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Persoonlijke gegevens Pieter Lambertus Alkemade 

• Hij is geboren op 11 oktober 1835 in Noordwijk The Netherlands.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden op 12 februari 1897 in Darley near Bacchus Marsh Vic, Australië, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.Bronnen 2, 3
• Hij is begraven op 14 februari 1897 in St Kilda Vic, Australië.Bron 3
• Een kind van Cornelis Cornelisz Alkemade en Petronella Catharina Caecilia van Lanschot

Gezin van Pieter Lambertus Alkemade

Hij is getrouwd met Janet Adam.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 juli 1862 te Benalla Vic, Australië, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.Bron 4

Kind(eren):

1. Cornelus Lambertus Theodorus Alkemade  1863-1951 
2. Christina Robina van Alkemade  1864-1948 
3. Petrus van Lanschot Alkemade  1866-1939 
4. Alida Cecilia Alkemade  1868-???? 
5. Robert John Gerardus Alkemade  1869-1948 
6. Jane Adam Alkemade  1870-1956 
7. John William Alkemade  1873-1954 
8. Dorothea Alkemade  1875-1875
9. Theodorus Adrianus Alkemade  1876-1889

Notities over Pieter Lambertus Alkemade

Pieter, vernoemd naar zijn grootvader Petrus van Lanschot, maar volgens het geboorteregister Noordwijk Pieter en doopnaam : Petrus. In Australië werd het : Petrus Lambertus Alkemade.
Doopgetuigen (RK Noordwijk): Johannes Adrianus Hogewaard en Jacoba Hogeduin.
Getuigen bij de geboorteaangifte te Noordwijk binnen: Cornelis van Rooijen junior (#11761), 38 jaar, broodbakker en Cornelis van der Meer, 51 jaar, schoenmaker, beiden bekenden van de aangever Cornelis Cornelisz Alkemade, allen wonende te Noordwijk binnen (met hun mooie handtekeningen).

Hij is de stamvader van de Alkemade-tak: PCC in Australië met de ondertakken: CPCC, PPCC, RPCC en JPPC.

Pieter vertrok in 1853 als jongmaat per schip naar Australië, te samen met een duitse jongmaat. Naar verluidt mochten zij nergens van boord en zijn samen bij Van Diemsensland clandestien zwemmend van boord gegaan.

Pieter deed driemaal een poging om naar Europa terug te gaan, maar zijn schip werd steeds weer op de Australische kust teruggeworpen. Verbleef de eerste periode op Tasmanië (toen nog Van Diemensland geheten) en werd daar lid van de Presbyteriaanse Kerk. Er is een verklaring van James Henderson, Minister of the Scotch Church in Evandale d.d. 13 juni 1862: "These are to certify that Petrus Alkemade was some time ago a member of the Presbyterian congregation of Evandale & that so far as is known to me his conduct was consistent with his christian profession" (vermoedelijk nodig voor het huwelijk op 11 juli 1862 met de presbyteriane Jessie Adam).

Bij de boedelscheiding in 1861 na het overlijden van zijn moeder te Noordwijk in 1856, waarbij hij volmacht gaf aan zijn vader, wordt vermeld: "Timmerman, wonende te Evandale in Diemensland" (=Tasmania) (Kadaster den Haag L 297/58).

Bij de boedelscheiding in 1892: "wonende in St Kilda in de kolonie Australië". "Bouwer en aannemer als beroep)". Eigenaar van kalkgroeven en kunstmestfabrieken in Coimadai, welke plaats thans onder water in een opdrogend stuwmeer ligt.

Hij overleed te Darley Plains nabij Bacchus Marsh, op vrijdag 12 feb 1897 t.g.v. een ongeluk met een door hem zelf gemende paard en lastwagen met kalk. Hij werd begraven op Zondag 14 feb 1897 op de begraafplaats van St Kilda in het familiegraf.

Bevriend met de architect William Henry Ellerker (#9143), die in 1886 op diens reis naar oa. Europa cadeaux en photo´s van de Australische tak van onze Alkemade-familie overbracht naar de familie in Noordwijk (NL) en vele foto´s van de familie in Nederland mee terug nam.
Zie foto´s .

