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GRIEP of Hoedekenskerke
The Griep family from
Zeeland first appeared at Hoedekenskerke>
[Nederlands]
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 Around
the year 1630, somewhere in or near the Dutch province of
Zeeland, someone by the name of Adriaen Griep was born. The
only things that we know about him, is that he was 'popish'
(catholic) and that he had a son in 1666 at Hoedekenskerke.
Where his family came from is still unclear. More is known
about the descendants of this son. Till now there are more
than 1000 of them, living throughout the Netherlands and
all over the world. |
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THE
ANCESTOR |
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Jan Adriaense Griep
(1666-1726)
Jan Adriaense
Griep was, according to a note in the margin of the parish
register of the Dutch Reformed Church, born on September 8,
1666 at Hoedekenskerke.
Little is known about his parents. Their names were Adriaen
Griep and, presumably, Adriaentje Paeuw en they had the
Roman-Catholic religion. |
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"Jan
Adriaense Griep
is born on
8 September 1666,
but not baptised
in this reformed church because
his parents
were popish" |
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 The
reason why his birth was noted in the margin of the
register, maybe even years later, is not clear. Was it when
his parents decided to join the Reformed Church, or did they
come from somewhere else? It is true that Hoedekenskerke is
situated along the River Schelde, on which there were many
people traveling. This question will ever be hard to answer.
The parish registers of older date are lost throughout the
years.
Jan married
in 1694, to Cornelia Abrams Verschure, daughter of Abraham
Cornelisse and Pieternella Cornelisse. Two weeks after the
marriage, the first of their 6 children was born. During the
wedding ceremony, the vicar had already noticed her
pregnancy, because he made a note about it in the parish
register. The couple had 6
children, while living at Hoedekenskerke. |
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THE SECOND GENERATION
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 From
the six children of Jan and Cornelia, there are only
two from whom more is known than their name and date
of birth. Those two are third son Abram and second daughter Pieternella.
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Abram Griep
(1697-..)
married in 1727 to Johanna de Bats.
They lived at Hoedekenskerke, Johanna was a shopkeeper
and Abram a bargeman, and had eight children. In 1746
their youngest child was born and in 1749 his wife
Johanna was mentioned as a widow; so Abram must have
died around his 50th birthday.
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Pieternella Griep (1699-1755) married in 1727
to Pieter Bonneau,
a carpenter from Belle (at present Bailleul in Northern France).
Living at Hoedekenskerke, they had four children. Pieternella
died at 55 years of age.
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THE THIRD GENERATION
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 The
skipper Abram Griep and his wife Johanna de Bats
were the ones that gave Hoedekenskerke a next generation of
Griep's. They had eight children: Cornelia (died single at
25 years of age), Kornelis (died as a child), three sons and two daughters
who all married and had children, and finally Pieter
about whom is little known.
Their son Jan
(*1729) married and stayed to live at Hoedekenskerke. Two
younger sons both found another place to earn their living
as a skipper. |
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 Jan Griep
(1729-..) married in 1754 at 's-Heer Abtskerke to Pieternella
Jansze Vermeulen from Nisse. They lived at Hoedekenskerke and had ten
children.
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Adriaan Griep (1736-1792)
married around 1759 to Neeltje Remeijn. They lived
at Ellewoutsdijk and had two sons. After her death Adriaan
remarried in 1768 to Johanna Wissekerke. In 1777
they moved to Yerseke, where Adriaan became the operator
of the ferry to the island of Tholen.
For more about his descendants: page
<GRIEP AT YERSEKE>
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Cornelis Griep
(1737-1797) married Johanna Steketee from Borssele and, after her
death, in 1763 with her older sister, the widow Jacoba
Steketee.
Around 1770 they moved to Hansweert, where Cornelis
became the operator of the regular market boat service
to Middelburg.
For more about his descendants: page
<GRIEP AT HANSWEERT>.
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THE FOURTH GENERATION
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 The
fourth generation of Griep at Hoedekenskerke is made up by
the ten children of Jan Griep and Pieternella Vermeulen.
From six of them little is known, but some more information
is found about the oldest and the youngest two.
They did't
seem to be skippers anymore. Three of them had moved to
villages away from the coast and Cornelis,
who stayed to live at Hoedekenskerke, earned his living as a
day laborer. |
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 Jan
Griep married in
1785 at ’s-Heer Abtskerke to Tannetje
Fortse. Living at
's-Gravenpolder they had six children. See page:Jan Griep (1756-..).
