Arie Nap (1872-1955)

Meaning

According to the Dutch database of Familynames, the surname Schinkel is a toponym¹. So I have been googling and searching myself silly to find places containing the name Schinkel.
I found 1 river, 1 polder, 1 lake², 1 lock, 4 dikes, by Reeuwijk, Callantsoog, Aalsmeer and Loosdrecht, 1 small dwelling and a busstop.³. None of which are even remotely close to where my earliest Schinkel relative came from, the village of Jaarsveld.
The website further states that the surname can also derive from the Dutch word schinkel or schenkel, meaning thigh¹. Romantic.

Geographical Location

occurences of the name 'Schinkel' in each provence in 1947

occurences of the name 'Schinkel' in each municipality in 2007

In 1947 there were 888 people with the surname Schinkel living in the Netherlands; the provinces Utrecht, Overijssel, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland topping the list.
By 2007 that number had risen to 1.364. Statistics show that by then Lopik (Jaarsveld being part of that municipality since 1943⁴) and Kampen had the highest percentage of people with that name.¹

(E)migration

The Schinkels moved around the place a lot more than say my Nap ancestors. Well my direct ancestors didn’t, but several cousins moved to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and some even crossed oceans:
On March 28^th 1910 Willem Schinkel and Cornelia Wouterse arrived in New York with their daughter Jacoba. They were on their way to Iowa to begin a new life as farmers.
On May 28^th 1920 Wilhelmina Maria Schinkel married a Richard Henry Mansfield in Bristol, England and left for Baltimore, Maryland on June 22^nd 1921. I would love to find out more!
On June 3^rd 1930 Elisabeth ‘Lucy’ Schinkel arrived in New York on her way to Utah. She was only 21 and had been converted to the LDS church on August 10^th 1929.
In the 1950′s three brothers, Gerard, in 1951, Willem, in 1952, and Teunis, in 1953, immigrated to Ontario, Canada.⁵

Related Surnames

Schenkel, van der Schinkel, Schenk.

In fact the name Schinkel and Schenkel are often used at the same time: my 2nd great grandfather Carel signed his name as Schenkel, but in most certificates the clerk wrote his name down as Schinkel.⁶

In My Tree

To date I have collected 486 Schinkels, 251 men and 232 women. The earliest person with the surname Schinkel is Bastiaan Jansz Schinkel, born in about 1647 in Jaarsveld.
Most of the Schinkel men were labourers, bricklayers and carpenters. One family brought on several generations of tailors. And the prize for the most exotic occupation goes to Johanna Maria Schinkel, an artist’s model. I wonder…

My Goals

Finding that link between both groups of Schinkels, if there is any… Not really.
No, since the Schinkels were amongst the first ancestors I researched I made many a rookie mistake… you would never have guessed it but I have unsourced facts, persons even in my database!
I have printed out a report of a wapping 90 pages and am scrutinizing it for missing facts and sources, documenting them and entering the new (sourced) information into my database. And then, after that, I can maybe look for those missing Schinkels.

Sources

1. 1. “Nederlandse Familienamenbank.” http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb (accessed May 9, 2012). ↩
2. 2. Schellingwoude Bestemmingsplan – Bijlagen Bij Toelichting. Rep. no. NL.IMRO.0363.N0805BPSTD.VGO01. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: Stadsdeel Noord, 2012. Schillingwoude Bestemmingsplan. Gemeente Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Noord, 6 May 2012. Web. 9 May 2012. (http://bit.ly/ITB8DM). ↩
3. 3. van der Aa, A. J.. “S.” Aardrijkskundig Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Breda, 1837. 233. Re-published on CD by CBG. ↩
4. 4. “Streekarchief Rijnstreek – Beknopte geschiedenis van Lopik.” Streekarchief Rijnstreek. http://bit.ly/II2yYm (accessed May 9, 2012). ↩
5. 5. Sheeres, Janet, and Richard H. Harms. “Dutch Emigrants to North America, 1946-1963.” Calvin College – Heritage Hall. http://www.calvin.edu/hh/family_history_resources/Dutch_Emigrants.htm (accessed November 5, 2012) ↩
6. 6. deathcertificates Nieuwkoop 1873-1882 civil registration, Fiche no 2 certificate no 51 ↩

Today is Liberation Day in Holland.

Film: The Canadians Liberate Holland

Jan Korver

August 1944

Jan Korver (34) visits his brother Piet’s farm leaving him with an illegal newspaper.¹

On or around the 14^th of August 1944

Dirk ‘van Straten’², Jan’s brother-in-law mentions the possession of said paper to his Landwacht ³ groupleader Van Gastel. ¹

August 19^th 1944

The house of Jan and Trijntje Korver is raided by the Landwacht and some illegal papers are confiscated. Jan is arrested and brought to the Edam policeoffice. ¹

August 20^th 1944

Jan and Willem van Zuijlen, a fellow prisoner, are brought to the offices of the Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam where they are interrogated.

