Longevity ~ Grietje Reedijk (92) in Strijen, Holland

Grietje Reedijk was born on 25 April 1838 in Strijen, Holland. Her parents are Leendert Reedijk (1810-1879) and Neeltje Strooberg (1805-1859). Grietje was named after her maternal grandmother Grietje Reedijk (±1774-1858) who had married her cousin Willem Reedijk (1773-1864). This couple's common grandparents were Teunis Reedijk (1714-1776) and Grietje van Loon (1710-1783).

Apart from a stillborn son in 1835, Grietje's parents had 4 more children: Martijnis (1836-1922), Willem (1839-1924), Willemijntje (1840-1900) and Annigje (1845-1915). Their mother Neeltje Strooberg died in Strijen on 19 September 1859, aged 54. Grietje was 21 at the time.
On 10 April 1863 in Strijen, Grietje's father Leendert Reedijk was married to his second wife Adriaantje de Bruin (1807-1873), widow of Gerrit de Man. Leendert was to marry two more times before he died in Strijen on 2 September 1879, aged 69.

Grietje Reedijk was the first of her siblings to marry. At the age of 26, she married 30-year-old Jan van der Linden on 29 April 1864 in Strijen. Jan was born on 17 September 1833 in Westmaas as a younger son of Hendrik van der Linden (1795-1858) and Bastiaantje Kleijnendorst (1793-1840).
Grietje and Jan had a daughter Bastiaantje, born on 25 September 1865 in Strijen. She was Grietje's only child. Bastiaantje was married on 12 April 1888 in Strijen to fellow townsman Jan Zevenbergen (1856-1941). They had several children, including Jan Zevenbergen (1890-1951) jr. and Grietje Adriaantje Zevenbergen (1894-1944).

Nieuwsblad voor de Hoeksche Waard en IJselmonde, 20-1-1931

Jan van der Linden died in Strijen on 16 April 1890, aged 56. At the age of 51, Grietje was a widow, and she would remain a widow for 40 years. Grietje died in Strijen on 17 January 1931 at the age of 92 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 2 days.
Grietje's daughter Bastiaantje van der Linden died during World War II on 25 February 1945, also in Strijen. Bastiaantje's husband Jan Zevenbergen had died there on 25 January 1941.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, FamilySearch.org, Families of South Holland Index (“Klappers”), W. Reedijk, Stamreeks Reedijk, Zuidhollandse Stam- en Naamreeksen 1986.

Euphemia Vollenbroek (1772-1838)

Deurningen-Saasveld, April 1772: 17 babtizata est Euphemia filia Gerardi et Mariae Vollenbroek, susc. Adolphus Vollenbroek et Susanna Wansing. Dulderen.

Euphemia (“Femia”) Vollenbroek - also Volmbroek - was baptised on April 17, 1772 in Deurningen-Saasveld in Twente. Euphemia had sisters Agatha and Johanna, and brothers named Bernardus and Stephanus. There parents are Gerardus Vollenbroek and Maria Wansing who were married on February 26, 1770, in Deurningen.

On February 26, 1794, in Ootmarsum near Denekamp, Emphemia married Adolf Rientjes. Adolf was baptised on December 24, 1760, in Ootmarsum. His parents are Jan Hendrik Rientjes and Maria Steffens.

Euphemia and Adolf had 7 children:

1. Joannes Hendricus (“Jan Hendrik”) Rientjes was baptised on February 15, 1796, in Ootmarsum. At the age of 34, on June 2, 1830, in Rijssen, he married 22-year-old Agatha Catharina Tusveld.  Jan Hendrik died in Delden on April 19, 1871, aged 75.
2. Maria Rientjes was baptised on March 10, 1798, and likely died young.
3. Hendrikus Gerhardus Rientjes was baptised in Denekamp January 27, 1802. He was married there on January 17, 1842, to 31-years-old Joanna Hendrica Eenhuis. They had a son Adolphus Antonius Rientjes. Hendrikus Gerhardus died at the age of 80 in Denekamp on November 27, 1882.
4. Maria Rientjes was baptised on July 20, 1807. She died on August 31, 1840, in Hertme near Borne at the age of 33.
5. Stephanus Rientjes was born or baptised on January 14, 1810. He became a roman catholic priest. He died, at the age of 49, in Geesteren near Tubbergen on August 15, 1859.
6. Bernardus Rientjes was born on March 7, 1813, in Ootmarsum, and died on July 26, 1893, in Denekamp, unmarried, and aged 80.
7. Maria Anna was born on in Ootmarsum on January 2, 1816. She was married on May 3, 1843, in Borne to cobbler Johannes Bernardus Kock. He was widower of Joanna Gardina Nieuwenhuis. Maria Anna died on February 18, 1878.

