Gertrudis Janssen

1801-1882 · Maasbree, Limburg, Netherlands

Born 1801, Maasbree, Limburg, Netherlands

Died 1882

Children include Jacobus

Gertrudis Janssen, written Gertruij in her marriage record, was born on 21 May 1801 at Maasbree, in Limburg. Her parents were Hendrik Janssen and Margaretha Claessen. Her father was an akkerman, a farmer, and her mother is described as an akkersvrouw, a woman who worked the fields.

Before she married she was a dienstmeid, a servant girl. On 8 May 1830, at 29, she married Gerard van Densen, a 27-year-old clog maker of Blerick, at Maasbree. They made their home at Blerick, on the Maas across from Venlo.

She had at least five children: Joanna, Laurens, Peter, Jacobus and Joannes. By the 1870s her son Jacobus had come back to Blerick with his wife, Wendelina, also called Angelina, Lankes, and their small children, and Gertrudis lived out her life in a house of three generations. Her grandson Laurens Matheus was born there in December 1878.

Gertrudis died at Blerick on 8 June 1882, aged 81. Her husband died five months later.

Children

Jacobus van Densen b. 1842

Sources

Population register of Maasbree, Blerick K-Z (1860-1890), register 2265; Municipality of Peel en Maas, peelenmaasnet.nl, deed 0a393dae-b8a2-53c2-aed7-288662b903f7

Population register of Maasbree, Blerick (1850-1862), register 2263; Municipality of Peel en Maas, peelenmaasnet.nl, deed 78e20ba4-db1b-c6e8-8541-108e8c3e0b25

Belfeld, Limburg, civil registration, marriages 1874, act 2; Historic Center Limburg, 12.008, register 13; also Municipal archives of Venlo

Maasbree, Limburg, civil registration, marriages 1830, act 140; Historic Center Limburg, 12.057, register 5

Maasbree, Limburg, civil registration, deaths 1882, acts 41 and 88; Historic Center Limburg, 12.057, register 56

Maasbree civil marriages 1830, act 140, and deaths 1882, act 41 (Historic Center Limburg, 12.057); Blerick population registers 1850-1862 and 1860-1890, Municipality of Peel en Maas

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