Opbouw genetische boom Peter Oldenhof en Reina Guldentops » Lammertje Albertsdr van Oostrum (± 1665-1746)

Persönliche Daten Lammertje Albertsdr van Oostrum 

• Sie ist geboren rund 1665 in Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland.
• Beruf: farmer in Jutphaas.
• Sie ist verstorben im Jahr 1746 in Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland.
• Ein Kind von Aalbert Anthoniszn van Oostrum und Cunera Jansdr van Zuijlen

Familie von Lammertje Albertsdr van Oostrum

(1) Sie ist verheiratet mit Arien Aertse van Vlooswijk.

Sie haben geheiratet am 18. Januar 1693 in Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland.

Kind(er):

1. Margaretha (Grietje) Vlooswijk  1695-1762 
2. Johannes (Hannes) Vlooswijk  1695-1744 
3. Albertus Vlooswijk  1696-1772 
4. Cunera Vlooswijk  1699-< 1778 
5. Lambertje Ariensdr van Vlooswijk  1700-????
6. Arie Vlooswijk  1702-???? 
7. Johanna Vlooswijk  1705-????

(2) Sie ist verheiratet mit Arie Arienz van Vlooswijk.

Sie haben geheiratet

Kind(er):

1. Albertus van Vlooswijk  1696-1772

Notizen bei Lammertje Albertsdr van Oostrum

1. People: Cunera Vlooswijk, her children Luyt, Cornelia, Johanna, Lammertje, IJsbrand, Frank and Hannes. Date: September 21, 1759. Reference: U211a1 act 182. Subject: Last will and testament.

Cunera’s son Johannes van Rietveld sends a copy of her will to Willem van Nes in 1799. For what reason is unclear, but we thus have a sample of Johannes’ hand. The document identifies Cunera’s husband and seven children, although it speaks of nine, but I definitely counted only seven names. It is a bit of a strange will, written 40 years earlier in 1759. Cunera leaves each child Fl 600. So far so good. She then introduces the condition that the farmhouse and contents, cattle, land and tools cannot be sold for as long as any children remain unmarried. The unmarried children get to continue to live on the farm, and enjoy all the profits (and losses). They must account to their married siblings, but any surplus remains theirs. The oldest unmarried son and unmarried daughter are allowed to sell part of the land when there is not enough cash money around to pay each their share of Fl 600, but should preferably mortgage that land. They are also allowed to sell land to the amount of Fl 1,000 should cattle die. Other than that they will have to wait until the last one gets married, and will then only get their share of the proceeds when they had signed a notary act indicating their consent with this arrangement. The oldest unmarried son is appointed guardian of any under aged children. That position is passed on the next unmarried son should he marry. There is one caveat, the will puts a premium on staying unmarried, and almost every Catholic family had a member in the convent or monastery. Children from DR families had a higher rate of marrying than those from RC families. Cunera failed to include a clause considering this possibility.

2. People: Cunera Vlooswijk, Johannes Jansen van Rietveld, Jannigje Vervoort, Willemijntje van der Lugt. Date: February 14, 1778. Reference: U191a3 act 225. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden).

Son Johannes marries Jannigje Vervoort, sister of ancestor Wouter Vervoort (via oma). Father Willem Peterse Vervoort has probably died already, because the prenuptial only refers to Jannigje’s mother Willemijntje van der Lugt, who inherits a legitimate share should the bride die before she does. There is no community of property of properties brought in or inherited for as long as Willemijntje is alive and there are no children. That only starts when children are born or Willemijntje dies. Johannes’ parents are both dead by 1778. Should either die and there be children, the other has full usufruct of the properties and guardianship over under aged children. Jannigje brings in Fl 300 on top of her
clothes. Johannes brings in Fl 600 on top of his clothes, and on top of his share in the inheritance of his parents, which is held in common property for as long as there still is one unmarried sibling left, and apparently after almost 20 years when Cunera wrote her will, there still was. The phrasing suggests that Johannes was not the last one to get married. Unfortunately, this is the only proof of any of Cunera’s children getting married. They were RC, and the Registers for Lopik available on internet are all DR.

3. People: Luijt van Rietveld, Arie van Rietveld, IJsbrand van Rietveld, Cornelia van Rietveld. Date: November 10, 1784. Reference: U191a3 act 327. Subject: Last will and testament.

Things did go peculiar as a result of Cunera’s will. By 1784 4 of her 7 children, Arie (who is not mentioned in Cunera’s will), IJsbrand, Cornelia and Luijt, are still unmarried and still live together, and they appoint each other as heir, until only 1 is left, who then
gets full ownership. They explicitly exclude their other brothers and sisters, and any authority making a claim to their estate. This would explain Johannes’ letter from 1799: he was fighting the Gang of Four.

DAUGHTER CUNERA VLOOSWIJK is the first child of Arie Aerts Vlooswijk and Lammertje van Oostrum who makes an appearance in the Jutphaas RC Register of Baptisms. Arie’s sister Aeltje was her godmother. She married Johannes Luyte van Rietveld in Jutphaas in 1717, an event that was witnessed by brother Johannes and Annigje Gerrits van Mastwijk, likely the sister of Jan and Elbert Gerrits van Mastwijk who married the sisters Aeltje and Maria Jacobse van Roijesteijn.

I found only three records specifically referring to Cunera. One Johannes or Jan van Rietveld from Lopik features prominently in the notary documents in the Utrecht Archives. He was the sheriff of Lopik, but I found no indication at all that he was Cunera’s Jan. I have therefore limited myself to the three records featuring Cunera, and they seem to tell a single, peculiar story.

In 1759 Cunera wrote her will leaving Fl 600 to each of her 7 children, whom she listed by name, but stipulating that the farm and everything on it is not sold. She also gave her unmarried children the right to live there and reap the benefits. This favoured the children who did not marry.

In 1778 son Johannes married Jannigje van der Voort, sister of ancestor Wouter van der Voort (via oma). He brings Fl 600 into the marriage, plus his claim to his parents’ estate that is still managed in common property.

In 1784 four unmarried siblings of Johannes wrote a joint will in which they left everything to each other, and all to the last surviving one, explicitly excluding their other siblings. Something weird had happened.

Finally in 1799 Johannes sent a copy of his mother’s will to solicitor, which is how we know of Cunera’s will. Why is unsure, but it feels like he was contesting
his remaining unmarried sibling’s or siblings’ hold over the estate.

One reason why there are so few documents on Cunera Vlooswijk in the Utrecht Archives is that it only contains the records of solicitors from Utrecht. Cunera and her husband lived in Lopik. They may have used solicitors from IJsselstein, a town with its own charter, often not even part of Utrecht province, and closer to Lopik than Utrecht. Other ancestors from IJsselstein are virtually absent from the Utrecht Archives. Further research may reveal a very interesting story.