At the age of 67, Euphemia Vollenbroek died on January 30, 1838, in Oude Ootmarsum. Her widower, Adolf Rientjes, died there on May 17, 1844, at the age of 83.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Steggink.org, VollenbroekVoorouders.nl.

Longevity ~ Gerrit Jilisse Vervoorn (96)

Gerrit Vervoorn was born on 20 April 1770, and baptised in Brakel, Gelderland, The Netherlands, on the 22th with witness Jenneke Vervoorn, the baby's aunt. Gerrit was the 11th child of Adriaantje van Tongerlo and 46-year-old Jillis Vervoorn. Jillis is a grandson of my ancestor Gillis Geraerts Grandia.
At the time of Gerrit's birth, his eldest sister Maaike Vervoorn (1748-1827) was aged 21. Siblings closer in age to Gerrit were Cornelis, born on 10 October 1762, Antonia, baptised on 6 January 1765 in Brakel, and their youngest sister Huijbertje, born on 9 August 1773. They all married in the period 1786-1799. Cornelis Jillisse Vervoorn married Geertruij van Willigen (1762-1835) on 11 June 1786 in Brakel, and they had 10 children, including a son Ruth.

Gerrit Vervoorn and Helena van Wijk were married on 16 October 1794 in Zuilichem

At the age of 24, Gerrit Vervoorn married Helena van Wijk on 6 October 1794 in Zuilichem. 

There is some confusion about the parents and date of birth of Gerrit’s wife:

• Helena’s death record mentions Helena’s age as 56, and her parents as Hendrik van Wijk and Elisabeth Blanken. That couple had a daughter Helena baptised in Brakel on 18 February 1770 with witness Maaike Blanken. When Helena’s eldest daughter Elisabeth was baptised in Brakel on 17 July 1796, the witness was Antonia Blanken.
• The date of birth of Helena van Wijk on family cards - with her husband Gerrit Vervoorn - is 25 July 1771 in Brakel. On 28 July 1771 in Brakel Hendrik van Wijk and Elisabeth van Dalen had a daughter Helena baptised with witness Jasperijntje Versteeg. 

So, either the family cards are wrong, or Elisabeth van Dalen and Elisabeth Blanken are two names for one and the same person, and she had two daughters named Helena. Elisabeth Blanken and Hendrik van Wijk were married in Brakel on 27 December 1769. They had a son Hendrik baptised there on 13 February 1774 with witness Maaike Blanken. 

Jenneke Blanken was a witness in Brakel on 11 December 1757, when Jasperijntje Versteeg and her husband had a son baptised, so there seems to be a relation between Jasperijntje and the Blanken family. 

Since I couldn't find any wedding registration for an Elisabeth van Dalen, I assume she is the same person as Elisabeth Blanken, so Gerrit's wife Helena was likely born on 25 July 1771.  

Maria Buggers (1789-1839) married twice

Maria Buggers was baptised on 20 September 1789 in Rotterdam, Holland, with witness Maria de Graaff. Her parents are Clasina de Graaff (1766-1829) and her husband Hendrik Buggers (1765-1802). Hendrik was baptised on 13 March 1765 in Leyden, Holland. At that time, Hendrik's parents Jan Buggers (†1787) and Adriana (de) Kogel (†1795) were living at the “De Hoge Molen”, a mill outside of the “Koeijpoort”, one of the city gates of Leyden. Around 1768 the family moved from to Rotterdam.

Hendrik Buggers and Clasina de Graaff were married in Rotterdam on 15 May 1787. Both were living in the Banketstraat, a street that ends at the Goudsesingel. Their eldest daughter, Adriaantje, was baptised on 12 February 1788 in Rotterdam with her grandmother Adriana de Kogel as witness. The youngest daughter was Johanna Buggers (1791-1850) who was to marry Jacobus Veltman.
At the age of 12, Maria Buggers lost her father Hendrik on 5 April 1802. In April 1806 Maria's elder sister Adriaantje, aged 18, married Cornelis Corbeau. Adriaantje gave birth to 3 children before she died on 9 January 1811, at the age of 23.