September 4^th 1944

The mayor of Edam goes to the offices of the Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam in an attempt to get both men out of prison. He only manages to get Willem van Zuijlen out. ¹

September 11^th 1944

Jan is moved to ‘Kamp Amersfoort. During which time he manages to send two letters to his wife Trijntje and daughter Maartje. ¹

October 11^th-11^th 1944

Transport to Neuengamme Concentrationcamp ¹

October 16^th 1944

Jan is moved to Kamp Spaldingstrasse in Hamburg.

November 22^nd 1944

At two o’clock in the afternoon Jan dies of enteritis in St. Georgsburg, 158 Spaldingstrasse, Hamburg. ^{1 4 5}]

November 27^th 1944

Burial at Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. ¹

September 24^th 1945

Jan’s wife Trijntje receives news from the Red Cross about the death of her husband. ¹

May 1948

Jan’s brother-in-law Dirk ‘van Straten’ ² is sentenced to six years in prison, after initially being sentenced to ten years on July 10th 1947 for his part in the betrayal. ¹

November 23^rd 1951

Reburial of Jan Korver at the cemetery in Edam. ¹

Sources

1. 1. Besseling, Erik. Een Feit Van Niets, over De Oorlog in Edam. Edam: Uitgeverij De Stad, 2008. Print. ↩
2. 2. As per the wishes of the family, a pseudonym is used. ↩
3. 3. The Landwacht was a Dutch paramilitary organisation founded by the Germans november 1943. It must not be confused with the military volunteercorps ‘Landwacht Nederland’ founded in March 1943 and renamed Landstorm Nederland in October 1943. ↩
4. 4. “Erelijst Van Gevallenen 1940 – 1945.” Erelijst Van Gevallenen 1940-1945. Nederlands Instituut Voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. Web. 03 May 2012. (http://www.erelijst.nl). ↩
5. 5. Het Grafstenen project Noord-Holland, Edam, Algemene Begraafplaats 0318 ↩

Flora Emmeline Greening (1902-1998)

Norah Greening (1910-1985), aged two

Early Years

the shop around 1910

She was born on August 25^th 1830 in Wilnis, Utrecht, first child of Jan Tukker, shipbuilder, and Adriana Berghoef.¹ Jan and Adriana had eight more children, of which only six made it into adulthood.
When Kaatje was 18, on July 21^st 1849, her mother Ariaantje died².At that moment her youngest sister Teuntje was only six. Kaatje, along with her sister Jannetje, must have been expected to help their father running the household.
Things remained much the same until… in the summer of 1856 Kaatje got herself pregnant and on March 2^nd 1857 she gave birth to a son, Arie. The doctor, Abraham Idenburg reported the birth on March 3^rd, together with her father Jan and a man called Arie de Wit, a 38 year old general farmer, as witnesses.³

I have no idea what impact this pregnancy had on Kaatje, or her relationship with her father, fact is that she was living in a very rural community where having illegitimate children was not uncommon, but wás seriously frowned upon. And though his occupation as shipbuilder makes him sound a little like Onassis, father Jan certainly wasn’t a rich man and having an extra mouth to feed must not have been easy. On the other hand, it might have been the case that Kaatje and her future husband Gijsbert were already courting and that a promise of marriage had been given by Gijsbert (in those days people only married when they earned enough to make a living for themselves) and in those cases having a child out of wedlock was more or less accepted.⁴

Later that year, on December 23^rd, her father remarried⁵, giving his daughters the opportunity to start their own families.

Married Life

signatures

On March 11^th 1859 Kaatje married Gijsbert Nap, a farmer from the same village, Kamerik-Mijzijde. At the time of their marriage Gijsbert recognized Kaatje’s son Arie as his own.⁶ (We have no factual proof that Gijsbert was the father of Kaatje’s son, the strict rules of naming children don’t even help in this case: First born daughters were named after the mother’s grandmother, unless, as in this case, one of the parents or another grandparent had already passed away; in the case of an illegitimate child it would have been named after the father (as a pressuretool) or the grandmother, again: Ariaantje.⁷)
In the first years of their marriage Gijsbert and Kaatje lived at house A61 in Kamerik ⁸⁹. Gijsbert was still working as a farmer, but was, presumably, trying to start up as a shopkeeper: on the birthcertificates of their children he is listed as farmer (1860, Baartje ⁸) , labourer (1862, Ariaantje ¹⁰), merchant (1864, Gijsbert ¹¹), shopkeeper (Mar 1866, death of Arie ¹²), shopkeeper (Oct 1866, Johanna¹³) and farmer (1868, Cornelia Elisabeth ¹⁴).
In 1870, at the birth of the 2nd Arie^{15 16}, they have moved to house A73 in Kamerik and Gijsbert really seems to have settled down as a shopkeeper.
By the time my great grandfather Arie was born, on June 15^th 1872¹⁷, they had six children, two boys and four girls.

Tragedy

Three years later, on November 6^th 1875, tragedy strikes when Gijsbert dies at age 52¹⁸, leaving Kaatje (45) with a shop and six children, ages 3 to 15. Baartje (15) and Ariaantje (12) must have helped with the children while their mother busied herself with the shop.
But not for long: in 1878 Baartje moves to Woerden, Utrecht, to work in the household of Doctor van der Lee¹⁹ and the next year Ariaantje also moves to Woerden, to work in the household of the widow Brunt.²⁰ Their mother is now left with a shop and four children, Gijsbert (14), Johanna (12), Cornelia (10) and Arie (7).

