 From these schools a Gymnasium developed, which later turned into Victoria College and finally into Stellenbosch University.The hamlet of Alheit on the Orange River between Kakamas and the Augrabies Falls, is named after him.On 14 September 1847 in Tulbagh, he married Mathilde Johanna Sanetta Vos (*7 October 1817 Caledon - †12 June 1906 Tulbagh).