(1) Il est marié avec Cornelia van Eyk.
Ils se sont mariés le 15 juin 1764 à Amsterdam, il avait 21 ans.Source 1
Enfant(s):
(2) Il est marié avec Swaantje van der Veen.
Ils se sont mariés le 2 avril 1784 à Amsterdam, Netherlands, il avait 41 ans.
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", case XXIX on pages 223, 224 and 225.
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. Source: VOC Crew archives (National Archives) Registration Nr. 6721, page 180.
This may not be related. The sons of his first marriage would have been 18 and 19 years old, but he just remarried to his second wife in 1784.
Gerrit Vuurens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cornelia van Eyk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) 1784 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Swaantje van der Veen |
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