Civil Registry of Rotterdam Extract

At the age of 18, on 12 June 1808 in Rotterdam, Maria Buggers married Nicolaas Hooijkaas, a younger son of Richardus Hooijkaas (†1766) and Cornelia Kestelmans (1740-1822). They had Nicolaas baptised on 28 August 1778 in Rotterdam. Within a half year of their marriage, Maria Buggers gave birth to her eldest child. Maria is the mother of

1. Johanna Cornelia Hooijkaas is baptised on 11 December 1808 in Rotterdam with witness Cornelia Kestelmans, widow of Richardus Hooijkaas.
2. Clasina Cornelia Hooijkaas was baptised on 22 July 1810 in Rotterdam with the same witness. Clasina died young.
3. Richardus Hooijkaas was born on 20 July 1812 in Rotterdam. Richardus died there on 31 January 1840 in Rotterdam at the age of 27.

It seems that Maria's marriage was not a success. Not only were no additional children born, in 1816 Nicolaas even had an advertisement placed in a local newspaper with the warning that he would not pay for any credit extended to his wife.

Rotterdamsche Courant (newspaper), 17-9-1816

After 10 years of marriage, at the age of just 40, Nicolaas Hooijkaas died on 8 October 1818 in Hillegersberg, nowadays a suburb of the city of Rotterdam. After a widowhood of just 1½ years, on 17 May 1820 in Rotterdam, 30-year-old Maria Buggers married 26-year-old Arij van der Zwaan, a bread baker's assistant. Arij was born on the 4th and baptised on 8 September 1793 in Oud-Beijerland, Holland, with witness Machteltje de Quartel. Arij is a younger son of Bastiaan van der Zwaan (1746-1832) and his first wife Neeltje Gibo.
Maria and Arij's 18-year marriage remained childless. Maria died on 29 January 1839 in Rotterdam at the age of 49. On 13 May 1840 in Rotterdam, Arij married his second wife, 50-year-old spinster Alberdina Kapsenberg. She was baptised on 14 February 1790 in The Hague, Holland. Her parents are Tjeerd Capsenberg (1757-1844) and Anna Olthof (1758-1828) who both originated in Frisia.
Given the age of the bride, this marriage remained childless, too. Arij van der Zwaan died at the age of 58 on 24 February 1852 in Rotterdam. His widow died there on 15 February 1870 at the age of 80.

Sources: Stadsarchief.Rotterdam.nl, ErfgoedLeiden.nl, WieWasWie.nl, MolenDatabase.nl, DTB Oud-Beijerland bewerkt door J.P. van der Spek.

Johanna Esther de Rocher de la Rouviere (1740-1816)

Johanna Esther de Rocher de la Rouvière died, at the age of 75, on 14 September 1816 in the manor “Kraaijveld”, located near Aalburg in Brabant, The Netherlands. It was a square building, accessible by a wooden bridge over a moat that surrounded the house.
Her testamentary executors were the brothers Gerrit Dirkse Branderhorst (1755-1844) and Bastian Dirkse Branderhorst (1765-1831), sons of Dirk Gerritse Branderhorst (1731-1816) and Johanna Bastiaans Vos.

Dagblad der provincie Noord-Braband, 17-9-1816

Johanna Esther was baptised in Breda on 28 November 1740. Her father is Jean de Rocher de la Rouvière who originated in Valon in the Languedoc region of France. He was a captain in Aylva's regiment, and living in Breda, when he married Marthe Marie de Lange de Beauveser in 1739 in Breda. She was baptised on 5 April 1713 in Breda as Martha Maria Agnes, daughter of Antoine de Langes de Beauveser (†1739) and Hester Kip (†1748). Martha's godparents were Maria Agnes Expolude (Expalidé) and colonel Marten Kip. Martha had 13 siblings, and they were all baptised in Breda.

Martha Maria Agnes was baptised on 5 April 1713 in Breda

At the age of 13, on 17 July 1754, Johanna Esther de Rocher de la Rouvière was enfeoffed with some land near Aalburg. She inherited the land form her aunt or great aunt Catharina Rocher de Paris, who had inherited it in 1747 from her brother Louis Rocher de Paris (†1746). Louis had acquired the land through his marriage to Anna Willemina van Heert.

Johanna Ester died without having a will made. She seems to have been an only child, but her mother had siblings. However, it was unknown if she had additional heirs on her father's side. Possible heirs were required to show proof of their relationship to the deceased, within 6 weeks after publication of the notice below.