Moving On

Still, she must have coped, because in 1890²¹, we find the family at a different address, house A86 in Kamerik and Kaatje, now 61, still running the shop.
Sadly, Baartje who married Gerrit Blok in 1884²², dies later that year, aged 30²³, leaving no children.
Sons Gijsbert and Arie were helping in the shop from a very young age. From Arie’s obituary, we know that he started working at age 11. ²⁴
Over the next decade her other two daughters also left the house. Janna moved to Woerden²¹ after her marriage with Steven van Rooijen on May 26^th 1899²⁵, Cornelia after having left the house to work for two years in Genemuiden, Overijssel between 1894 and 1896²¹, went on to marry Arie van der Bijl on March 14^th 1901²⁶.
Gijsbert followed in his grandfather’s footsteps and became a shipbuilder ²⁷, Arie remained working in the shop with his mother.

Succession

On November 13^th 1903 Arie married Janna Schinkel in Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland. On the marriagecertificate both Arie and Kaatje, who by now is 73, are listed as being a shopkeeper.²⁷
When Kaatje dies on November 28^th 1910, aged 80, on her deathcertificate gives her occupation as ‘none’.²⁸ She probably retired just after Arie married leaving her with only seven years to enjoy the fruits of her labour.

the shop in the 1960's

An anti-climactic ending to an otherwise hectic and eventful life? Maybe, but she was at the beginnings of a village groceryshop that continued into the 1970′s, with son Arie, grandson Gijsbert, and greatgrandson Bert running the shop after her.

Sources

1. 1. geboorteakten Burgerlijke Stand gemeente Wilnis periode 1811-1988; Utrechts Archief, Wilnis 1830 no 43. ↩
2. 2. Overlijdensakten Burgerlijke Stand Wilnis, 1811-1988; Het Utrechts Archief., Wilnis 1849 no. 113. ↩
3. 3. geboorteakten Burgerlijke Stand gemeente Kamerik Mijzijde periode 1811-1988; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik Mijzijde 1857 no 6. ↩
4. 4. den Hertog, Marchien, and Bas Kromhout. “Liefde en huwelijk in Nederland.” Historisch Nieuwsblad, October 2001. http://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/nl/artikel/5795/liefde-en-huwelijk-in-nederland.html (accessed August 3, 2012). ↩
5. 5. Huwelijken Burgerlijke Stand Kockengen, 1811-1988, 1857 no. 7. ↩
6. 6. huwelijken Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1883-1892; Utrechts Archief, 1859 no 3. ↩
7. 7. Gerrit Veldman. “Regels voor het vernoemen.” Voorouders.net. http://www.voorouders.net/help/regels-voor-het-vernoemen/ (accessed March 8, 2012). ↩
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10. 10. geboorten Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1858-1862; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1862 no 53. ↩
11. 11. geboortenBurgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1863-1872; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1864 no 30. ↩
12. 12. overlijden Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1863-1872; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik, 1866 no 10 ↩
13. 13. geboorten Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1863-1872; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1866 no 47. ↩
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15. 15. geboorten Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1863-1872; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1870 no 32. ↩
16. 16. Gijsbert and Kaatje lost two children at a young age. Arie, Kaatje’s first son, died March 17th 1866, aged nine and another son, also called Arie, died before the age of one on April 17th 1871 ↩
17. 17. geboorten Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1863-1872; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1872 no 31. ↩
18. 18. Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, overlijden 1873-1882; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1875 no 33. ↩
19. 19. Dienstbodenregister Woerden, 1862-1881 , Inv. 944, folio 43; RHC Rijnstreek en Lopikerwaard ↩
20. 20. Dienstbodenregister Woerden, 1862-1881 , Inv. 944, folio 46; RHC Rijnstreek en Lopikerwaard ↩
21. 21. Bevolkingsregister Kamerik 1890-1900; Het Utrechts Archief. ↩
22. 22. huwelijken Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1883-1892; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1884 no 5. ↩
23. 23. overlijden Burgerlijke Stand Loenen, periode 1811-1950; Utrechts Archief, Loenen 1890 no 32. ↩
24. 24. Woerdensch Weekblad 1925-1965, Regionaal Historisch Centrum Rijnstreek en Lopikerwaard, 05 Aug 1955, page 5, column 2. ↩
25. 25. huwelijken Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, periode 1883-1892; Utrechts Archief, Kamerik 1884 no 5. ↩
26. 26. Huwelijksakten Burgerlijke Stand, Genlias [http://www.genlias.nl], Woerden 1901 no 4. ↩
27. 27. huwelijken Burgerlijke Stand Nieuwkoop – 1903-1912; Streekarchief Rijnlands Midden, Alphen aan de Rijn; Nieuwkoop 1903 no. 14. ↩
28. 28. Burgerlijke Stand Kamerik, overlijdens 1903-1912, 1910 no 21; Utrechts Archief ↩