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My Forefathers No headstone needed by J. L. Hennekes {2000-2001}
INTRODUCTION My family in
Holland descended from one German ancestor, Laurens Heijneken, who became the patriarch
of our Dutch line in Dordrecht.
Laurens married Cornelia van Duijnen on 28 January
1759, and they established our Hennekes branch. According to their marriage record,
Laurens was a "sailor on a river vessel", who had been born in Bremen. Subsequent research revealed that he had been baptized on 2 January
1719 at the Unser Lieben Frauen Church as Laurentz Heineken,
the son of Johan Heineken and Magdalena ter Stegen. (Laurentz's father
used the alias's of Johannes and Johann at different stages in his life, but
Johann seemed to be the preferred name by which he was known.) Johann was a member of the
Heineken family that came to be known as the Mayor's Branch. Bremen
uses this designation because Christian Abraham Heineken, the great-grandson of
Johann Heineken and Anna Catharina Gravers, became the mayor of
Bremen in 1792. (Anna Catharina was Johann's first wife.) Although Laurentz was
Christian Abraham's half-granduncle, there's no evidence indicating that they
knew each other, nor is it known when, or why, Laurentz left Bremen and moved to
Dordrecht, where our last name gradually changed from Heineken
to Hennekes. Herein lies the research story. (Unless
otherwise noted, names of living individuals have been marked
with an asterisk...after introduction...to indicate that the name was modified.) Paternal direct line in Holland: 1 Laurens Heijneken ? - 1788 .2 Johannes (Jan) Heinikis (Heijneken/Hennekes) 1760 - 1801 ..3 Jan Heijnekens (Heijneken/Hennekes) 1789 - 1869 ...4 Johannes Hennekes 1820 - 1901 ....5 Leendert Hennekes 1861 - 1933 .....6 Johannes Lodewijk Hennekes 1912 - 1981 ......7 Johannes Lodewijk Hennekes 1951 - |