1. Otto Pieter Verweij
(blood-relationship 3,125 %)
* 24-2-1765 (Buurmalsen) x Jacoba van Otterloo + 2-10-1836 (Geldermalsen)
Occupation: "burgemeester" of Buurmalsen, "burgemeester", "schout" and "notaris" in Geldermalsen. Officially being the son of a farmer and a chambermaid, it is remarkable that he received a higher education paid for by the graaf van Bijlandt, and reached important positions. This can be regarded as proof of his true relationship to Count Frederick, and as a nice example of "noblesse oblige". Otto was also one of the names of the Count's father. Count Frederick and his Countess had only one legitimate child, graaf Otto Willem Hendrik (1750-1818).
Otto Pieter Verweij not only had "two fathers", but also two tombstones, one he had made in 1818 for the family tomb in the church in Geldermalsen, which has always remained empty, and one for his actual final resting place, where he was buried in 1836. From 1829 onwards it was no longer allowed to bury the dead inside churches.

Other children, probably by Peter Verweij:

2. Jenneke Verweij
* 12-4-1767 + ?

3. Arien Verweij
* 15-4-1770 + ?

Children of
Otto Pieter Verweij (1765-1836)
and Jacoba van Otterloo (1761-1827)
(See 4 generations back)

1. Frederika Wilhelmina Verweij
* 15-3-1788 (Mariënwaerdt) x Dr. Jan de Heer (Geldermalsen, 16-7-1807) + 20-7-1871 (Leidschendam)
It is interesting to note that Frederika was born at the Count's estate, and that she was apparently named after him. As far as we know the names Frederika or Wilhelmina had not been used before, neither in the Verweij nor in the Van Otterloo family.

2. Hendrika Maria Verweij
* -12-1789 x Jan Vogelzang Hondius (20-11-1813) + 28-12-1861

3. Pieter Hendrik Verweij
* 26-1-1791 + 1812 (in Russia)
Occupation: captain in Napoleon's "grande armée" in Russia. A last letter of him still exists, written shortly before he was killed at the age of 21.

4. Carolina Ottolina Verweij
* 2-7-1793 x I. Dirk Lodewijk Bennewitz (5-11-1817) II. Jan Willem Kerkhoven + 27-10-1849

5. Louise Anthonia Verweij
* 5-9-1794 + 6-10-1836

6. Anthonie Johannes Verweij
* 26-1-1797 x Anna Theodora van Hamel + 7-11-1830
Occupation: "griffier" in Geldermalsen

7. Arnold Diderik Verweij
* 1-6-1796 + -11-1798

8. Adriana Cornelia Verweij
* 22-12-1799 + 21-5-1818

9. Jacoba Sophia Verweij
* 21-2-1801 x Carel Loodeesen + 6-1-1836

10. Otto Arnold Verweij (See portrait)
(blood-relationship 6,25 %)
* 19-12-1803 (Geldermalsen) x Maria Adriana Knaap (12-7-1832) + 24-6-1872 (Geldermalsen)
Occupation: "schout" and "notaris" in Geldermalsen, after his father's death. Around 1830, at the time of the short military conflict over Belgian independence, our great-great-grandfather, as "schout", had received the order to arrest all Belgians. During a stormy night, there was a knock on the door, and a Belgian deserter appeared who asked for refuge. He was hidden in the attic for a couple of months, after which he could return home. The deserter was an artist by profession (his name is not known), and he made some beautiful leather wallpaintings for one of the rooms, which were greatly admired. Our grandmother Maria Adriana Verweij said she could still clearly remember them. Unfortunately, the paintings were lost when the house was demolished around 1900.

Children of
Otto Arnold Verweij (1803-1872)
and Maria Adriana Knaap (1810-1898)
(See 3 generations back)

1. Jacoba Pietronella ("Pieternella") Antonia Adriana Verweij
*17-6-1833 x Gerrit Formijne + 23-8-1891

2. Geertruida Jacoba ("Koosje") Johanna Verweij
* 17-1-1835 + 28-9-1853
Koosje drowned herself in the river Linge at the age of 18. It is said this was because she believed that no-one would ever want to marry her.

3. Otto Pieter Verweij
* 12-11-1836 x I. Willemina Dibbetta van Gendt de Leeuw II. Hendrika Golina Formijne + 23-8-1897
Occupation: "notaris" in Geldermalsen.

4. Gerardus ("Gerard") Jacobus Verweij
* 26-1 or 8-1838 x Diederika Cornelia Dijckmeester + 22-4-1911
Occupation: "ontvanger der registratie", "hypotheekbewaarder". Ridder in de orde van Oranje-Nassau.

