The Reitz Genealogy is made available by N.A. Bosch Reitz and Jhr. F.G.L.O. van Kretschmar

INTRODUCTION

SURVEY OF THE AVAILABLE GENEALOGICAL SOURCE MATERIAL

Commenced in 1987, the genealogical data on the Bosch Reitz family recorded in this compilation is based on research of the existing family documents and searches in authentic sources. The integration of researched and additional obtained data confirm that the origins of the Reitz (Bosch Reitz) family dates back to the first quarter of the 16th century. The origins of the family could be traced to the region in Germany known as the Wetterau, located south of the river Lahn and east of the river Rhine, stretching across the scattered domains of the sovereign Counts (in the 17th century to become Princes) of Solms, Hesse(n), Nassau and Stolberg.
The Counts of Solms-Braunfels and Solms-Greiffenstein in particular were to employ the Rritz family and their relatives by marriage, Christ and Meder, as their officials in various functions in the small but ancient town of Grüningen, located a little to the east of Braunfels and to the south of the University-town of Giessen (Hesse(n), where Cuntz Reitz, the eldest known member of the family was a resident. His son Johann Reitz moved to Grüningen, now a small rural town, but which once held an important position as a regional capital boasting a Court of Justice with the power to pass the death sentence as early as 1397.
Having settled in Grüningen, one branch of the Reitz family remained there for 8 generations until it became extinct in 1821. This branch became fully integrated and married into all the other established Grüningen families, many of their members appointed as Town-Councillors and holding various administrative positions for the Counts of Solms. In the second and third generation we find the Reitz, marrying female members belonging to the Christ and Meder families. Like the Reitz family, these families formed part of the oligarchies of Town-Councillors that could be found in all self-governing towns till the end of the 18th century.
In the fourth generation we find Johan Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666), who had chosen an ecclesiastical career which had brought him south and westwards to the Palatinate of the Rhine. Adam's father-in-law, Jeremias Hartung, and ater his sons and relatives by marriage became also closely involved with the fate of the Palatinate at the hands of the marauding King Louis XIV of France. They all served its church in many charges, until that branch of the Reitz, almost in its entirety, emigrated to The Netherlands from 1714 onwards, to the city of Utrecht in particular.

The genealogical link between the Reitz and Bosch family was established when Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666) married in 1653 Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681) who, from her previous marriage, had produced one son and a daughter.
This stepdaughter of Adam Reitz, married in 1663 Conrad Busch (1642-1698). He was a Pastor who had succeeded his father-in-law in his Parishes. Descendants of the Busch family also emigrated to the Netherlands, where they transliterated their name from Busch to Bosch. When the male line of the Bosch family became extinct at the end of the 18th century, Anna Geertruida Jacoba Bosch (1767-1826), the last remaining Bosch relative, persuaded her Reitz cousin (Dirk Anton Reitz, 1763-1813) to add in 1792 the surname Bosch to that of his son (Gysbert Christiaan Reitz, 1792-1866), who was her godson, This resulted in the surname Bosch Reitz, for the branch of the Reitz family who had emigrated to The Netherlands. This branch continues to this day, albeit much reduced in numbers.
During the 19th century, the first bearer of the surname Bosch Reitz (Gysbert Christiaan, 1792-1866) believed that he was the descendant of the Reutz family who lived in the Baltic state of Pommerania. He also believed that, if he could prove his descent from that family, he could lay claim on a large unsettled inheritance left by a member of the Reutz family.
The Reutz family had become ennobled as Von Reutz, with descendants to this day. To Gijsbert Christiaan the lure of titled relatives and their unclaimed money proved irresistible. Likewise the Dutch genealogist A.A. Vorsterman van Oyen, who published the Reitz genealogy with the patently false older generations "Reutz" in the third volume (1890) of his famous "Stam en Wapenboek van aanzienlijke Nederlandsche Geslachten" (Register of pedigrees and arms of prominent families in the Netherlands) which was published in the period 1885-1890.
The publication by Vorsterman van Oyen is blemished by several family genealogies claiming early lines of descent which have since proven to be incorrect. His temptation for aggrandisement was further demonstrated by embellishing the Reitz Coat of Arms unnecessarily, and not in keeping with its solid bourgeois history and professions, by adding two angels as supporters, a practice almost unknown in the heraldry of non-noble families. To crown it all in the published coloured illustration of these arms Vorsterman, substituted the two faces of the angels with the face of his own wife, copied from a carte-visite photograph, without even changing the hairstyle.

Following the Vorsterman van Oyen publication and in 1894, C. Coetzee de Villiers published his "Geslacht Register der oude Kaapsche Familien" (Register of genealogies of the old Cape Families), the third volume which included the Reitz family genealogy. This very incomplete work was re-issued in Cape Town/Amsterdam in 1966 by C. Pama with revisions and supplementary material which were based on a revised edition of de Villiers publication by J.Hoge, Amsterdam 1958.

During the compilation and editing of the Bosch Reitz genealogy, Vorsterman van Oyen was assisted by the art-historian S.G.Bosch Reitz (1860-1938) who, largely out of respect for the wish of his late grandfather (Gysbert Christiaan, 1792-1886) and his own father (John Antoinne, 1831-1913) endorsed the Reutz line of descent.
However, in the latter part of his life (1937), he denounced the Reutz descent in favour of the family descent recorded in family notes which had come into his possession. These family notes which are kept in the Bosch Reitz family archives in Laren (Holland) recorded the Reitz genealogy drawn up in 1835 by Justin Modéra (1803-1866) Lt. Captain of the Netherlands Navy and author on marine subjects. He was the son of Cornelia Reitz (1771-1846), who was married to Jean Adrian Modéra. This family branch became extinct
The family notes, mentions only names and dates of birth, death and marriage, but not a single birthplace or even an individuals profession. The notes do not mention Giessen or Grüningen as the earliest places of origin. In addition, no mention was made of the public offices occupied by the Reitz family in Grüningen, or any of the Church appointments held by Adam Reitz, by his wife's Hartung-relatives, by his sons in law etc. This omission of important genealogical data, which most likely had been recorded in the original genealogy, probably can be attributed to the person who copied the original pedigree by Modéra.

This lack of detail, severely complicated research in German archives. It was only after consulting lists of the 17th century Ministers of the German Calvinist Reformed Church, that all these relatives, perfectly correctly enumerated in the Modéra pedigree, were released from their anonymity and given their professional and geographical contexts now recorded in this document.

The photo copies of the original records of inhabitants of Grüningen of the years 1619, 1656, 1665 and 1688, kindly provided in 1991 by the Braunfels Archivist, provided by far the most valuable and authentic information. These records together with other information enabled the confirmation of the original genealogy of 1835, by Justin Modéra.

Principal among the other sources of information were the index cards to births and deaths and marriages made from Grüningen sources, and inspected and copied at the Archive of Pohlheim in the Solms-Braunfels region of the Wetterau, where they have been deposited. These have been arranged in their genealogical contexts, with the information included in this compilation. Unfortunately the records from before 1646 no longer exist.

Throughout this process and wherever corroboration was possible, the information by Modéra has always proven to be correct. The genealogy by Modéra never appears to have invented members of the family that could not be confirmed by the available source material. Nor did members appear from the archival records that he did not mention. Apart from marginal discrepancies in dates, the current available sources searched confirm the Justin Modéra genealogy to be an accurate account of the Reitz descent.

Another very significant piece of evidence which confirms the early line of descent as listed by Justin Modéra, can be found in the preface by Johann Heinrich Reitz in his publication in 1693, of the "Instruction for a Master of the Household or Tutor to a young Exalted Lord" dedicated to his "Gracious Lord" Count Wilhelm Moritz of Solms (1651-1724) see p. 15. In this preface Johann Heinrich expresses his gratitude for the favour and protection shown by the House of Solms to his ancestors of the Meder, Christ and Reitz families, conjoined by mutual consanguinity, employed in the dispensing of the Count's Justice, and from whom sprang "Viri doctissimi et Consultissimi": men most learned and worthy of consult. In this document Johann Heinrich Reitz confirms that his grandmother was a Meder, and that his great-grandmother was a Christ, as had been recorded in the Justin Modéra pedigree of 1835.

While throughout the 19th and early 20th century, individual entries on outstanding members of the Reitz family have appeared in general Biographical Dictionaries, as well as specialised Theological Dictionaries, in the Netherlands, Germany and England, they were never in a clearly elaborated genealogical context.
In the monthly genealogical publication "De Nederlandsche Leeuw" (published by the Koninklijke Nederlandsche vereeniging voor Geslacht en Wapenkunde in The Hague) under Queries and Answers (vol.1958, p.197), Jhr. F. van Kretschmar, in answer to a query on the Abresch-Reitz alliance, denounced the Vorsterman descent, in favour of the line of descent recorded in 1835 by the Justin Modéra genealogy.

Subsequent researches in German archives have confirmed the early Reitz line of descent recorded by Modéra. The full details of this research are now presented in this document, which is subject to alterations and additions when new facts make this necessary.
A renewed interest in the person and works of Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) and of the Pietistic Movement in which he played such an important part has undergone an academic revival in Germany which has resulted in a number of theological publications including: "Ein zu Unrecht vergessener Pietist" (an unjustly forgotten pietist) by the German Theologian Dr. R. Mohr, of Dusseldorf.

Another publication concerns a 635 page document comprising four Volumes dealing with the major theological work by J.H.Reitz "Historie der Wiedergeborenen" (History of the New-born Christians). This research by H.Jurgen Schrader, Professor of German linguistics and literature at Geneva University was published in 1989 in Gottingen. In addition a listing of all the published works by J.H. Reitz was produced which is included in the Appendices.

Both these theologians have greatly contributed to the extensive theological, biographical and literary documentation now available on J.H.Reitz, providing a far better insight in the thoughts and teaching of J.H. Reitz. However, neither were fully aware of this recent family research and the extensive genealogical data assembled in this family-historical compilation. For benefit of their research work on J.H.Reitz, both theologians have now been provided with information, relating to the genealogy of the early Reitz descent. The information that the founder of the Reitz family, namely Cuntz Reitz, resided in the University town of Giessen is also mentioned by both theologians in their documentation on J.H. Reitz.
The details covering the period between Cuntz Reitz and his great-grandson Zacharias Reitz, the Town Councillor at Grüningen, and his wife Ursula Meder, is the subject of ongoing research.

GLOSSARY

Historical Dutch Civic offices:
Schepen: Alderman (with a judicial function).
Raad: Councillor (with a legislative function).
Burgemeester: Burgomaster. The position is not identical with that of Mayor.
Weeskamer: Court of Wards. (Representing the legal rights of minors and orphans).
Weesmeester: The head of the Weeskamer: Commissioner or President of the Court of Wards.
Weeshuis: Orphanage.
Regent/Regentes Weeshuis: Regent Trustee of the Orphanage.
Schout: Sheriff. (In charge of the Law and order in a Town).
Rentmeester: Bailiff (Representative of the Landlord).
Ondertrouw: Publication of the Banns.
Verloofd: Engaged.

ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD:

R. N. L: Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
R. O. N: Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau.
O. N. L. Officer in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
O. O. N: Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau.
C. N. L: Commander in the Order of the Dutch Lion.
C. O. N: Commander in the Order of Orange Nassau.
Grootkruis N. L.: Knight Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Grootkruis O. N: Knight Commander in the Order of Orange Nassau.
R. M. W. O. 1, 11,111, or 1V: Knight Military Williams Order, first class etc.
Ridder Johanniter Orde: Member of the Order of St John. (England), open exclusively to Protestant members of the Dutch Nobility.
Protestant branch of
The Order of Maltese Knights: Open exclusively to Roman Catholic members of the Dutch Nobility. In England the Order of Malta and St John is open to all who wish te be actively engaged in e.g the hospital and ambulance work of the Order.
Oranje Nassau Order (O.O.N.) ranks with the Order of the British Empire. (O.B.E.).
Nederlandse Leeuw, (C.N.L) ranks with the Order of the Bath. (England).

HERIDITARY TITLES:

Jhr.: = courtesy title for the untitled nobility, equivalent to Baronet (= English rank below a Baron but above a knight).
Jkvr.: = Unmarried daughter of a Jhr.. Equals "The Hon. Miss".)
(The English "Lady"= the wife of a Knight or Peer. Lady followed by a Christian name = the daughter of a Duke, Marquess or Earl.)

ACADEMIC TITLES.

Ds. for "dominus" = Protestant pastor., Rev.
P. for Pastor = Roman Catholic Priest.
Mr = Magister Iuris: MA degree in Law.
Iuris Utriusque Doctor: Doctor of Civil and Ecclesiastical Law.
Ir = Engineer (University)
Ing= Engineer (Higher Technical College)

CHURCHES

Eglise Wallone=French speaking Calvinist Church.

TABLE SHOWING THE CONSECUTIVE
SENIOR BRANCH HEADS

Reitz
Bosch Reitz

GENERATION I [GERMANY]
Cuntz Reitz, appr. 1510-........

GENERATION II
Johann Reitz, appr. 1540-........

GENERATION III
Caspar Reitz, appr. 1570-........
marries
Catharina Christ

GENERATION IV
Zacharias Reitz, appr. 1600-........
marries
1. ca.1630. Ursula Meder (.....-1663)
2. 1664. Anna

GENERATION V
Adam Reitz (ca.1630-1666)
marries
1653. Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681)

GENERATION VI
Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720)
marries
1. 1682. Anna Catharina Rothenburger (.... ca.1692)
2. 1693. Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734)

GENERATION VII [THE NETHERLANDS]
Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778)
marries
1727. Theodora Kloeck (1698-1783)

GENERATION VIII
Gysbertus Reitz (1731-1809)
marries
1. 1760. Judith Elisabeth Loogen (1725-1765).
2. 1766. Johanna Christoffeline de Lalalne de Duthay (1742-1771).

GENERATION IX (children from first marriage)
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH
Jan Fredrik Reitz (1761-1824) marries
1795. Jacoba Barbara van Reenen (1777-1818)
DUTCH BRANCH
Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813) marries
1788. Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch (1762-1832)

GENERATION VIII
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH
Gysbertus Reitz (1731-1809)
marries
1760. Judith Elisabeth Loogen (1725-1765)

GENERATION IX
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH
Jan Fredrik Reitz (1761-1824) marries
1795. Jacoba Barbara van Reenen (1777-1818)

GENERATION X
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH
Dirk Gijsbert Reitz (1796-1853)
marries
1. 1831. Geertruida Leonara Liessart
2. 1835. Louise Johanna van de Poel (1812-1883)

GENERATION XI
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH
Frederik George Adolph Reitz (1840-1910)
marries
1896. Susanna Weber (1852-1920)

GENERATION XII
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH [FRANCE]
Frederik Paul Reitz (1881-<1941)
marries
1916. Louise Berthier (……-……)

GENERATION XIII
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH [FRANCE]
Frederic Pierre Reitz (1916-1998)
marries
Lucienne Charlotte Camille Virlon (1921-……)

GENERATION XIV
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH [FRANCE]
Frederic Charles Reitz (1950-……)
marries
1977. Elzbieta Wawro (1948-……)

GENERATION XV
SOUTH AFRICAN BRANCH [FRANCE]
Stanislaw Frederik Reitz (1978-……)

GENERATION VIII
DUTCH BRANCH
Gysbertus Reitz (1731-1809)
marries
1760. Judith Elisabeth Loogen (1725-1765)

GENERATION IX
DUTCH BRANCH
Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813)
marries
1788. Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch (1762-1832)

GENERATION X
DUTCH BRANCH
Gysbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866)
marries
1815. Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866)

GENERATION XI
DUTCH BRANCH [Surinam]
Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz (1825-1880)
marries
1858. Josephine Gibson Austin (1842-1917)

GENERATION XII
DUTCH BRANCH [Surinam]
Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952)
marries
1902. Frederika Francoise Aman (1877-1970)

GENERATION XIII
DUTCH BRANCH
Norman Bosch Reitz (1905-1993)
marries
1933. Maria Antoinette Therese Boekwijt (1912-....)