The only record of Cunera’s seven children is in her will. Apparently Luyt, Arie, IJsbrand and Cornelia never married. Number eight, Arie, is not mentioned in Cunera’s will. Only Johannes married, and three of his children are recorded in the Civil Registry, although Frank married when he was well into his forties and his wife was in her late thirties.

1. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Anthonij van Rooijen. Date: July 13, 1715. Reference: U123a5 act 260. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden).

Prenuptial agreement between Grietje Vlooswijk and Anthonij Gerritse van Rooijen. The hand is pretty bad, and it is a short document. The information that matters is that this is the only record of Grietje Vlooswijk as the son of Arie Aerts Vlooswijk and Lammertje van Oostrom. Which makes it possible to identify one Margaritha Vlooswijk as Grietje. She appears as wife of Antonij van Rooijen at the baptisms 4 children in Schalkwijk between
1733 and 1740. Rechecking the Jutphaas RC Register of Marriages led to the identification of a date for their marriage, missed before because Grietje’s name was written as Van Bloeswijck. And two years later her sister Cunera married, recorded as Van Blooswijck. The Jutphaas Registers often wrote names totally differently from other sources: Bloem instead of Blom, Meltenburgh instead of Miltenburg, etc. People spoke a dialect at the time, and there is every chance that the local priest, probably one Servatius Verhofstad, was from Brabant, where people have their own very different dialect. In addition, ‘oe’ 295 years ago was one way of writing the modern ‘oo’, as was ‘oi’, current in Brabant.

It is entirely possibly that Anthonij Gerritjes van Rooijen is the brother ancestor (via oma) Matthijs Gertzen van Rooijen. Matthijs’ daughter Gerarda was born about 1714, and Anthonij married in 1714. The dates allow for the speculation, but no proof has been found.

2. People: Antonij van Rooijen, Grietje Vlooswijk, Michaël Reael. Date: December 31, 1728. Reference: U180a1 act 35. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Extraordinary document, First one
of its kind to date (April 2010) Antonij van Rooijen and Grietje Vlooswijk together lease a farmhouse and land. Husband and wife are both tenants, and the document speaks of them in the plural. They
lease a farmhouse, barns, sheds and pigeon coop and 60 morgen of orchard, meadow and crop land from one Michaël Reael, merchant in linnen from Utrecht. 48 morgen of that land is located in Tull en ’t Waal, including some land in the river’s flood plain where a day labourer’s cottage is located. 12 morgen is located in Schalkwijk, of which 2.5 morgen is called the Ossekamp, 1.5 morgen the Kleijnen Beest and 8 morgen the Grooten Beest (Oxfield, Little Beast and Big Beast). The lease does not include several rooms in the farmhouse, the day labourer’s cottage and the fruits from the recently planted orchard. The lease is for 6 years starting on January 1, 1729 and costs Fl 1,100. Additional rent takes the form 6 fat and young chicken, and as much fruit as the landlord’s household needs. The tenants have to maintain the buildings weatherproof at their expense, except in the case of a heavy storm, when the landlord pays. The tenants have to maintain the dykes, paths and waterways. They can cut wood every 4 years, but must also maintain the garden hedges. They can keep the wood of dead trees, but have to replace them. They also have to keep any grazing animals from damaging the trees in the orchard.

3. People: Anthonij van Rooijen, Grietje van Vlooswijk, Adriana Achterberch, Huijbert Achterberch. Date: U197a2 act 45. Reference: February 12, 1743. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Anthonij and Grietje extend the lease. I could not find a contract date 1734 or 1735, which should have been there by terms of the 1728 contract. Leaving me unable to determine if that contract too was in both names. This time there are a few difference, and the hand is also much clearer. The lease is with Adriana Achterberch, widow of Michaël Reaal, and signed by her brother Huijbert Achterberch (wood merchant) acting on her behalf. It is again for 6 years, although when either party forgets to give a year’s notice towards the end, the lease is automatically extended by 1 year. The rent has dropped considerably, it is now FL 800 plus 200 litres of wheat. I do not know the price of 200 litres of wheat at the time, but it could have been Fl 1/10 a litre. In
that case the rent stayed the same. The additional rent also stayed the same: 6 fat chicken and as much fruit as the landlord wants. However, it is for 65 morgen of land, 5 more: 44 morgen in Tull en
’t Waal, 12 morgen in Schalkwijk (Ossekamp 2.5, Kleijnen Beest 1.5, Grooten Beest 8), 4 fields of crop land (no size given) in Honswijk, 2 fields of crop land (no size given) behind the church in Honswijk, 5 morgen flood plain. Exepted are the land labourer’s cottage, another building (the word inkamer appears to refer to a building), and the new cherry orchard. The animals are not allowed to
graze in the orchard during the cherry picking season, and not allowed to damage it at other times. The buildings have to be kept weatherproof, but in case of a storm the landlord pays for the big repairs. The dykes, dams, paths and waterways must be maintained, and this includes the big river dyke. The landlord retains the right to plant several fields with crops of his choice. The contract is explicit about the field sizes and crops that need to be planted or sown when the lease expires. The tenants receive a compensation set by impartial parties. It also has details about which fruits the tenants can keep, and which not. The tenants must also maintain the hedge around the cherry orchard, in such a condition that it keeps animals out. Dead animals must be removed immediately. If not the
tenants are charged a day’s rent. The dung stays on the farm and must be spread out on the crop land. Should the tenants abide, they can keep the sheep dung, if collected by June.

4. People: Johannes Reaal, Cornelis Reaal, Grietje Vlooswijk. Date: May 24, 1749. Reference: U212a1 act 47. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Anthonij van Rooijen is dead, his widow Grietje Vlooswijk extends the lease on 65 morgen of crop land, meadow and orchard. The contract is with Johannes and Cornelis Reaal, probably the sons and heirs of Michaël Reaal and Adriana Achterberch. It reads like a copy of the previous one, with some minor changes in wording. The lease is again for 6 years. The rent is Fl 800, 6 fat chicken and all the fruit the landlords want. There is no mention of the 200 litres of wheat. All other conditions remain the same, including the one about sheep dung. Grietje signs ‘Van Roijen’.

5. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Jacomijnthe van Rooijen, Jan Cornelisse van den Bosch. Date: January 24, 1750. Reference: U214a1 act 80. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden).