- Adriaan Griep (1758-1807) married Maria Hoekman
from
's-Gravenpolder. They also moved to that village and
had at least two children there.
- Cornelis Griep (1762-1823)
married
in 1788 at Hoedekenskerke to Janna Schipper from
Baarland. In the same year he was confirmed in the Dutch Reformed
Church. They had two daughters.
Cornelis earned his living as a day laborer.
- Johannes
Griep (1773-1845), called Janus, married in
1797 to Jacoba Schipper from Baarland. They also went to live there and
had two children.
See page: Johannes
Griep (1773-1845).
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THE FIFTH GENERATION
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Out of
the fifth generation of the descendants of Jan Adriaenszoon Griep,
there are only a few still living at Hoedekenskerke.
Presumably only the two daughters of Cornelis Griep and Janna Schippers.
Meanwhile, his other descendants lived at places like Hansweert, Yerseke,
Baarland, 's-Gravenpolder and Heinkenszand.
Heinkenszand
is the village where Adriaan Griep and Maria Hoekman lived.
About their oldest son Jan the following information is
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- Jan Griep
(1791-1816) was born at ’s-Gravenpolder on the
day after Christmas, 1791. He married in 1814 at 's-Heer
Arendskerke to Elisabeth Koole. Earlier, in 1813, he
worked as a farm-hand at Kloetinge. Later on he was a
bargeman, living at Heinkenszand. When he died on August
17, 1816, 24 years of age, his son
Adriaan
is only four
months old and his daughter Johanna Pieternella
(who died as a child) is not even born yet. In
later years Elisabeth Koole remarried to Jan Matthijsen.
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THE SIXTH GENERATION
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Nevertheless,
the presence of Griep at Hoedekenskerke would last a few
more generations. That is because Adriaan Griep from Heinkenszand
did return. |
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 Adriaan Griep (1816-1881) is the grandson of
Adriaan Griep, who left in
1768 for 's-Graven-polder. He was born in 1816 at Heinkenszand and
married in 1841 to
Maria Rooze from Kortgene. He earned his living as a farm-hand. They
lived at Hoedekenskerke and had two children. In
later years the moved again to
's-Gravenpolder, and had another son there.
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THE SEVENTH GENERATION
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Both
children of Adriaan and Maria that were born at Hoedekenskerke died at a
very young age. Only their youngest son would grow up to
adulthood. |
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- Adriaan
Griep (1854-..) married in 1875 to Hendrika Stroosnijder
from 's-Gravenpolder.
They had six daughters.
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THE EIGHTS GENERATION
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The
six
daughters of Adriaan and Hendrika made up the eights and
last generation of Griep at Hoedekenskerke. One by one, they
moved elsewhere. The last one to leave Hoedekenskerke is Elisabeth (1884-1927). |
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- Maria
(1876-1948) married in 1903 Dirk Toorenaar and
left for
Kloetinge, where she died in 1948.
- Klazina
(1877-1941) married in 1901 François
Johan Meloen and left for Krabbendijke. They both died there,
shortly after another, in 1941.
- Adriana
(1879-..) emigrated in 1906 with the vessel 'Potsdam'
from Rotterdam to America. Her destination: Garfield, New Jersey.
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Johanna (1881-1980)
left for Goes, where she worked as a packer for a
seed-trade. She died in
1980, at the age of 98.
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Elizabeth (1884-1927)
married in 1902 Christiaan
den Dekker and stayed to live at Hoedekenskerke. She died
in 1927 at Goes.
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Neeltje (1888-1956)
married in 1920 to Johannes Reijnhout, who worked for
the railroad as a signalman. After his death she
remarried in 1941 at Utrecht
to Cornelis Adrianus van de Wijngaard. She died at Soest
in 1956.
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The
tidal harbor of Hoedekenskerke, around 1980
While
the Griep-families that had spread to other parts of the
region were still growing in numbers, Griep at
Hoedekenskerke had vanished after eight generations and a
presence of more than two and a halve century. Nowadays, as
the
genealogy of Jan Adriaenszoon
Griep shows,
his descendants live in many parts of the Netherlands and in
distant regions all over the world, like America, Australia, Argentina en
South-Africa. |
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