GENERATION XIV
DUTCH BRANCH [Australia]
Norman Anton Bosch Reitz (1942-……)
marries
1967. Leonie Joy McMath (1943-……)

GENERATION XV
DUTCH BRANCH [Australia]
Anton Richard Theo Bosch Reitz (1972-……)

HISTORICAL NOTES RHINELAND PALATINATE
THE REGION WHERE THE ECCLESIASTICAL CAREER TOOK PLACE
of
ADAM Reitz
(c.1628-1666)
and his son
JOHANN HEINRICH Reitz
(1655-1720)

The Rhineland Palatinate of which Heidelberg was the political centre, owes its name to the "Palatinate" given to the highest officers in the Holy Roman Empire who were in the sovereign's complete confidence. These functions and dignities disappeared officially, in the 14th century, except in the hereditary family ruling a group of territories whose approximate centre was the confluence of the Neckar with the Rhine. Through the wise government of these prince-electors, known as Kurfürsten, the electoral palatinate (Kurpfalz) became one of the most advanced states of Europe.
The "Orleans War" (1688-1697). In the 16th century, the electors, who had become Protestant, were continually reinforcing and embellishing their castle at Heidelberg. The Elector Charles Louis restored his states in an exemplary manner after the ravages of the Thirty Years War. He was a tolerant peaceful and broad-minded Calvinist who thought he could conduct a personal foreign policy within the Empire. In the hope of ensuring peace in the Rhineland and extending the influence of his house he married his daughter, Liselotte (Elizabeth-Charlotte) to "Monsieur" Philip of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. The Palatinate Princess did not pass unnoticed at the Court of France. Saint-Simon in his mémoirs returns frequently to her loud voice, het thick accent and her intractable dislike of Mme De Maintenon.
When the son of Charles Louis who was possibly "mentally underdeveloped" died without an heir in 1685, the marriage alliance, which was invoked by Louis XIV to assert his claim to the territories on the left bank of the Rhine proved dissastrous to the Palatinate and particularly to Heidelberg. The town was laid waste, the castle sacked in the brutal campaign of 1689. Total disaster followed in 1693, when the town, which was built of wood, was completely destroyed by fire. This catastrophe led to the rebuilding of the town on the same foundations but in an uninspired Baroque style. Soon the electors abandoned the ruined castle, turning their attention instead to their residence at Mannheim and chwetzingen.

REITZ GENERATION I-II-III-IV

Cuntz Reitz (ca.1510-.....)
Johann Reitz (ca.1540.....)
Caspar Reitz (approx 1570-....)
Zacharias Reitz (approx 1600-.....)

Cuntz Reitz (1525)

GENERATION I

Cuntz Reitz
Cuntz was born by approximation between 1510 and 1525. His name is derived from the Reitz-genealogy in the possession of his descendants Modéra, the sons of Cornelia Reitz (1771-1846), of the extinct Dutch Middelburg-branch, and Mr. Jean Adrien Modéra (1803-1866). They allowed the Bosch Reitz branch to take copies of their family notes. These early family notes are still in the Six-Bosch Reitz archives in Laren (Holland), and provided the basis on which the following Genealogy was assembled.

Both Dr.R.Mohr and Prof.Dr.Schrader, recent authors on the subject of Johann Heinrich Reitz the great-great-great-grandson of Cuntz Reitz accept that the latter was a resident of the University Town of Giessen, just north of Grüningen, in Hessen territory. The Modéra papers also place Cuntz at the head of the line of descent, but do not mention Giessen. This first generation has sofar not been confirmed by an original authentic document. We only know of one son, Johann Reitz.

The first two Generations sofar, have not been confirmed in the absence of original documents. But from GENERATION III onwards all the data in the early Modéra-Reitz compilation of 1835, has been confirmed by orginal contemporary sources as well as supplemented by additional such source-material.

Johannes Reitz (1550)

GENERATION II

Johann or Johannes Reitz
Son of Cuntz Reitz. He was born in Giessen by approximation in 1540/1550. He was the first of his line to settle in Grüningen.
He is mentioned on the Census of the Town of Grüningen of the year 1619 as Burgher. He must have lived to a ripe old age, and no more is heard of him after 1619.
He appears to have outlived his only known son Casper Reitz

Reitz - Christ (1599)

GENERATION III

Caspar Reitz
Son of Johann Reitz (ca. 1540/1550-....). Caspar Reitz was born by approximation in 1570/1575. He does not appear on the earliest known Census list of Grüningen of 1619. This May indicate that he died before that date. He was married to Catharine Christ, a member of a Grüningen family that had come to occupy seats on the Town-Council. She was possibly the sister of Johannes Christ, who on the 1619 Census-Roll is recorded as Greiffensteinischer Beamter, i.e. in the Service of the Solms-Domain of Greiffensten, and of Adam Christ, who on the 1619 Census Rolls is recorded as Town-Councillor of Grüningen.
The "Reitz-Christ-Meder" alliance recorded by Caspar's great-grandson Johann Heinrich Reitz, 1655-1720) in his dedication to the Count of Solms of his "Instruction", illustrated, confirms the mutual consanguinity of these families.
The only recorded child of Caspar Reitz (approx 1570-....) and Catharina Christ was:

Zacharias Reitz
He was born approximately shortly before 1600. He is mentioned as a Councillor of the town of Grüningen in 1653 in the marriage record of his son Adam in Oberdiebach on the Rhine on January 18, 1653. He is again mentioned as such on the Grüningen Census Roll of 1655. On the 1656 Census Roll he is listed as a Burgher, with a wife and two sons and one daughter. This corresponds with the fact that one of his four sons had already died in 1642 and his eldest son Adam had already left Grüningen for his appointment in Oberdiebach in 1652. Zacharias was married before 1628, to Ursula Meder, he married for the second time in 1664.

NOTES:

The Alliance of the Reitz and Christ families was confirmed by Ds. (Pastor) Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) the great-grandson of Caspar Reitz, in his publication ("Instruction to Court-Tutors" (1693).
Copies of the Census Rolls referred to in this document where obtained from Braunfels Castle in 1990. The earliest Census Roll is dated 1619.

The inhabitants of Grüningen, as of all towns in this period, were divided into:
"Einwohner" = inhabitants without Civic rights
and
Burger/Burghers = Citizens, with the right of voting and of nomination to Civic Posts such as the Rath (Council), in Grüningen called "Raths-freunde"; and obligations such as the Civic Guards, divided over Rotten (Troops/Platoons).

One could acquire Citizenship by right of birth, whether from father or mother. Or by paying fee-paying registration.
If not from his father, Caspar Reitz could have claimed Citizenship by descent from his mother's family Christ.
Burgher = Citizen with the right of election to public offices.
Inhabitant ( Einwohner) = Citizen, without any such rights.

Reitz - Meder (1630)

GENERATION IV

Zacharias Reitz. Son of Caspar Reitz (c.1570/1575-.....) and Catharina Christ. Zacharias was born approximately shortly before 1600. Zacharias is recorded as a Town-Councillor of Grüningen in 1653 at the wedding of his son Adam who married in Oberdiebach on the Rhine on January 18, 1653, and also on the Census Roll of 1665. On the 1656, Census Roll of Grüningen, Zacharias is recorded as Burgher, with a wife and two sons and one daughter. This corresponds with the fact that one of his four sons (Johann Adam) had already died in 1642 and his eldest son, Adam, had already left Grüningen for his appointment in Oberdiebach in 1652 where he is recorded (1652-1653) as "Lehrer" (Teacher of Religious Instructions).
Zacharias married his first wife Ursula Meder before 1628. She died in Grüningen on February 1, 1663, and was buried on February 4, 1663 as registered in the Church records of Oberdiebach. She was the daughter of Jacob Meder, a Master-vitner (Weinmeister) in Grüningen, and according to the Census of 1619, a Town-Councillor.

The second wife of Zacharias was Anna born in Butzbach, they were married in Grüningen.
The children of Zacharias Reitz (before 1600-.....) and his first wife Ursula Meder (.......-1663) were:

1. Adam Reitz. He was born in Grüningen, c.1628/1630 and died in Oberingelheim October 14, 1666. He married in Oberdiebach on January 18, 1653 Sibylla Hartung.
2. Caspar Reitz. He was born in Grüningen, in 1632 and died on April 29, 1706. He married in Grüningen on, November 24, 1657 Catharina.
3. Johann Adam Reitz. He was born in Grüningen, where he died in 1642 when young.
4. Catharina Reitz. She was born in 1636 in Grüningen, where she died on December 10, 1702 and where she married in 1660 Johann Ernst Schäffer. He was born in 1639 and died in Grüningen on October 29, 1717. He was Bailiff to the Count of Solms-Lich. In 1665 and was recorded as Drummer (Trommel Schlager) of the Civic Guard. Their children were:

1. Johan Wilhelm Schäffer. He was born in 1661 and died in 1737. Town-Councillor.
2. Johan Conrad Schäffer. He was born in 1669 and died in 1723. Town Clerk, Bailiff and Justice of the Peace.
3. Andreas Schäffer. He was born in 1676 and died in 1706.

5. Johann Jacob Reitz. He was born in Grüningen in 1643, where he also died on September 5, 1704. He married on November 8, 1664 Anna Maria
The possible son of Zacharias Reitz and his second wife Anna May have been:
6. Heinrich Reitz. He was born in 1668 in Grüningen, where he also died on July 14, 1754.
He married Anna Elisabetha
The children of Heinrich Reitz (1668-1754) and Anna Elisabetha were:

1. Valentin Reitz. Born in November1699 and died on February 21, 1753.
2. Heinrich Eckhardt Reitz. He was born on March 13, 1701.
3. Johan Valentin Reitz. He was born on May 28, 1703.

NOTES:

Ursula Meder, the wife of Zacharias Reitz, was the sister of Jacob, Peter and Balthasar Meder, one of the Grüningen families that held posts in the Service of the Counts of Solms and sat on the Grüningen Town Council in the first half of the XVIIth century. Descendants of the Meder family settled in New Zealand and the USA. The mediaeval town of Grüningen, to which the right to pass the death sentence in its Court of Justice, was granted in 1397 became part of the Domain of the Count of Solms for three quarters between 1459 and 1478, one quarter remaining under the Counts of Stoberg from 1535. During the XVIIth century one half was in the Iuvisdiction of the Count of Solms-Braunfels, one quarter under the Count of Solms-Lich, and one quarter under the Count of Stolberg, until 1685, when Solms-Braunfels acquired sole rights over the whole Grüningen domain.

Copy of the front cover of the document "Instuction" to Court Tutors on their religious and educational duties towards young Princes. This document was written by Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) and published in 1693 in Herborn. The document is dedicated to Count (Earl) Wilhelm Moritz zu Solms (1651-1724), and was written out of indebtness for the generous patronage displayed by the Solms Dynasty towards the threefold ancestory of the "MEDER-CHRIST-Reitz" families. This document is currently (1991) the subject of an extensive Church-historical review by Dr.Rudolf Moht, a modern German Theological scholar and researcher of Johann Heinrich Reitz and his theological writings and of the "Pietistic" Movement in the German Church.

REITZ GENERATION V-A, V-B, V-C

Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666)
Caspar Reitz (1632-1706)
Johann Jacob Reitz (1643-1704)

Reitz - Hartung (1653)

GENERATION V-A

Adam Reitz. 1st child and son of Zacharias Reitz (ca.1600-......) and Ursula Meder (.....-1663). Also referred to as Johann Adam. Adam was born in Grüningen in der Wetterau, c.1628/30, and died on October 14, 1666 in Oberingelheim, of the plague. He was enrolled at the University of Herborn on May 3, 1647. In 1652-1653. Adam was "Lehrer" (Teacher) in Oberdiebach on the Rhine (approximately 3 km South of Bacharach). Most German Pastors seem to have started their career with a few years as "Lehrer", literally, Teacher of Religious Instruction.
From 1653-1666 Adam, was Pastor of Oberdiebach, in succession to his father in Law Jeremias Hartung (1599-1677). In 1666 Pastor of Oberingelheim (located along the river Rhine, halfway between Bingen and Mainz where he was succeeded by Conrad Busch (1642-1698) who in 1667, married his stepdaughter, Maria Elisabeth Kaiserswerth. Adam was also Ecclesiastical Inspector in the Church Province of Heidelberg.

The plague which devastated most of Europe during the 17th Century also affected Cologne and the Rhineland, from 1666-1670. Only eleven weeks and two days after the plague reached Oberingelheim, Adam Reitz was struck down while preaching on the 11th October 1666 ("wurde de 11th Oktober in der Predigt mit der pestilentzialische Hitz angegriffen"). He was buried in the Church between the pulpit and the altar. ("ist in der Kirche zwischen der Kanzel und dem Tisch begraben worden").

Adam married in Oberdiebach, on January 18, 1653. (In the marriage entry in the Church book he is referred to as "Schuldiener" (School Servant), and as the son of Zacharias Reitz, Citizen and Councillor of Grüningen), Sibylla Hartung, the daughter of Jeremias Hartung (1599-1677), Pastor of Oberdiebach, and Catharina Reichart. Sibylla Hartung was born in 1620 probably in Waldmünchen, near the border of Bohemia, where her father was the School-Rector at the time, and died in 1681. Sibylla Hartung's father was Jeremias Hartung, who was born April 15, 1599 in Umstadt in the region of Franken (Franconia), ca 50 km south-east of Wurzburg and died at Oppenheim on the Rhine on August 22, 1677. He and his brother Johannes Hartung, were both enrolled at Heidelberg University on October 21, 1616. Jeremias later also went to Marburg University, in Hessen, 30 km north of Giessen. 1620-1622, he was Rector of the school in Waldmünchen, in the Oberpfalzer Wald close to the border of Bohemia.
Between 1622-1626, Jeremias was Rector in Geigant, 10 km south of Waldmünchen, where the 30 year war turned him out and he became a refugee in Nürnberg. Jeremias was Rector in Bobstadt 1632 once more driven out in 1634 (this could either have been Bobstadt in the principality of Baden 6 km to the east of Boxberg now on the motorway halfway between Wurzburg and Heilbronn. Or, more likely in view of his further itinerary, Bobstadt in Hessen, 5 km to the east of the Rhine and just north of Worms). Rector 1634, in Weinheim near Alzey, west of the Rhine, due south of Mains, but again driven out, this time taking him a good deal more to the north-east, to Diez in the Principality of Nassau. He was Rector there as well Court-preacher 1635-1637.
In 1637 Jeremias career as Pastor begins: In Hohenstadten (present locality not traced) till 1645, Gross-Umstadt (20 km east of Darmstadt) till 1649, Bacharach on the Rhine 1649-1650, Oberdiebach just to the south of Bacharach 1650-1653 (where he is succeeded by his son-in-law Adam Reiz), Ober-Ingelheim on the Rhine just East of Bingen, 1653-1666 where once again he is succeeded by Adam Reiz, Ladenburg 1666-1675, and finally Oppenheim on the Rhine, 20 km south of Mainz, where he died on August 22, 1677 aged 78, almost 30 years after the tribulations of the 30 years war had ended with the peace of Munster, but 5 years after Louis XIV had once again started to invade and raid the territories of his Protestant neighbours which his grandson Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) was to experience at first hand. Apart from Sibylla, the wife of Adam Reitz he had two sons who died in infancy and two more daughters.

1. Anna Catharina Hartung. She married around 1661 Johan Daniel Kreussler. Anna Catharina was Godmother at the christening of her niece Anna Catharina Reitz (1657-1722) at Oberdiebach on February 8, 1657.
2. Sophia Hedwig Hartung. She married in 1664 Adolf Dilhausen. Sophia Hedwig was Godmother at the christening of her niece Salome Sophie Reitz at Oberdiebach on February 11, 1663.

Jeremias' brother Johannes Hartung had two daughters:

1. married to Martini.
2. Maria Martha Hartung, married to Cristoffel Kreussler.