Prenuptial between daughter Jacomijntje and Jan Cornelisse van den Bosch widower of Cornelia van Doorn. Grietje assists her daughter. They mary the next day in Tull en ’t Waal (civil wedding). There is an inventory (not attached) which details what either spouse brings into the marriage. There shall be no community of property of goods brought in or inherited, only of goods acquired or lost during the marriage. Should either spouse die and there be children, the other gets full usufruct of all properties. Until the surviving one remarries. Should either die and there be no children, the other gets full ownership of all properties, except in the case the groom
dies first. In that case Jacomijntje has to pay Fl 200 to his niece Neeltje Gijsbertse van den Bosch. This provision implies that there were no children in Jan’s first marriage. Each appoints the other as full guardian of any under aged children. The two spouses sign with a cross, ma Grietje as ‘Van Roije’.

6. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Johanna van Rooijen, Goyert Cornelisz Wolswijk, Cornelis Jelisze Wolswijk, Abraham Jacob van der Dussen, Jacquelina Cornelia de Geer. Date: September 26, 1750. Reference: U196a8 act 51. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Daughter Johanna van Rooijen is about to marry Goijert Wolswijk (October 20, 1750). Prior to that the two together lease 54 morgen of orchard, crop land, meadow and hay land, with a house, bakery, shed, sheeps’ stable and 3 outbuildings. It is located in Harmelerwaard and Bijleveld, west of Utrecht city. Tull en ’t Waal lies south of Utrecht city. The distance between mother and daughter will be about 25 km,
but easy to travel by boat: board the boat near Gein, up the canal past Jutphaas, turn left down the river Old Rhine. The land has tenants who are leaving. The lease is for 6 years and costs Fl 700. Usually all taxes are for the landlord except a pesonal levy of 20 stuivers per morgen. This time that levy is also for the landlord: a regent, Abraham Jacob van der Dussen, married to one Jacqueline Cornelia de Geer, who may be related to Jan Jacob de Geer, collector of castles from Jutphaas. The usual conditions hold. They concern maintenance of land and buildings, dead trees and cutting wood, dung and sown fields at the start and end of the lease. The couples married in Tull en ’t Waal (civil) and Schalkwijk (church). One marriage record says that Goijert Wolswijk was a resident of Gein, but he does not feature in the Jutphaas RC Register of Baptisms, neither does any Wolswijk between 1685 and 1730.

7. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Jacob Gijbels, Maria Theresia Dalenkamp, Johannes Reaal, Anthonij van Rooijen, Jan van Rooijen, Barend Wolswijk, Andries Vierhoud. Date: December 16, 1752. Reference: U188a14 act 79. Subject: Settlement (akkoord).

Grietje Vlooswijk falls on hard times. Her cattle dies and the land floods. She runs up a debt of Fl 2,173 in back rent, and the owners insist on payment. They are now Jacob Gijbels second husband of Maria Theresia Dalenkamp
widow of Cornelis Reaal and surviving brother Johannes Reaal. Jacob had taken staps to confiscate all of Grietje’s properties and was about to sell them in public, although here key words are faded
and it is unsure whether or not he actually sold them. In consideration of Grietje’s plight he agrees to reduce the debt to Fl 825 on condition that it is paid before, again faded words, 1753. Grietjes son Jan and two sons in law, Barend Wolswijk and Andries Vierhoud underwrite the debt and promise to pay on her behalf.

8. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Johannes Reaal, Jacobus Gijbels. Date: December 16, 1752. Reference: U188a14 act 82. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Despite a serious debt in back rent, Grietje Vlooswijk renews the land on 65 morgen of land in Tull en ’t Waal, Honswijk and Schalkwijk. The lease is again for 6 years, but the rent has dropped to Fl 600, although the amount of Fl 850 was originally intended and later crossed out, plus 6 fat chickens
and as much fruit as the landlords’ households required. The remaining conditions are the same as in the previous contract. The landlords are this time Johannes Reaal and Jacobus Gijbels.

9.
People: Grietje Vlooswjk, Cornelisj van Rooijen, Ferdinand van Collen. Date: February 10, 1759. Reference: U160a15 act 159. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Grietje Vlooswijk and son Cornelis van Rooijen lease 48 morgen of crop land, orchard and meadow, plus a farmhouse and outbuildings from Ferdinand van Collen, former mayor of Amsterdam. The land is located in and near Breukelen, northwest of Utrecht, and the document suggests that Grietje Vlooswijk was moving home. The land is divided in several plots: over 21 morgen orchard and meadow and 4.5 morgen crop land located in Breukelen Proostdij, and over 22 morgen in Buitenweg in Breukelenveen. The lease is for 4 years and for a rent of Fl 525 a year.

10. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Frank Jacobse van Rietveld and Maria van Rooijen, Gerrit van Rooijen, Goijert Wolswijk and Johanna van Rooijen, Barend Wolswijk and Cornelia van Rooijen, Jan van den Bosch and Jacomina van Rooijen, Arie van Rooijen, Johanna van Rooijen
and Andries Vierhout, Anthonij Vierhout, Maria Vierhout, Cornelis van Rooijen, Aletta van Rooijen, Lambert van Rooijen, Pieter van Borsselen, Jan van der Schroeff. Date: March 24, 1759. Reference: U254a1 act 97. Subject : Settlement (akkoord).

Apparently Anthonij van Rooijen had mortgaged 24 morgen of land in Schalkwijk in 1731, for the amount of Fl 2,200. I have not found that document.
Nevertheless the money came from Margaretha Honthorst widow of Pieter Boudewijn van Borsselen, and their son Pieter van Borsselen went through his parents’ papers and found this old debt bond. He is now demanding repayment of the capital amount plus interest. The amount of interest is not mentioned. Pieter demands a public sale and the heirs of Anthonij van Rooijen can only agree. Should the public sale not deliver the expected amount of money the sale may be cancelled, and the heirs have to ensure that the property rights are transferred to Van Borsselen. This document does suggest, though, that Anthonij van Rooijen also had land in ownership. Jan van der Schroeff acted as the representative of Pieter van Borsselen, and is appointed by the joint heirs to conduct the sale and transfer.

11. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Frank Jacobse van Rietveld and Maria van Rooijen, Gerrit van Rooijen, Goijert Wolswijk and Johanna van Rooijen, Barend Wolswijk and Cornelia van Rooijen, Jan van den Bosch and Jacomina van Rooijen, Arie van Rooijen, Johanna van Rooijen and Andries Vierhout, Anthonij Vierhout, Maria Vierhout, Cornelis van Rooijen, Aletta van Rooijen, Lambert van Rooijen, Jan van der Schroeff, Gerrit Mulders, Willem Jansen Peek. Date: May 19, 1759. Reference: U254a2 act 3. Subject : Public sale (openbare verkoping).

The public sale is held and three plots of land are sold: a) over 7 morgen crop land and meadow for Fl 510, b) 8 morgen orchard, crop land, meadow and low willow land for Fl 840, and c) 8 morgen crop land and low willow land for Fl 460. All told Fl
1,810, which does not cover the debt bond, but the sale was affected. The last plot was bought by Arie van Rooijen. Every chance he was Grietje’s son, but the name Van Rooijen is very common in the
region, and there are other candidates.

