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GRIEP of Yerseke
More
then two centuries, descendants of skipper Griep are living at
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 In 1776,
the 40 year old Adriaan Griep moved with his family from
Hoedekenskerke to Yerseke, a village at the shores of
the Oosterschelde river. From the Lord of the Manor of
Yerseke he leased the right to operate the ferry to
Gorishoek, on the island
of Tholen, an important link in the postal service in those
days.
Nowadays there are no postal
routes using ferries anymore, and also in most other ways
everything has changed. But there are still people by
the name of Griep living at Yerseke. Here is their story. |
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THE
FIRST GENERATION |
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Adriaan
Griep (1736-1792)
Ferryman
from Yersekendam to Gorishoek
Adriaan Griep
was born at Hoedekenskerke in 1736. His father was the
skipper
Abram
Janszoon Griep and his
mother
Johanna de Bats
was a shopkeeper.
Around
1759 he married Neeltje Remeijn. They had, at Ellewoutsdijk,
two sons.
After the death of his first wife, Adriaan remarried in 1768
to Johanna Wissekerke from Heinkenszand. They settled in
Yerseke and had another 8 children.
In 1777 he leased from the lord of the manor of Yerseke the
right to operate the ferry service from Yersekendam to
Gorishoek. In 1785 he acquired the ground to build a
ferry-house at Yersekendam.
In 1786 he married for the third time: to Catharina de Looze,
widow of Willem Wolse from 's-Gravenpolder.
On December 21, 1792, a disaster occurred during stormy
weather. Adriaan's ship went down, and he and two of his
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THE FERRY SERVICE
FROM YERSEKENDAM TO GORISHOEK
The ferry service at Yersekendam is first mentioned in 1351, when Count
Willem V granted the right to operate it for the first time. From 1479
on, the Lord of the Manor of Yerseke is the one that grants the right.
According to his records, the ferry service
was granted to Adriaan Griep from 1777 till he died in 1792. Starting in
1805 his son-in-law Jan van Zweden leased it, at a yearly charge of
£15,-.
For many years the ferry service Yersekendam-Gorishoek was an important
link for the mail between the provinces of Zeeland and Holland. The
stagecoaches went from Vlissingen and Middelburg to Yersekendam. After
they sailed across the Oosterschelde, they continued over the island of
Tholen further on to Rotterdam. The ferry existed until 1962, when
ferry-man G.M. Larooy suspended the service due to lack of passengers.
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The crossing from
Yersekendam to Gorishoek, in 2004
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THE SECOND GENERATION
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The
second generation Griep's at Yerseke is living through
turbulent times. In 1795 the French conquered the country
and from 1810 to 1815, many Dutch man were enlisted to serve
in the armies of Napoleon.
This second generation was made up by the ten children of Adriaan Griep:
two from his first mariage and eight from the second. About
five of them there is little information. From the other
five, the sons became skippers and his daughter married the
one that would finnally proceed him as skipper of the ferry. |
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Jan Griep (1763-1827)
was
a skipper and married to Maatje Jans Wiskerke
from Kapelle.
Between 1805 and 1809 they lived at Woensdrecht
and Ossendrecht,
after that they returned to Yerseke.
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Christina Griep (1774-1853)
married Jan Quinten van Sweeden and had six
children. In 1805 became the operator of the
ferry service to
Gorishoek, that was prior to 1792 operated by his
father-in-law. Jan van Zweden must have died
around 1825, because after that year his
son, also named
Jan van Zweden, leased the right to operate the ferry.
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 Cornelis Griep
(1777-1838)
married Cornelia Ossewaarde, had seven
children and, until 1811, he worked as a
barge hand at. Later on he is skipper the
ferry service. At the conscript for the
Napoleontic army in 1811, he was noted as
the owner of a 'hengst'-type sailing ship.
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Abraham Griep (1779-1834)
married Helena Bijlo from Kapelle and had
five children. At the conscript for the
Napoleontic army in 1811, he was noted as
fisherman and owner of a 'hoogaars'-type
sailing ship. In later years he is noted as
barge hand and ferryman. In 1828 he sold the
ferry house at Yersekendam.
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De twins
Johannes
en Paulus Griep (1780-1792)
drowned, two days before their 12th
birthday, together with their father on
their way with the ferryboat between Yersekendam and Gorishoek.
