“Ons Voorgeslacht” is a magazine for genealogy in Mathias Hoppel was a pastor in Heerjansdam in the period 1583-1616. He had moved there from the area around
Mathias' son Abraham was discredited in the summer of 1614 when Vranck Corneliss van Esch made a declaration that one evening, when he was working on his land, Vranck had seen Abraham Hoppel, completely naked and smelly, and carrying a knife. It was just moments after Abraham had tried to rape two young women, Aeltgen and Meijnsken, daughters of Aert and Lijsbet Pieters. Abraham Hoppel was ordered to pay their mother 12 pounds.
Despite this gross misbehavior, Abraham was a member of the local water authority in 1619, 1624 and 1625.
Hendrik Hoppel, another son of Matthias, was married to Ingetje, daughter of Bastiaan, who had brothers Leonardt and Pleun. Hendrik had surviving children named Bastiaen, Hendrik, Marija, Arien, Hendricxie and Maeijken. In 1619 Hendrik is mentioned as being 40 years old, so he was born around 1579.
I descend from Hendrik’s son of the same name whose daughter Maeijke married Cornelis Leenheer (±1638-1709) on 10 April 1662 in Heerjansdam.
Sources: J. MacLean: Ons Voorgeslacht 1957; K.J. Slijkerman: Ons Voorgeslacht 1999, Kronieken 2000.
I'm also a descendant of Matthias Hoppel, also via Hendrik. You say that Matthias was a pastor in Heerjansdam, but wasn't that Heinenoord instead? A large part of the family was born, raised and died in the Hoekse Waard, a few wandered off to Pernis and a small branch lived in the Ridderkerk area and not until the Industrial Revolution did the Hoekse Waarders migrate to Rotterdam.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the first comment, and you may very well know this already, inside the Hervormde Kerk in Heinenoord, there are two grave markers with the name Hoppel on it. I have the photographs if you are interested, or you can go there on a weekday, after making an appointment, as you have to move some chairs out of the way to be able to read and photograph the two graves. I was on a visit to Holland from Texas, and my brother had organized this. The amazing thing was that we had lived in 's-Gravendeel from 1972 till 1977 and were unaware of it.
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