Elisabeth Mackay (1808-1867) of Jersey

Elisabeth Mackay was born on 24 March 1808 in St. Brelade, one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. Her parents are Jije Mackaij and Mariam Bishop.

Opregte Haarlemsche Courant (newspaper), 13-7-1848

Elisabeth's widowed mother, Miriam Bishop, died on 9 July 1848 in The Hague, aged 81.

Opregte Haarlemsche Courant (newspaper), 26-1-1867

Elisabeth Mackay remained unmarried. She died in Hilversum on 23 January 1867 around 21:30, at the age of 58. She was buried in Hilversum.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Noord-HollandsArchief.nl, Delpher.nl, nl.Wikipedia.org,  J. Thomasse, Begraven in Hilversum, Gens Nostra 1999, blz. 221.

Brigg and Bastin sisters

Two sisters, Olga (15) and Irene (8½) Bastin, died in a war accident on 13 October 1944 in Heerlen, The Netherlands. They were buried on the seventeenth. 

Veritas, 17-1-1944

The father of Olga and Irene is Johannes Franciscus Hubertus (“Jean”) Bastin. He was born on 9 September 1896 in Mheer, Limburg, The Netherlands, as illegitimate son of Gertrudis Bastin (1871-1943). His birth was registered by Elisabeth Schreurs (1849-1925), Gertrudis' mother.
Olga and Irene's mothers are Jean's subsequent wives, the sisters Hubertine Elise Marianne Brigg (1893-1930) and Elise Hubertina Joanna Brigg (1901-1949). They are the two surviving daughters of Bernardus Brigg (1862-1922) and his wife Maria Joanna Hubertina (“Marie”) Duchateau (1865-1965). Marie and Bernardus and married on 26 January 1893 in Amsterdam. Although Marie Duchateau died at the age of 100, her daughter Hubertina died at the early age of 36, while the other, Elise, died at the age of 48.

Limburger Koerier, 20-5-1930

After the deaths of his daughters Olga Jeanne Augusta Gertrude and Irene Maria Elise Ernestine in 1944, Jean had 4 remaining children: Yvon (by his first wife), Roger, Cyrille and Gaston.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, AlleLimburgers.nl, Rijckheyt.nl, Archieven.nl, Archief.Amsterdam.

Ancestors of Aart and Gijsbert van Houwelingen in Pella

At the age of 78, widower Gijsbert “Gijs” van Houwelingen, left for the USA. He was accompanied by his sons Aart (1799-1893) and Gijsbert (1813-1876) and their spouses and children. They sailed with the ship “Maasstroom” which left Rotterdam, Holland, in April 1847 for Baltimore. In the fall they arrived in Pella. Gijs sr. seems to have died soon after arriving in the USA. Gijsbert jr. started the first dairy and butcher shop in Pella. His elder brother Aart van Houwelingen lived to be no less than 94 years old.

De Volksvriend, 4-1-1894

Gijs van Houwelingen was born on 3 July 1768, and baptised on the 10th in Kedichem, Holland. His late wife was Eigje van den Berg. She was baptised on 20 May 1770 in Nieuwland, and died there on 5 December 1836. Gijs and Eigje had a large family.

These are Gijs' ancestors:

2. Aart Gijsbertsze van Houwelingen was baptised on 12-3-1719 in Leerbroek, Holland He married
3. Jacobje (“Japikje”) Gijsbertse Sterk was baptised on 5-2-1736 in Schoonrewoerd, Holland.
4. Ghijsbert Herbertsz van Houwelingen was baptised on 20-5-1691 in Leerbroek. He married in Leerdam on 13-10-1715 
5. Maeijcke Aerts Sprong is baptised on 8-8-1684 in Leerdam, Holland. 
6. Gijsbert Cornelize Sterck married in Schoonrewoerd on 10-4-1735
7. Lijsbeth Ariense het Lam.
8. Herbert Gijsbertsz van Houwelingen originated in Leerbroek. He married in on 4-11-1689 
9. Metje Bolant was born around 1665 in Genderingen. 
10. Aert Bastiaansz Sprong originated in Leerdam. Aert died before 1699. He married around 1682
11. Steijntje Beerents was born around 1660 in Leerbroek. Steijntje's death was registered on 4-8-1733 in Leerbroek. 
12. Cornelis Gijsbertse Sterk married
13. Japickje Jans Hol.
14. Arie 't Lam married
15. Arike Claassen van Kersen.
16. Ghijsbert Herbertsz van Houwelingen originated in Leerbroek. He married in the spring of 1657
17. Lijsgen Thonisse was born around 1635 in Heicop, Holland. 
20. Bastiaen Herberts Sprongh originated in Leerdam. He died in March 1698. Bastiaen married around 1642
21. Maijke Huberts was born around 1620 in Leerdam. 

Map of Leerdam in 1649

Longevity ~ Maria Joanna Hubertina Duchateau (100)

An obituary in a local newspaper lists the age of Maria Joanna Hubertina (“Marie”) Duchateau, wife of Bernhardus Brigg, as “over 100” years old.

De Nieuwe Limburger, 30-8-1965

Maria Joanna Hubertina Duchateau was born on 10 June 1865 in Sint-Pieter, Limburg, The Netherlands. She had an older sister Maria Joanna Hubertina Francisca Duchateau, born on 15 April 1864 in Sint-Pieter, who died there on 22 July 1866. There seems to have been another sister with a rather similar name, Maria Gertrudis Joanna Hubertina, who was born on 24 September 1868 in Sint-Pieter. She married Joannes Petrus Hubertus Kicken (1864-1907) and died in 1905 at the age of 37. Maria Johanna Hubertine, however, was 100 years, 2 months and 18 days old, when she died on 28 August 1965 in Maastricht. She was buried on 1 September.

These girls' mother, Maria Ida Gillissen (1834-1911), had 6 surviving children from 10 pregnancies, among them was her second son Marie Chrétien Theodore Emmanuel Duchâteau who was born on 8 February 1860 in Sint-Pieter. These children's father was Andreas Joannes Josephus Theodorus Duchateau. He was born on 28 September 1826 in Sint-Pieter, and died there on 14 March 1886 at the age of 59.

On 4 october 1888 in Amsterdam, Marie Chrétien Theodore Emmanuel Duchâteau, aged 28, married 24-year-old Geertruida Brigg. She was born in Amsterdam on 18 February 1864. Her parents are Heinrich Wilhelm Brigg (†1892) and Charlotte Margarethe Wilhelmine Hegewisch (†1901), who both originated in the Hannover region in Germany. Geertruida gave birth to 2 sons: Walther Marie Jean Theodore Emmanuel in 1888 and Theodorus Charles Franciscus Antonius Johannes in 1893.

Ons Zuiden, 27-1-1893

Maria Joanna Hubertina (“Marie”) Duchâteau married, at the age of 27, on 26 January 1893 in Amsterdam. The groom was 30-year-old Bernardus Brigg, an elder brother of Geertruida. Bernardus was born in Amsterdam on 11 May 1862.