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The ferry house at
Yersekendam, around 1900 and in 2004.
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THE THIRD GENERATION
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Jan (*1763), Cornelis (*1777) and Abraham
(*1779), with respectively eight, seven and five children,
were the ones that provided Yerseke with a third generation of
Griep's. The ferry service was in the hands of their
uncle Jan van Zweden and his son. So, as far as the third Griep generation worked as a skipper, they did so on their
boats or elsewhere, in the nearby village of Wemeldinge for
instance.
Others did earn their living as laborers.
These are
the seven children -- four daughters and three sons -- of Jan Griep
(*1763):
- Neeltje
Griep (1788-1828) married the farmhand Jan Minnaard and had eight
children. She died at the age of 40.
- Johanna Griep
(1790-1859) married the laborer Adriaan (de) Witte
and moved to Kapelle.
- Adriana
Griep (1791-1816) had a son when she was 23, and died one year later.
- Adriaan
Griep (1794-1858) was a laborer and married Anna van Noorden. The had
one son that only lived for two months.
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Pieter Griep (1796-1856)
was
a laborer and married Janna van Loo,
who died in childbirth with their first child.
Pieter remarried Maatje Everse and had with her eight more children. Out
of these nine children, only three did grow up to
adulthood.
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Pieternella Griep
(1800-1821) married
Cornelis Griep
from
Hansweert. She died, 21 years old, in childbirth
with her second child.
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Jan Griep (1803-1857)
married Adriana Schouwenaar and had five children. He worked
as a barge-hand at Wemeldinge. Most of his descendants
stayed to live at Wemeldinge and Yerseke, but some of
them moved to Brabant, Rotterdam and even to
America.
- Abraham
Griep (1806-1811)
died, 5 years old, at Yerseke.
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His
younger brother Cornelis Griep (*1777) also had three sons,
plus five daughters:
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 Johanna
Griep (1798-1880) married the laborer Pieter van Loo and moved to ’s-Heer Arendskerke.
- Cornelis Anthonie
Griep (1799-1852) married Hendrika Kosten from
Kapelle and had three children. He worked for his uncle as skipper on
the ferry service to Gorishoek. In February 1830 he and
four other bargees, took part in a rescue operation on
the Westerschelde River, as Cornelis Griep and his barge
hand were captured in an ice field.
- Adriaan Griep (1800-1818), a
barge hand, died at Yerseke at the age of 17.
- Jacob
Griep (1801-1822) also died at a young age: 21 years old.
- Pieternella
Griep (1803-1834) married the laborer Cornelis de Waard and left for
Biezelinge. She died at the age of 31.
- Christina
Griep (1804-1839) married the farm hand Jan Glerum. She died 35
years old at Yerseke.
- Maria
Griep (1806)
died within half a year.
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From
only two of the five children of Abraham Griep (*1779) some
information is recorded:
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Adriaan Griep (1802-..)
married Hélèna Françoise de Lié from Sluis
in Flanders. When their daughter was born they lived at Kapelle, at
the birth of their son at Tholen and when their youngest
son was born the family lived at Katwijk aan den Rijn,
in the province of Holland.
- Janna Griep (1817-1850)
married Jacobus Jacobusse and left for
Krabbendijke.
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THE FOURTH GENERATION
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 Generation
four of Griep at Yerseke was made up by the nine children of Pieter (*1796)
and the five of Jan (*1803). During this period, the last
one lived at Wemeldinge, but most of his descendants did
return to
Yerseke after a while.
There were also new Griep's that came to live here: Jacob
Griep from
Hansweert settled at
Yerseke to start a market boat service. More about him later
on.
Out of the
nine children from Pieter Griep (*1796), only three grew up
to adulthood.
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 Jan
Griep (*1803), living at Wemeldinge, had five children, from
which two did grow up to adulthood:
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Geerard Griep (1835-1862)
married the tailors daughter Jannetje Karstanje.
Before Geerard died at Wemeldinge at the age of 28, they
had three children.
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Maatje
Griep (1841-..), also called Maike,
married the laborer Johannis Oranje, who died in 1900.
In 1909 she joined her daughter
Adriana
and husband Pieter Priem (married in 1899) when they emigrated
to America with the vessel Noordam
from Rotterdam. They settled in Chicago.