Jeremias' second brother was George Frederik Hartung, Kurphfalzischer Schaffner (Bailiff of the Elector Palatine) in Nieder-Ingelheim adjacent to Jeremias' Parish Ober-Ingelheim. He left one son, raised to the rank of a Noble of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Leopold. And a daughter Margaretha Helena Hartung who died in 1689 and married on April 12, 1659 Andreas Heinrich Treviranus. Andreas Heinrich Treviranus was Deacon in Bacharach 1656-1659. Pastor of St Agidien Parish in Speyer 1659-1682 and of St.Peter's in Heidelberg 1682 until his death in 1684.
Sibylla Hartung had two children by her first husband, Johan Jakob Kayserswerth, Minister of Appenheim near Bingen, and of Ingolstadt im Stromberger Amt.

The two children of Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681) and her first husband Johan Jakob Kayserswerth were:

1. Johan Jacob Kayserswerth. He died unmarried in 1694.
2. Maria Elisabeth Kayserswerth. She married in Oberingelheim in 1667 Conrad Busch (Bosch). He was born in Solingen on August 22, 1642 and buried in Grossbockenheim-Rodenbach on March 9, 1698. Theology Student at Heidelberg 1662/1663. Schoolmaster in Oberingelheim 1666, Minister there in 1667 in Dienheim bei Oppenheim 1681-1696, Grossbockenheim und Rodenbach in 1696-1698. Great-great-grandparents of Anna Geertruyda Jacoba Bosch (1767-1826) who, at the baptisme (1792) of her nephew Gijsbert Christiaan Reitz (1792-1866), requested, that her surname (Bosch) be conjoined with his, establishing the surname, Bosch Reitz.

The children of Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666) and Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681) were:

1. Johann David Reitz. He was born in Oberdiebach on October 30, 1653, and died when young in 1655. His godparents were the Rector of the Bacharach school and the Burgomaster of Oberdiebach.
2. Johann Heinrich Reitz. He was born in Oberdiebach, near Bacharach on June 24, 1655 and died in Wesel on November 20, 1720. He was married first to Anna Catharina Rothenburger. He married for the second time in 1693, Anna Maria Verhoeven.
3. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born in Oberdiebach on January 29,1657 baptised on February 8, 1657 her Godmother was Anna Catharina Hartung, the sister of her mother. Anna Catharina died in Neckarau on June 29, 1722. She married Johann Jacob Euler. He was born in Münster am Stein on March 29, 1654 and died in Neckarau on June 15, 1732.
Johann Jacob Euler had been married before to Anna Kunigunda Reber, who had died before 1691. Johann Jacob Euler was enrolled as a student at Basel University on July 3, 1672. Pastor in Erpolzheim, Nov 1678-1691, in Dackenheim 1687-1690, Lampertheim, 1691-1711, and Neckarau from 1711-1732.
Johann Jacob was the son of Johannes Euler, who was born in Basel on December 3, 1632 and who died in Pfeddersheim (Rhine) on July 16, 1678. Johannes Euler, had married in Caub on (Rhine) on February 20, 1652 to Johanna Elisabeth Lensenius, who was the daughter of Pastor Johan Justus Lensenius.
4. Margaretha Sibylla Reitz. She was born in Oberdiebach on November 18, 1658 and died in November 1741. Her godparents were the wife of the Inspector of churches in Bacharach and a cousin. Margaretha Sibylla married in Heidelberg on February 18, 1685 Johann Peter Abresch. He was born in Dierdorf c.1657, and died in Nassau on February 12, 1726. Johann Peter was Bailiff of Homburg (Hessen) he also was, administrator of the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg's breweries and distilleries. They had at least 5 children, one of their children was:

1. Frederik Ludwig Abresch, who was born in Homburg vor der Höhe on December 29, 1699 and who died in Zwolle (The Netherlands) on May 16, 1782. He was Rector of the Latin School in Middelburg, 1731. Lector Historiarum and Eloquentiae at the Academy of Middelburg, 1741. Rector of the Latin School in Zwolle with the personal title of "Hoogleeraar", (Professor). Frederik Ludwig trained his full cousin Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz (1702-1768) as his successor at the Latin School of Middelburg, from 1736, when he was appointed Con-Rector under him. He married on January 1, 1727 Rebecca Trouillard, who died in 1738. He married for the second time on November 17,1741 Abigael Wilhelmina Thiens (October 20, 1702-May 6, 1778), widower of Karel Pastbrugge, City Councillor of Amersfoort. She was the daughter of Jeremias Thiens (December 12, 1656-March 21, 1749) and Anna Middelkoop (March 31, 1668-June 14, 1738). Frederik Ludwig Abresch was the founder of the Dutch branch of the Abresch family with many descendants.

5. Johann Philipp Reitz. He was born in Oberdiebach on March 8, 1661, and died in 1735. He married in 1691 Maria Sinylla Seybold von und zu Workenheim.
6. Salome Sophie Reitz. She was born on February 11, 1663 in Oberdiebach, after her mother, who was recorded as being seriously ill had undergone induced blood letting, a method commonly adopted for illnesses in those days. Her Godmother was Sophia Hedwig Hartung, sister of her mother.

Reitz - Catharina (1657)

GENERATION V-B

Caspar Reitz. Second son of Zacharias Reitz and Ursula Meder (....-1663). Caspar was born in Grüningen in 1632 and died on April 29, 1706. He married in Grüningen on November 24, 1657 Catharina. Caspar was Bailiff to the Count of Stolberg, for his share of Grüningen. In the Census Rolls of Grüningen of 1655 he is mentioned as serving in the first "Rott" (Platoon) of the Civic Guards. In 1688 he is recorded as "Beamter" (Public Servant) in the Service of the Count and aged 56.
The children of Caspar Reitz (1632-1706) and Catharina were:

1. Johann Adam Reitz. He was born in Grüningen on January 22, 1660. He married twice:

1. In 1682 to Kunigunda,
2. In 1690 to Catharina Waller.

2. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born in Grüningen on March 30, 1662 where she also died on February 26, 1730. She married on April 24, 1682, Johann Ludwig Engel. He was born on February 17, 1661 in Grüningen where he also died on August 24, 1724, and where he was Town-Councillor. They had 6 children.
3. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born in March 3,1662 in Grüningen, where she also died on February 1, 1750. She married on 25.10.1687, Hans Jacob Marstaller. He was born on January 29, 1660, in Grüningen where he died on October 13, 1739. He was the son of Johann Wilhelm Marstaller and Maria. His family produced members who were appointed and sat on the Grüningen Town-Council. Their children:

1. Catharina Marstaller. She was born on 10.6.1692 and died on 16.1.1749.
2. Johann Wilhelm Marstaller. He was born on 13.3.1669 and died on 15.11.1749.
3. Johann Adam Marstaller. He was born on 3.9.1700 an died on 21.9.1763.

Reitz - Anna Maria ( )

GENERATION V-C

Johann Jacob Reitz. 5th child and fourth son of Zacharias Reitz and Ursula Meder (....-1663). Johann Jacob was born in 1643, in Grüningen, where he died on September 5, 1704. In the Grüningen Census of 1655 he is recorded as serving in the 2nd Rott of the Civic Guards. On the Census of 1688 which was written and compiled by him, he is listed as being 45 years old. He was Bailiff (Schultheiss) to the Count of Solms-Braunfels, for his share in Grüningen. On November 8, 1664 he married as his first wife Anna Maria. It is possible that he married for the second time on April 23, 1691 Anna Dorothea, who was born in 1650, and who died on December 18, 1729 with issue of 1 child.
The children of Johann Jacob Reitz (1643-1704) and his first wife Anna Maria were:

1. Johann Ernst Reitz. He was born in Grüningen on January 7, 1666.
2. Anna Elisabeth Reitz. She was born in Grüningen on July 14, 1667 and died on May 5, 1702. She married on November 11, 1690 in Grüningen, Johann Zacharias Brickel. He was born in Grüningen on July 14, 1667 and died on May 4, 1741. Their children:

1. Maria Catharina Brickel. She was born on 12.2.1692 and died on 6.1.1750.
2. Anna Dorothea Brickel.She was born on 5.9.1694 and died on 17.1.1759.
3. Johann Adam Brickel. He was born in c.1697 and died on 26.3.1759.
4. Anna Catharina Brickel. She was born on 16.4.1700 and died on 10.10.1762.

3. Johann Caspar Reitz. He was born in Grüningen on August 26, 1670, where he died on November 3, 1737. He married:

1. in 1687 Anna Elisabeth
2. in 1691 Maria Elisabeth Fay.

4. Johann Adam Reitz. He was born on March 6, 1674 in Grüningen, and died on April 20, 1712. He married in 1696 Anna Catharina Leidich.
5. Johann Zacharias Reitz. He was born on July 4, 1679 in Grüningen where he died on March 3, 1705 not married, as student in Theology.
The possible child of Johann Jacob Reitz (1643-1704) and his second wife Anna Dorothea (1650-1729) May have been:
6. Catharina Reitz. She was born on March 11, 1692 in Grüningen.

REITZ GENERATION VI-B, VI-C, VI-D

Johann Adam Reitz (1660-.....)
Johann Caspar Reitz (1670-1737)
Johann Adam Reitz (1674-1712)

Reitz - Kunigunda (1682)

GENERATION VI-B

Johann Adam Reitz. First child and only son of Caspar Reitz (1632-1706) and Catharina. Johann Adam was born on January 22, 1660, in Grüningen. In the census list of Grüningen he is listed as Burgher aged 30. He was married twice:
1. On February 4, 1682 Kunigunda. They had three children.
2. He married his second wife Catharina Weller, on November 18, 1690. She was born on September 24, 1665 and died on September 17, 1737. She was the daughter Friedrich Waller (1629-1710) and Anna.
The children of Johann Adam Reitz (1660-....) and his first wife Kunigunda were:

1. Johann Wilhelm Reitz. He was born on September 11, 1683, in Grüningen where he married and died on April 19, 1759. He married in 1707 Maria Catharina Bender.
2. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born in Grüningen in 1687.
3. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born on December 7, 1688, in Grüningen where she married and died on May 29, 1754. She married on November 9, 1707, Johann Heinrich Bingel. He was born in 1651, in Grüningen, where he also died on 17.6.1748. He was a Town-Councillor in Grüningen. Son of Christoph Bingel. Their children:

1. Johann Cristoph Bingel. He was born on 15.11.1708, and died on 24.5.1709.
2. Anna Elisabeth Bingel. She was born on 13.6.1710, and died on 18.4.1759.

The children of Johann Adam Reitz (1660-......) and his second wife Catharina Waller (1665-1737) were:
4. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born in Grüningen on 16.3.1694.
5. Anna Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on 18.3.1696 in Grüningen, where she married and died on 27.10. 1782. She married on November 5, 1723 Johann Adam Becker. Johann Adam Becker was born in 1687 in Grüningen where he also died in 1759. He was Justice of the Peace (Gerichts Schöffe). He was the son of Johann Heinrich Becker, who was a Town-Councillor.
6. Anna Margretha Reitz. She was born in Grüningen on 27.5.1698.
7. Anna Clara Reitz. She was born on 27.2.1701 in Grüningen, where she married and died on 11.2.1759. She married Johann Zacharias Heller. He died in Grüningen. Johann Zacharias Heller was Praeceptor at the Grüningen School. Deacon and Chaplan. Members of his family were appointed and sat on the Grüningen Town-Council.
8. Justina Reitz. She was born on 18.12.1703 in Grüningen, where she also died on 8.4.1728.
9. Johann Zacharias Reitz. He was born on July 10, 1706 in Grüningen, where he also died in 1707.
10. Sophia Catharina Reitz . She was born on 8.9.1709 in Grüningen, where she also died on1.7.1710.

Reitz - Anna Elisabeth (1687)

GENERATION VI-C

Johann Caspar Reitz. 3rd child and second son of Johann Jacob Reitz and Anna Maria. Johann Caspar was born on August 26, 1670 in Grüningen where he also died on November 3, 1737. He was married twice:
1. On June 28, 1687 he married Anna Elisabeth,
2. He married secondly on October 6, 1691 Maria Elisabeth Fay. She was born in 1674, and died on November 22, 1749.
The children of Johann Caspar Reitz (1670-1737) and his second wife Maria Elisabeth Fay (1674-1749) were:

1. Anna Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on October 7, 1692 in Grüningen, where she died at the age of 89 years old! on July 21, 1781.
2. Anna Margaretha Reitz. She was born on April 23, 1694, in Grüningen.
3. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born on February 3, 1697 in Grüningen.
4. Kunigunda Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on April 2, 1698 in Grüningen, and died when young on May 25, 1707.
5. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born on March 9, 1701 in Grüningen, where she also died on November 16, 1749.
6. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born on October 6, 1703 in Grüningen.
7. Catharina Reitz. She was born on March 12, 1706 in Grüningen, where she also died on March 13, 1759.
8. Johann Jacob Reitz. He was born on November 9, 1708 in Grüningen, where he also died on December 16, 1736 when still a student in Theology.
9. Anna Agatha Reitz. She was born on April 18, 1713, in Grüningen.
10. Maria Christina Reitz. She was born on August 16, 1716 in Grüningen, where she married and died on June 2, 1793. She married Johann Adam Bender on, November 3, 1735. He was born on December 14, 1712 and died June 6, 1786. He was Burgomaster of Grüningen in 1751. Son of Johann Jacob Bender and Catharina Engel, who belonged to a family who had been appointed and sat on the Grüningen Town-Council. They had 9 children one of whom was Jacob Wilhelm Bender, who was born on 29.1.1746. He was a religious minister in Frankenberg.

Reitz - Leidich (1696)

GENERATION VI-D

Johann Adam Reitz. 5th child and fourth son of Johann Jacob Reitz (1643-1704) and Anna Maria. Johann Adam was born on March 6, 1674 in Grüningen and died on April 20, 1712. He married on May 7, 1696 Anna Catharina Leidich. She was born on February 24, 1680 and died on April 17, 1735.
The children of Johann Adam Reitz (1674-1712) and Anna Catharina Leidich (1680-1735) were:

1. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born on December 14, 1698 in Grüningen where she also died when young on September 5, 1704.
2. Johann Jacob Reitz. He was born on November 26, 1700 in Grüningen, where he also died when young on August 19, 1701.
3. Maria Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on June 27, 1702, in Grüningen.
4. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born on November 28, 1704 in Grüningen, where she died when young on February 22, 1707.
5. Maria Catharina Reitz. She was born on February 11, 1707 in Grüningen, where she also died when young on May 13, 1712.
6. Dorothea Reitz. She was born on April 11, 1709 in Grüningen, where she married and died on April 19, 1773. She married Johann Jacob Weydenhausen. He was born on April 29, 1690 in Grüningen where he also died on August 10, 1766. He was the son of Johann Weydenhausen, and belonged to a family that produced members who had been appointed and sat on the Grüningen Town-Council.
7. Anna Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on August 28, 1712 in Grüningen, where she married and died on June 28, 1764. She married on November 19, 1733 Johann Jacob Marstaller. He was born on October 16, 1707 in Grüningen where he also died on April 6, 1785. He was the son of Johann Wilhelm Marstaller and Anna Elisabeth Heller. Members of the Marstaller and Heller family had been appointed and sat on the Grüningen Town-Council.

