Family:Johan Willem Crolius and Veronica Corcelius (1)

Johan Willem Crollius immigrated to New York early in the 18th century, with a brother Pieter (who never married), and perhaps together with the Cortselius family. Johan and Veronica were married in the "Old Dutch Church" in New York in 1724, where the marriage record indicates that they were both from "High Germany" (Hoog duitsland), and both of Nieuw Wit (possibly the town of Neuwied near Coblenz on the Rhine).

Johan Willem was a maker of stoneware, and the family operated a pottery in New York (possibly the city's first stoneware kiln) through several generations. The pottery works and family home were on Reade Street, near Broadway. There are christening records of six children of this family in the Old Dutch Church, and a seventh child (Maria) probably belongs to this family too.

It is likely that most if not all Croliuses in America are descended from this original immigrant family.

1. ↑ Reformed Dutch Church (New York City), and Tobias Alexander Wright (ed.). Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: baptisms from 1 January, 1731, to 29 December, 1800. (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1902)
   Jan 1724.

   [Anno 1724, Jan] 10; Johan Willem Crollius, j.m. V. Nieuw Wit, met Veronica Cortselius, j.d. V. Nieuw Wit, beide uit H. duidsl't, en woonende alhier; 30. (were licensed on 10 Jan and married on 30 Jan; j.m. = unmarried man; j.d. = unmarried woman; V. Nieuw Wit = of New Wit(?); beide uit H. duidsl't = both from High Germany (Hoog duitslandt); en woonende alhier = and living here)