Maatje
Griep, Johannis Oranje and daughter Adriana > |
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THE FIFTH GENERATION
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Among the fifth generation of descendants of Adriaan Griep,
who came to Yerseke in 1777 to be the ferryman, there were
not so many skippers anymore. Pieter
(*1854) and Johannis (*1859) were the last ones. Many others
found a living in the strongly expanding oyster farming.
The fifth
generation was at first made up by the following children of
Jan Griep (*1823) and Maria Paauwe:
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Nicolaas Griep (1848-1925)
married the maid servant Johanna de Mul, lived
at Yerseke and had eight children.
- Janna Griep (1851-1932)
married the bricklayer Adriaan Steenpoorte and left for Kruiningen.
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Pieter Griep (1854-1911),
skipper, married in 1882 to Cornelia de Bokx and had
eight children. In 1900 the family moved to Rilland-Bath.
Their sons became all policemen or soldiers.
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Adriaan Griep (1856-1928)
married the laborer Jacoba Schaalje and had two
daughters and two sons.
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Johannis Griep (1859-1939)
was a skipper and married Maria
Minnaard. They had one son.
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 And there were also these descendants of the
family branch that lived at Wemeldinge for a while:
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Adriaan Griep (1860-1922),
laborer and oyster farmer, married the seven years older Cornelia Duivewaarde
and had four children. At Sundays he acted as the sexton
in the Free Evangelical Church of Yerseke.
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Jan Griep (1861-1922)
was a fisherman at Yerseke. He married the maid servant
Adriana Potter and died at the age of 38, leaving behind
four children.
Adriaan
Griep and Cornelia Duivewaarde >
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Beside both these families, Griep-reinforcements
from elsewhere came to Yerseke... |
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SKIPPER GRIEP FROM HANSWEERT
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In 1829,
Jacob Griep (1798-1876)
from Hansweert married Apolonia Sinke at Yerseke. There he
started to operate the regular market boat to Rotterdam. His wife was
a shopkeeper, and sold the products that her husband
transported. Among their ten children were:
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Joos Griep (1834-1885),
skipper at
Yerseke, married Neeltje Stroosnijder and had six
children. He died at the age of 50.
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Jacomina Griep
(1838-1902), stayed single and died at the age of 64
at
Yerseke.
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Cornelis
Griep (1839-1912),
skipper at Yerseke, married Maria van den Bosch, and
after she died Jacoba Kopmels. In 1896 he and his
family
emigrated
to America and settled in Lodi,
New Jersey.
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Pieter Griep (1841-1921),
working as a barge hand at the Yerseke river police,
married
Anthonina van den Boomgaard. They had thirteen children.
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Jan Griep (1846-1927),
skipper at
Yerseke, married Adriana Dankers and had eleven children.
After she died he remarried Cornelia Lavooij and had two
more children.
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SKIPPER OF THE REGULAR MARKET BOAT SERVICE FROM
YERSEKE TO ROTTERDAM:
From of old, the right to operate a boat service
was granted by the Lord of the Manor. A skipper
had to pay him rent to operate the service.
In 1816 the guilds, that ruled the economic life
for many centuries, were abolished. Also the
operating of boat services became a free trade.
Only for the regular services some regulations
remained.
In the regular boat services from Zeeland to
Dordrecht and Rotterdam, sailing boats stayed
long in use. Only after 1905 the first
steamboats appeared.
In Rotterdam the regular boat services all had
their own separate quays. The services to and
from Zeeland were situated at the Haringvliet.
They sailed once a week, starting their return
journey from Rotterdam on Wednesday. Almost
every harbor in Zeeland had his own, and
sometimes several, services.
The wife of a market skipper often had a shop,
in which she sold the goods that her husband
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LATER GENERATIONS |
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Around 1900 there are Griep's living at Yerseke from many
different families: the children of
Nicolaas (*1848),
Adriaan (*1856),
Johannis (*1859), the
children from those that returned from Wemeldinge:
Adriaan (*1860) and
Jan
(*1861), and also the descendants of the newly arrived 'Hansweert
branch'.
 All
of them are listed on separate pages.
The name Griep is still present at Yerseke. The latest
telephone directory has four of them. But the fast majority
of the descendants of 'Griep from Yerseke' now live
elsewhere: scattered through the Netherlands, and also as
far away as Australia, Canada, California, New York and
South-Africa. |
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