REITZ GENERATIONS VII-BA, VIII-BA

Johann Wilhelm Reitz (1683-1753)
Adolph Friedrich Reitz (1715-1759)

Reitz - Bender (1707)

GENERATION VII-BA

Johann Wilhelm Reitz. First child and oldest son of Johann Adam Reitz (1660-.....) and Kunigunda. Johan Wilhelm was born on September 11, 1683 in Grüningen, where he married and died on April 19, 1753. He married on February 24, 1707, Maria Catharina Bender. She was born on March 20, 1687 in Grüningen, where she also died on October 4, 1772. Members of her family were Town-Councillors.
The children of Johan Wilhelm Reitz (1683-1753) and Maria Catharina Bender (1687-1772) were:

1. Catharina Reitz. She was born on February 2, 1708 in Grüningen, where she also died on January 28, 1778.
2. Kunigunde Reitz. She was born on August 25, 1709 in Grüningen and died there when young on June 14, 1711.
3. Anna Catharina Reitz. She was born on August 1711 in Grüningen, where she married and died on November 18, 1788. She married on April 15, 1735, Johann Heinrich Textor. He was born on October 16, 1709 in Grüningen where he also died on May 12, 1788. He was the son of Johann Textor and Catharina Waltz.
4. Adolph Friedrich Reitz. He was born on January 11, 1715 in Grüningen, where he also died on May 22, 1759. He married in 1738 Anna Maria Fay.
5. Maria Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on May 18, 1718, in Grüningen where she married and died on December 3, 1784. She married on August 20, 1738 Gilbert AndreasS Glaser. He was born on November 14, 1713 in Grüningen where he also died on April 3, 1759.
6. Charitas Reitz. She was born on April 10, 1722 in Grüningen where she married and died on November 9, 1783. She married on August 23, 1743, NicolausS Schäffer. He was born on August 28, 1716 in Grüningen, where he also died on April 1, 1786. He was the son of Friedrich Schäffer and Anna Maria Schwind and grandson of Johann Peter Schäffer (1638-1666), and Anna Catharina Engel, whose families both produced members who had been appointed and sat on the Grüningen Town-Council. Nicolaus Schäffer was a Stocking-weaver.

Reitz - Fay (1738)

GENERATION VIII-BA

Adolph Friedrich Reitz. Third child and oldest son of Johann Wilhelm Reitz (1683-1753) and Maria Catharina Bender (1687-1772). Adolph Friedrich was born on January 11, 1715 in Grüningen where he married and died on May 22, 1759. He was Town-Councillor of Grüningen. He married on April 18, 1738 Anna Maria Fay (also spelt Fey). She was born on July 29, 1716 in Grüningen where she also died on May 25, 1774. She was the daughter of Adolf Fay and Maria Elisabeth Textor, whose families both had been appointed and sat on Grüningen Town-Council.
The children of Adolph Friedrich Reitz (1715-1759) and Anna Maria Fay (1716-1774) were:

1. Catharina Reitz. She was born on September 6, 1739 in Grüningen where she also died on December 8, 1781.
2. Charitas Reitz. She was born on April 17, 1742 in Grüningen, where she also died on July 2, 1780.
3. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born on December 14, 1744 in Grüningen.
4. Johanetta Justina Reitz. She was born on August 24, 1747 in Grüningen, and died there on August 22, 1821. Johanetta Justina, was the last Bearer of the name of Reitz in Grüningen.
5. Johann Adam Herman Reitz. He was born on September 5, 1755 in Grüningen, where he also died on December 26, 1759. Johann Adam Herman, was the last male Reitz in Grüningen, having survived his father by just seven months.
6. Maria Elisabeth Reitz. She was born on April 4, 1756 in Grüningen.
7. Benedicta Catharina Reitz. She was born on February 23, 1758 in Grüningen, and died there when young on April 24, 1761.

REITZ GENERATION VI-A

Ds. Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720)
Ds. Johann Philipp Reitz (1661-1735)

GENERATION VI-A

Ds. Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720), second child and son of Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666) and Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681). Johann Heinrich was born in Oberdiebach and died in Wesel. Court Chaplain at Solms-Braunfels. Inspector of the Reformed Church in Solms. Supporter of the Pietistic movement, which resulted in him being discharged of his ecclesiastical duties. The first of the Reitz family, to arrive in The Netherlands in 1705 where he was appointed as agent of Castle Wisch (Terborg), owned by the Princess-Dowager Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Siegen. In 1709 he moved to Wesel (Germany), where he established a highly regarded Boarding school. Translator in Latin of the New Testament (1703), and author of various other ecclesiastical works. In the death register of the Willibrod Church in Wesel, he is referred to as "Professor" Reitz. He was married twice and had 16 children. Father of Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1788), founder of the Reitz/Bosch Reitz family in Holland, South Africa and Australia.

Reitz - Rothenburger (1682), Reitz - Meerman (1693)

GENERATION VI-A

Ds.(Pastor) Johann Heinrich Reitz. 2nd child and son of Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666) and Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681). Johann Heinrich was born in Oberdiebach, on the Rhine near Bacharach (Germany) on June 24, 1655 and died in Wesel (Germany), on November 20, 1720.
Johann Heinrich was a pupil at the Heidelberger, Padagogium. He Enrolled at the University of Heidelberg on May 11, 1675, (Johannes Henricus Reizius, Diebaco Palatinus). Enrolled at Leyden (The Netherlands) University on December 7, 1679 where he studied under Descartes (philosopher) follower, Christoph Wittich. At Bremen University he studied philosophy under Descartes-follower Swelingius; and theology under Cornelius Von Hase, a follower of the Leyden Professor Coccoaejus.
In Bremen, Johann Heinrich also first met up with the Pietistic Movement in the German Church, led by the prominent preacher Theodor Anderlecht (Underreyck). After leaving University he first worked as a home teacher in Frankfurt am Main, and as Rector of the Latin school Frankenthal. In 1681, he had his first appointment as Pfarrer/Pastor in the Reformierte Church of the Palatinate at Freinsheim (due East of Mannheim on the road from Frankenthal to (Bad) Dürkheim. It was there that he produced the work which established his name in the academic world: The translation into Latin, with excellent annotations of the work of the Oxford Professor Thomas Goodwin on Jewish Antiquities, "Moses and Aaron" (Bremen, 1684, 2nd edition 1685).
The invasion of the Rhineland by Louis the XIV's French troops, drove him across the Rhine in 1689, where he was appointed Church-Inspector in the district of Ladenburrg, until 1694, when he again fled from the persecution of the Reformed Church by foreign ecclesiastics operating under the protection of the French occupation forces. He was appointed Pastor of Asslar (Kreis Wetzlar) in the Principality of Solms, halfway between Giessen and Braunfels. In 1695 he was already promoted to Church-Inspector of Braunfels.
Johann Heinrich had living quarters within the large medieval castle of Braunfels, the seat of the ruling Prince (Count Johann Albrecht I, 1563-1623 ) of Solms-Braunfels, father of Countess Amalia of Solms (August 31, 1602-September 8, 1675) the wife of Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange (1584-1647). (The Dutch Royal House are descended from him). There also the second son of Johann Heinrich (Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich, 1695-1778, to follow), from his second marriage was born. It was also here, that he was commissioned to bring back into the fold of the Reformed Church the Pietistic "Schwarmer" (Zealot) Balthasar Klopfer, imprisoned on the Greifenstein Citadel.
Johann Heinrich was so impressed by the man's personality that he came to choose his side. Doing so plainly and publicly lost him his job and caused him to be banished from the Solms principality. He was never again appointed in a ecclesiastical position.
In 1679, Johann Heinrich stayed in Homburg vor der Höhe, in the Principality of Hessen, just North of Frankfurt. Standing accused of having taken up a position contrary to that of the Reformed, he expurgated himself, which he did in a pamphlet entitled, "A short sketch of the suffering, the teaching and the attitude of J.H.Reitz (Offenbach 1698).
Whilst he stayed for some time in Berleburg in 1699, he spent the years till 1702 travelling and preaching with other Pietist clergy, declaring their belief in the imminent coming of Crist's Kingdom on Earth, and their opposing views to the Reformed Church's article of faith on the Praedestination. He stayed for some time in Offenbach on the southern outskirts of Frankfurt, where, in 1703 he published his new translation of the New Testament, a protest against the Lutheran translation, which caused an angry stir among Lutheran theologians. In 1702 he was appointed Rector of the Latin School of the Reformed Church in Siegen, the seat of Government of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen.
But here again, his associates in the Pietist movement fatefully drew him in to their secret conventicles and caused him the loss of his job (1704). However, he had the sympathy of the Princess-Dowager Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Siegen (1622-1732), who sent him to Terborg in The Netherlands, 50 odd kms east of Arnhem, to be the Administrator of her Dowerhouse and its estate, the castle of WISCH. Here he led an almost separatist life from the Church, doing his writing and educating his own children and those of neighbouring families until 1709, when the Princess-Dowager sold her estate to the Markgrave Albrecht of Brandernburg, and moved to Utrecht.
Johann Heinrich then moved to Wesel, in German Geldern where he started a private Boarding school, which acquired a very high reputation, with pupils sent to him from as far as Frankfurt, besides the sons of the gentry of the Duchy of Cleves. It was at this point of his peripatetic life entering upon its last stabilized decade, that the locally much sought after painter Gerrit Alberts of Nijmegen, painted his portrait, in 1710. One of Gerrit Alberts best, and most attractive portraits, full of humorous wisdom. Although in later years he took his distance from the Pietist's separatist movement, he retained his several points of view that differed from the official teaching of the German Reformierte Kirche and its Heidelberger Catechism. He emphasised till the end the need for Born-again Christians, a view that was the basis for his most popular work, published in 1698-1717, "Die Historie der Wiedergeborenen", a collection of short biographies of Godly men and women of all classes, in 5 volumes, which had its 6th edition in 1740 - 1753.
This document was re-published by Prof. Dr. Hans Jürgen-Schrader (1989) in Germany, where it is still in use by Theological Scholars.
Johann Heinrich Reitz was married twice, 8 children being born to each marriage, of which 8 reached adulthood.
1. He married first on April 22, 1682 Anna Maria Rothenburger. (currently, no further details). She died in 1692 in Ladenburg.
2. He married for the second time, in Frankfurt am Main on January 27, 1693 Anna Maria Meerman. Anna Maria was 12 years his junior, born in Frankfurt on August 31, 1667, and died in Goes (Zeeland, Holland), where she had joined her youngest son Karel Koenraad, on October 10, 1734. Anna Maria was the daughter of a well-to-do Frankfurt Merchant and confectioner (Zuckerbäcker), Friedrich Verhoeven (July 20, 1628- August 14, 1682), who married on May 24, 1661, Anna Maria Oranda. Anna Maria Meerman, (named after her mother) was the granddaughter of Simon Meerman, and his first wife, Barbara Ritter, whom he married in 1624.

The children of Pastor Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) and his first wife Anna Maria Rothenburger (....-1692) were:

Wikipedia: Johann Heinrich Reitz

1. Jacob Walter Reitz. He was born on January 25, 1683 in Freinsheim and died on September 18, 1724. He married in 1717 Johanna Christina Reusch.
2. Johanna Henrika Reitz. She was born in 1684 in Freinsheim where she died in 1684.
3. Johann Paulus Reitz. He was born in 1685 in Freinsheim where he died in 1685.
4. Susanna Cunigunda Reitz. She was born on 1686 in Freinsheim and died on December 28, 1761 in Utrecht, where she was buried on December 29, 1761. She married, (without issue according to the Register of Deaths in Utrecht) her first cousin, Johann Heinrich Reitz (son of Johann Philip Reitz, 1661-1735, and Maria Seybold von und zu Workenheim).
He was born in 1696 and died in Utrecht on July 4, 1776 (according to the register of Deaths, leaving no wife or children, but a married sister, Maria Sibylla Huygen). He was Rector of the Hieronymus or Latin School on the Nieuwe Gracht in Utrecht, the post which his cousin and brother in law, Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778) had occupied from 1740 and held until 1745.
The post in which he was succeeded by his nephew Johann Frederik Reitz (1737-1801) the son of his wife's half-sister Charlotte Sophie Reitz (1713-1767), the wife of Johann Reitz, from 1769-1800, the Reitz Rectorship thus spanning a period of 60 years!
5. Emius Friederich Reitz. He was born in 1688 in Freinsheim and died when young in 1688.
6. Johann Hendrik Reitz. He was born in 1689 in Ladenburg where he died in 1689.
7. Johann Reitz. He was born in 1690 in Ladenburg where he died in 1691.
8. Justinus Wilhelm Reitz. He was born in April 1692 in Ladenburg where he died when young.

The children of Pastor Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) and his second wife Anna Maria Meerman (1667-1734) were:

9. Johann Franz Reitz. He was baptised on February 4, 1694 in Asslar, and died on February 1, 1723. Godparents were Johann Marchand and Franz Verhoeven, merchant of Frankfurt, and Daniel Meder.
10. Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz. He was born at Braunfels Castle (Germany) on September 23, 1695 and died in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on March 21, 1778. He married in Utrechton January 2, 1727, Theodara Kloeck.
11. Florentina Susanna Reitz. She was born on August 16, 1697 in Homburg vor der Höhe where she was baptised on August 20, 1697 she died in April 1711 in Wesel. God parents were Florentine von Hartleben and Susanna Verhoeven.
12. Peter Reitz. He was born on July 30, 1699 in Herborn and died on February 7, 1704 in Siegen.
13. Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz. He was born on July 20, 1702 in Offenbach and died on October 22, 1768 in Middelburg (Zeeland, The Netherlands). He married in 1731 Cornelia Verhoeven.
14. Johanna Rebecca Reitz. She was probably born in Siegen on June 23, 1704, and died on March 4, 1780 in Rotterdam. She married in Rotterdam on August 21, 1731 Johannes Terhoeven. He was born in The Hague, probably the son of Lambertus Terhoeven, who married in The Hague on May 7, 1702 Maria Borne from Wesel. Their four children all born in Rotterdam were:

1. Johannes Lambertus Terhoeven. He was baptised in Rotterdam on September 9, 1735. His Godparents were Dirk Terhoeven and Maria Borne.
2. Maria Elisabeth Terhoeven. She was baptised in Rotterdam on February 2, 1738. Her Godparents were Dirk Terhoeven and his wife Elisabeth Witteman.
Two other children died as infants before being christened. They were buried in Rotterdam on March 13, 1733.

15. Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad Reitz. He was born on June 17, 1708 in Terborg and died on September 13, 1773 in Harderwyk. He was married two times.

1. in 1731 Catharina Leyssius.
2. in 1762 Everarda Aletta van der Donck.

16. Charlotte Reitz . She was born on January 12, 1713 in Wesel, and died on September 20, 1767 in Utrecht. She married in Nijmegen on November 12, 1730, Johan Reitz.

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Dirk Terhoeven was born in Emmerik and married in The Hague on June 12, 1695 Elisabeth Witteman, who was born in The Hague.
Maria Borne was born in Wesel (Germany) and married in The Hague on May 7, 1702 Lambertus Terhoeven of The Hague.
Given the prevailing custom of naming an eldest son after his paternal Grandfather, it is most likely that Johannes Lambertus Terhoeven, the son of Johannes, was the Grandson of Lambertus Terhoeven and Maria Borne, and that Dirk Terhoeven and Elisabeth Witteman were an Uncle and Aunt. The Terhoeven family were Wesel connections, who had emigrated to The Hague. Barent Terhoeven from Wesel married in The Hague on February 12, 1681 Jannitje van Duivenvoorde of The Hague. And Zwaantje Terhoeven from Wesel married in The Hague on May 6, 1685 Coenraet Richters of Maeseyck.