12. People: Grietje Vlooswijk, Cornelis van Rooijen. Date: October 31, 1761. Reference: U214a3 act 44. Subject: Agreement (overeenkomst).

Grietje laments her fate. She is in dire straits. Previously she had lost her cattle to disease, and her land was flooded. She was also forced to sell the land she owed, and the proceeds did not cover the debt. By 1661 daughters Aletta and Johanna (Jannetje) and son Lambert were dead too, they are not mentioned in this document. She was forced to move to Breukelen, and start all over again, together with son Cornelis. But it was difficult. They had to live frugally and Cornelis had to use his savings to pay for the rent and other costs. The other surviving children, Maria, Gerrit, Johanna, Cornelia, Jacomina, Jan and Arie, were married and had their own families to look after. So the burden of looking after Grietje in her old age befell on bachelor son Cornelis.

To help him out Grietjes signs over her last remaining properties to Cornelis, worth about Fl 400, by her own estimate. Excepted are her clothes and linnen wares, which are to be divided among her children and grandchildren after she dies. The other children, or their husbands, sign there agreement. Johanna (Jannetje) is not mentioned in this document, but she left children. They are included by inference. This is the last mention of Grietje in the records.

DAUGHTER GRIETJE VLOOSWIJK married in Jutphaas in 1715. There is no date for her baptism, but I doubt she married at the age of 15, so I guess that she was born about 1695. She married widower Anthonij van Rooijen, who may have been the brother of ancestor (via oma) Matthijs van Rooijen. They were both from Schalkwijk and they both had the middle name Gerritse, but I have found no proof yet.

I have counted a total of 12 children for Anthonij and Grietje. The baptisms of four children are listed on Genealogie Zuidoost Utrecht, where Grietje is called Margaritha. Margaritha is the formal form of Grietje, but Grietje always signed Grietije, never Margaritha. Maybe some local priest insisting on baptismal names, inventing them if there was only a familiar! The other names were found in the records on Grietje.

The records on Grietje go beyond a mere listing of leases and prenuptials. They are among the most revealing records I found on the Vlooswijk.

She appears as an active economic agent, from the start. Two leases on 60-65 morgen of land in Tull en ’t Waal and Schalkwijk were signed not just by Anthonij, but also by Grietje. The documents mentions both as tenants and refers to them in the plural. This is highly unusual. Anthonij is dead by 1749 and Grietje continues the farm.

In 1750 she helps daughter Johanna and her new husband Goijert Wolswijk by underwriting a lease on a farm. In the same year daughter Jacomina married widower Jan Cornelisse van den Bosch. He probably brought a farm into the marriage. Their prenuptial exludes properties brought in and inherited from community of property, and lopsided assets were usually the reason for doing this. These are the only two records referring to children getting married. The names of the spouses of other sons and daughters are to be found in other kinds of records.

However by 1752 Grietje had fallen on hard times. Her cattle had died and it appears that her fields had flooded too. She had run up a debt of Fl 2,173 in back rent, 2.5 years worth of rent, and the two landlords threatened to confiscate her properties. One son and two sons in law provided Fl 825, and
the rest appears to have been waived, because the landlords extend the lease on the very same day, also reducing the rent.

Around 1759 one Pieter van Borsselen discovered a forgotten among his parents’ possessions. Apparently Anthonij van Rooijen also owned land. He had mortgaged 24 morgen of land in Schalkwijk in 1731, for the amount of Fl 2,200. Van Borsselen demanded repayment of the capital amount plus interest. He demanded a public sale and Grietje and the heirs of Anthonij van Rooijen could only agree. The land was sold in three plots by public sale for Fl 1,840, at least Fl 360 short of what Grietje owed.

But Grietje had already moved to Breukelen. The lease on the land in Tull en ’t Waal and Schalkwijk had already expired. In January 1759 she and son Cornelis leased 45 morgen of land in Breukelen, but in effect Cornelis ran the farm. By 1761 the little she still owned had dwindled further and Cornelis was eating into his savings. She signed all her remaining
properties over to Cornelis, and he became the effective tenant of the farm. The other children signed their agreement. This is the last we hear of Grietje.

1. People: Arie Vlooswijk, Cornelis van Rossum. Date: November 24, 1735. Reference: U173a5 act 45. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Arie Vlooswijk leases 11 morgen of meadow from Cornelis
van Rossum (not the ancestor) from Utrecht for 6 years and Fl 165. The usual conditions follow, but there is no mention of dung.

2. People: Arie Vlooswijk, Henrick Schoormond. Date: January 29, 1736. Reference: U186a2 act 5. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Arie Vlooswijk leases a total 63 morgen of land from Henrick Schoormond, resident of Utrecht. 50 morgen is mostly located in Achthoven en in part in IJsesltein, and consists of four farms with the names: Oude Hofstede, Nieuwe Hofstede, Steene Kamer and Gemeene Land. This land is orchard, crop land, meadow and hay
land. The nature of 13 morgen land in Achthoven, located behind the Women’s Convent is not mentioned. The lease is for 6 years, and the total rent is Fl 840, plus: 100 litres of wheat, 150 pounds of cheese, a fat pig to be selected by the landlord and an unspecified quantity of apples. Towards the end the contract also mentions that the tenant drive the landlord and his family around in horse and cart for a day, and gives them a treat. Conditions: keep the farmhouse and outbuildings weatherproof, the landlord pays for new work but the tenant supplies the tools and materials, maintain the land, dukes, dams, ditches and paths, weed the land, no hay can be cut on the meadows, keep the land well drained, cut and prune the trees at appropriate times, except those on the duke near the Oude and Nieuwe Hofstede for which he needs the landlord’s written consent, keep all the dung on the land, and on expiry deliver 6 morgen of land with, for which he gets compensation.

3. People: Arie Vlooswijk, Johannes Vlooswijk, Anna van Rooijen, Jan Cornelis Goijerde van Roijen. Date: April 14, 1736. Reference: U176a2 act 93. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden)

A little over 3 months after signing a lease for 63 morgen of land, Arie signs a prenuptial with Anna van Rooijen. He brings in all his properties: cattle, tools, furniture, house ware, clothes, silver, gold, etc. Anna brings in her honour (I had to chuckle), clothes and gold and silver jewels. Understandably the text is adamant about there not being any community of property of these goods, only of the
goods acquired during the marriage, including anything inherited. Should the bride die and there be no children, the groom inherits everything she owned, and owes nothing to any of her default heirs.
Should the groom die and there be no children the bride gets half his estate, the rest goes to his default heirs. Should the groom die and there be children, the bride gets the full usufruct of all his properties until the day she dies. Either appoints the other as guardian of any under aged child, but there is no clause about their legitimate share.

