Hij is getrouwd met Cornelia Sophia Constantia Bol.
Huwelijksakte number 132 (held by Rijksarchief Noord-Brabant)
Toegangsnummer 121.027
Inventarisnummer 1234
Zij zijn getrouwd op 13 december 1858 te Breda, The Netherlands , hij was toen 23 jaar oud.
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Also appears in the records as "Willem Johannes Theodorus".
In June 1885, the family moved from Zaltbommel to Breda. In 1880, Willebrordus had gone bankrupt. In fact, he had a rather unfortunate and unsuccessful career as a "merchant" (meaning shopkeeper) in different places. Although working (and failing ) in Zaltbommel for several years, the records of Zaandam also show him as having spent some time there, from January 28 to October 9, 1858, at which time he is listed as having departed for Zaltbommel.
In fact, he met his future wife in Zaandam when Cornelia visited her sister Catharina Adriana there, who had married Willebrordus' boss, Ferdinand Wubbe, five years earlier. Willebrordus was apprenticed to Ferdinand to become a tailor and and had a rented room at his boss's home.
A newspaper notice in Zaltbommel following his bankruptcy, invites all his creditors to come to the bankruptcy hearing at the district court in Tiel on January 7, 1880, "to verify their claims on the property, goods, effects and chattels" of Willebrordus Johannes Theodorus Naessens.
The house that the family lived in in Zaltbommel still exists and was known at the time as 'number 391 Wijk C sectie A 371, that Willebrordus bought in October 1858. Annual tax was 325 guilders a year, a not inconsiderable sum. Today, the house is in what is called the Gasthuisstraat, number 32. All his children were born in this house.
His bankruptcy was just another unfortunate chapter in the life of an in some ways rather unfortunate man who became an orphan at age 10 and never really amounted to anything since. However, most of his children did very well for themselves, his daughters marrying well and his son Willebrordus Josephus Theordorus becoming a successful concert pianist and even more successful businessman.
After his business collapse, the family fled to Cornelia's birth place Breda where they were apparently welcomed with open arms by her family, despite the large brood of children they brought with them! The secret lay in the fact that both were regarded as charming, engaging people and even Willebrordus could be said to have been well regarded in spite of his business failure(s) and became a much-loved family patriarch who died at age 93.
He always described himself as a "manufacturer", meaning he made clothing and sold it in his own shop. It is not clear what he did in Breda after the collapse of his business in Zaltbommel, but the Breda municipal records list him and his family as having left for Schaerbeek (Brussels) on 31 Jul 1889. How long they were in Belgium is not known but it is clear they returned to The Netherlands because Willebrordus died in Apeldoorn in 1928.
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