The main interest of this site is my ongoing effort in tracing
back the ancestor lines of my wife and myself.
Our family tree contains currently about 4500 persons, of whom
about 1200 are my direct ancestors. This is very much an ongoing
research and I am interested in any information, which might help
to trace further back the existing ancestor lines.
I do have some unique descendant trees in my posession, which were created
some centuries ago by my Houttuijn and Zeijlemaker grandfathers.
Some 1000 persons are mentioned in these trees, most of them
lived in Noord-Holland in the time span 1550-1800:
Gerrit Willemsz Zeijlemaker, (1656-1719, my seventh great
grandfather), documented in the year 1707 his ancestors,
and the descendants of his third great grandfather Willem Jansz
(born before 1515).
His son in-law, Willem Maartensz Houttuijn (1693-1756),
continued this effort and around the year 1750 he created
descendant trees of his known ancestors : Pieter Houttuijn (born
ca 1600), Cornelis
Zeijlemaker (born ca 1580), Willem Jansz (born before 1515), Jacob Jacobsz Compostel
(born ca 1550), Hendrik
Brouwer (born ca 1550), Poulus
Kole (born ca 1620) and Hillegont Pieters (born ca 1600).
Willem's son, Gerrit Willemsz Houttuijn (1736-1804),
followed with updates in the year 1759/60 and probably
additional updates around the year 1800.
Common names in these documents are (in brackets number of
persons):
Houttuijn (72), Compostel (60), Blauw(55), Brouwer(37),
Zeijlemaker(32), Sleutel(24), Messchaert(23), Ris (20), Vogel
(20), Olijslager(19), Bakker(15), Oeg(14),
Compas(13), Zwart (12), van Foreest (12), Nopper(11), Boendermaker(11) and Vlasbloem(10) .
I am very much interested in any additional information of these persons and/or data of other (descendant) lines relating to them. If you have any information, which might help me in my research, or if you would like to receive additional information from me, don't hesitate to E-mail me.
(You can also contact me via ICQ, ID 11219432)
September 1998 version of this page.
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