4. People: Anna van Rooijen, Arie Vlooswijk, Cornelis Vlooswijk, Hillegonda Schoormond, Johan Gerard Bosch, Nicolaas Schade. Date: April 5, 1764. Reference: U184a26 act 166. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Arie Vlooswijk is dead, his widow remarried to Thomas van Oostrum and he too is dead, but the lease from 1736 continues. This time it measures 55 morgen and costs Fl 728. The renewed lease is for 12 years. The same conditions apply, except for all the additional titbits of rent. However, all is not well. Anna owes Fl 4,243/15 in back rent. A payment regime is established. She pays back Fl 200 a year over 12 years. Should she keep to these payments the remainder is waived, i.e. Fl 1,843/15. On conditions that her sons Arie and Cornelis buy Fl 500 worth of cows to improve her livestock.

The favourable agreement is due to the fact that the original owner Henrick Schoormond has long since been dead, and that his heirs Hermannus and Hillegonda Schoormond are dead to. The lease is with the executors of Hillegonda’s estate. Hillegonda was a religious daughter and last to die of the two siblings. She left part of her estate to her housemaid. The executors appear to be acting in Hillegonda’s footsteps, and displayed charity. The document is in a bad hand, and this is my understanding.

Arie Aerts and Lambertje’s son ARIE VLOOSWIJK left a short paper trail: three documents in his name and one in that of his wife and two sons. He leased 63 morgen of farm and land in 1736 and in 1764 his wife signed an extension for 55 morgen of the same land. However, between 1736 and 1764 the situation had changed: Arie was dead, leaving two sons, his widow Anna van Rooijen had remarried and
was widowed a second time. She had also accumulated over Fl 4,200 in debt on the farm. The landlord was dead, and so were his heirs, but one of them had been a religious daughter, and the executors of her estate, who signed the lease in 1764, acted with a sense of charity.

I place these four documents as pertaining to this Arie Vlooswijk, because he signed his name as Ari (no e), and one of them records him as the brother of Johannes Vlooswijk, and at the time there was only one of them around. They also helped identify another Arie and one Cornelis Vlooswijk as his sons.

1. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Maria Hendriks Koppen, Arie Aerts Vlooswijk, Lammertje van Oostrum. Date: April 13, 1738. Reference: U166a15 act 38. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden).

Prenuptial between Albert Vlooswijk and Maria Koppen (also Cop or Kop). The marriage is in full community of property. Should one die the other inherits all, except for the legitimate portion of children, if there are any, or the legitimate portion of the deceased’s parents, if there are no children and they are still alive. Either appoints the other as guardian of under aged children. In January of the same year the Vlooswijk siblings had signed an agreement in which Albert received all properties and debts of their mother Lammertje van Oostrom (see Lammertje van Oostrom), in exchange for him maintaining their mother for the rest of her life. This prenuptial therefore includes a clause that Maria takes over the obligations in this agreement should Albert die first and Lammertje be still alive.

2. People: Gijsbertje de Cruijff, Cornelis Cop, Arien Cop, Albert Vlooswijk, Cornelis van Wijngaarden. Date: February 28, 1739. Reference: U162a20 act 29. Subject: Lease (huur en
verhuur).

Albert’s mother in law extends the lease on a tavern called De Zwaan, located in the village of Jutphaas, near the bridge (as I remember). The lease is for 6 years and costs Fl 80 a year. The cellar is excluded. The landlord and brewer Cornelis van Wijngaarden continued to use it. Albert Vlooswijk, Cornelis Cop and Arien Cop (probably Gijsbertje de Cruijff’s sons) underwrote the lease.

De Zwaan is still around, and crops up all over the place in the story of my Jutphaas ancestors. Auntie Wop, one of my mother’s friends, lived there, and I hung out there as a toddler. She nursed me when I was once seriously ill, and my mother was away in hospital. Her husband was the publican. Arnoldus van Zelst, oma’s brother, was a publican, and married to Auntie Wop’s father’s sister. Here we discover that Hendrik Cop, Albert Vlooswijk’s father in law, had been a publican too. Of my great great great grandfather Arie van Bentum we know that he was a publican. Of De Zwaan? Checking the history of De Zwaan is rapidly becoming a subject in this search for the stories of my ancestors.

3. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Frederik Heereman, Jan van der Schroeff. Date: May 25, 1748. Reference: U210a1 act 166. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

It is clear that the transfer from 1738 also included Lammertje’s lease of more than 100 morgen land from Frederik Heerman, this time represented by the realtor Jan van der Schroeff. Albert extends the lease, and is recorded as its provious user. The lease concerns 100 morgen orchards, crop land and meadow in Gein, Jutphaas and De Vaart, spread over different plots. The lease is for 6 years and this land costs Fl 1,225 a year. The lease also includes 6 morgen of thiend crop land in Carspelle, used by Jan Uijttewaal, for the sum of either Fl 16 for all or Fl 4 per morgen if the crop land is transformed into meadow. I am not sure what it reads, but I read house. Albert can keep the wood
he cuts on condition he cuts it only once every 4 years, the dead fruit trees on condition that he replaces them. He has to keep the house and outbuilding weatherproof and on expiry hand them over in
good repair. He also must maintain the land, dykes, dams, waterways and paths. The dung stays on the land. The rent is charged in guilders of 22 stuijvers, but should he pay on time, before Petri ad Cathedram, i.e. January 1, he is allowed to pay the rent in guilders of 20 stuijvers.

4. People: Gerrit Noordeloos, the sisters Cop, Albert Vlooswijk. Date: May 26, 1753. Reference: U153a8 act 153. Subject: Buy and sell (koop en verkoop).

Complicated document. In principle Gerrit Noordeloos buys off the three sisters Cop 4 hond and fifty roeden orchard next to the church in Jutphaas. The complication is that the land is leased from Oud Munster, from which Christina Gorle draws a pension. It is an addition and substraction of duties and rights to arrive at the final sales price of 150 guilders.

The Cop sisters include Maria, wife of Albert Vlooswijk, brother of Johannes Vlooswijk, in turn father of Arie Vlooswijk who would marry Gerrit’s youngest daughter Cornelia. The first mention of a link between Noordeloos and Vlooswijk.

5. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Frederik Heereman, Jan van der Schroeff. Date: November 6, 1756. Reference: U230a1 act 130.
Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Albert extends the lease on 100 morgen land and 6 morgen tithe land for 12 years this time around, costing Fl 1,225 a year for the 100 morgen and Fl 16 for the 6 morgen. Frederik Heereman is still the landlord, and Jan van der Schroeff his agent. The conditions remain the same.

