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.