Longevity ~ Jacobus Buttenaer (1743-1839)

Jacobus Buttenaer had a strong constitution. Traveling to Asia was a health risk in the 18th century, but Jacobus survived the crossing. He participated in a war in Makassar, and was appointed corporal. He eventually settled in Surakarta on the island of Java, where he worked as a gardener. When he died in 1839, he was around 99 years old. He had survived some of his children and grandchildren.

Javasche Courant, 8-5-1839

Jacobus Buttenaer was born on 9 April 1740 in Brugge (Bruges) in Vlaanderen (Flanders). I can't find a crossing to Indonesia in 1767, as the article mentions. However, Jacobus died travel to Batavia (nowadays Jakarta) in 1774.

On March 10, 1774, Jacobus Buttenaer departed from the fortress of Rammekens near Vlissingen (Flushing) aboard the ship “Ouderkerk”, built in 1768. The captain was Johan Splinter Stavorinus. The ship was moored at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa from June 12 to August 3. Jacobus arrived in Batavia on October 28, 1774.

A payroll book detailing the earnings of Jacobus Buttenaer

Sources: Delpher.nl, OpenArchieven.nl, NationaalArchief.nl, Resources.Huygens.knaw.nl, WieWasWie.nl.

Pieter Strijkijzer (1801-75) was convicted for illegal fishing

Adam Strickeiser - also known as “Strekeijzern” - and Maria Schepens were married on 23 March 1794 in Raamsdonk, Brabant, The Netherlands. According to the marriage register, Strijkijzer was originally from “Berwinke” - Birwinken in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The bride, Maria Schepens, was baptised on June 10, 1764, in Raamsdonk, the daughter of Anthonij Schepens and Anna Timmermans. She was 66 years old when she died on September 23, 1821, in Raamsdonk.

Marriage registration of Adam Strickeiser and Maria Schepens in 1794 in Raamsdonk

Maria Antonis Schepens gave birth to her youngest son Pieter Strijkijzer on 13 November 1801. He was baptised on the 15th in Raamsdonk.

At the age of 27, labourer Pieter Strijkijzer, living in Raamsdonk, was summoned to appear before the court in 's-Hertogenbosch, Brabant, The Netherlands. On 24 May 1828 Pieter Strijkijzer and Jan van Laarhoven had been fishing without a permit. They were caught red-handed while Pieter was on leave from military service with the 13th Infantry Division.
The fish caught was confiscated, they were fined ƒ25.-, and had to pay ƒ7.30 in legal costs.

The sad life of Hendrik Vaupell (1840-1910)

Hendrik Vaupell was admitted to an asylum for the insane on 12 May 1865 in Zutphen, The Netherlands. Earlier, he had been living in Deventer. By judgement of the Zutphen District Court of February 15, 1871, Hendrik Vaupell was placed under guardianship for insanity. The guardianship had been requested by his brother-in-law Willem Gelderblom. At that time, Hendrik was still residing in the asylum in Zutphen.

Zutphense Courant (newspaper), 21-2-1871

Hendrik Vaupell was born on 26 December 1840 around 23:30 in Zaltbommel as son of Hendrik Vaupell (1783-1847) and his German wife Aleida Catharina Lubeleij (†1851). She originated in Neuenhaus, just across the border in Germany.

Cornelis Philippus de Groot (1764-1920) had children in different places

Cornelis Philippus de Groot was an inspector of gold and silverware. He married Anna Geertruida Hofstede on November 14, 1790, in Kloosterveen near Assen.

Cornelis Philippus de Groot married Anna Geertruida Hofstede on 14-11-1790 in Kloosterveen (Gr)

Cornelis Philippus and Anna Geertruida had children in various places:

1. Barbara Maria de Groot was born in Maastricht on 6 August 1792. At age 30, she married Jacobus Nicolaus Braam, 23, on 6 May 1823 in Groningen. He was born there as son of Hendricus Braam and Ida Smit. He died in Groningen on 23 March 1828 at the age of just 28. They had a son, Hendericus Gerhardus Braam, who became a minister and married. Barbara Maria de Groot died at the age of 88 on 14 May 1881 in Didam, Gelderland.
2. Dirk Albertus de Groot was born in Pieterburen around 1796. He became a minister. In Kantens (Groningen) on 14 June 1825 Dirk Albertus married 23-year-old Henrica Udina Costerus, born on the Isle of Rottum as daughter of minister Albert Jan Costerus and Barta Maagh. Emeritus minister Dirk Albertus de Groot died on 2 December 1878 in Groningen, at the age of 82. His widow died at the end of 1881.
3. Margaretha Cornelia Johanna de Groot was born in Leer, Germany, in 1799. She married 37-year-old Frederik Ebbinge Wubben in Ulrum, Groningen, on 14 November 1828. He was born in Deventer, the son of medical doctor Christoffer Wubben and Adriana Henrica Ebbinge. Margaretha lived to be 93. She died on 7 August 1892 in Haren, Groningen.
4. Petrus Hofstede de Groot was born on October 8, 1802, in Leer, Germany. Initially he worked as a minister, like his elder brothers. Petrus married Geertruida Agneta van Herwerden in Groningen on June 4, 1828. Geertruida Agneta was born on 24 October 1809 in Zutphen, the daughter of minister Claudius Henricus van Herwerden and his wife Sara Maria Wolterbeek. Petrus was a retired professor when he died, at the age of 84, on 5 December 1886 in Groningen (see the newspaper clipping below).
5. Ignata Maria de Groot was born in 1805 in Leer, Germany. She died at the age of 17 in Groningen on 20 September 1822, around half past seven in the evening.

Cornelis Philippus de Groot was born in Wouw, Brabant, and baptised there on 4 March 1764, the son of Derk Albert de Groot and Barbara Mosman. Cornelis Philippus died, at the age of 65, on 9 July 1829 in Groningen.
Anna Geertruida Hofstede was born in Assen, and baptised there on 7 February 1768, the daughter of secretary Wolter Hendrik Hofstede and Maria Coss. Anna Geertruida died on 18 June 1851 in Groningen at the age of 83.

Nieuwe Groninger Courant, 6-12-1886:
death notice of dr. Petrus Hofstede de Groot

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, AlleGroningers.nl, DrentsArchief.nl, Z. Mirick, LEER Families Listed in the Reformed Church Index 1796–1873.