Reitz - Seybold von und zu Workenheim (1691),

GENERATION VI-B

Johann Philipp Reitz. 5th child and third son of Adam Reitz (c.1628-1666) and Sibylla Hartung (1620-1681). Johann Philipp was born in Oberdiebach on March 8, 1661 and died in 1735. He was enrolled at the University of Heidelberg three times.
1. on August 31, 1680 as Johannes Philippus Reitz, Dibaco Palatinus (Latinized for Diebach).
2. in 1682 as Johannes Philippus Reitz, Baccarensis.
3. in 1683 as Johannes Philippus Reitz, Palatinus. Johann Philipp was Pastor in Richem in 1684, Schlüchterm in 1699 and in Gimbsheim in 1710. He became (Pfarrer) Pastor in Neckar Eltz in 1711 with preferment to the rank of Church Inspector. He married in 1691 Maria Sibylla Seybold von und zu Workenheim.
The children of Ds. (Pastor) Johann Philipp Reitz (1661-1735) and Maria Sibylla Seybold von und zu Workenheim were:

1. Johann Ernst. Born in 1692 and died in 1719.
2. Johann Heinrich Reitz. Born in 1692 he died in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on July 4, 1776. Johann Heinrich was partly educated, and later assistant teacher in the school in Wesel of his uncle Johann Heinrich. According to the Register of Deaths (Utrecht) he left no wife or children, but a married sister (Maria Sibylla Reitz 1711-1789). He was Rector of the Hieronymus (Latin) School on the Nieuwe Gracht in Utrecht. His brother-in-Law Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1788) vacated this post in 1745, and his nephew Johann Frederik Reitz (1737-1801), succeeded him in 1769. Johann Heinrich married his first cousin Susanna Cunigunda Reitz. She was born in 1686 in Freinsheim and died in Utrecht on December 28, 1761. Susanna Cunigunda was the daughter of Pastor, Johann Heinrich Reitz (1665-1720) and his first wife Anna Catharina Rothenburger.
3. Friedrich Valentin Reitz. He died on June 1732.
4. Maria Sibylla Reitz. She was born in Eltz in the Palatinate on January 1711 and was buried in Rotterdam on November 27, 1789, a widow leaving four children of age. She married in Rotterdam after the banns (November 18, 1742) on December 2, 1742, Jan Huygen. Jan Huygen was born in Ophemert, in Gelderland and was buried in Rotterdam on May 19, 1781. He was "Delfse-Veerse Schipper" = owner of the pendle-service along the river Schie, between Rotterdam and Delft. They had five children.

1. Mattheus Adrianus Huygen. He was born in 1743 and baptised on January 8, 1743 in Rotterdam, where he was also buried on February 23, 1743
2. Philip Huygen. He was born in 1744 and baptised in Rotterdam on January 19, 1744. He died after 1789.
3. Maria Helena Huygen. She was born in 1746 and baptised in Rotterdam on February 6, 1746. Godmother was Maria Elisabeth Reitz. She died after 1789. She married on August 26, 1772 in Rotterdam Johannes Taveraat.
4. Maria Elisabeth Huygen. She was born in 1748 and baptised in Rotterdam on June 23, 1748. Godmother was Maria Elisabeth Reitz. She married in Rotterdam on August 8, 1796 Jan Martveld, who was a widower.
5. Susanna Huygen. She was born 1750 and baptised in Rotterdam on November1, 1750. Godmother was Maria Elisabeth Terhoeven (probably a daughter of Johannes Terhoeven who married in 1731 Johanna Rebecca Reitz). She married in Rotterdam on February 23, 1791 Isaac Calis, who was a widower.

5. Family notes mention "A daughter". She may have been identical with Maria Elisabeth Reitz, in 1746 and 1748 who was the Godmother to the daughters of Maria Sibylla Reitz and Jan Huygen, see above.

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One Johann Philip Reitz and Sibylla Steglerin/Stecklerin or Steeklerin have the following children baptised in the Lutheran Church in Utrecht.
1. Johan Conrad Reitz. He was baptised on February 17, 1788. (Godfathers: Johannes Rau and Conrad Sternberger).
2. Johan Erhardt Reitz. He was born on December 31, 1789 and baptised on January 31, 1790.
3. Johan Heinrich Reitz. He was baptised on December 18, 1796. (Godfather: Johan Hendrik Fischer).

This research has not been able to find a place, or associate these children with this Reitz genealogy.

REITZ GENERATION VII

Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778)
Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz (1702-1768)
Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad Reitz (1708-1773)

The Reitz brothers in The Netherlands
GENERAL OVERVIEW

When Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778) in 1714, at the age of 19, ceased to assist his father at his school in Wesel, and made his way to Utrecht University to become the tutor to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the young heir-apparent to the Principality of Nassau-Siegen, the grandson of his fathers former patron, the Princess-Dowager Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Siegen, he did not only take the first step on his own path to a life-long academic career in The Netherlands: this step was also to result in a veritable exodus of Reitz brothers, sisters and cousins from Germany to The Netherlands after the death of that wise old teacher of men, Johann Friedrich Reitz (1665-1720) in Wesel (Germany) in 1720.
Having meanwhile become Praeceptor at the Latin School in Rotterdam in 1719, Johann Friedrich Reitz took his 12 year old brother Karel Koenraad Reitz (1708-1773) under his wing immediately after their father's death to finish his schooling and set him on the way to becoming one of the four Latin School Rectors/Headmasters in The Netherlands that the first generation of Reitz "immigrants" produced. (To be followed in the second generation by a fifth, the younger Johann Frederik Reitz (1737-1801) who became the third Reitz Headmaster in unbroken succession of the famous Latin School, the Hieronymus, in Utrecht, together spanning a period of 60 years, 1740-1800!).
In 1722, brother Wilhelm Otto Reitz (1702-1768), at the age of 20, became Praeceptor in Rotterdam after the promotion of Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778) to Con-Rector, swelling the number of Reitz brothers assembled in Rotterdam to three. Their widowed mother, Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734), must have joined her three sons in that town at some stage: we know that she was there in 1732 when standing as Godmother at the christening of Wolhelm Otto's eldest daughter, Anna Maria Reitz (1732-1809). She later joined her youngest son Karel Koenraad Reitz in Goes (Zeeland, The Netherlands) where she also died in 1734.
Of the Reitz sisters, we find Johanna Rebecca Reitz (1704-1780) marrying Johannes Terhoeven in Rotterdam in 1731; Charlotte Sophie (1713-1767) marrying her soldier husband Johan Reitz in Nijmegen in 1730, the start of an itinerant life from garrison to garrison; and their much older half-sister Susanna Cunigunda Reitz (1686-1761), married to her full cousin Johann Heinrich Reitz (1692-1776) arrives in Utrecht when her husband succeeds her half-brother as Rector in Utrecht in 1745.
Johann Heinrich (1692-1776) was the son of (Uncle) Johann Philipp Reitz (1661-1735) and around the same time we find two of his sisters in Rotterdam: Maria Sybilla Reitz (1711-1789) who got married there in 1742 to Jan Huygen (.....-1881), and Maria Elisabeth Reitz standing as Godmother over two of the Huygens-daughters in 1746 and 1748.
Johann Heinrich Reitz's three sons (Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich 1695-1778, Dr. Wilhelm Otto 1702-1768, and Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad 1708-1773) not only left behind them their ancestral home country, but also the field of Theology and ecclesiastical employ which before them, their father, two uncles, their grandfather, and great-grandfather Jeremias Hartung (1599-1677) had chosen for their life's work. However all three did continue their father's dedication to teaching, with two of them progressing from Grammar School Headmasterships to full University Professorships.
All three married Dutch wives, two of them daughters of country Parsons, Kloeck and Verhoeven. Of them, Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778) mainly concerns us here as the common ancestor of all Reitz descendants recorded in this composition.
The Hieronymus School (Latin school) was established in Utrecht in 1474 by the denomination "de Broeders des Gemenen Levens". The Utrecht Gymnasium is a direct continuation of the Hieronymus school which became reformed in 1586.

Reitz - Kloeck (1727)

GENERATION VII-A

Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz. 2nd child and son of Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) and his second wife Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734). He was born on September 23, 1695 at Braunfels Castle (Germany) baptised on September 27, 1695 and died in Utrecht, where he was buried on March 21, 1778 at the Geertekerk (Geerte Church). His baptismal witnesses were: Johann Friedrich Bingelsheim (Bailiff) and his bride Maria Gertrud Brenderin. At his death he lived on the Nieuwe Gracht in Utrecht, near the Zuilenstraat. The Register of Deaths states that he left a wife and five adult children. His education started at the early age of 4 when he was entrusted to the theologian Zepper as his governor until he entered his father's Latin School in Siegen in 1702. After his father moved to Terborg (The Netherlands), he was sent to Wesel (Germany), where from 1708 to 1711 he was educated in the house of the barrister Johan van Stockum alongside the latters sons, by another budding theologian Schmidt, later Pastor of Lippstadt, where he was taught Latin, Greek, Geography, and the arts of Music and Drawing. After his father had founded his Latin School in Wesel he there finished his own education as well as assisted in the teaching of the boarders, together with his cousin Johan Heinrich Reitz (1696-1776), who later became his brother-in-law and followed him in the post of Rector of the Hieronymus or Latin School in Utrecht.
He added French to his subjects, as well as Mathematics and Architecture, under Professor Erich Ploenies, Professor at Giessen University and Architect to the Elector Palatine, who used to spend the winters in Wesel. In 1714 Johann Friedrich moved to Utrecht at the invitation of the Princess (Ernestine Charlotte) Dowager of Nassa-Siegen (1662-1732), and with the consent of her son the ruling Prince, Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf of Nassa-Siegen (1680-1722), to become the tutor of her grandson and heir-apparent Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II of Nassa-Siegen (1706-1734), whom he coached in Latin, Greek and Mathematics from 1714-1719, meanwhile pursuing his own studies at the University (stangely, his enrolment there (Utrecht) was not recorded in the Album Studio-sorum until 1718). Having opted for medicine he mainly attended lectures in Anatomy and Surgery, later also Physics and Chemistry, besides Law and Literature. After his appointment as Praeceptor of the Latin School in Rotterdam in 1719, he graduated as a Dr. of Medicine in 1720 in Utrecht. He remained at the Latin School in Rotterdam.
Having gained promotion there, his brother Wilhem Otto (1702-1768) obtained his previous place. In 1724 he was called to be Con-Rector of the Latin or Hieronymian School in Utrecht. In 1740 he was promoted to Rector, and in addition he was nominated as Rector in Amsterdam in 1745, though without leaving Utrecht, the City of Utrecht having nominated him as Professor-Extraordinary in Rhetorics and Poetry.
In 1747 Johann Friedrich received a full Professorship by appointment of the Stadtholder Prince William the IV, with the chair of History and Eloquentia. Johann Friedrich was Rector-Magnificus of the Utrecht University for the first time 1750-1751, and repeatedly afterwards, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1769. He published both historical, classical and grammatical works, as well as poetry.
Johann Friedrich married Theodora Kloeck, on January 2, 1727 in the village of Rheden near Arnhem, after banns had been published in Utrecht on December 13, 1726, and in Arnhem on December 15, 1726. By that time his teaching career had taken him to Utrecht as Con-Rector of the Latin School. The bride was then living in Arnhem where her mother had moved with her younger children in 1711 after the death of her husband. Where the couple's paths had crossed we do not know, nor whether the brothers of the bride had brought about the contact as fellow-students of the groom or through their profession.
Theodora's father, Arnoldus Kloeck, had died when she was 12 years old. He had been a country-parson, who was born in Arnhem on September 24, 1651, but did not take up his first post as a Dutch Reformed Minister until 1685, when he was inducted in the small village of Hall, about Six kilometres to the south-west of Zutphen. There he stayed until his death in 1710. He remained single until he was 41, and then married, in Hall, on August 28, 1692 Johanna Kerff (alternatively spelt Korff), 25 years his junior.
Johanna was born on March 19, 1676 in nearby Ellecom, a village located on the road between Zutphen and Arnhem, the daughter of Pauwel Pauwelszoon Kerff and Aeltje Tonissen, who were married on July, 1671 in Spankeren, half way between Hall and Ellecom where Arnoldus' brother Theodorus Kloeck was the minister at the time. Johanna Kerff came from a simple village background, and May have been in Dominee (Pastor) Kloeck's service before he married her. Their eldest child was Gijsbert Kloeck, baptised in Hall on December 2, 1694 named after his grandfather Kloeck. When the family left Hall in 1711 after the father's death, he went to study at the High School in Franeker, later we find him back in Arnhem as Guardian of the Guild of St. Nicholas.
Theodora was the second child, born on August 16, 1698 in Hall on the Veluwe where she was also baptised on August 21, 1698, she died in Utrecht on April 25, 1783. Theodora was named after her father's brother Dominos Theodorus Kloeck. (The Kloeck family thus contributed two oft recurring Christian names to the Reitz family: Gijsbert and Theodora).
The youngest child was Johannes Anthonis Kloeck, baptised in Hall October 26, 1704, later established at Middachten in the parish of Rheden as a Med. Dr. After Arnoldus Kloeck died in Hall September 20, 1710, his widow and her younger children moved, in 1711, back to Arnhem, where the Kloeck's had been settled for the three previous generations: Arnoldus' father Gijsbert Kloeck, a Lieutenant in the Civic Guard of Arnhem, where he married March 7, 1630 Steventje van de Velde; his grandfather Dirck Kloeck, married to Goossentje, daughter of Warner van Sevener; and his great-grandfather Johan Kloeck, married before 1561 to Margaretha, daughter of Gijsbert van Waegensfelt. Beyond their Arnhem base, the family had ties with the surrounding villages as bailiffs and landowners. The Reitz - Kloeck seems to have had few contacts with Arnhem or the Province of Gelderland.
Of their seven children, all born in Utrecht, only the youngest (Susanna Reitz) went back to marry an Arnhem Town-Councillor, Francois de Greve. The three eldest children received their Christian names equally from the Reitz and Kloeck grandparents: Johan, Arnold, named after both grandfathers; Johanna, Maria after both grandmothers; whereas Gijsbertus was named after his uncle Gijsbert Kloeck.
The children of Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778) and Theodora Kloeck (1698-1783) were:

1. Dr. Johan Arnold Reitz. He was born on February 14, 1728 in Utrecht, where he was baptised on February 15, 1728 and where he also died unmarried on February 7, 1816. He was a candidate of Medicine at Utrecht University January 16, 1751. Medical Dr. in practice in Utrecht.
2. Johanna Maria Reitz. She was born in Utrecht on August 6, 1729 and was baptised in the Dom Cathedral on August 10, 1729. She died in Utrecht on October 26, 1740.
3. Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz. He was born in Utrecht on May 22, 1731 and baptised Eglise Wallone on May 24, 1731. He died in Utrecht on November 21, 1809. Gysbertus was married twice:

1. in 1760 to Judith Elisabeth Loogen.
2. in 1765 to Johanna Christoffelina de Lalane de Duthay.