5. Jan Willem Karel Verweij
* 4-8-1840 x I. jonkvrouwe Elisabeth Catharina Wichers II. Carolina Johanna Sophia Baak + 2-9-1915
Occupation: army-officer, captain of the artillery

6. Anna Theodora Verweij
* 27-12-1842 + 10-3-1928 (Nijmegen)

7. Maria ("Marie") Adriana Ottolina Arnoldina Verweij
* 2-2-1845 x Cornelis Jacob Pieter Kaub (29-5-1868) + 31-1-1920

8. Jan Pieter Gerrit Verweij
* 21-4-1847 + 9-12-1895

9. Anthonie Johannes Adriaan Verweij (See portrait), (See him at Van Rossum family gathering)
(blood-relationship 12,5 %)
* 22-12-1849 (Geldermalsen) x Jeanne Marie Louise van Rossum (9-6-1881) + 31-5-1915 (Den Haag)
Occupation: "burgemeester" of Deil in 1880, "secretaris" and "burgemeester" of Geldermalsen from 1881 until 1905, "secretaris" of the Tielerwaard, "heemraad van het Waterschap Linge-uitwatering". After his retirement he moved to The Hague in order not to be too much in the way of his successor.

10. Otto Arnold Verweij ("Arnold")
* 19-12-1851 + 15-12-1916 (Nijmegen)
Occupation: "ontvanger van de domeinen" in Den Bosch, and later "ontvanger van de registratie" in Arnhem.

11. Pieter Hendrik Louis Verweij
* 14-9-1853 x Alida ("Aaltje") Lels (Alkmaar 7-5-1885) + 28-3-1924 (Bergen, NH)
Occupation: employee of the Dutch Postal Service. After having been assigned to positions throughout the Netherlands (Nijkerk, Eindhoven, Alkmaar, Zwolle, Amsterdam and Nijmegen) he was appointed director of the Post Office in Alkmaar on 16-8-1909.

12. Geertruida Jacoba Johanna Verweij
* 31-12-1855 + 7-3-1871
Died at the age of 15 from a heartdisease.

Children of
Anthonie Johannes Adriaan Verweij (1849-1915)
and Jeanne Marie Louise van Rossum (1856-1934)
(See 2 generations back)

1. Dina Louiza ("Louise") Henrietta Adriana Verweij
* 3-4-1882 + 20-2-1972
Occupation: secretary at the the The Hague office of a sugar company in East-Java, Dutch East-Indies which belonged to Wolter de Waard, the husband of her aunt Dina Louize ("Louk") Henriette Adriana van Rossum.

2. Otto ("Ot") Arnold Verweij (See portrait)
* 29-5-1883 + 20-11-1958
Occupation: "procuratiehouder" first at the Arnhemse Bank, and later at the The Hague office of a plantations company in the Dutch East-Indies.

3. Jeanne ("Jen") Marie Louise Verweij (See portrait)
* 29-9-1884 + 1971
As a young woman, our great-aunt Jen was refused permission by her father to marry a "dominee" (clergyman), it is said because this was thought to be below the family's status. She remained unmarried, and with her sister Louise cared for their ailing father until his death. (Apparently, this was not below their status.) More than 60 years later, aunt Jen heard "her" reverend speak on the radio, and she could not hold back her tears.

4. Maria ("Marie") Adriana Verweij (See portrait 1), (See portrait 2), (See family portrait 1), (See family portrait 2)
(blood-relationship 25 %)
* 22-1-1886 (Geldermalsen) x Hendrik Willem van der Voort (Den Haag 4-11-1909) + 6-5-1975 (Katwijk)
Occupation: Our grandmother was permitted to have training as a schoolteacher in Haarlem, on the precondition that she would never actually work as such, because her parents thought this to be a rather too low-status job. In Haarlem, Marie met her future husband Hendrik Willem ("Han"). Hendrik Willem's sister Alexandrina Charlotte Paulowna van der Voort was married to Charles Marie Felix van Rossum, a son of the elder Ch.M.F. van Rossum and his second wife, Cornelia Veenendaal, and therefore a half-brother to Marie's mother. Fortunately for us descendants, there were no objections to Hendrik Willem's status. Marie and Han soon got married, and went to the Dutch East-Indies where our grandfather, as a young civil engineer, would have better career-prospects than in Holland. The couple moved from one outpost to another, where our grandfather directed the building of roads and other infrastructure projects. They ended up in Surabaya, where our grandfather had been appointed director of the seaport. After our grandfather's term in the tropics was completed in 1932, they returned to Holland and lived through the German occupation. They were ordered by the Germans to move out of their home in Scheveningen, part of The Hague, and settled in nearby Wassenaar. After the war, our grandfather became an alderman in Wassenaar and held many other functions. Our grandmother died in a home for the elderly in Katwijk at the age of 89, having survived her husband for almost 19 years.
For her descendants see the page on Van der Voort.

5. Christine ("Tine") Albertine Verweij
* 29-8-1887 x Joannes Petrus van Rossum (1913) + 17-4-1921
Joannes Petrus was Tine's cousin, his father was captain Joannes Petrus van Rossum, a brother of her mother Jeanne Marie Louise van Rossum.

6. Charlotte ("Lotte") Marie Félicie Verweij (See portrait)
* 8-9-1889 + 6-11-1975

7. Anthonie ("Anton") Johannes Adriaan Verweij
* 9-7-1893 x Frieda Krell + 197?
Occupation: "hoofdingenieur" at the "Octrooiraad" in the Dutch East-Indies.

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