Gertrudis van Horen

1801-1878 · Belfeld, Limburg, Netherlands

Born 1801, Belfeld, Limburg, Netherlands

Died 1878

Children include Wendelina

Gertrudis van Horen was born at Belfeld, on the Maas River north of Venlo in Limburg, on 18 April 1801. Her father was Claudius van Horen. Her mother is named Cecilia Mans in her death and second marriage records and Aulia Mans in her first.

On 24 November 1831, at 30, she married Mathijs Lankes, a farmer of Belfeld. They had several children. The youngest known, Wendelina Hubertina, was born on 13 January 1845, when Gertrudis was 43.

Mathijs died in March 1851. Some years later, at 53, Gertrudis married Albertus Houzer, a 46-year-old day laborer of Belfeld and son of Jan Houzer and Christina Hinsen. She was described as an akkervrouw, a woman who worked the fields.

In April 1874 her daughter Wendelina married Jacobus van Densen of Blerick at Belfeld. Gertrudis died at Belfeld on 19 October 1878, aged 77, as the wife of Albertus Houzer. Her grandson Laurens Matheus van Densen was born at Blerick two months later.

Children

Wendelina Hubertina Lankes b. 1845

Sources

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

Belfeld, Limburg, civil registration, marriages 1831, deaths 1851 and 1878, births 1845 (act 1); Historic Center Limburg, 12.008; Municipal archives of Venlo

Belfeld civil marriages 1831 and the later marriage to Albertus Houzer; Belfeld civil deaths 1878 (Historic Center Limburg, 12.008; Municipal archives of Venlo)

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