4. Dr. Hendrik Reitz. He was born on March 10, 1733 in Utrecht, where he was baptised on March 15, 1733, he died in Woerden. For the purposes of his death-duty, his death was registered in Utrecht on June 13, 1809, as having died without issue. Medical student at Utrecht University in 1757. Medical Dr. in practice in Woerden.
Hendrik married in Jutphaas after the banns in Woerden May 6, 1766 on May 25, 1766, his first wife Anna Lelyvelt. She was 12 years his senior. She was born in 1721 and died on November 28, 1777. He married in Moordrecht in Sept 1780 after the banns on August 28, 1780, his second wife Aletta Ockhuysen (24 years his junior). She was born in Moordrecht on October 4, 1757 and died in Haastrecht, on June 23, 1836. She was the daughter of Jakob Ockhuysen (collector of Taxes in Leyden) and Beatrix van der Geer. Aletta Ockhuysen remarried on July 1, 1812 Adrianus Dupper (1787-1863) 30 years her junior!
5. Aleida Reitz. She was born on December 20, 1734 in Utrecht, where she was baptised on December 25, 1734. She died in Utrecht on May 13, 1812. Aleida Reitz, married in Utrecht on December 27, 1789, Jan Kol. She was her husbands third wife. Jan Kol was baptised in Ankeveen on September 29, 1726 and died in Utrecht on May 12, 1805.
Jan Kol was the son of Jacobus Kol and Aeltje Perk. Notary and "Kassier" (an early form of private banker) in Utrecht. Bailiff of Bunschoten and Spakenburg 1750-1753 (on behalf of his grandmother's cousin Jan van Veeren, who had bought the Manors of Bunschoten and Spakenburg in 1745). Land agent for the "Ridderschap" (= the political Corporation of the Nobles) of the province of Utrecht, secretary to the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Pieter in Utrecht etc.
Out of the small banking house which he had begun with his father in law Everard Vlaer, the highly respected firm of Vlaer and Kol in Utrecht developed. One of the oldest and until 1987 private banking concerns in Holland. Jan Kol was first married on January 29, 1767 to Anna Elisabeth Vlaer born in Utrecht on December11, 1726 where she died on July 14, 1778 daughter of Everard Vlaer and Anna Catharina Versteegh. She was the mother of his eleven children, and the grandmother of Jan Kol who in 1815 married Jeanette Theodora Reitz, great niece of his step-grandmother. Jan Kol the elder married for the second time in Amasterdam on January 2, 1782 Margaretha Makreel, baptised in Amsterdam on July 2, 1741 and died in Utrecht on February 13, 1787, daughter of Robert Makreel and Anna Maria du Quesne. Aleida Reitz and Jan Kol had no issue.
6. Frederik Reitz. He was born in Utrecht, where he was baptised on October 14, 1736. He was buried in Utrecht on May 10, 1738.
7. Frederik Willem Reitz. He was born in Utrecht on September 21, 1738, and baptised in the Dom Cathedral on September 24, 1738. He died on April 11, 1753 in Utrecht where he was buried on April 16, 1753.
8. Susanna Reitz. She was born on May 27, 1740 in Utrecht, where she was baptised on May 29, 1740. She married in Utrecht (Catharina Church) on July 11, 1763 Francois de Greve.
Francois De Greve was born on September 25, 1737 in Arnhem, where he was baptised on September 26, 1737. He was the son of Willem Hendrik de Greve, Master of the Guilds of Brewers and of Bakers in Arnhem and Aleyda Geertruida Bosboom. Francois was a Councillor ("Gemeensman") of Arnhem in 1758. Master of the Guilds of St. Eloy, 1761 and of the Publicans, 1768. He was Church-Warden, 1786. Francois had been married before, on June 30, 1759 to Adriana Van Meurs. From his second marriage (Susanna Reitz) all the branches of the de Greve family are descended, as well as many branches in the female lines.

Established in 1691 the banking house "Vlaer and Kol" beside being the oldest banking house in Holland, is, except for another banking house in Japan, the oldest banking house in the world. In 1977 the Amsterdam Rotterdam Bank (AMRO) took over this privately owned Banking concern.

NOTES:

The marriage of Dr. Med Hendrik Reitz;
Woerden, May 6, 1766
Banns published for Hendrik Reitz, bachelor
and Anna Lelyvelt, spinster
both of Woerden
Attestation given to be married in Utrecht or elsewhere on May 25, 1766. In the margin: these were married in Jutphaas.

May 25, 1766, Jutphaas.
After banns read at Woerden 3 times,
Hendrik Reitz med-Dr, bachelor
Juffrouw Anna Lelyvelt, spinster, both residents of Woerden, were married.
Anna Lelyvelt's baptism has not been found in Jutphaas, or in Woerden, where several Lelyveldt's were living at the time. The name is well established around Woerden and that part of the province of South Holland, but Anna Lelyvelt's parentage could not be traced.
With the exception of 2 and 7 all the aforementioned were baptised in the French speaking Calvinist Church (Eglise Wallone), the congregration to which the Reitz family belonged throughout the three generations they remained in Utrecht. Having been members and ministers of the German Reformierte Kirche (Calvinist) they became members of the French Calvinist Church, rather than joining the German-speaking Church in Utrecht, which belonged to the Lutheran Protestant denomination.

Reitz - Verhoeven (1731)

GENERATION VII-B

Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz. 5th child and fourth son of Johann Heinrich Reitz (1665-1720) and his second wife Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734). He was born on July 20, 1702 in Offenbach (Germany) and died on October 22, 1768 in Middelburg (Zeeland, The Netherlands). He was licensed to marry on April 22, 1731 in Aalburg on the river Maas near Heusden, after the banns in Rotterdam on April 8, 1731, Cornelia Verhoeven. She was born on March 30, 1707 in Aalburg and died on February 7, 1755 in Middelburg. She was the daughter of Ds. (Pastor) Martinus Verhoeven, from 1690 till his death on December 22, 1725, Minister in Aalburg and Heesbeen, and Anna van der Hoeven. Wilhelm Otto was taught by his father and his elder brother (Johann Friedrich 1695-1788) at his father's Latin school in Wesel (Germany), where he also shared in the teaching of the boarders.
At a very early age he became Praeceptor at the Latin School in Cleves, until 1722, when he succeeded to his brother's place at the Latin School in Rotterdam, where he made steady promotion until 1736. It is not till that year that we find his enrolment at Utrecht University, when taking his Doctorate in Law, and in the same year he is appointed Con-Rector of the Latin School in Middelburg, under his famous and learned first cousin Professor Frederik Lodewyk Abresch (1699-1782), whom he succeeded as Rector in 1742. He was Deacon of the Dutch Church (1769)
Although accused of great personal vanity, he was most certainly a learned polymath, publishing works on literature, the Law, and Mathematics. Apart from holding a lectureship in Law at the Academy of Middelburg he published revised Logarithimic tables to the 18th decimal; also responsible for a comparative treatise on the Greek and Netherlandish languages; as well as developing tests by which to examine Notaries; calculating the diameter of the planet Venus and writing a history of the Muscovite Empire etc. It is claimed that the Latin School of Middelburg went downhill badly towards the end of his life.....
The children of Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz (1702-1768) and Cornelia Verhoeven (1707-1755) were:

1. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born on July 6, 1732 in Rotterdam, where she was baptised on July 8, 1809. Her Godparents were Matthias Bosch (the elder son of Sibylla Reitz-Hartung's daughter Busch née Kaiserswerth) and Anna Maria Reitz-Verhoeven (wife of Pastor, Johann Heinrich Reitz). Anna Maria died on April 21, 1809. She married in Middelburg on September 25, 1759, Daniel Arnoldus Jacobi. He was born on July 17, 1734 in Rotterdam, where he was baptised on July 20, 1734 and where he died on July 2, 1805. She published a Life of Gerard de Wind, and a number of poems.
Daniel Arnoldus was Praeceptor in Middelburg under his future father in law in 1757. Later Rector of the Latin Schools in Gorcum, Gouda and Arnhem.
Daniel Arnoldus was the son of a former colleague of his father in law: Johannes Albertus Jacobi, Praeceptor and Con-Rector of the Latin School in Rotterdam, and Maria Van Grysen.
Anna Maria Reitz and Daniel Arnoldus Jacobi had a son:

1. Willem Otto Jacobi. He was baptised in Gorcum on April 1, 1764.

2. Unamed daughter. She was born on August 1, 1734 in Rotterdam, where she died on August 3, 1734.
3. Martinus Reitz. He was born on December 14, 1735 and was baptised in Rotterdam, on December 18, 1735. He died on January 1, 1743. His Godparents were Gerardus Verhoeven and Anna van der Hoeven.
4. Johan Hendrik Reitz. He was born in Middelburg on January 26, 1738. He died on December 7, 1742.
5. Dr. Frederik Theodorus Reitz. He was born on March 4, 1740 in Middelburg, where he also died on October 2, 1791. He married in 1763 Elissabeth de Crane.
6. Govert Nicolaas Reitz. He was born on August 1, 1742 and died on November 7, 1742.
7. Anna Jacomina Reitz. She was born on August 9, 1743 and died on August 16, 1743.
8. Arnoldus Reitz. He was born on May 19, 1745 and died on August 9, 1745.
9. Dr. Iuris. Karel Koenraad Reitz. He was born on March 19, 1748 in Middelburg, where he also died on May 19, 1810. He married in 1770 Elissabeth van Gennep.

NOTES:

Based on this research, the note about Pastor Martinus Verhoeven in the "Nieuw Nederlands Biographisch Woordenboek Vol III, stating that he was Minister in Middelburg is incorrect.

Reitz - Leyssius (1731)

GENERATION VII-C

Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad Reitz. 7th child and fifth son of Pastor, Johann Heinrich Reitz (1655-1720) and his second wife Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734). Karel Koenraad was born in Terborg on June 17, 1708 and died on September 13, 1773 in Harderwyk. He was educated at his father's school in Wesel (Germany) until his father's death in 1720, when his eldest brother Johann Friedrich (1695-1778) took him to Rotterdam to continue as his pupil at the Latin School, and later in Utrecht. Appointed as Praeceptor of the Latin School in Middelburg under his cousin, the renowed Frederik Lodewyk Abresch (1699-1782). Karel Koenraad was nominated as Rector of the Latin School in Goes (Zeeland, The Netherlands), on April 1, 1730, as well as Lector in History and Elocution. In 1741 he was Rector in Gorcum, and in 1747 Rector in Harderwyk, where he was appointed at the Academy as Professor-Extraordinary of Literature in 1748 and as full Professor in 1754, and where he was also made Dr. Hon Causa in Philosophy 1757. He was Secretary of the Senate, and Rector of the University on several occasions. He was a member of the Dutch Church (1765) and Deacon in 1767. He published many Latin verses and mathematical treatises on the squaring of the circle and others, and philological publications in cooperation with his brother Johann Friedrich Reitz. Karel Koenraad was married twice:

1. In Goes on August 31, 1731 to Catharina Leyssius who was born on June 15, 1692 in Middelburg, and who died on March 19, 1759. She was the daughter of Francois Leyssius (1653-1725), senior bookkeeper of the VOC and Judith in de Betouw (1654-..), widow of Martinus Meertens.
2. In Utrecht, in the Buurkerk (Buur Church), after the banns were published in Harderwyk, on April 26, 1762 to Everarda Aletta van der Donck. She was born in Harderwyk.

The children of Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad Reitz (1708-1773) and his his first wife, Catharina Leyssius (1692-1759) were:

1. Johan Frederik Reitz. No details.
2. Maria Catharina Reitz. She was born on October 12, 1734 in Goes. She married after the banns in Harderwyk, in Borculo on October 30, 1657 Mr. Joan Chritiaan Vatebender. He came from Hasselt, where he graduated as/or became Magister Iuris at the Academy of Harderwyk July 13, 1758. Residing in Hasselt. He was the son of Dr. Mr. (Magister Iuris) Gerard Vatebender; Burgomaster and Town Secretary of Borculo (1732), Burgomaster of Lochem (1777) and Reiniera Bernardina Bomble.
Maria Catharina Reitz and Joan Christiaan Vatebender had a son:

1. Gerard Karel Koenraad Vatebender. He was baptised in Hasselt, on August 27, 1758 and died in The Hague on January 31, 1822. He was a Student in Litt.Hum. in Harderwyk, August 18, 1772. Theology student in Leiden on June 21, 1774. Praeceptor in Haarlem 1776-1779, Con-Rector in 1799-1784 and Rector 1784-1795 of the Latin school in Gouda. He was a Commissioner of the Committee for Naval Affairs 1795, and Commissioner of the Committee for the Organisation of Education 1796. Translator for Latin and French to the National Assembly 1797. From 1804-1810 he was Agent for the Duke of Sachsen-Coburg-Altenburg in The Hague and Translator of under oath of French and Latin in 1812. Commissioner of the Post Office in The Hague, 1804. Author of poetry. He resided in Hasselt 1758-1776. Leiden 1774. Haarlem 1776-1779. Gouda 1779-1795. The Hague 1795-1822. Gerard Karel Koenraad married in The Hague on March 20, 1796, Louise Elisabeth Wilhelmine Slicher (1768-1797), who died in childbirth of their only daughter, who died two months later.

The son of Karel Koenraad Reitz (1708-1773) and his second wife, Everarda Aletta van der Donck was:
3 Abraham Anthony Leyssius Reitz. He was born on July 12, 1763 in Harderwyk, and died on August 31, 1784 in Leiden, where he was appointed Praeceptor in 1783.

NOTES:

The parentage of Everharda Aletta van der Donck, could not be established. It is possible that she was the daughter of Adriaan Hubertus van der Donck, born in Breda in 1691, married in Gilze Ryen, on October 16, 1724 Maria Fiers, of Breda. The baptismal register of Gilze Ryen of that period are very incomplete, and show the baptism of only one child of this marriage in 1738. No van der Donck's appear in the records of Utrecht or Harderwyk.

GENERATION VII-D

Charlotte Sophie Reitz
(1713-1767)
married
Johann Reitz
(not related)

Reitz - Reitz (1730)

GENERATION VII-D

Charlotte Sophie Reitz. She was born in Wesel (Germany) on January 12, 1713 as the 8th child and youngest child of Pastor, Johann Heinrich Reitz (1665-1720), from his second marriage to Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734). Charlotte Sophie died in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on September 20, 1767, in the Register of Deaths described as a widow, living on the Buur-Kerkhof (Utrecht), and leaving children of age, as well as under age (i.e. under 25, of which there were four). Charlotte Sophie, married not quite 18 years old, in Nijmegen on November 12, 1730, her namesake Johan Reitz, whose origin, and dates of birth and death remain unknown, apart from having pre-deceased his wife, and fathered his youngest child in 1750.
Not only has it not been possible to slot him into the ramifications of his wife's family-tree, as it stands today, in the way that it was possible to establish that her stepsister Susanna Cunigunda Reitz (1686-1761) and her husband Johann Heinrich Reitz (1696-1776) were both grandchildren of Adam Reitz (c.1630-1666), but, where Johan Reitz was concerned, proof has come to light that he belonged to a different "Gens" - Reitz : Had he been of the same family, he and his son would have used the same coat of arms with the Fleur de Lys and 2 Stars, or at least a similar coat with what is heraldically known as "a difference", indicating a junior or senior branch.
But in the Steenkamp-collection of heraldic seals in the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie in The Hague there is a seal used by Johan and Charlotte Sophie Reitz's son Johan Frederik (1737-1801) at the time he was Rector of the Latin School in Utrecht, showing : A bird, turned sideways to the left, holding a fruit in its raised right claw, and perched on a tree-stump with a side-branch bearing a similar fruit. Whether the son was the first to adopt these arms, or whether they go back further in his father's family, we do not know. But we do know that he did not use his mother's coat of arms, or that of his wife's family (Casius, who sported a shield with three circular objects, probably intended as a "punning" device on Kaas/Cheese), a practice not unknown in Holland for a son c.q. husband without his own coat of arms:
In using completely different arms Johan Frederik manifested his awareness of being descended from a different Reitz-family from the one to which his mother belonged, and to which he and his brothers and sisters became so closely connected, by the names given to them at their Christenings, by their education and in particular by Johan Frederik's profession and his appointment as Rector of the Latin School in Utrecht as the third Reitz in succession.
In addition, it looks as if his three youngest sisters, left orphans as well as minors on their mother's death in Utrecht (1767), and who not long afterwards could be tracked down as living in Rotterdam where two of them contracted their respective marriages, were living in that town under the care of the Reitz-relatives: Maria Sybilla Reitz (1711-1789) who had married Jan Huygen (...... - 1781) in Rotterdam in 1742, and Johanna Rebecca Reitz (1704 - 1780), their mother's sister, who had married Johannes Terhoeven in Rotterdam in 1731. It therefore seems appropriate to include the fullest now available details of Charlotte Sophie Reitz's nine children in this account.
To return to Johan Reitz:
In the record of his marriage to Charlotte Sophie Reitz, in Nijmegen, on November 12, 1730 he is described as "Ruiter onder Kolonel Schack" i.e. as a cavalry soldier without rank, in the Regiment of Col. Schack. In the records in the Utrecht archives in which he is mentioned, he is always referred to as "the Cornet Reitz", even in the death certificate of his widow. I.e: he never rose above the lowest officer-rank in the Cavalry, a rank usually filled by young men on their way to becoming commissioned as an officer. He may therefore have been one of the many Reitz's serving in the Dutch forces without attaining rank that keep appearing in the marriage registers of the Dutch Republic throughout the 18th Century and without any ascertainable mutual family connections.
So Charlotte Sophie's marriage, when she was not yet 18 years old, contracted without the customary assenting presence of a minor's parents or guardians, and contracted in Nijmegen, far away from any of the places where her mother, brothers and sisters had settled (Goes, Middelburg, Rotterdam and Utrecht), May have been a runaway love-match with a dashing soldier. A wayward girl Charlotte Sophie May have been, but, as we have already seen, her family certainly stood by her and her children. It is revealing to observe that all her nine children were recognisably called after their mother's brothers and sisters, and that no christian names occur among them that point away from that group and towards their father's relatives.
We might have learnt something about the father's connections from the baptismal records of his children and the possible mention of baptismal sponsors connected with the father. But, as was to be expected, as a soldier on active service, he moved about the country from garrison to garrison, and sofar, of his nine children, we know the baptismal records of only two of them: in Utrecht in 1747 and 1749, and these do not mention Godparents.
From their marriage records we know a number of birthplaces where Johan Reitz must have been in garrison. Maastricht in the 1730's, HertogenBosch in 1743, Kampen in 1750, but the baptismal records in these places have not yet been searched.
The note on Johan Reitz, in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek Vol. III, Col. 1050, making him the son of Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad Reitz (1708-1773) from his 2nd marriage in 1762 to Aletta van der Donck is a chronological nonsense in view of his own marriage in 1730!.
The children of Charlotte Sophie Reitz (1713-1767) and Johan Reitz were:

1. Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz. He was born on November 31, 1731 in MAASTRICHT, and died in 1770. He was named after his mother's brother (Dr. Wilhelm Otto 1702-1768). Wilhelm Otto was Surgeon-Major in an Infantry Regiment in Batavia. He married in Batavia in 1765 Justine Henriette Hoffman. She was born at CAPE of GOOD HOPE (South Africa).
2. Karel Koenraad Reitz. He was named after his mother’s brother (Prof. Dr. Karel Koenraad 1708-1773). Karel Koenraad was born in 1735 and died when young in 1738.
3. Johan Frederik Reitz. He was born in Maastricht in 1737. Named after his mother's brother (Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich 1695-1778). Johan Frederik's year of birth is calculated by his age at the time of his death in Utrecht on May 14, 1801 when he was 64. Brought up in Utrecht in the house of his grandfather.
He became Praeceptor first at the Latin School in Amersfoort, then, in 1757 in Utrecht, under Johann Heinrich Reitz (1696-1776), the husband of his mother's sister Susanna Cunigunda Reitz (1686-1761), whom he succeeds as Rector (Principal) in 1769 thus to become the third successive Reitz to be Rector of the Hieronymus School in Utrecht, together covering a period of 60 years from 1740 to 1800. He married on April 1, 1771 in Utrecht (without issue) Anna Elisabeth Casius.
She was born in Utrecht in 1741 and was baptised in the JACOBI Church (Utrecht) on July 7, 1741. She died in Utrecht on June 22, 1823. She was the daughter of Arnoldus Casius and Johanna TOE LAER (of the same family as Henri Unico WILKEN'S first wife).
4. Anna Maria Reitz. She was named after her mother's mother, Anna Maria Verhoeven (1667-1734).
5. Johan Hendrik Reitz. He was named after his mother's father, Pastor, Johann Heinrich (1665-1720).
6. Johanna Henrika Reitz. She was named after her mother's father, Pastor, Johann Heinrich (1655-1720). She was born in the City of 's-Hertogenbosch in 1743 and died in Rotterdam on November 29, 1774 and where she is buried together with her still born child on the November 30, 1774. She married in Rotterdam on August 30, 1770 Nicolaes Verwey. Nicolaes was baptised in Rotterdam, in the Lutheran Church on February 4, 1733. He died and was buried in Rotterdam on March 14, 1793 leaving 6 children under age and 2 of age. He was the son of Nicolaes Verwey and Margaretha van Triest.
He was first married in Rotterdam on December 28, 1760 to Dorothé Bussing, who was born in Emmerich. He married for the third time in Rotterdam on March 24, 1766 Catharina Louise Keller, who was born in Darmstadt. From his second marriage two still born children were born on November 19, 1771 and November 30, 1774 and one son who survived his father; Johannes Verwey, baptised Rotterdam Lutheran Church November 14, 1773. Johanna Henrika Reitz and Nicolaes Verwey had three children.
7. Joannes Reitz. He was named after his father. Born in Utrecht and baptised in the DOM Cathedral on August 9, 1747. He died on August 4, 1779. Enrolled as student at the Gelderland in Zutphen on August 15, 1764.
8. Carolina Conrada Reitz. She was baptised in Utrecht on August 17, 1749 (The Baptismal register lists her as Cornelia Conrada, the family tradition is more likely to be correct, making her the namesake of her mother's brother Karel Koenraad). She died in 1771 just before her marriage, as the bride of Rymert van der Wolde. (This event does not appear in the records of either, Utrecht or Rotterdam). 9. Susanna Cunigunda Reitz. She was named after her mother’s sister. She was born in KAMPEN on February 13, 1750 and married in Rotterdam, on May 1774, Abraham van Waesberghe. He was born and baptised in Rotterdam, on October 17, 1748. Son of Gerard van Waesberghe, printer to the City of Rotterdam and Petronella van Wyk. The van Waesberghe family originated from Antwerp where they were printers and publishers. Jan van Waesberghe (1528-1570) settled in the Netherlands in 1559 where he became a leading printer and publisher. The family business was continued by 16 other members of the family and had branches in Breda, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Danzig. The Amsterdam branch reached its prosperity under Johannes Janssonius Waeseberghe (1651-1681). Susanna Kundigunda Reitz and Abraham van Waeseberghe had two children:

1. Abraham Van Waeseberghe. He was baptised in Rotterdam on January 4, 1778 and died in 1810 in the East Indies. He was second surgeon of the Hospital in SOERABAYA (Java).
2. Johanna Van Waeseberghe. She was baptised in Rotterdam on April 16, 1780 and died in 1865.

NOTES:
Reitz Coat of Arms. That the Coat of Arms with the Fleur de Lys and 2 stars, and for a crest a candlestick, was used by Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz and his three sons Dr. Johan Arnold (1728-1816), Mr. Gijsbertus (1731-1809), and Dr. Hendrik (1733-1809) is proved by his seal on a deed of 1772, registered in the name of himself and his sons with Notary C. De WIJS, of Utrecht, in the Utrecht City Archives, Protocol nr. 444, p. 21. Seals with the same arms, used by Dr. Hendrik Reitz (1776) and Dr. Johan Arnold Reitz (1784) are registered in the Heraldic collection Musschart; and of Dr. Frederik Theodoor Reitz (1791) in the collection Steenkamp, both in the "Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie" (Bureau for Genealogy) in The Hague).

GENERATION VIII

Mr. Gysbertus Reitz (1731-1809)
Dr. Frederik Theodorus Reitz (1740-1791)
Dr. Iuris. Karel Koenraad Reitz (1748-1810)

Reitz - Loogen (1760)

GENERATION VIII-A

Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz. 3th child and second son of Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz (1675-1778) and Theodora Kloeck (1698-1783). Gijsbertus was born in Utrecht, on May 22, 1731 and was baptised in the Eglise Wallone on May 24, 1731. He died in Utrecht on November 21, 1809. Gijsbertus was enrolled in 1753 at the Utrecht University, where on June 13, 1755 he received the Degree of Iuris Utriusque Doctor, i.e. of Civil and Ecclesiastic Law, commonly known as Magister Iuris "Meester" (Mr.) in Dutch. He practised as a barrister in Utrecht. Gijsbertus was the only son of Johann Friedrich Reitz, who became fully integrated into the "establishment" that prevailed in the Cities of the Dutch Republic, including Utrecht. Having money was more important than making it, and marrying the daughter of a "sitting" family helped a person without such family background. In this process Gijsbertus was assisted a great deal when, on February 17, 1760 he married Judith Elisabeth Loogen in Utrecht.
Judith Elisabeth Loogen, was born in Amersfoort on December 14, 1725 and died in Utrecht, on May 25, 1765. She had been widowed twice and was Six years his senior, but still in possession of her good looks, as her portrait of 1758 when still Mrs Kerkhof, by the intinerant deaf mute P.F. de la Croix testifies. She was also rich in jewels, enjoyed a generous income from her previous husbands, and occupied a place in the Utrecht patrician society, through her marriage with her second husband Anthony Kerhof (1720-1759), a Lay Canon of the Cathedral Chapter of the Dom in Utrecht, and owner of the large medieval mansion "Groot Groenewoude", on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht, which later was inherited by Gijsbertus, and which became the Reitz family home for three generations.
Judith Elisabeth Loogen, was the daughter, of Dirk Loogen (1684-1767), who was Amersfoort most popular and longest reigning Burgomaster. Her mother was Anna Catharina Neander (1692-1772) trough her mother a descendant of one of Utrechts oldest noble families, Taets van Amerongen descended from Charlemagne. All of this background suited Gijsbertus' image as a barrister with plenty of brains, but not much money. This marriage also secured the succession of the Reitz family their only two children, two sons were:

1. Jan Fredrik Reitz (1761-1824), who established the South African branch, with many descendants.
2. Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813), who remained part of the Utrecht establishment and founded the branch that became Bosch Reitz, which extended out to Amsterdam and the West Indies, with descendants to this day.
Judith Elisabeth Loogen died in Utrecht on May 25, 1765. On November 17, 1768 her considerable estate and possessions which included her townhouse "Groot Groenewoude" together with the stables and a coach house, and her valuable jewellery were divided. The beneficiares were:

1. To Gijsbertus Reitz, her widower, who by then, had already remarried Christoffeline De Lalane de Duthay (1742-1771), was allotted the family home "Groot Groenewoude", where the first three of Judith's great-grandchildren Bosch Reitz were to be born.
2. Anna Lucia Cramer van Veeren 1746-1783, (married to Mr. Matthias Bosch), Judith Elisabeth Loogen's only daughter from her first marriage to Mr. Jacob Cramer van Veeren(1725-1749), inherited the large collection of valuable jewels. The jewels became a textbook illustration of the 18th century craze for diamonds. Recorded in the publication, “Juwelen en Mensen” (Jewels and people) by M.H. Gans, published by De Bussy in Amsterdam in 1961. These jewels, which played an important part in the further history of the family, were inherited by the only daughter of Anna Lucia Cramer Van Veeren/Bosch, namely Anna GeertruidaJacoba Bosch (1767-1826), who also inherited the seigneurial rights of, LADY of the Manors of Bunschoten and Spakenburg.
Anna GeertruidaJacoba Bosch, lived together with her Reitz Uncle and his sons in "Groot Groenewoude", and was known in the family as "Tante Bosch". (Since we do not know by which of her 3 Christian-names she was called, it is more correct to refer to her with her three initials, i.e A.G.J. (Anna Geertruida Jacoba), whether in full, or as initials !). She must in fact have been named Anna Geertruidaafter her paternal grandmother Anna GeertruidaBosch née Schopman, and Jacoba after her maternal grandfather Jacob Cramer van Veeren.
On the basis that Gijsbert Christiaan would be made the sole heir of A.G.J Bosch's valuable collection of jewels and her large property holdings, including her seigneurial rights as Lady of the Manors, Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813) father of Gijsbert Christiaan Reitz (1792-1866) her cousin, agreed to have the surname Bosch added to Reitz at his son's baptisme on March 11, 1792. The omission in the baptismal Register of this conjoining of surnames, was corrected by Royal Decree on December 13, 1815.
As a result of this arrangement the surname, Bosch Reitz, was established, with descendants to this day. At an advanced age (56) Anna Geertruida Jacoba Bosch (1767-1826) married Professor Gabriel Van Oordt (1757-1836), whose family inherited her properties and associated seigneurial rights, i.e. Lady/Lord of the Manors.
3. Jan Fredrik Reitz (1761-1824), established the South African branch.
4. Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813), founder of the surname "Bosch Reitz" continued the Dutch branch.
The only two children from the marriage of Judith Elisabeth Loogen and Gijsbertus Reitz. Details of their inheritance are not known, but by Dutch law they would have inherited one quarter each of the total value of the estate, probably in cash and bonds.
To return to Judith Elisabeth Loogen;
Judith Elisabeth Loogen's first husband was Mr. Jacob Cramer van Veeren, whom she married on October 13, 1745 after the banns published in Amersfoort. They were married in the church of Bunschoten. He was born around 1725 in Eemnes and died in Amersfoort on November 15, 1749. He was enrolled as a student at the Utrecht University in 1743, as a native of Eemnes. He was also Bailiff, and Secretary of Bunschoten, an appointment, which was part of the the gift of his father Jan Van Veeren, who in 1745 had bought the rights of "Lord" of the Manors of Bunschoten and Spakenburg. Jan Van Veeren outlived his son and died on January 21, 1771, and was buried in the church of Eemnes, where his wife Elsabe Cramer was also buried on October 10, 1748.
The marriage of Jacob Cramer van Veerenand Judith Elisabeth Loogen produced two children. A son Jacob Jan Cramer Van Veeren, who was born in Amersfoort on November 20, 1749, not long after the death of his father in 1749, but who died within three months in Amersfoort on March 11, 1750. The daughter from this marriage was Anna Lucia Cramer Van Veeren.
Anna Lucia was born in Amersfoort on June 23, 1746 and died in Utrecht on February 12, 1783. Anna Lucia Cramer van Veerenwas married twice. Her first husband, whom she married in 1766 was Mr. Matthias Bosch (1744-1767). In 1773, after the death of Anna Lucia's grandfather Jan Van Veeren, she and her second husband were invested with the Manorial rights of Bunschoten and Spakenburg. These Manorial rights were in 1783/84 inherited by her only child and daughter Anna Geertruyda Jacoba Bosch (1767-1826).
Anna Lucia Cramer van Veeren, after the death of her husband Matthias Bosch in 1767, married for the second time, Mr. Jan Thomas van Oorschot (1731-1798). They had no children. Judith Elisabeth Loogen, after the death of her first husband Mr. Jacob Cramer van Veeren in 1749, remarried on May 3, 1751, Anthony Kerkhof in Amersfoort. He was born in Utrecht, where he was baptised on July 3, 1720, he died in Utrecht on April 4, 1759. He was a Lay Canon of the Cathedral Chapter of the Dom in Utrecht and was the son of Werner Kerkhof and Margrita De RIDDER.
The marriage of Judith Elisabeth Loogen and Anthony Kerkhof remained childless. Anthony Kerkhof bought on June 16, 1756 the house "Groot Groenewoude" which dates back to c.1300. The house was inherited by Gijsbertus Reitz, who was the third husband of Judith Elisabeth Loogen, they were married in 1760. The house exists to this day, although all its Gothic splendour is now extinguished by a tasteless 19th century shop-front, and its towering height reduced by several floors. It was also in this house that the two Reitz brothers who continued the family line were born, namely, Jan Fredrik Reitz (1761-1824) who established the South African branch, and Dirk Anthony Reitz, (1763-1813) from whom the Dutch Bosch Reitz family descends.
The marriage of Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz (1731-1809) and Judith Elisabeth Loogen (1725-1765) was short lived. After the death of his wife in 1765, Gijsbertus Reitz, also lost the help of his stepdaughter Anna Lucia Cramer Van Veeren, who in March 1766 married Mr. Matthias Bosch, a distant cousin of Gijsbertus Reitz.
The need to provide motherly care for his two sons, must have played a part, when Gijsbertus Reitz decided to remarry. After the banns published in Utrecht and Arnhem, he remarried on May 5, 1766 Johanna Christoffelina De Lalane de Duthay. She was born on April 18, 1742 in Doetinchem. She was the daughter of Mr. Claudius Antonius Henricus De Lalane de Duthay, a Burgomaster of the small Gelderland town of Doetinchem, and his wife Jacoba Tulleken. Johanna Christoffelina de Lalane de Duthay died after the birth of her fourth child in Utrecht on January 31, 1771. All the children from this marriage died when young. After her death Gijsbertus Reitz remained a widower for the rest of his life.
The children of Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz (1731-1809) and his first wife Judith Elisabeth Loogen (1725-1765) were:

