Genealogy Naessens » Gerardus Anten (1851-1921)

Personal data Gerardus Anten 


Household of Gerardus Anten

(1) He is married to Catherine Smith.

They got married at Liverpool.


Child(ren):

  1. Gerard Anten  1889-????
  2. Gerard Anten  1890-????
  3. John Anten  1892-1945 
  4. Edward Anten  1893-????
  5. Rasima Anten  1895-????
  6. Rasima Anten  1898-????
  7. Seth Anten  1900-
  8. Eva Anten  1900-
  9. Rasima Anten  1902-


(2) He had a relationship with Ellen Margaret Jane Tebay.


Child(ren):

  1. Edna Anten  1904-


(3) He had a relationship with ?.


Child(ren):

  1. Edna Anten  1902-


(4) He is married to Maria Theresa Geertruida Mertz.

They got married about 1874.


Child(ren):



(5) He is married to Elizabeth Jane Layton.

They got married on April 12, 1876 at St Luke's, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Walter Anten  1879-????
  3. Charles Anten  1881-????
  4. George Anten  1884-???? 
  5. Frederick Anten  1887-????


Notes about Gerardus Anten

Known in the records mostly as "Gerard"
Language teacher in Leeds.
The three Rasimas (from his marriage with Catherine Smith) all died young.

Although born in Surabaya in Java, he grew up mostly in Holland. He joined the Dutch Army in 1868 and even became a sergeant (in 1869) before getting reduced to the ranks again in 1870. It is not known what he had done to deserve that. Two years later he became a deserter and after being taken to court ended up being given a month's jail. However, he never served his sentence and it is fairly certain he ended up fleeing to England to escape his prison sentence. He would have arrived in the UK around 1872 0r 1873, and his brother Karel followed him soon after 1874.

There is no evidence actually married his third wife Catherine Smith, although they did have nine children. The same applies to his first wife, or partner, with whom he had one child. He definitely did marry Elizabeth Layton and Jane Ellen Tebay. There is some doubt he married the last, unknown partner although there was one child from that union as well! It seems likely he never got to formally marry Maria Mertz because marriage was impossible after his jail sentence in Holland and intended flight to England. She no doubt simply accompanied him to the UK posing as his lawfully wedded wife and it was never questioned. But when Gerardus married Elizabeth Layton in Leeds in 1876, his marriage certificate shows him as "batchelor", which is what he would have been, legally!

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Birthday September 13, 1851

  • The temperature on September 13, 1851 was about 13.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • May 1 » Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
    • June 5 » Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
    • September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
    • November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
    • December 9 » The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
    • December 29 » The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of marriage April 12, 1876

  • The temperature on April 12, 1876 was about 2.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 2 » The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
    • May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
    • August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
    • September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
    • October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
    • November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.


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