6. People: Lammertje Vlooswijk, Albert Vlooswijk, Gerrit de With, Bastiaan de With. Date: January 20, 1759. Reference: U217a6 act 4. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden).

Lammertje Vlooswijk and Gerrit de With sign a prenuptial. This is the only prenuptial of Albert and Maria’s children available in the Utrecht archives. There is full community of property and either appoints the other as guardian of any under aged children. The parents
of both renounce their legitimate right to the estate, should one of the spouses die without children.

7. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Johanna van Oostrum, Antonie Martinus Uijttewaal, Wilhelmus van Hoen, Pieter Stoffelse van Cattenbroek, Arie van Dijk. Date: August 17, 1761. Reference: U205a16 act 73. Subject: Transfer (overdracht).

One Johanna van Oostrum (married name) dies and leaves Fl 1,000 to charity, commanding the executor of her testament, her brother Antonie Martinus Uijttewaal, to use the money to buy a bond and use the interest for charity. In this document Martinus declares that he had bought a state bond on Utrecht province. He wants to hand it over to the Roman Catholic church of Jutphaas, for whom he had already signed a memorandum detailing the purpose and
procedures for spending the interest. Present to receive the bond are Wilhelmus van Hoen, the priest, Albert Vlooswijk, Pieter Stoffelse van Cattenbroek and Arie van Dijk, churchmasters. They sign for receipt, although Albert’s signature is missing.

8. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Arie Rietvelt, Frederik Willem Joseph Heereman. Date: Deceber 15, 1764. Reference: U245a3 act 94. Subject: Acknowledgement of debt.

Albert Vlooswijk is Fl 1,500 in arrears with the rent payments on the land leasaed from Heereman. He signs an acknowledgement of debt and promises topay before May 1, 1765. One Arien Rietvelt from Lopikerkapel underwrites the loan as if his own debt. There is no mention of a rate of interest.

9. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Willem Anna van Wassenaar, Fredrik Hendrik baron of Wassenaar, Gijsbert Dirk Cazius. Date: November 15, 1766. Reference: U227a5 act 135. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Albert Vlooswijk extends the lease on 106 morgen
of land. But there is a new lord of Oudegein: squire Willem Anna van Wassenaar, a mere child, and therefore represented by Gijsbert Dirk Cazius acting on behalf of his father Frederick Hendrik baron of Wassenaar and lord of several villages and towns along the Holland coast. Did pa Frederick by the land and titles for his son, or did he acquire them from Heereman in another way? This time the lease is for 6 years, costing Fl 1,450 for the 100 morgen crop land, meadow and orchard, and Fl 16 for the 6 morgen crop land, still used by Jan Uijttewaal. All other conditions remain the same.

10. People: Lammertje Vlooswijk, Gerrit de With, Albert Vlooswijk. Date: January 23, 1768. Reference: U184a28 act 108. Subject: Receipt (quitantie).

Lammertje has died and Gerrit de With
is about to remarry to one Anna van der Linden. Gerrit signs a document about Fl 1,200 worth of cash, goods and cattle that Albert had given is daughter when she married. In many wills grandchildren inherit from their grandparents when their parents are dead. This document states that the wedding gift should be deducted from Gerrit’s children’s share in their grandfather’s inheritance. It is not in line with the conditions in the prenuptial: full community of all properties brought in, worked for and inherited; full ownership of those properties for the surviving spouse, and any children their legitimate share. In other words, any wedding gift would be part of that, and there should be no need to deduct it from the grandchildren’s share in their grandfather’s estate. It reads a bit as if there had been some acrimony between Albert and Gerrit, or maybe his second wedding to a highly pregnant woman prompted this document. Gerrit and Anna married on January 26, 1768; their first born was baptised on April 16, 1768.

11. People: Albert Vlooswijk, Willem Anna van Wassenaar, Fredrik Hendrik baron of Wassenaar, Gijsbert Dirk Cazius. Date: August 17, 1771. Reference: U227a8 act 33. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Albert Vlooswijk extends the lease on 106 morgen of land. Squire Willem Anna van Wassenaar is still recorded as under aged, and therefore represented by Gijsbert Dirk Cazius acting on behalf of his father Frederick Hendrik baron of Wassenaar The lease is for 6 years, costing Fl 1,590 for the 100 morgen crop land, meadow and orchard, and still Fl 16 for the 6 morgen crop land, still used by Jan Uijttewaal. All other conditions remain the same. New though is the addition of a bag of wheat and a bag of horse beans as annual rent, I do not
know what is meant by horse beans.

12. People: Maria Koppen, Baatje van Waaij, Pieter Kelffkens. Date: May 15, 1773. Reference: U211a3 act 183. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Albert died in June 1772 and his widow Maria Koppen takes over, and she continues to be in charge until close to her death at the age of about 90. Maria extends a lease on 4 morgen of meadow along the Randijk in Jutphaas, called the Slekkenkamp (Snails’ Field) for 6 years and a rent of 60 guilders. Maria is allowed to cut hay every other year.

13. People: Maria Koppen, Jan Jacob de Geer. Date: December 6, 1777. Reference: U256c14 act 208. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

One hundred morgen of land has switched hands again, not the 6 morgen of thiend used by Jan Uijttewaal. The new owner is Jan Jacob de Geer, the man who would buy Stormerdijk Castle in 1778. Maria Koppen extends the lease, although the document says that she was using part of the land. The fields are still located in Gein, Jutphaas and De Vaart, but that does not preclude a change in the location of individual fields: crop land, meadow and orchard. The lease if for 6 years and costs Fl 1,300, 8 young chicken and 300 litres of pigeon feed. The other condition are basically the, with some minor changes, although the wording is very different. All dung must stay on the land, but Maria can sell the sheep dung and use it to buy Fl 120 worth of cow dung to spread on the land. The landlord also reserves 1 morgen of orchard for his own benefit. He gets the fruits, and Maria still pays the rent, although De Geer signs that he would maintain that orchard. The landlord holds on to the wood cut from the trees along the roads and waterways, but, apparently, Maria did negotiate, because in the margins is included a clause that she can cut and keep the wood of willows and alders, as she was used to do.

14. People: Maria Coppen, Pieter Kelffkens. Date: June 12, 1779. Reference: U205a31 act 40. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Maria Koppen extends the lease on 4 morgen meadow, for 6 years and a rent of Fl 68. Baatje de Waaij had either died or transferred the land to
Pieter Kelffkens, who acted in her stead in the contract from 1773. Maria’s son Arie Vlooswijk is also included as tenant in the document, acting on behalf of his mother. It is Arie who signs, although the Dutch for tenant is consistently written in the female form. Maria’s signature is absent. Arie’s name is included in the margin. Maybe he turned up for the signing because Maria was indisposed. In 1779 she is already 63 years old. It is possible if not probable that it was Arie who worked the land, and not Maria. All conditions remained the same.

