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- He was the second son of Charles Crause of Spring Grove and Manor House, Pembury, Kent, formerly Captain, 65th Regiment of Foot. Henry Crause was commissioned as Lieu¬tenant, 20th Regiment of Foot in 1807 and Captain, 2nd Garrison Battalion in 1813. He was placed on half-pay in October 1816. He emigrated to the Cape in the party led by his brother-in-law John Bailie; his elder brother, Lieutenant Charles Crause, Royal Marines, led a separate small party of emigrants which included a third brother, Lieutenant John Crause. All three Crause brothers applied successfully for separate grants of land in Albany, but chose instead to accept land in the military settlement of Fredericksburg, between the Great Fish and the Keiskamma Rivers. When Fredericksburg was abandoned in 1822 they returned to Albany, and Henry Crause built a house at Palmietfontein near the mouth of the Great Fish River, on land which he subsequently claimed as his share of Bailie's party's location. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Third Division of the Albany Levy in 1822, and Heemraad of Albany in 1825 and 1826. In compensation for his losses at Fredericks¬burg he was granted a farm near Salem which he named Walsingham. At the outbreak of war in 1834 Walsingham was burnt and pillaged. Henry Crause served throughout the war as Captain, 1st Battalion, Provisional Colonial Infantry, and when the provisional forces were disbanded at the beginning of 1837 he rejoined the regular army as Captain, Cape Mounted Rifles. He was made Brevet-Major in 1839, and sold out in 1843. He lived in New Street, Grahamstown during 1844-45, then returned to England where he died at his home in Brixton, Surrey, in 1857.
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