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Household of Gerrit Vuurens

(1) He is married to Cornelia van Eijk.

They got married on June 15, 1764 at Amsterdam, Netherlands, he was 21 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Johannus Vuurens  1765-1804
  2. Cornelis Vuurens  1766-1852 
  3. Rokus Vuurens  1769-1772


(2) He is married to Swaantje van der Veen.

They got married on April 2, 1784 at Amsterdam, Netherlands, he was 41 years old.Source 4


Notes about Gerrit Vuurens

Gerrit's father died when he was 5 or 6 years old. His mother dies when he is 16 years old. A bother of his mother, Gerrit van Dam, and a brother of his father, Cornelis Vuurens, are assigned as guardians. (Source wedding registry Amsterdam). It is unclear how he ended up in Amsterdam when he married at 21 years of age to the 28 year old Cornelia van Eijk.

On 11 April 1770, Gerrit performed a heroic recue of a 7 year old girl who had fallen into a canal in Amsterdam. The detailed description of the rescue is described here: "Historie en gedenkschriften van de Maatschappij, tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerecht binnen Amsterdam MDCCLXVII. Eerste Deel", case XXIX on pages 223, 224 and 225.

Was a witness on 1 Apr 1774 at the baptism of Neeltje van Eijk, daughter of Abram van Eijk, his brother in law, and Jannetje Janse. Source DTB Dutch Reformed Amsterdam, Westerkerk Book 112 p.199 (folio 98).

On 17 Apr 1776 Gerrit Vuurens and Cornelia van Eijk record their will in Amsterdam with Notaris Philippus Pot, Notarial Archives, Archive Nr 5075, Inv. Nr. 10192, Record Nr. 347004. They are living on the Lindegragt near the baangragt.

On the same day, 17 Apr 1776, Gerrit gives Power of Attorney to Cornelia van Eijk to handle all his affairs while he is going on a foreign trip. Notarial Archives of Philippus Pot, Archive Nr. 5075, Inv. Nr. 10192, Record Nr. 313776.

On 3 Jun 1776 Cornelia van Eijk gives power of attorney, on behalf of her husband Gerrit Vuurens who is probably travelling abroad at the time, to Pieter van Elst to deal with the legal sale house in Haastrecht located "op de kleine Have" to Gerrit Spruijt.

On 24 Sep 1777 Gerrit records another document leaving his wife, Cornelia van Eijk, in charge of his effects while he is going on another foreign trip. Notarial Archive of Philippus Pot in Amsterdam, Archive Nr. 5075, Inv. Nr. 10195, Record Nr 339080.

Gerrit's wife Cornelia van Eijk dies on 8 Apr 1778. It is unclear if he is in the country or not at that time. He obvisouly returns at some time and on 6 May 1784 he remarries in Amsterdam to Swaantje van der Veen.

There is a record at the Dutch east India company (VOC) of a Gerrit Vuuren from Amsterdam, who is hired as a "hooploper" (untrained deckhand). Leaving Amsterdam on 12 Dec 1784, Arriving at the Cape on 30 Mar 1785, Leaving the Cape on 29 Apr 1785, Arriving Batavia on 10 Jul 1785 returning in 1786. Leaving on the ship named Barbesteijn from Batavia on 12 Jan 1786, Arrival at the Cape 21 Apr 1786. Departing Cape 11 May 1786 and Arriving Amsterdam on 20 Aug 1786. Source: VOC Crew archives (National Archives) Registration Nr. 6721, page 180. This may not be related.

Gerrit and family must have moved from Amsterdam to the Lopikerwaard, land of his birth, because he was buried in Waarder. He was survived by his second wife. In the Regional Archive of Rijnstreek and Lopikerwaard in the judicial archives of the township of Lange Ruige Weide (Schoutambacht of gerecht Lange Ruige Weide), which abuts Waarder, there is an act of indemnity for Zwaantje van der Veen, Gerrit's second wife, who is then the guardian of Jan and Cornelis Vuurens) on 27 Dec 1791. (Source: Regional Archive of Rijnstreek and Lopikerwaard, Archive Nr. R027, Inventorry Number 63, Record Nr 9)

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    Sources

    1. DTB, Polsbroek NH dopen, trouwen
      Polsbroek, archive L106, inventory number 3, 13-1-1743, folio 14
    2. DTB, Fonds doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Waarder

      Burial in Waarder, 1788
      Regional Archive of Rijnstreek and Lopikerwaard, Archive Nr: R063, Inv. Nr. 3, Pg 197.
      Den 31 dito is begre Gerrit Vuurens
      in de kerk een diiep som x11=8=0

      Lived in: Papekop according to the index, but no evidence found
    3. DTB, marriages
      Ondertrouwregister: NL-SAA-26309376 608 page 436
    4. DTB, Amsterdam Marriages
      SAA Index op ondertrouwregister, Amsterdam, archive 5001, DTB 629, p.128

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    Birthday January 13, 1743

    • The temperature on January 13, 1743 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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      Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
    • In the year 1743: Source: Wikipedia
      • May 12 » Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
      • May 19 » Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
      • June 27 » In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
      • September 13 » Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

    Day of marriage April 2, 1784

    • The temperature on April 2, 1784 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1784: Source: Wikipedia
      • March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
      • March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
      • April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
      • August 17 » Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
      • August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
      • October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

    Day of death October 31, 1788

    • The temperature on October 31, 1788 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1788: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 2 » Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
      • January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
      • April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
      • June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
      • June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
      • July 25 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
    

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