). He was thus 25 years old when he was betrothed to Maria Bastenacken on 1 May 1620 (DTB 668/326). On 20 March 1640, Elbert Croes, steenhower, brought 2000 f. to the Orphan Chamber as the inheritance of his children from their late mother (WK 5073/789). On 29 June 1641, Ellert Cruse, widower of Maria Bastenach, was betrothed to Margriet Pansers, widow of Jacob Christiaens (DTB 676/66). On 6 May 1644, Eijbert Creuse, widower of Margriet Pansert, was betrothed to Stijntje Jans, widow of Jeuriaen Heijndrixsz. (DTB 677/219). On 8 May 1645, Ellert Croeser, steenhower, 50, made a deposition at the request of Dirck van Delff (II, of INVNO 178), who was also a stone sculptor or carver. He testified that he had gone to the manor (hoofstede) of Balthasar Coymans to inspect certain stone work which had been delivered by Abraham Molenyser (?) to Coymans. It emerged from this partly illegible document that Croeser was in company with Dirck van Delff (NA 998, film 1882, Not. Gerrit Coren). Ellert Croes (de oude) owned a steenkoperij on the Prinsengracht until about 1647 when it was sold, after his death, to Foppe de Graeff (Jaarboek Amstelodamum 66(1979), p. 67). Ellert Croes de jonge, cited as a child of minor age in the INTRO, married Annetge Carstens. He was in the East Indies on 16 May 1654 when she made a declaration about the marble floors of her house (NA 2439, fol. 65 cited by W. Fock in Oud Holland 112 (1998), note 47). |
