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Nieuwpoort, The Netherlands, 1866 |
Part 2 of 3
Last week I wrote a blog post about my visit to Krimpen aan
de Lek, Netherlands with my distant cousin, Hans Hoogerzeil, to see where our
common ancestors lived. In this post, I’ll
be showing you the sights at the tiny village of Nieuwpoort, where my 5
th
great grandmother, Anna Ooms who married Simon Machielszoon Hoogerzeijl was born
in 1742. Her parents were Adam Adriaans
Ooms and Anna van der Ham. This side of the
family lived here until their grandson, my 3
rd great grandfather,
Peter Hoogerzeil, was born in Dordrecht in 1803.
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Canals in Nieuwpoort |
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The village church |
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Nieuwpoort town hall |
Simon Hoogerzeijl was the commander of whaling ships from
1771 to 1802. His father-in-law, Adam
Ooms was a Nieuwpoort whaling commander, too, from 1749 – 1775. The house where Simon and Anna are believed
to have lived is in the "inner harbor" of the village (on a small canal), near
the village church where eight of their children were baptized. This house is believed to be their house because whale bones were found in a backyard excavation. There is a beautiful ceramic tile of "Noah's Ark" on the front gable end of the house.
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The house where the Ooms Family is
supposed to have lived in Nieuwpoort |
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"Noah's Ark" is the name of the house! |
According to Wikipedia, the small village of Nieuwport has
only about 600 residents. Hans described
it as a “garrison town”, and the small walls are used to control flooding. We parked outside of the town walls and
walked through the wooden doors that can be closed like a canal lock. There are drainage canals running through the
town in front of the houses. It is very
picturesque, and easy to imagine what it was like when my ancestors lived here.
Nieuwpoort was about 20 kilometers from
Krimpen aan de Lek.
Click here to read Part 1 of this series, Krimpen aan de
Lek:
(The map in the image above is from Wikimedia Commons, J. Kuyper - Germeente Atlas van Nederland (Municipal Atlas of the Netherlands), 1866.)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “In the Footsteps of the Ancestors ~
Touring Nieuwpoort, Netherlands”, Nutfield
Genealogy, posted February 5, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-footsteps-of-ancestors-touring_5.html: accessed [access date]).
Dear Heather, Please note that Nieuwpoort is a town and not a village. Nieuwpoort was granted 'city rights' in 1283, other sources mention even 1245 or 1254 ! In medieval times a city normally had walls and gates and was a.o. authorised to have (weekly) markets. The Hague only received 'city rights'in Napoleontic times. Best regards, Erik
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