Dagblad der provincie Noord-Braband, 1-11-1816

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, StadsArchief.Breda.nl, OpenArchieven.nl, BHIC.nl, Altena-historie.nl, De Lange de Beauveser, Algemeen Nederlandsch Familieblad, 1988.

Mr. Alexander Gordon (1810-84), son of Francis Cosmos Gordon

Mr. Alexander Gordon was president of the Court of Maastricht, The Netherlands, and knight in the order of the Dutch Lion. He died in at the age of 73 on 7 March 1884 in Maastricht. In earlier years, he had been a public prosecutor. Ultimately, he has participated in the Dutch judiciary for 43 years. The "Mr." before his name a title indicating that he was a master of law.

Algemeen Handelsblad, 9-3-1884

Alexander Gordon was born on 4 December 1810 in 's-Hertogenbosch as the only son of Francis Cosmos Gordon and his wife Maria Bichon (1784-1867). Francis Cosmos was born in Doornik on 11 October 1773. He a career in the army until 1799. After his return to Holland in 1803, Francis Cosmos became a tax inspector. He died on 4 May 1852 in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Alexander's grandfather was another Alexander Gordon, a soldier, who arrived in The Netherlands from Scotland, and married Dutch girl Maria Petronella Ghyben. Their eldest son, William Charles Gordon (1760-1803), was a soldier, too, but he drowned in the Waal River in The Netherlands.

On 28 September 1842 in Roermond, at the age of 31, Alexander Gordon first married Alwina Carolina Claus. She was born on 21 February 1823 in Roermond. They had 5 children in the period 1845-1854. The youngest, Philip, was born in Maastricht on 30 April 1854. His mother died there on 13 June. Philips died on 27 August in Roermond.

Alexander Gordon had been a widower for 2 years, when married his second wife, 29-year-old Carolina Juliana Sybilla Voget, on 20 October 1856 in Sittard. She was born there on 15 April 1827. They had 3 additional children born in Maastricht in the period 1857-1861.

Descendants of Scotsman Henry Hope in Rotterdam

Henry Hope was born in Scotland around 1630 as son of an elder Henry Hope and Elizabeth Speir. Henry the younger married Ann Hope, born in 1634 as daughter of Sir John Thomasz. of Craighall and Margaret Murray. Henry Hope was mentioned in Rotterdam in 1664-1678. By 1692 Henry had died, but his widow Ann was still alive in 1694, and living in London.
Henry and Ann Hope had children Archibald, Margaret and Henry. Their son Archibald Hope was born in Rotterdam, and baptised in the Scottish Church on 7 December 1664. Archibald married Anna Claus (1675-1752), and had 7 children, including Henry, Thomas (1704-1779), Adriaan (1709-1781) and Zachary.  Archibald’s burial was registered on 8 April 1743 in Rotterdam.

Zachary Hope and Agatha van Vlierden were married on 24 August 1737 in Rotterdam

Archibald Hope

Zachary Hope and Agatha van Vlierden were married on 21 August 1737 in Rotterdam. The burial of Agatha van Vlierden was registered on 18 September 1747 in Rotterdam. She was survived by 3 minor children. The burial of Zachary Hope, widower of Maria van Vlierden, was registered on 21 March 1770 in Rotterdam. He was survived by 2 minor children, because by then his daughter Lucia had died, too.
Zachary and Agatha had the following children, baptised in either the Scottish Church in Rotterdam, or the English Presbyterian Church in Amsterdam, but all were born in Rotterdam:

1. Archibald was born on 19 May 1739, and died on the 29th.
2. Lucia was born on 4 February 1741, and died on 5 June 1765.
3. Anna was born on 6 January 1743, and died on 1 October 1745.
4. Agatha Maria was born on 30 December 1745. Agatha Maria died unmarried on 5 December 1805, and was buried on the 10th in Rotterdam.
5. Archibald Hope was born on 31 August 1747. He was a merchant in Amsterdam. In 1776-1786 Archibald was director of the Dutch West India Company that was responsible for transporting slaves across the Atlantic Ocean. On 16 January 1774 in Amsterdam, Archibald married Magdelena Antonia van de Poll (1748-1808). In 1815 Archibald Hope was included in the Dutch Nobility. Archibald died in The Hague on 7 July 1821, at the age of 73.