15. People: Maria Koppen, Theodora Anna baroness of Haaften. Date: February 11, 1785. Reference: U256c22 act 8. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Maria extends the lease on 100 morgen of land for another 6 years. The
rent is Fl 1,300 plus Fl 40 for the fruits from the orchard and 8 chicken. All other conditions stayed the same. The lease is with Theodora Anna of Haaften, widow of Jan Jacob de Geer. This time there is no mention of son Arie present or signing.

16. People: Maria Koppen, Hendrik Vlooswijk, Hendricus Cool, Gijsje Vlooswijk. Date: March 12, 1788. Reference: U225a15 act 23. Subject: Guarantee (borgtocht).

Daughter Gijsje Vlooswijk is in a bit of a bind: she cannot pay the rent on the farm owed to Hendricus Cool, amounting to Fl 392 over 1 year. Her mother and brother Hendrik step in and promiss to pay the money within 8 months.

By 1788 Gijsje is the widow of Roemert Kraaijkamp, parents of Anna Kraaijkamp, second wife of Evert Pauw, and ancestors of aunts Joke and Jannemie from my Jutphaas days.

17. People: Maria Koppen, Theodora Anna baroness of Haaften. Date: June 16, 1792. Reference: U256c29 act 50. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Maria extends the lease on 97 morgen of land for another 6 years, 3 morgen less, which the landlady appears to have turned into a garden. The lease is therefore backdated to January 1 1790. The rent is Fl 1,280 plus Fl 40 for the fruits from the orchard and 8 chicken. All other conditions stayed the same. The lease is with Theodora Anna of Haaften, widow of Jan Jacob de Geer. This time there is no mention of son Arie present or signing. Maria signs ‘Kop’.

18. People: Maria Koppen, Theodora Anna baroness of Haaften. Date: May 18, 1796. Reference: U256c33 act 47. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Maria extends the lease on 97 morgen of land for another 6 years. The rent is Fl 1,280 plus Fl 40 for the fruits from the orchard and 8 chicken. All other conditions stayed the same. The lease is with Theodora Anna of Haaften, widow of Jan Jacob de Geer. Maria signs with a cross, but she is already 80 years old. Her hand may have been infirm.

19. People: Evert Pauw, Anna Kraaijkamp, Gijsje Vlooswijk. Date: October 22, 1796. Reference: U269c7 act 103. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden).

Maria Koppen would have attended the wedding between her granddaughter and godchild Anna Kraaijkamp and 24-year older but good catch Evert Pauw, so it is appropriate to include their prenuptial. Evert brings into the marriage half of Fl 22,400, the estate when first wife Antonia van Bentum died. The other half goes to his children by Antonia. There is no community of property brough in or inherited, except of property acquired through work. In contrast, Anna brings in a mere Fl 100. Should Evert die first, Anna gets a child’s share in his estate. Should Evert die first and there be no children, he gets all good acquired through work. The rest (clothes, jewelry) goes to Anna’s mother, if still alive, or her default heirs. Interesting note: Antonia’s half-brother Cornelis van Bentum witnessed this marriage (and one Antoni Stolker). The RC church wedding took place in Jutphaas on October 24, 1796. Evert’s oldest son by Antonia, Cornelis Pouw, married Johanna Vlooswijk on April 30 of the next year. Johanna Vlooswijk is the granddaughter of Johannes Vlooswijk, Albert Vlooswijk’s brother, i.e. the sister of Cornelis van Bentum’s wife Engeltje Vlooswijk.

20. People: Maria Koppen, Willem Carel Pieter de Geer.
Date: June 16, 1802. Reference: U256c41 act 65. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Maria Koppen, aged 86, again extends the lease on 97 morgen of crop land, meadow and orchard for another 6 years. This time the rent amounts to Fl 1,600 plus 16 chicken and 30 cartloads of cow dung, maybe a reflection of the uncertain political situation in the country: several coups, French meddling, heated constitutional debates and new laws on all sorts of issues. However, it could also have been a greedy landlord: Willem Carel Pieter de Geer. He is the son of Jan Jacob de Geer and Theodora Anna van
Haaften, married to one Isabella Charlotte Emilia van Nassau and he died aged 72 on October 28, 1831. She is the daughter of Jan Floris Anne van Nassau le Lecq, son of Maurits Lodewijk van Nassau le Lecq, son of Maurits Lodewijk van Nassau, son of Lodewijk (the bastard) van Nassau, son of Maurits van Nassau van Oranje, son of William the Silent. In short, people with airs who lived off other people’s backs. Willem wanted to stipulate that he held the right to cancel the lease in any year, with only 2 months notice, even though Maria had been prompt in paying the rent. Probably because of Maria’s very advanced years. But that clause was crossed out. There is also a clause stipulating that the lease would be cancelled should the tenant die. Maria went on to live for another 4 years. She
died in 1807 aged 90.

The image the records give of son ALBERT VLOOSWIJK is that of a successful tenant farmer, leasing over 100 morgen of crop land, meadow and orchard, a lease that he had acquired from his mother, Lammertje van Oostrum, land which his father had been farming although the first record of that lease is from 1734 when Lammertje had taken over. That land was still in the family in 1802, whilst its ownership had changed hands from Frederik Heerman to Willem Anna van Wassenaar to Jan Jacob de Geer to his widow Theodora Anna van Haaften to their son Willem Carel Pieter de Geer, all fancy people who called themselves lord of ‘t Gein. Willem Anna was still a child, and his father acted on his behalf. The rents were Fl 1,225 in 1734, Fl 1,225 in 1748, Fl 1,225 in 1756 (Heereman), Fl 1,450 in 1766, FL 1,590 in 1771 (Wassenaar), Fl 1,300 in 1777 (De Geer), Fl 1,300 in 1785, Fl 1,280 in 1792, Fl 1,280 in 1796 (Van Haaften) and Fl 1,600 in 1802 (De Geer). At its largest the farm measured a total of 100 morgen of land, plus 6 morgen of land with one Jan Uijttewaal as tenant. That land was not thransferred to Wassenaar, only the 100 morgen, which was reduced to 97 morgen in 1792 and remained that size. The conditions stayed the same, with minor variations. Some landlords asked for additional rent in the form of chicken, horse beans or cow poo. Starting with Van Haaften the tenant was also charged Fl 40 a year for the fruits from the orchard.

Not all times were good for Albert and Maria. There is one record of Albert being behind in rent payment. That could have been a bad year. There is another document that hints at acrimony with son in law Gerrit de With when daughter Lammertje died about 1767.

