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.