Teunis Klootwyk (1865-1938) and his wives

Teunis (“Tunis”) Klootwyk was born on 11 August 1865 in Pella, Iowa. He is one of two sons of Johannes Klootwijk and his first wife Gezenna Maria Mathilda Krijnders. Johannes Klootwijk was born on 10 December 1836 in Kedichem in The Netherlands, as a son of an earlier Teunis Klootwijk whose 18th-century ancestors were living in Dussen in The Netherlands.
In the USA Johannes was known as "John". He married his second wife in Pella on 20 March 1879, when his eldest son Teunis was 13 years old. John Klootwijk lived to the old age of 80, and died on 16 November 1917 in Pella.

Pella, Iowa

Teunis Klootwyk married his first wife Mary de Bond on 18 December 1888. They had 7 sons in the period 1889-1902^*. Mary died, aged 34, on 13 May 1870 in Pella.

De Grondwet (newspaper), 1-11-1904

Teunis married his second wife Neeltje (“Nellie”) Toll on 29 Noember 1906 in Pella. Nellie was born on 13 july 1880 in Barendrecht, Holland. Her parents are Arie Tol (1834-19150 and his fourth wife Arendje Zevenbergen (1849-1919). Nellie arrived in the USA with her parents at the age of seventien. Her first husband was Everett van Engelenhoven (1872-1904).
In Washington Township, Iowa, Nellie and Teunis had two sons - Ira Nelson (1908-2000) and Nelson Tunis (1911-1991) - and a baby who lived for just four weeks. Nellie died on 7 September 1911, nine weeks after the birth of her youngest child.

In 1916 Teunis married his fourth wife Minnie or Jennie van Steenis. She was born on 19 February 1879 in Pella and died on 14 October 1920 in Melcher-Dallas, Iowa. She had earlier been married in 1889 to Philip Schmidt (1851-1915).

Marriage Impediments

A couple that wants to marry should make known their intention of contraction marriage several weeks before the date set for their marriage. That way time is left for objections to be made - if there are reasons why the marriage cannot take place.
This article is about under what circumstances a marriage is forbidden by the Catholic Church; some reasons are in themselves sufficient to invalidate it altogether, others do not absolutely prevent the possibility of marriage, but render it undesirable and harmful.

Nullifying impediments of marriage are: 

• Lack of proper age;
• Certain physical defects, like impotency;
• The bond of a previous marriage; exceptions are the dissolution of a non-consummated marriage by Papal dispensation, or dissolution of marriage of two persons not baptized at the time the marriage occurred;
• Holy Orders;
• Solemn vows;
• Abduction;  if a man compels a woman to marry him, threatening to kill her in case of refusal, or to do her some very serious injury, their marriage is not valid; her consent is extorted by force, and is not given voluntarily;
• Crime, like causing the death of a partner by mutual cooperation, either physical or moral;
• Blood relationship to all in the direct line, and to the third degree in the collateral line;
• Affinity or relationship through marriage to all in the direct line, and to the second degree in the collateral line;
• Mistaken identity, when there is a mistake as to one of the contracting parties;
• Spiritual relationship, which exists between a baptized person, and the one who baptized him, or stood for him in Baptism;
• Legal adoption; wherever it is an impediment under the civil law. 

Latin Abbreviations when doing Genealogy

 A list of Latin Abbriviations, used in church documents:

aas.	anno aetatis suae	died in the year of his/her age
A.D.	Anno Domini	in the Year of our Lord
acc.	acatholicus	non-Catholic
aet.	at aetatis suae	at the age of
cop.	copula	bond
d.b.n., de bo non	de bonis non administratis	of goods unadministered
d.p.	designatus patrinis	designated sponsors
dsp.	decessit sine prole	died without issue (children)
dspl.	decessit sine prole legitima	died without legitimate issue (children)
dspm.	decessit sine prole mascula	died without male issue (sons)
dspml.	decessit sine prole mascula legitima	died without legitimate male issue (sons)
dspms.	decessit sine prole mascula superstite	died without surviving male issue (living sons)
dsps.	decessit sine prole superstite	died without surviving issue (living children)
dspv.	decessit sine prole virilli	died without male issue (sons)
dvm.	decessit vita matris	died in the lifetime of the mother
dvp.	decessit vita patris	died in the lifetime of the father
et al.	et alii	others
fla	filia	daughter
fls	filius	son
inst.	instant	in the present or current month
j.s.	matrimon juncti, juncti sunt	joined in marriage (married)
msp.	mortuus sine prole	died without offspring (children)
ob. caelebs	obdormio caelebs	died single or as a bachelor
osp.	obiit sine prole	died without issue
spl.	sine prole legitima	without legitimate issue
spm.	sine prole mascula	without sons
sps.	sine prole superstite	without surviving issue
solv.	solvit	has paid
ult.	ultimo, ultimo mense	in the previous month
vf.	via fratris	in the lifetime of his brother
vmp	via patris	in the lifetime of his father
vulgo	vulgo vocatus	generally called
V.D.M.	Verbi Divini Minister	minister of the divine word, preacher

Sources: FamilySearch.org/wiki, NazatenDeVries.nl, GenealogyBank.com .

Cornelis de Quaasteniet (1862-1942) married 2 sisters

Carpenter Cornelis de Quaatsteniet was born in Ridderkerk, Holland, on 1 February 1862 as the eldest son of Adrianus de Quaatsteniet (1831-1914) and Johanna de Haan (1831-1906). Cornelis had siblings named Clasina (1856-1901), Leendert (1864-1895), Aart (1867-1890), Maria (1870-1939) and Johannes (1874-1938).

Cornelis de Quaatsteniet

At the age of 24, on 1 February 1886 in Rotterdam, Cornelis married Johanna Verkaik. She was born in Stolwijk, Holland, on 10 September 1862. Her parents are Pieter Verkaik (1835-1921) and Lena Buitelaar (1833-1918). Johanna's maternal grandparents are Klaas Middelkoop (1769-1820) and Lena Uittenbroek (1784-1843).
Johanna gave birth to 5 children named Adrianus (1887-1966), Pieter (1888-1911), Lena (1891-1916), Aart (1892-1892) and Johanna (1894-1971).
On 30 Augustus 1895 in Rotterdam, at the age of just 32, Johanna Verkaik died.

After 7 years as a widower, Cornelis remarried on 17 December 1902. His new bride was a younger sister of his first wife, 36-year-old Neeltje Verkaik. They needed a dispensation to get married. They had a daughter legalized, Cornelia, born on 13 January 1898 in Rotterdam.

Neeltje Verkaik was born on 10 April 1866 in Stolwijk. While married, Neeltje gave birth to another daughter named Neeltje (1904-1980), too. Neeltje Verkaik died on 6 September 1907 in Rotterdam, aged 41. Her elder daughter Cornelia died on 20 May 1992, aged 94.

Cornelis de Quaatsteniet survived his second wife for nearly 35 years. He died in psychiatric hospital “Maasoord” in Poortugaal on 1 July 1942 around 22:30.

Sources: www.kwaasteniet.eu, WieWasWie.nl, StadsArchief.Rotterdam.nl, Postcard Poortugaal.