Joas Croppenberg

Joos Croppenburgh - Haberdasher, Merchant and Entrepreneur By Janet Penn

Thanks to my friend in the Netherlands information is slowly coming in that is likely to be our Joas Croppenberg but we cannot conclusively say it is. Croppenberg (including all the variations of the name) is a fairly uncommon name. With lots of the documents etc that are being found there is no indication as to the age of the person which makes it very difficult to be sure we are finding the right person. We believe Croppenberg was born before 1574 probably in Gulick, (which was part of the Netherlands at that time but now in Germany. There are known to be Croppenbergs around Axel in Zeeland. In 1594 a Joos Croppenburgh agrees to live in Cologne to buy pots and transport them to London.

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