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The Hengelo family
Bijen and Bijenhuis |
A marriage in Oldenzaal: patronymicsOn the previous page the census of 1748 was mentioned. The residents of what was called on that page 'the other house' were Jan Bien, his wife Gese and their two young children Herm and Willem.From the Reformed marriage book of Oldenzaal can be deduced that Jan and Gese were most likely married in 1744. 
According to the register, Jan Herremsen from Weerselo had banns posted on July 26, 1744 with Greete Willemsen from Rossum, and they married on August 10, 1744. It is striking that the minister did not use farm names for this registration, but patronymics. They show that the fathers of Jan and Greete must have been Herman and Willem respectively. In combination with the date of the marriage and the dates of the baptisms mentioned below, this is a strong indication that these Jan Herremsen and Greete Willemsen were the same as the Jan Bien and Gese of the 1748 census. Another sign is that their first two children were named Herm and Willem. Baptisms in Rossum-De Lutte: Bijen and BijenhuisThe marriage registration of Jan and Greete proves nothing about their religious background: until 1795, all marriages in Overijssel had to be registered in a Reformed church. The couple's children were baptized Catholic, in the Rossum-De Lutte 'statie'. The word 'statie' was used for a parish at a time when the practice of the Catholic faith was only permitted with a blind eye. Most people from Weerselo went to the Rossum-De Lutte statie.The baptismal book shows that the couple had seven children baptized over the years 1745-1762. The names of the parents were written in the baptismal book in varying ways. Both Jan and Hannes are short for the name Johannes; Greete is short for Margaretha.
All seven registrations stated that the family lived in Weerselo. The fact that in 1750 again a Hermannus was baptized, and in 1755 again, indicates that the first two boys with that name died young. That at the census the housewife was called Gese and not Grete or anything similar is probably due to the carelessness of the person who wrote down the names. That in the name of the father of the children the exit 'huis' (house) was omitted two times and crossed out once indicates that Jan was usually called Biën for short. The name of the children's mother, Olde Tiethof or Olde Tijthof, also appears with various witnesses. That name must have been derived from the Tijthof (Tijdhof, Tiethof) ground near Rossum. Below are images of the baptismal registrations from 1745, 1747 and 1755. The third image shows that in the name Bijenhuis later 'huis' was crossed out: 
Wilhelmus Bijen(huis) and his childrenThe name Bijen(huis) was continued only through Wilhelmus, born in 1747. He married Jenne Steffens from Nijstad near Weerselo on November 18, 1782 in the Rossum-De Lutte statie:
'Wilm Bijen ex Werselo, et Jenne Steffens in Nistadt, testibus R.D. Niehuis et Terlinde etc.' Four baptismal registrations of children of this couple are known, the first three from the Rossum-De Lutte statie and the fourth from Deurningen. Probably Willem and his wife moved to Deurningen between 1788 and 1792. Maybe they lived on a farm named Kuipers in the hamlet of Hasselo. The details of the four baptisms look like this:
In the baptism book of Deurningen, the parents were indicated slightly differently than in Rossum-De Lutte: the suffix 'huis' behind Bijen has been omitted, Jenne has been replaced by the more genteel Johanna, and her own surname has been replaced by that of her husband. Unfortunately, the baptismal registration of at least one more son is probably missing here. This is explained on the next page. |
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