's Gravenhaagsche Courant (newspaper), 11-7-1821

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, StadsArchief.Rotterdam.nl, Delpher.nl, nl.wikipedia.org, Nederland's Adelsboek 1914, 1933 & 1942.

How to find the RSS feed URL for a blog (when it has one)

An RSS feed is a tool for helping people access content from your site. An RSS feed can list the articles on a website. You can read an RSS feed in an RSS Feed Reader. You can also use the feed to automatically tweet new blog posts to Twitter (X) by feeding the url to social media management tools like HootSuite, dlvr.it or SocialPilot.co.

If you go to the URL for a website's RSS feed, you'll see the text of the .xml file, which social media management tools use to pull access your content. However, different websites use different locations and names for their RSS feed. This blog post will describe the RSS feed locations of some common blogging websites.

Blogger

On a Blogger website, like this one, take the URL of the site, and add “feeds/posts/default” at the end of that URL. For my blog you can find the URL with

https://genealogiebos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Additionly, Blogger has an additional feed for comments on posts: https://genealogiebos.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

SquareSpace

The RSS URL for any SquareSpace page is
the URL including its page slug, followed by “?format=rss”.
Depending on whether the built-in domain is used or a custom domain, it will look like one of these:

https://www.yourdomain.com/pageslug?format=rss
https://sitename.squarespace.com/pageslug?format=rss

Note: The RSS feeds of Squarepage page pull the 20 most recent blog posts.

WordPress

Many websites are build with WordPress - even if they have a “normal” URL. To find a WordPress RSS Feed, add “/feed” to the end of the URL, for example

https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/feed

If an error message appears, the site has no feed, otherwise the RSS Feed will appear.

Medium

If a site is hosted on Medium, add “/feed/” before the publication's name.
So medium.com/example-site becomes

medium.com/feed/example-site

Tumblr

If a site is hosted on Tumblr, add “/rss” to the end of the URL. Like this:

https://example.tumblr.com/rss>

Further reading: How to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site by Zapier, How to Find an RSS Feed’s URL by RSS.com, Using RSS feeds with SquareSpace.

Explorer Daniёl David Vett (1850-1885) died in Africa

Daniёl David Vett was born on 17 February 1850 at the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. Daniёl’s father is dr. Pieter Johannes Veth (1814-1895), a professor at Leyden University, and the first Chairman of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society (KNAG).
Daniёl’s mother is Anna Clara Elisabeth Büchler (1822-1865). Daniёl had an elder brother Huibert Johannes. Another brother, 14-year-old Cornelis Johannes Veth, died in 1870. In 1870 Daniёl was exempted from military service due to his poor eyesight. His elder brother Huibert had earlier been exmpted due to myopia.
Pieter Johannes Veth married his second wife, Henriette Gertruijda van der Koogh (1827-1898) on 27 December 1872 in Dordrecht. Her parents are the cousins Adrianus van der Koogh (±1796-1831) and Maria van der Koogh (1800-1875). Another son of his first marriage, Johannes Gerardus Vett, died in 1876 at the age of 18.

Daniёl David Vett
the explorer

Pieter Johannes Vett
the professor

Daniёl Vett studied engineering in Germany at the technical colleges in Hanover and Stuttgart. In 1877, Daniёl joined an expedition to Central Sumatra. He was responsible for photographs and mapping. In 1882 he visited Indonesia to take pictures for an exhibition.
In the fall of 1884, Daniёl led a Dutch expedition in the Portuguese colonies of southwest Africa. He succumbed to dysentery and “swamp fever” on 19 May 1885 on the shores of the Coporolo River, south of Benguela in Angola. Later Daniёl's body was recovered, and he was reburied in Dordrecht. In 1895 his father Pieter Johannes Vett was buried at the same cemetery.

Java-bode, 26-9-1885

In collaboration with a member of his son's expedition, Pieter Johannes Vett wrote a book about his son Daniёl’s travels in Angola.

Landbouw-courant, 9-10-1887

Daniёl's stepmother Henriette Gertruijda van der Koogh survived her husband by 3 years, and died in 1898.
Daniёl's elder brother Huibert Johannes Veth died on 10 August 1917 in The Hague, at the age of 71. In 1891 he had married J(oh)anna Petronella van Vlaanderen.

Algemeen Handelsblad, 23-8-1885

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, en.Wikipedia.org, Archief.Amsterdam.

