Christina Kotting married her first cousin Adrianus Nieuwenkamp

Adriana Kits

In a previous blog post, I wrote about Jan Kits Nieuwenkamp (1811-1870) after I stumbled upon a newspaper article. He had been travelling with a steamship when it hit a rock, and he drowned. Recently, I came across a picture of his sister Christina Nieuwenkamp (1809-1887, below right). Christina married Jan Ludolph Kotting (1809-1844) who was clergyman, successively in Kwadijk and Alkmaar in Holland. Jan and Christina are both children of Jan Mattheus Nieuwenkamp (1764-1824) and his third wife Adriana Kits (1774-1881, to the right).

Jan Mattheus Nieuwenkamp and his wife Adriana also had a son Abraham, who was baptised on 4 March 1800 in Amsterdam. Abraham Nieuwenkamp (23) was a bookseller when he married Petronella Kotting (31) in Amsterdam on 23 May 1823. Petronella is a daughter of shopkeeper Jan Ludolph Kotting (†1830) sr. and his wife Jannetje Brinkel (†1797). Within a year after her wedding, Petronella died on 18 May 1824, 8 days after giving birth to a dead daughter.
Her widower, Abraham Nieuwenkamp, married his first wife’s younger sister Geertruid Kotting (28) on 24 February 1826 in Amsterdam. Geertruid was baptised on 21 June 1797 in the Zuiderkerk, another church in Amsterdam. They had issue, including a son Adrianus Nieuwenkamp, born on 30 November 1835 in Amsterdam. Geertruid Kotting, aged 50, died in Amsterdam on 15 August 1847. Her widower Abraham Nieuwenkamp died in Amsterdam on 1 January 1866.

Christina Nieuwenkamp
in widow's clothing

Christina Nieuwenkamp (to the right) was born on 5 May 1809 in Hasselt.  Her husband, clergyman Jan Ludolph Kotting, was baptised in Amsterdam on 12 February 1809 with witnesses Anna Maria Kotting and his grandfather Jan Ludolph Kotting sr. The parents are pharmacist Gerardus Kotting (1785-1852) and his wife Maria Elisabeth Gude (†1849). 
Jan Ludolph died of scarlet fever at the age of 35 on 29 May 1844 in his parent’s home in Alkmaar. After a widowhood of 43 years, Christina Nieuwenkamp died on 23 July 1887 at the age of 78. They had 7 children, including a son Gerardus Kotting, who was working as a pharmacist, and a daughter Christina Kotting.

Christina Kotting was born on 17 December 1841 in Alkmaar. She married her first cousin Adrianus Nieuwenkamp in Amsterdam on 7 May 1868. Adrianus is the son of Abraham Nieuwenkamp and his second wife Geertruid Kotting (as described above). At the age of 82, Adrianus Nieuwenkamp died on 20 July 1918 in Haarlem, Holland, and was buried there on the 23th. His widow, Christina Kotting, died in Haarlem on 10 February 1921.

Jan Mattheus Nieuwenkamp (1764-1824)	× | | |	Adriana Kits (1774-1881)
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Abraham Nieuwenkamp (1797-1860) |		Christina Nieuwenkamp (1809-1887) |		Jan Kits Nieuwenkamp (1811-1870)
Adrianus Nieuwenkamp (1835-1918)	× | | |	Christina Kotting (1841-1921)
Abraham Nieuwenkamp (1869-1913)

First cousins Adrianus Nieuwenkamp and Christina Kotting had the following issue:

1. Abraham, born on 2 April 1869 in Amsterdam, worked as a shopkeeper. He married, aged 33, on 14 August 1902 in Amsterdam 19-year-old Anna Maria Colenbrander (†1926). Abraham died in Amsterdam on 25 March 1913.
2. Jan Ludolph, born on 12 March 1870 in Amsterdam, was a mathematician. On 15 May 1900 in Bussum he married 34-year-old Jansje Maria Wilhelmina Elisabeth Nagtglas Versteeg (†1912). Jan Ludolph died on 3 March 1943 in Ede, leaving a son, genealogist H.W.M.J. Nieuwenkamp.
3. Christina was born on 24 February 1873 in Bussum. On 28 June 1922 in Assen she married 63-year-old widower Hendrik Hofman.
4. Adrianus was born on 22 January 1874 in Bussum.
5. Johannes Cornelis, born on 3 January 1876 in Vreeland, married on 3 July 1913 in Amsterdam Frederika Wilhelmina van Arkel. They named their daughter Christina.
6. Geertruida Wilhelmina, born on 26 February 1879 in Bussum, married on 24 December 1908 in Haarlem Jacobus Bernardus Visser. She died on 26 May 1942 in Dordrecht.
7. Geertruid was born on 28 Augustus 1882 in Naarden.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl; Archief.Amsterdam; Delpher.nl, H.W.J.M. Kits Nieuwenkamp, "Bijbel-Aanteekeningen betreffende de geslachten Kotting, Kits, Reynhout en Dees", Eigen Volk, Algemeen Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde, 1936; H.W.M.J. Kits Nieuwenkamp, "Een Geliefd Alkmaars predikant", Mensen van Vroeger, 1973.