Albert appears also to have been an upstanding member of the community. He was a warden of the Jutphaas Roman Catholic church, signing a document that made him one of the managers of a Fl 1,000 charity fund.

Albert died in 1772 and Maria took over, continuing extending the lease on the farm until 1802, when she signs for the last time aged 86. It may well have been one her sons who did he actual work on the farm, but there is only one document that hints
at that. As she grew older her signature was replaced for a cross. The last lease also contained a special clause about what to do with the lease should she die.

Albert and Maria had 13 children. One of them was Arie Vlooswijk married to Catharina van Schaik, a descendant of Van Schaik, Van Miltenburg and Hollaar ancestors of mine, and a descendant of Cunera Jans van Bentum. Another one
was Gijsje Vlooswijk married to Roemer Kraaijkamp, parents of Anna Kraaijkamp second wife of Evert Pauw, previously married to Athonia van Bentum, older half-sister of Cornelis van Bentum, who married Engeltje Vlooswijk, daughter of Arie Vlooswijk, son of Johannes Vlooswijk, brother of Albert. There are other connections with different ancestral lineages.

1. People: Cornelia van Oostrom widow of Cornelis van Kesteren, Lammertje van Oostrum. Date: July 19, 1734. Reference: U176a2 act 38. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

Lammertje van Oostrum extends the lease on 5 morgen of meadow in Nedereind in Jutphaas, lease from Cornelia van Oostrom, for a duration of 6 years and a price of Fl 96. Cornelia van Oostrom, widow of Cornelis van Kesteren, may well have been Lammertje’s sister, or a niece. Interesting titbit: Lammertje signs with a cross, the solicitor writers that the cross was made by “Lambertje van Boijen”. However, it says Lambertje van Oostrum in the main text. The document also says that the land had previously been used by her husband. Lammertje can only graze cows and a maximum of 3 horses on the land.

2. People: Lammertje van Oostrum, Frederick Jacob Heerman. Date: June 5, 1734. Reference: U167a5 act 88. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur).

This document gives an idea of the land that Arie Aerts Vlooswijk was leasing, because his widow extends the lease for another year: all told over 90 morgen land. However, it starts with an acknowledgement of Fl 4,190 in debts, due to the failure to pay rent in 1731, 1732 (the year Arie died) and 1733. Lammertje promises to pay it. There is no mentionof a rate of interst. She then extends the lease from Frederick Jacob Heerman, a man with many etc.
behind his name, on A) 60 morgen of orchard, crop land and meadow located in Geijn and Wiers (a polder north of Tull en ’t Waal, located along the Lek on the other side of the Utrecht-Lek canal), included a farmhouse and different kinds of outbuildings, B) and around 30 morgen of orchard, crop land and meadow located in De Vaart in Jutphaas, and C) a plot (no idea of its size) located in Karspel Oudegein. The lease is for six years and costs Fl 1.225 in guilders of 22 stuivers, although Lammertje is allowed to pay in guilders of 20 stuivers. The contract is most explicit about what to do with the dung: keep it on the land, improve the land, no selling, etc. The buildings shall also be maintained and kept weatherproof, but this time the contract also says that the walls be kept whole. Lammertje can keep all the wood she cuts, but can only cut or prune a tree once every 4 years. She can keep the wood of dead fruit trees, provided that she replaces it.

3. People: Lammertje van
Oostrum, Johannes Vlooswijk, Anthony van Rooijen and Grietje Vlooswijk, Johannes Rietvelt and Cunera Vlooswijk, Arie Vlooswijk, Albertus Vlooswijk. Date: January 15, 1738. Reference: U184a6 act 4. Subject: Transfer (overdracht).

Lammertje van Oostrum signs all her possessions over to son Albertus Vlooswijk, with a few minor exceptions, on condition that he houses and maintains her for the rest of her life, and should she decide to live somewhere else Albertus pays her Fl 80 per year for maintenance. The siblings Johannes, Grietje, Arien and Cunera agree with this transaction. The document does not really say if the transfer includes the lease on 90 morgen land, but suggests it was included, since the landlord had given his consent. The two daughters were married and Johannes was already leasing his own farm of almost 70 morgen. Why son Arie, apparently unmarried at the time, would agree is not yet known. Although, Albertus also took on all of Lammertje’s debts, and they were considerable. They were probably a reason for her decise on transferring her properties, although advanced age could also have motivated her.

I had suspected that Johannes and Albertus were brother for some time, but this is the only document that indicates they were. It also identifies one Cunera as a sister, which is new information.

Lammertje van Oostrum took over the farm when Arie Aerts Vlooswijk died in 1732. The extension of a lease on 90 morgen (72 hectares) of crop land, orchard and meadow in 1734 gives an idea of the kind of farmer Arie Aerts was: a tenant farmer with a sizeable acreage mostly located in Jutphaas. Add to that 5 morgen of meadow he leased from one Cornelia van Oostrum, widow of Cornelis van Kesteren.
Cornelia van Oostrum could have been Lammertje’s sister. She married Dutch Reformed in Jutphaas in 1705, for which the parents had granted special permission. However, further research is needed to
confirm a link. Van Oostrum or Oostrom or Oosterom is a very common and old name. There are other Van Oostrum ancestors, one lineage going back to Willem Gerrits van Oostrum born around 1530: great great grandfather of ancestress Anna Vermeulen. Documents related to Lammertje’s husband appear to identify two brothers, Anthoni and Jan, and a father, Aelbert Thonisse van Oostrum, leading to an inferred name for a grandfather: Theunis van Oostrum, or again Anthoni.

The lease on 90 morgen of land cost Lammertje Fl 1.225 a year. Add to that Fl 96 for the lease on 5 morgen meadow. Apparently no rent had been paid for three years. When Lammertje extended the lease she also acknowledged a debt of Fl 4,190. By 1734 she was already advanced in years, probably in her early sixties. Small wonder that signed over all her possessions to her son Albertus 4 years later. The other surviving children, Johannes, Arie, Cunera and Grietje, signed their agreement with the deal. Albertus also assumed al her debts, and promissed to maintain Lammertje until the day she died. The Jutphaas RC Register of Burials records the death of a Lammertje Vlooswijk in 1746, probably Lammertje van Oostrum. It is rare, but the Jutphaas Registers of Burials do record a woman as buried under her husband’s name.

I have identified six children. Five of them appear in the act where Lammertje transfers all her properties to son Albert, and the others consented: Johannes, Grietje, Cunera, Lammertje and Albert. Three appear in the Jutphaas Register of Baptism: Arie, Cunera and Johanna. Johanna probably did not survive into adulthood. There may also have been more children; children who never made it to their baptism.

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