Alberdiena Rientjes (1830-1902) was locked up in a mental institution

Carpenter Johannes Vredeveld (30) and Alberdiena Rientjes (27) were married on 12 May 1858 in Zwolle, Overijssel, The Netherlands. Johannes had a brother Jochem Vredeveld, born on 18 December 1824 in Zwolle. Their parents are Cornelia Pattel and Johannes Vredeveld sr. Jochem had married Willemina Dispo on 28 August 1845 in Zwolle. Willemina was born on 28-12-1820 in Steenwijk, Overijssel, is a daughter of Lammegien Hovenier and Piet Dispo. This couple had another daughter Anna Dispo, born in Steenwijk op 12 December 1817. Anna married carpenter Johannes Vredeveld as his first wife on 3 May 1849 in Zwolle. Johannes Vredeveld was born there on 16 December 1827, so the bride was the groom's senior by 10 years. At the age of 39 Anna Dispo died on 27 May 1856 in Zwolle. Johannes Vredeveld and his first wife had been married for 7 years.

Johannes' second wife, Alberdiena Rientjes, is a daughter of Antonie Rientjes and Hermiena van (H)Ulsen. Alberdina was born on 15 August 1830 in Zwolle. Her paternal grandparents are Jan Rientjes and Hermiena Theunissen.

Alberdiena has experienced 7 pregnancies:

1. Cornelia was born on 1-4-1859 in Zwolle. She married Italian Alberto Zoppi in 1881 in Zwolle. Cornelia Vredeveld died in Tilburg on 31-1-1946, aged 86.
2. Antonia Wilhelmina was born on 31-12-1860 in Zwolle, and died there on 22-4-1871, aged 10.
3. A son was stillborn in Zwolle on 15-2-1863.
4. Johanna Maria (I) was born on 7-1-1864 in Zwolle, and died there on 28-12-1864.
5. Albertus Johannes was born on 17-10-1865 in Zwolle. On 1-6-1892 in Leiden, Holland, he married Regina Adriana Maria Casparie (1862-1939) and had several children. At the age of 85, Albertus Johannes died in Utrecht on 5-1-1951.
6. Johanna Maria (II) was born on 15-5-1868 in Zwolle. She married Theodorus Kuijpers in 1898 in Rosmalen, Brabant, The Netherlands. At the age of 73, Johanna Maria died on 4-3-1942 in Vugt, Brabant.
7. Antonius Johannes was born on 24-5-1871 in Zwolle. At the age of 68, he died on 2-1-1940 in Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.

In 1881, at the time of her eldest daughter's marriage, Alberdiena Rientjes was being nursed in an asylum for the insane in nearby Deventer.

Alberdiena Rientjes was locked up in a mental institution

At the age of 55, carpenter Johannes Vredeveld died on 5 July 1883 in Zwolle. His widow Alberdiena Rientjes died, aged 71, on 10 April 1902 around 18:00 in Deventer. One of the declarants was the accountant of the insane asylum, so Alberdiena was still locked up when she died.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, CollectieOverijssel.nl, RegionaalArchiefTilburg.nl.

The divorce of Teunis Jabaay and Pauline Spielmann

Businessman Teunis Jabaay was born on 3 May 1891 in Maasdam, Holland. He is a younger son of Maaike Hoogvliet (1851-1937) and Adrianus Jabaaij (1843-1939). Teunis' paternal grandparents were Lijntje Streefkerk (1814-1881) and Leendert Jabaaij (1812-1895). Teunis had an elder brother Willem Jabaaij (1881-1948), who remained single, and some sisters. Teunis seems to have been the only one in the family who wrote his surname as Jabaay.

Haagsche Courant, 22-9-1933

In 1933 Teunis lived in Rijswijk, Holland, located between The Hague and Delft. By then he had met Pauline Spielmann who lived in Essen in Germany at the Gänsemarkt square. They were married in Essen on 17 October 1933. Teunis was 42 years old. Pauline was 4 years his senior.
Pauline was born on 8 February 1887 in “Neu Satum”, which may have been located in the east of Germany in present-day western Poland. Pauline had been married before to someone with the surname Behrens.

Birth and marriage dates of the couple Teunis Jabaaij en Pauline Spielmann

The marriage of Teunis Jabaay and Pauline Spielmann ended in divorce. The district court in Rotterdam granted their divorce on 13 May 1946, a year after the end of World War II. At that time both Teunis and Pauline were living in Rotterdam, Holland.

Nederlandsche Staatscourant, 11-6-1946

Teunis Jabaay died, at the age of 62, on 25 September 1953 in Rotterdam.

