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.