Macphersons in Klundert, The Netherlands

Alexander Macpherson was a soldier in the company of colonel George Bojanowskij, garrisoned within the Klundert, Brabant, The Netherlands. On January 22, 1752, in Klundert, Alexander was married to local girl Sara van der Laan. Sara was born on January 26, 1733, in Klundert as daughter of Jan van der Laan and his second wife Neeltje Huijge Flink.
Alexander Macperson and his wife Sara had a daughter Neeltje, baptised on January 21, 1753, in Klundert, and a son William Macperson, baptised there on August 15, 1756.

William Macperson was married to Brezetta Brand on January 14, 1781, in Klundert. She was baptised there on January 23, 1760 as daughter of Jan Brand and Anna van der Mast (1823-1806). Brezetta is named after her maternal grandmother Bresetta Buijs, wife of Hendrik van der Mast.
William died in Klundert on April 25, 1828, at the age of 71. He was survived by his widow Brezetta, who died, aged 86, on August 6, 1846, in Willemstad, Brabant, The Netherlands.

Soldaat William MacPherson huwde Brezetta Brand op 14-1-1781 in Klundert.

William Macperson and Brezetta Brand had 4 children:

1. Alexander Macpherson was baptised on July 7, 1781, in Klundert.
2. Anna Macpherson was born on September 17 and baptised on October 6, 1782, in Klundert. Anna married Joachim Swijgers (1783-1842) on June 18, 1803, in Willemstad. During the period 1803-23 they had 9 children. Anna died on November 28, 1821, in Willemstad, at the age of 49.
3. Jan Macpherson was born around 1785 in Zierikzee, Zeeland, The Netherlands. Jan died in Willemstad on February 10, 1832. Jan was married on April 30, 1808, in Willemstad to Heijltje Weda. She was baptised on January 9, 1774, in Willemstad. Her parents are Adam Arijens Weda en Adriana Kostermans. Heijltje died on August 21, 1837, in Willemstad. Heijltje had first been married on November 2, 1799, in Willemstad to Jan Pieterse Prinse (1775-1807) and they had 3 daughters. With Jan Macpherson Heijltje had additional children:
• Bresetta Macpherson was baptised on September 4, 1808, in Willemstad. In 1837 she married Gerrit van Gent (1803-1859), and had several children. Bresetta died on May 25, 1859 in Willemstad. Two months after Bresetta's death, her widower remarried, but by the end of the year he had died, too.
• Adam Macperson was baptised on February 10, 1810, in Willemstad.
• Willem Macperson was born on September 13, 1813 in Willemstad. He married Cornelia Maris on May 25, 1843, in Willemstad. She was baptised there on August 18, 1815, and died there on July 17, 1747, after 4 years of marriage. Willem died in Ooltgensplaat, on March 31, 1887, aged 73. They had a son:
• Jan Macperson was born on October 27, 1845, in Willemstad.
• Heijltje Macpherson was born on July 12, 1816 in Willemstad, and died there on December 9, 1824, aged 8.
4. Willem Macpherson was born or baptised on September 29, 1786, in Middelburg. He was married on September 17, 1814, in Fijnaard and Heijningen. His bride was Grietje Endepoel. She was baptised on September 7, 1788, in Willemstad. Willem Macpherson died on October 20, 1858, in Willemstad. His widow died on April 26, 1852, in Klundert. They had children:
• Anthonie Macpherson was born on March 19, 1815, in Willemstad.
• Willem Macpherson was born on October 8, 1816, in Willemstad, and died there on September 5, 1841.
• Adriana Macpherson was born on November 26, 1819, in Willemstad.
• Alexander Macpherson was born on December 14, 1822, in Willemstad, and died there on February 28, 1823.
• Brizetta Macpherson was born on June 25, 1825, in Willemstad. She was married on May 11, 1848, in Klundert to Cornelis den Hollander (1824-1911). Brizetta died at the age of 92 on May 16, 1917, in Rotterdam. She was survived by her children Adrianus, Margaretha Pietertje and Adriana Wilhelmina den Hollander.

Sources: WestBrabantsArchief.nl, WieWasWie.nl, Clan-Macpherson.org. For additional genealogical info, see: GenealogieOnline.nl.

Geertruij Haan originated in Köln

Geertruij Haan originated in Köln, Germany. In 1737 she was living near the Kalkhaven, a port in Dordrecht, Holland. On 4 May 1737 in Dordrecht, Geertruij married Jan Bouts (“Jean Boute”), a widower of Liège (Luik) in Belgium. He was living at the Varkenmarkt, a marketplace in Dordrecht. 