Van Alison Munro (#1979), de 3de dochter van Petrus´ zoon Peter, kregen wij aantekeningen dd. 26 nov 1985:
"Grandfather died at the age of 62 - due to an accident at Coimadai near Bacchus Marsh, as reported in newspaper dated 20th February 1897. He left Holland aged 18 years to seek his fortune on the goldfields. He tried to return to Holland on three occasions, but was shipwrecked three times, once off the Tasmanian coast and was swept ashore by clinging to a spar. He received injuries that laid him up for 11 months. His father was Superintendent for the Dutch Governement on the extensive dykes maintained in that country. Grandfather had a good insight into the building trade. He worked in Geelong, Benalla and Albury. He married Jessie Adam at Benalla. When he left Albury, he was presented with an illuminated address by the residents of Albury, so he must have contributed a lot to that town to be so honoured. He opened the Major Plains lime kilns and in 1886 took up the deserted lime kilns at Coimadai and developed them considerably. He was a man of many parts and very adaptable. He had no English and my father told me he learned the language with the use of Webster´s Dictionary. Whenever my father or his brothers and sisters asked the meaning of a word, the Dictionary was always referred to. This continued during my lifetime with father.

The BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS of Saturday, February 20th, 1897: On Saturday an enquiry was held by G. Dickie, Esq., J.P., at Coimadai, at the residence of the late Mr. P.L. Alkemade, who was accidentally killed the previous evening.

Robert John Alkemade, a son of the deceased, deposed that his father was a builder and contractor by trade, but latterly had been lassee of the Coimadai lime kiln. He left his home about 11 a.m. on Friday, 12th inst., for Bacchus Marsh railway station, with a load of lime. He was in his usual good health and spirits - the best of spirits. I walked round the front garden with him, and he was telling me what he was going to do when myself and brothers left for Western Australia. He was to knock off lime carting to-day, and stop at home. Nest saw him when he was brought home al night in Mr.Bromley´s buggy dead. There were wounds on his face.

John William Alkemade (#1038) said:
his father´s name was Petrus Lambertus Alkemade. He was 62 years of age. Saw him before he left on Friday, and loaded his dray. About 9 p.m. I saw him lying dead on the road side at Darley. Mr. Densley brought me word of the accident.
James Hanson, residing at Darley, said that, at about 7 o´clock on Friday evening, he was cutting Lucerne near the road side, when he saw Mr. Alkemade coming along the road in a dray. I was leading my horse to the slip panel. I heard a noise of the dray rattling, and saw Mr. Alkemade´s horse bolting. Saw Mr. Alkemade holding on to one rein, and singing out "whoa". He turned the horse right round. After travelling a little further the dray upset. He was pulling the near side rein. There was an incline on the road there. When I came op Mr. Alkemade was lying on his back underneath the dray. I asked him if he was hurt. He did not answer. I drew him out, and put his cant under his head. He was alive then. He did not speak. He lived about ten minutes. I sent a boy away for the doctor. I saw a bruise over the right eye. Did not see any dog or anything to cause the horse to bolt. The deceased was dead before Dr. Vance arrived. The dray was not resting on him. The left arm was broken. The blow over the right eye seemed to have caused death".
Senior-constable Moore deposed that Dr. Vance informed him of the dead of the deceased. He went to the spot, and found the deceased lying on the road side. His left arm was broken. Verdict of accidental death returned.
The deceased was born at Nordwick, Holland, in 1835. His father was a superintendent for the Government of the extensive dykes maintained in that country, and the deceased had good insight into all kinds of building although he left his native country when for 18 years of age to come to Victoria. He resided at Geelong for a time, and afterwards at Benalla and Albury. He was married at Benalla in 1862. On leaving Albury he was presented with an illuminated address by the inhabitants. He opened the Major Plains limekilns, and was always a most enterprising man in that and other directions, having a good knowledge of almost all handicrafts. In March 1886, he took up the deserted lime claims at Coimadai, and developed them considerably. Until the land boom collapsed he had a large out put of lime. He had a family of five sons and four daughters, of whom four sons and three daughters are living; also his widow.

Three of the sons were to go to Western Australia this week, but they will now remain at Coimadai. They had intended to leave, in fact, on the day their father died. The horse Mr. Alkemade was driving was 6 years old, but had not been long broken in, and was only purchased three months ago. Deceased was well able to manage it, but doubtless it was not so easily controlled as the horse which he had previously driven. The deceased, although not superstitious, had a dislike to Fridays. He made three attempts to go home to Holland, but was wrecked each time. Once was off the Tasmanian coast, when he was swept on shore clinging to a spar, and received injuries which laid him up for eleven months. The deceased was buried on Sunday at St Kilda Cemetery, where the family have a grave.
And in the same paper:
Deaths: ´On the 12th February, by accident at Darley Plains, near Bacchus Marsh, Petrus Lambertus Alkemade, lime merchant, dearly beloved husband of Jessie Alkemade, of Coimadai, aged 62 years. Interred St Kilda cemetry, Sunday, 14th February. Deeply regretted´. ´ Suddenly, just in a moment, The Lord of Life did come; And lifted me out of Cloudland Into the Light of Home.´

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