Surname Saturday - Muijs

Johann Muijs(en) originated in Duisburg in Germany. In The Netherlands he was known as Johan or Jan. He was living near the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe-Kerk, the largest church of Dordrecht in Holland. On May 10, 1637, Johan married Geertruijt Jans van der Gront, a young girl born in Dordrecht.

Jan Muijs and Geertruijt van der Gront were married on 10 May 1737 in Dordrecht.

Dordrecht, den 19 Aprilis 1637: 

- Jan Muijs, j.m. van Duijsburg, w. bij de Groote Kerck; 

- Geertruijt Jans van der Gront, j.d. van Dordregt, w. bij de Vleeshouwers Straet. 

Getrouwt d& 10 maij.

The couple had at least 7 children baptised in Dordrecht in the period 1638-1653: Johannes (2x), Anna, Pieter, Levina, Geertruid and Jacobus.
The burial of Johan Muijs was registered in Dordrecht on 18 December 1684. On 9-5-1685 in Dordrecht, a house and yard in the Vleeshouwersstraat, formerly owned by Johan Muijs, were sold to Lijsbeth Dominicus for ƒ670. Johan's heirs were mentioned: notary Pieter Muijs, Catharina Bongaert, widow Anna Muijs (1642-1689), Jacobus Hopman and Levina Muijs. Geertruijt Muijs and Anna's husband Hendrick van der Snouck were no longer alive. Jan's son Johannes Muijs boarded a ship in 1688 and travelled to Indonesia, where he died in 1693.

Jacobus Muijs, Johan's youngest son, was baptised in Dordrecht on 17 January 1653. He was married on 29 January 1679 in Rijswijk, Holland. His bride was Clara Buijster (±1655-1738). They had 11 children, but some of them died young. On March 27, 1697, Jacobus Muijs took out a mortgage of ƒ700 on a house and yard in the Wijnstraat in Dordrecht. Pieter Muijs provided the money. The burial of Jacobus Muijs was registered on 10 April 1703 in Dordrecht.

View of Dordrecht

Sources: FamilySearch.org, RegionaalArchiefDordrecht.nl, StadsArchiefDelft.nl.

Longevity ~ Leendert Monster (1827-1918) in Pella

Leendert Monster was born on 24 June 1827 in Strijen, Holland, as a younger son of Jacob Monster (1785-1873) and his second wife Neeltje Noorlander (1789-1859). She is a daughter of Eldert Noorlander (1753-1794) and his wife Leentje Jabaaij (1761-1822). Leendert's paternal grandfather, Pieter Monster, originated in Sint-Anthoniepolder, Holland, and moved to Strijen, where he died on 29 December 1819, aged 77½.

At the age of 22, Leendert Monster married 26-year-old Lena Kamp on 27 March 1850 in Westmaas. Lena was born on 7 February 1824 in Westmaas. Her parents are Willem Willems Kampen and Grietje Brusse. Lena had first married Cornelis van der Hoek on 26 April 1847 in Westmaas. They had a daughter Grietje and a postumous son Cornelis jr. who both died at the age of 1. Cornelis sr. was born on 15 November 1824 and died on 18 May 1849, both in Westmaas. Ten months after his death, Lena had a new husband.
On 11 August 1850, 4½ months after her second marriage, Lena Kamp gave birth to another daughter named Grietje. A son Jacob died after 6 months in 1852. A second son named Jacob, born on 24 February 1853 in Westmaas, survived infancy.
Shortly after the birth of their son Willem on 14 May 1854 in Westmaas, the family left for the USA where they arrived later that year. The next year Leendert's elder brother Eldert Monster, a widower, arrived in the USA with his sons Jacob (10) and Anthonie (7).

Pella, Iowa

In Pella, Iowa, Leendert and Lena had additional children: Abraham Monster (1859-1839), Maggie Akkerman-Monster (1860-1946) and Mary Duinink-Monster (1869-1951). Abraham married Allie van den Baart in 1883 and had a son William Monster (1889-1970). Leendert's elder son Jacob Monster (1853-1899) married Adriana Klijn in 1876, and had several children, including a son Arie Monster (1890-1982).

Lena Kamp died at the age of 76 on 8 March 1900 in Pella, Iowa. Her husband, Leendert Monster, survived her for nearly 18 years. At the end of his live, Leendert lived with his daughter Maggie Monster and her husband John Akkerman (1856-1927). Leendert Monster died in Pella on 2 March 1918, aged 90 years and 8 months.

Het Oosten (Hollandsch Nieuwsblad voor algemeen belang), 22-3-1918

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, FindAGrave.com, Delpher.nl, FamilySearch.org. See also: Terlouw.voorouders.net, ErfskipTerpdoarpen.nl.