First marriage of Geertruij Haan in 1737 in Dordrecht

By July 1752 Geertruij Haan was a widow, living in the Prinsenstraat that's located between two bridges. The first notice of her second marriage to Cornelis Keuleman(s) was on 7 July 1752 in Dordrecht. According to a declaration, they owned less than 2000 guilders worth of goods. Their marriage was solemnised on 22 July.

Second marriage of Geertruij Haan in 1752 in Dordrecht

Cornelis Keulemans was baptised as Christianus on 25 October 1721 in Dordrecht with witnesses Christianus Burgh and Maria van der Tuynen. His father is also a Cornelis Keulemans who was baptised as Christiaan on 21 July 1699 in Dordrecht with witnesses Cornelis Ceulemans and Agnita Burgsgraef. He married Catarijna van der Tuynen on 5 June 1718 in Dordrecht.
Cornelis was his parent's third son. At the time of his marriage, Cornelis lived at the Knolhaven, a harbour located near the Nieuwe Haven and the Potato Market.

The burial of Cornelis Keulemans was registered on 2 February 1771 in the Nieuwkerk church in Dordrecht. His widow, Geertruij Haan, died in Dordrecht on 12 October 1778.

Sources: RegionaalArchiefDordrecht.nl; WieWasWie.nl; E.R. van Dooremalen, Stamreeks Ceulemans uit Oosterhout, Gens Nostra 2002, nr. 1; M. van Baarsel: Van Aardappelmarkt tot Zwijndrechts Veerhoofd (De straatnamen van de historische binnenstad van Dordrecht), Verloren, 1992.

Ancestry of Dutch prime minister Æneas Mackay (1838-1909)

Æneas Mackay (1838-1909) 

Æneas, baron Mackay, was a Dutch statesman of Scottish descent. He was Prime Minister of The Netherlands from 1888 to 1891. Æneas was born on 29 November 1838 in Nijmegen in The Netherlands. On 7 July 1869 in Nijmegen he married Elisabeth Wilhelmina (1844-1907), barones van Lynden. Æneas died on 13 november 1909 in The Hague. He had one son, Eric, baron Mackay, who inherited the Scottish peerage Lord Reay from his great-granduncle. Eric's son, Æneas Alexander Mackay (1905-1963), 13th Lord Reay, was at 205½ cm (6'9") nicknamed “the tallest peer”.

Æneas had a brother Theodoor Philip Mackay (1840-1922) who was mayor of Amerongen and Leersum. Later he was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives for a period of 15 years. Theodoor’s son, Daniël baron Mackay, was mayor of Voorburg, Medan, Enkhuizen and Meppel.
Their parents are jonkheer Johan François Hendrik Jacob Ernestus Mackay (1807-1846) and his wife jonkvrouw Margaretha Clara Françoise (1810-1869) van Lynden. They had 3 sons and 4 daughters, but their youngest daughter died young. 
Johan predeceased his father Barthold Johan Christiaan (1773-1854), baron Mackay. On 20 February 1816 Christiaan was elevated to the Dutch nobility. By royal decree of 4 June 1922 Christiaan was granted the title of baron with right of primogeniture. Christiaan's wife is jonkvrouw Anna Magdalena Frederica Henriette van Renesse (1775-1839).

Christiaan is a younger son of Æneas Mackay (1734-1807) and Ursulina Philippina van Haeften (1734-1793). Her parents are Barthold van Haeften and Margriet van Lynden (1700-1761).
Æneas is a son of Daniël AKA Donald Mackay (1696-1745) and Arnolda Margeretha van den Steen (1702-1782). Daniël was the first Dutch Mackay. He was baptised in Tiel in The Netherlands on 20 September 1696. He was a colonel in the Scottish Brigade, and died in battle on 18 May 1745 near Doornik in the Southern Netherlands.
Daniël’s father is Scotsman Æneas Mackay (1666-1697). On 29 January 1692 in Varik Æneas married a Dutch girl, Margaretha Puchler (1671-1761). Æneas died in Bath, England, on 20 May 1697. Æneas' parents are Ann Munroo and Donald Mackay.
That Donald's grandfather, Donald Mackay of Strathnaver, went to London with his uncle Sir Rober Gorden, and was knighted in 1616 by King James I & VI of England and Scotland. In 1627 Donald was elevated as Baronet of Nova Scotia. By patent dated 20 June 1628, he was elevated to Baron Reay of Reay in the Peerage of Scotland.

