Ancestors Bijkerk » Adriaen Adriaens Roothaes (< 1620-1672)

Personal data Adriaen Adriaens Roothaes 

  • Alternative name: Aerijen Aerijensz (variation)
  • He was born before 1620 in Haarlem,NL.
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1652 Kapitein.

      ROOTHAES (Adriaen), Hij was kapitein op een der gehuurde schepen, dal hij, naar het schijnt, naar zichzelf had herdoopt. Deze Roothaes werd in 1654 door de amsterdamse Admiraliteit vereerd met een gouden gedenkpenning aan een dito keten, wegens ijver, moed en beleid en omdat hij met zijn tochtgenooten niet minder dan 13 prijzen had veroverd. (De Jonge, Dl. 1, 466). Hij heeft later een zeer verdienstelijke loopbaan afgelegd in dienst der O.-l. Compagnie; in 1664 was hij Gouverneur op Ceylon.
    • on 1664-1665 Gouverneur van Ceylon in Ceylon,Azie.Source 1

      Log-book kept on board the ship "Phoenix", commander Adriaan Roothaas, on a voyage from Batavia off Ceylon to Goa; with some minutes of meetings held aboard ship.
      1657 August - 1658 May 8.
      van 1660 tot 1672 Kommandeur van Gale

      1665 January 29 - 1689 January 5. Damaged. Badly bound.
      The first document is a contemporary copy of a letter from the "commandeur" of Galle, Adriaan Roothaas, to Raja Sinha II. 1665 January 29. Among them is one letter from governor Laurens Pijl to the sultan of the Maldives, 1668 December 4, in Dutch and Maldivian [279] .
  • He died in the year 1672 in Ceylon,Azie.
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  • This information was last updated on May 18, 2021.

Household of Adriaen Adriaens Roothaes

(1) He is married to Marija Winninx.

They got married on 1656-1660 at Ceylon,Azie.


The betrothal of Esther de Solemne to Governor van Goens Wfis preceded by a very interesting ceremony, On the 4th August, 1667, the naming of three new bastions in the Galle ramparts took place. It was decided by the Political Council that the Governor, accompanied by the Commandeur and Members of Council, together with Juffrouw Esther de Solemne, Mevrouw Maria Wennink, the wife of Commandeur Roothaas, and her elder daughter, should perform the ceremony, the bastions to be named the Sun, the Moon, and theStar, respectively. Juffrouw de Solemne fired the first cannon on the Sun bastion ; Mevrouw Rootbaas did the same on the Moon bastion ; and the young lady performed a like service on the Star bastion. This pleasing function was followed by the announcement on the llfch August of the engagement of Governor van Goens to Esther de Solemne. The first publication of the banns of marriage took place on the 14th August, and the marriage was solemnised in Colombo on the 8th September. (journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, R.G.Anthonisz)


Child(ren):

  1. Cesar Adriaensz Roothaes  ± 1658-1719 


(2) He is married to Maertje Pieters.

They got married before 1643 at Haarlem,NL.


Child(ren):



Notes about Adriaen Adriaens Roothaes


ROOTHAES (Adriaen), Commandeur en Kapitein van een der gehuurde schepen in de Middellandsche zee
Hem werd in 1654 door de Admiraliteit van Amsterdam een gouden keten en een penning van hetzelfde metaal geschonken, omdat hij vele blijken van moed en beleid gegeven en met zijn togtgenooten dertien prijzen veroverd had.

Zie J.C. de Jong, Gesch. v.h. Neêrl. Zeewezen, D. IIa, bl. 112.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Adriaen Adriaens Roothaes

Adriaen Adriaens Roothaes
< 1620-1672

(1) 1660

Marija Winninx
1624-????

Cesar Adriaensz Roothaes
± 1658-1719
(2) < 1643

Maertje Pieters
< 1620-????

Jesijntje Adriaens Roothaes
1643-1672
Guertje Arijaansd Roothaes
1646-1720

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