The Dordrecht Family
1758
With Updates to September 1765
Updates:
Emke Scheldt Dordrecht died July 3, 1764***
Rykert Dordrecht died July 21, 1764***
For Anneke & Harmanus
Dordrecht:
Gesina, born March 1759*, died January
1760**
Lena, born July 1760
Christiaan, born August 1761
Jacobus, born October 1762
Rutgert, born 1763
Petrus, died May 1764***
Elsje, born 1765
For Geertruid & Berend
Kloppen:
Twins Arjan & Maria, born May 1759*,
both died November 1761
Niesje, born December 1760
Frans, born January 1762**
Hansje, born 1763
Josina, born 1764
For Mary & Brevoort
Dordrecht:
Brevoort Dordrecht died, August 22,
1762, in Havana, Cuba**
Susan, born March 1759*
Ann, born September 1760
Joan, born December 1761
Martin, born posthumously January 1763
For Elisabeth & Roderick
Willett:
Elisabeth Dordrecht
married Roderick Willett, March 20, 1761
Katryne, born August 14, 1765***
For Jenneken &
Engelbertus Hampers:
Maurits, born December 1758*
Joris, born February 1760
Eduwart, born March 1761
Roelof, born April 29, 1762**
Tiebout, born 1764
Eva, born 1765
For Mary & Robert
Fitzweiler:
Theresa, born September 1759
William, born August 1761
Benjamin, born 1763
Nancy, born 1765
*Event recounted in
Great Mischief
**Event recounted
in If Two Are Dead
***Event recounted
in Exquisite Folly
Not listed: children
lost in infancy prior to 1758; three children of Sarah Van Dienst Jones adopted
by Thomas uncle Frederik upon his marriage to her in 1746.
Note: Thomas Dordrecht is the sole member of this family
to have met his mothers relatives since she emigrated in 1729. In London, he
lived for fifteen months with his uncle and namesake, Thomas Pennyman; his wife
Humility; their grown children Matthew, Elspeth, and Anna. (Their eldest child,
Richard Pennyman, was killed in Hesse, Germany, in 1759, in the battle of
Bergen; his widow, Lucy, and her young daughters Deirdre and Sally, live with
Thomas & Humility Pennyman.)
Reminder: this
family is purely fictional!
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