The marriages between the Mackay and Van Lynden families, as described above, are shown schematically below.

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2024 Ancestor Score Completeness Statistics

Geneanet defines the Ancestor Score as 

“comparing the number of possible ancestors with 

the number of identified ancestors on a 10-generation report”. 

Inspired by the Ancestor Score - or “Completeness Statistics” - of other blogs and GeneaNet's definition above, I generated my first one in February 2016. Since then I haven't just been able to linearly increase my known ancestors. Instead, I had to remove a whole line of wrong ancestors in 2018.

I could only partially replace them by already existing ancestors - due to inbreeding among my ancestors. Therefore, I decided to generate a new in-between ancestor score in August 2018 to be able to continue this series of posts (and removed the wrong one of 2017). Since then I've been gradually able to increase my number ancestors.

The generation with the most known ancestors is the 13th generation with just 21% of the theoretically maximum number of ancestors in that generation. In the 12th generation I've found around 840 ancestors so far, and that's 41% of the theoretical maximum (if there wouldn't be inbreeding).

At birth, the human sex-ratio differs; slightly more boys are born than girls. The ‘natural’ sex-ratio at birth is around 103-107 boys per 100 girls. There are biological reasons for this: boys are more susceptible to birth complications, and infectious diseases.
Genealogy is actually even more male-biased, because usually the males owned the properties, so males can sometimes be traced in property records, when church records are missing. Additionally, even in old records, males are sometimes mentioned with a surname, but females not even with a patronymic, rendering it impossible to find their parents. As a result, of my ancestors found in the 13th generation 43% is female, and 57% is male. In the 16th generation it's even worse with 63% males.

My ancestors mostly originate in the provinces of South Holland and North Brabant (mostly in the part that belonged to Holland before 1800) - with a recent increase in the number of ancestors in the province of Utrecht.

The following typically Dutch first names are common among my ancestors: Jan, Cornelis, Willem, Pieter and Adriaan for men, and for women Elisabeth, Adriana and Maria.
My ancestors include two men, Pieter Huigen Blaeck and Crijn Jans Tuck, who both lived around 1700 and married five times.
The ancestors with the longest marriage - 66 years - are Gerrit Maertensen Korver and Neeltje Claessen Bloet who were married on 30 January 1650 in Moordrecht, and Gerrit died at the end 1716. The next longest marriages are the 61-year marriages of my parents, and my father's maternal grandparents.

Composition and Bandwidth of various Generations
Gen	Composition								Bandwidth **
	Men	Women	Total	% 2024	% 2022	% 2020	% 2018*	% 2016	From	Until
G 3	2	2	4	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	1892	1906
G 4	4	4	8	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	1850	1880
G 5	8	8	16	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	1804	1857
G 6	16	16	32	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	1756	1832
G 7	30	30	60	93.8	93.8	93.8	93.8	93.8	1724	1802
G 8	59	59	118	92.2	92.2	92.2	92.2	90.6	1680	1777
G 9	114	113	227	88.7	88.7	89.1	88.3	86.7	1645	1749
G 10	208	202	410	79.9	80.1	79.7	78.7	76.4	1600	1722
G 11	343	317	660	64.5	64.4	61.8	60.8	57.0	1560	1695
G 12	454	394	848	41.4	41.0	38.4	37.3	33.8	1510	1666
G 13	490	372	862	21.0	20.0	18.7	17.9	15.7	1505	1645
G 14	448	312	760	9.3	9.0	7.3	7.1	6.1	1440	1625
G 15	339	223	562	3.4	3.2	2.3	2.0	1.6	1440	1580
G 16	209	124	333	1.0	1.0	0.6	0.6	0.5	1395	1540
G 17	111	58	169	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	1365	1500
G 18	68	36	104	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	1335	1470

     *) The years 2016 and 2020 feature an ancestor score of February; 2018 has an August score; 2022 and 2024 have a January score.
   **) The Bandwidth of a generation is determined by the earliest and latest known birth or baptism date within that generation.
  ***) I have many ancestors in places like Sint Anthoniepolder, 's-Gravendeel, Wieldrecht and Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, where pre-1800 baptism records are (mostly) missing.

Further Reading: Geneanet's Ancestor Score Definition, Equivalent Complete Generations, Identical Ancestors Point, Coefficient Of Relationship, Gender Ration, Completeness Index.