1. Jan Fredrik Reitz. He was born on January 27, 1761 in Utrecht and died on April 15, 1824 at the Goudini hot Springs near Worchester (South Africa). Lieutenant-Captain in the Dutch Navy and as such took part in the battle of Doggersbank in 1781, a great morale boosting national event in the final Anglo-Dutch War. After the change in regime in consequence of the French revolution and the Prince of Orange going into exile in England, he and a number of other officers, released of their oath of allegiance by the Prince departed for the Cape of Good Hope in 1794. One of his fellow officers Baron Captain Francois Willem Fagel (1768-1856) through the influence of his all powerful brother Baron Hendrik Fagel, Clerk (Griffier) to the Estates General and since 1788 Ambassador to England, had secured the post of Vendue Meester (Government Auctioneer) at the Cape and had made Jan Fredrik Reitz his Deputy.
Pioneered Merino sheep farming for their fleece together with his brother in Law Michiel van Breda of Oranje Zigt. Their work is now recognised as the origin of the South African wool industry. He retained his contacts with The Netherlands and took his two elder sons there for their education and legal studies. He married at Cape of Good Hope on March 25, 1795 Jacoba Barbara van Reenen. She was born on May 11, 1777 and died on June 16, 1818. She was the daughter of Dirk Gijsbert van Reenen, a prominent landowner and Aletta Catharina. Jan Fredrik established the South African branch of the Reitz family, with many descendants still living.
2. Dirk Antoni Reitz. Founder of the branch Bosch Reitz. He was born on May 18, 1763 in Utrecht, baptised Eglise Wallone May 29, 1763. He died on August 26, 1813 in Utrecht. He married in Utrecht on June 15, 1788 Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch.
3. Claudius Antonius Henricus Reitz. He was born on September 3, 1767 in Utrecht, where he was baptised on September 6, 1767. He died in Utrecht, and was buried in the Janskerk (Church) on September 25, 1767.
4. Theodorus Reitz. He was born on October 11, 1768 in Utrecht, where he was baptised October 16, 1768. The Reitz genealogy gives his date of death as April 26, 1786. No record of his death was found in Utrecht.
5. Jacqueline Reitz. She was born on October 21, 1769 in Utrecht, where she was baptised on October 29, 1769. She died in Utrecht, and was buried in the Janskerk (Church) on February 27, 1770.
6. Claudius Antonius Hendrik Reitz. He was born on December 16, 1770 in Utrecht, where he was baptised on December 23, 1770. He died in Utrecht, and was buried in the Janskerk (Church) on June 25, 1771.

NOTE:

All the above children were baptised in the Eglise Wallone in Utrecht.

Reitz - de Crane (1763)

GENERATION VIII-B

Dr. Frederik Theodorus Reitz. 5th child and third son of Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz (1702-1768) and Cornelia Verhoeven (1707-1755). Frederik Theodorus was born on March 4, 1740 in Middelburg, where he also died on October 2, 1791. He was a Pupil at the Latin School where his father was the Rector. He Graduated in 1753 to the Middelburg Academy with an oration treating with the history of his school and the lives of its Rectors. Enrolled as a medical student at Leyden University August 28, 1760, and at Utrecht University 1761, where he received his Doctorate that same year. He practised in medicine in Middelburg, where he was appointed head of the hospital in 1767, and City Physician 1770, as well as Physician to the East India Company in 1771. He married in Middelburg on May 23, 1763 Elisabeth de Crane. She was born on April 23, 1738 in Middelburg, where she also died on October 3, 1791. She was the daughter of Isaac de Crane, Bailiff of Middelburg, Bookkeeper of the Zeeland office of the West India Company, and of Suzanna Hortensia de Swart.
The children of Dr. Frederik Theodorus Reitz (1740-1791) and Elisabeth de Crane (1738-1791) were:

1. Wilhelm Otto Reitz. He was born on February 17, 1764 in Middelburg, where he also died on September 17, 1764.
2. Mr. Mattheus Isaak Reitz. He was born on May 26, 1765 in Middelburg and died in 1805 at the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Enrolled as a Law student at Leyden University June 22, 1787. He Arrived at the Cape in 1792 on the ship "Regt door Zee". Appointed as Attorney to practice before the Court of Justice and later Assistant in the Judicial Dept (Ministry of Justice). He was the first of the Reitz Family to arrive and settle in South Africa. He did not marry.
3. Cornelis Reitz. He was was born on April 20, 1767 in Middelburg, where he also died on November 26, 1767.
4. Stillborn son on February 7, 1768 in Middelburg.
5. Anna Maria Reitz. She was born on January 18, 1769 in Middelburg, where she also died on June 12, 1835.
6. Karel Koenraad Reitz. He was born on September 16, 1770 in Middelburg, where he also died on April 23, 1771. At the time of his death he lived at the Korte Delft. He was buried in the French Church on 27.4.1771.
7. Suzanna Hortensia Reitz. She was born on March 5, 1772 in Middelburg, where she also died on December 30, 1821.
Twins.
8. A daughter who was born on February 2, 1773 in Middelburg, and who died immediately after birth and:
9. A son who was born on February 2, 1773 in Middelburg, who died unbaptised on February 8, 1773.
10. Cornelia Maria Reitz. She was born on June 23, 1775 in Middelburg, where she also died in 1776.

NOTE:

This Branch did not produce descendants.

Reitz - van Gennep (1770)

GENERATION VIII-C

Dr. Iuris. Karel Koenraad Reitz. 9th child and Sixth son of Dr. Wilhelm Otto Reitz (1702-1768) and Cornelia Verhoeven (1707-1755). Karel Koenraad was born on March 19, 1748 in Middelburg where he also died on May 19, 1810. He took his Doctorate in Law at Utrecht University on his 16th birthday on March 19, 1764. He built up a flourishing Law practice in Middelburg where he was also a lecturer in Law at the Academy 1766. Elder of the Wallone Church in 1765. Clerk to the Court of Justice of Dutch Flanders and member (1770-1795) of the District Council of the island of Walcheren (of which Middelburg is the capital). He published treatises on law and logarithmic tables. Karel Koenraad married in Gorcum on August 15, 1770 Elsabeth van Gennep. She was born in 1747, in Waalwyk, and died in Middelburg on April 8, 1828. She was the daughter of Justus Van Gennep and Katharina van der Hoeven. Elizabeth van Gennep's oldest brother was Vice-Admiral Cornelis van Gennep (1737-1791). Her younger brother, Justinus van Gennep (1744-1801) was an officer in the Merchant Navy. Karel Koenraad Reitz and Cornelia Verhoeven left 7 daughters only one of them married, who all lived to a ripe old age. One son likewise and one son who died in infancy.
The children of Dr. Karel Koenraad Reitz (1748-1810) and Elizabeth van Gennep (1747-1828) were:

1. Cornelia Reitz. She born was on September 27, 1771 in Middelburg, where she also died on January 18, 1846. She married in Middelburg on July 21, 1799 Mr. Jean Adrian Modéra. He was born in Tholen on March 6, 1765 and died in Middelburg on July 29, 1827. He was the son of Pierre Modéra (1721-1781) and Petronella Susanna Paays who died on 27.9.1798. Jean Adrian studied law at Leiden University. He was a Barrister in Middelburg (1803) secretary (1805) and a Councillor in the Tribunal and City Council of Middelburg under the Napoleonic Regime. Appointed Vice-President of the Court in Middelburg. Cornelia Reitz and Jean Adrian Modéra had three children:

1. Pieter Coorne Modéra. He was born in Middelburg in 1800 and died aged 3 months on 4.9.1800. He died in the Molstraat, the parental home of Jean Adrian. He was named after his wife and father.
2. Charles Modéra (1801-30.3.1890) State-Collector of Taxes. He was born in Middelburg and died in Domburg (Zealand). Remained single
3. Justin Modéra (R.O.N) (1803-27.3.1866) Lt-Capt Netherlands Navy. He travelled to the East Indies and also the West Indies where he met his future wife. He retired in January 1852, author on Marine subjects. Author of the Dutch publication “Verhaal van eene reize naar en langs de zuidwestkust van Nieuw-Guinea” (1830). He married on 8.9.1834, in Parimaribo (Surinam) S.M.L.H. Cores De Vries from Parimaribo (Surinam). He also researched the family history and in Dec/Jan 1835, recorded the correct line of descent of the Reitz-family. These documents formed the basis of this family research, and, sofar, from Generation III, and onwards have proven to be correct. Copies of this original famiy research can be found in the Six/Bosch Reitz archives in Laren (Holland). They had one daughter.

2. Mr. Justinus Reitz. He was born on August 27, 1772 in Middelburg, where he also died on June 15, 1835. Enrolled as a law student in Leiden June 15, 1797. He was a Barrister in Middelburg. He did not marry.
3. Catharina Reitz. She was born on October 20, 1773 in Middelburg, where she also died unmarried on February 20, 1843.
4. Anna Maria Reitz . She was born on July 22, 1775 in Middelburg, where she also died unmarried on July 7, 1846.
5. Elisabeth Reitz . She was born on July 19, 1776 in Middelburg, where she also died unmarried on December 17, 1860.
6. Theodora Cornelia Reitz . She was on March 12, 1781 in Middelburg, where she also died unmarried on March 16, 1851.
7. Willem Frederik Reitz . He was born on May 26, 1783 in Middelburg, where he also died on June 29, 1785.
8. Petronella Henrika Margaretha Reitz . She was born on November 23, 1784 in Middelburg, where she also died unmarried on March 19, 1866.
9. Johanna Justina Reitz . She was born on December 15, 1786 in Middelburg, where she also died unmarried on May 1875.

NOTES:

During his service in the Dutch Navy, Justin Modera had visited Surinam where he had met and where he married his wife. The De Vries family were well established in Surinam, members of this family where well known to the Bosch Reitz family in Parimaribo.

Pierre Modera was born in Hanau (Germany) on 10.6.1723 and died in Middelburg (Holland) on 12.11.1781. He married in Middelburg on 16.7.1760, Petronella Susanna Paays. Pierre was the son of Jeremie Modera who was born in Metz (France) in 1688, and who died in Hanau (Germany) on 4.10.1729. Jeremie Modera married in Hanau on 30.4.1713, Marie Madeleine Buissine. The Modera family were religious refugees who had fled from Metz in France and had settled in Hanau (Germany) where they had re-established themselves as makers of Grogran (grosgrain). Pierre Modera studied theology in Geneva and in 1754, was appointed as Pastor of the Wallone Church in Tholen (Zealand, Holland). Pierre Modera and Susanna Paays had at least two sons. Jan Adriaan Modera who married Cornelia AALT in Middelburg. They had at least one daughter, Petronella Susanna Modera who died 9 years of age on 29.12.1813 in Middelburg. Their second son married Cornelia Reitz.

REITZ GENERATION IX

Dirk Antoni Reitz ( 1763-1813)

Reitz - van Pesch (1788)

GENERATION IX

Dirk Antoni Reitz. Second son of Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz (1731-1809) and his first wife Judith Elisabeth Loogen(1725-1765). Founder of the branch Bosch Reitz. Dirk Antoni was born on May 18, 1763 in Utrecht, baptised Eglise Wallone on May 29, 1763. He died on August 26, 1813 in Utrecht. He was Lay-Canon of the Collegiate Church of St Marie in Utrecht. Appointed as a Judge in the Tribunal in Utrecht under the Napoleonic dispensation. Dirk Antoni, at the request of his half-sister Anna GeertruidaJacoba Bosch (1767-1826), who promised to make his only son, Gijsbert Christiaan Reitz (1792-1866), her cousin, the sole heir of her considerable estates and jewellery, agreed, to have Gijsbert Christiaan's surname (Reitz), at his baptisme in 1792, conjoined with Bosch, thus establishing the surname Bosch Reitz. Dirk Antoni married in Utrecht Eglise Wallone, on June 15, 1788 Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch. She was born on October 9, 1762 in Utrecht where she also died on June 3, 1832. She was the daughter of Christiaan van Pesch, (1728-1805) presiding Elder of the Baptist Church in Utrecht and Elisabeth Smitz (1733-1762). They resided in the mansion "Groot Groenewoude" on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht, the home of his parents.
Aletta Elisabeth (1762-1832) belonged to one of the close-knit communities of well-to-do Baptist merchants and industrialists to be found in most of the larger cities of the Northern Netherlands. So-called non-conformists, they were not allowed to hold any office in the government of the Dutch Republic and its city-oligarchies, until after the emancipation in the train of the French Revolution.
Many of the leading Baptist families in Amsterdam, as for instance the van Lennep and van Eeghen families, who had become leading bankers and financiers had gone over to the Dutch Reformed Church in order to overcome this religious dis-enfranchisement, and in order to be able to marry into the patrician circles, whose social equals they had become in terms of financial and cultural achievements. In Utrecht this development had been less financially spectacular, the group of Baptist families had remained more closely linked, and within the van Pesch-family, Aletta Elisabeth, was probably the first to marry outside that community.
The contact with the Reitz family, which had by then become integrated with the established Utrecht University and City-government circles, May have come about when Dirk Antoni Reitz became a Lay-canon of the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Marie in Utrecht, at about the same time that Aletta's brother Coenraad Smitz van Pesch, who also had left the confines of the Baptist background became a Lay-canon of the Chapter of the Dom (Cathedral) of Utrecht. Posts brought about by the Reformation and since then of a strictly honorary nature for the sake of social prestige and contact.
Within the Utrecht Baptist circle, Aletta's forbears, both on her father's and mother's side, had always occupied leading positions as elected Deacons. They held additional prestige as descendants, on both sides, from a celebrated Baptist Preacher, Deacon and Benefactor, Johannes Andries Van Aken, who died as the result of a stroke in the pulpit, and who was the grandson of a Baptist who escaped near martyrdom.
On her mother's side Aletta could also claim a prominent Baptist ancestor named Cornelis Anslo of Amsterdam, whom Rembrandt portrayed in 1651, shown teaching his wife from an open Bible. It is now in the Gemälde Gallerie in Berlin. It was Anslo's wife, Aeltje (=Aletta) Schouten, whose name lives on in the various Aletta's among the descendants of Aletta Elisabeth Reitz-van Pesch.
The children of Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813) and Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch (1762-1832) were:

1. Elisabeth Jacoba Lucia Reitz. She was born on February 6, 1789 in Utrecht and died on November 25, 1853 in The Hague. She married on September 25, 1812 Jhr. Mr. Joannes Junius van Hemert.
2. Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz. Born with the surname Reitz to which Bosch was added at his baptisme in 1792, thus becoming the first to carry the surname Bosch Reitz, with few remaining descendants carrying that surname. He was born on March 5, 1792 in Utrecht baptised in the Wallone Church (Utrecht) on March 11, 1792, and died on June 9, 1866 in Amsterdam. He married in Utrecht on August 30, 1815 Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel.
3. Jeanette Théodora Reitz. She was born on January 23, 1794 in Utrecht where she also died on June 27, 1866. She married in Utrecht on April 27, 1815 Jan Kol.

NOTE:

All the aforementioned were a born in "Groot Groenewoude" the home which orginally belonged to their grandmother Judith Elisabeth Loogen, and which in 1768 was inherited by their grandfather Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz.

Junius van Hemert - Reitz (1812)

GENERATION X

Elisabeth Jacoba Lucia Reitz. 1st child and daughter of Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813) and Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch (1762-1832). She was born on February 6, 1789 in Utrecht and died on November 25, 1853 in The Hague. She married in Utrecht on September 25, 1812, Jhr. Mr. Willem Joannes Junius van Hemert. He was born in Amsterdam, baptised in the Oudekerk on February 28, 1790 and died on August 1, 1858 in de Bilt. Lord of the Manor Nieuwekerk on the island of Duiveland. Son of Jhr. Mr. Joannes Junius van Hemert (Judge of the Amsterdam Court, Lay Canon of the Cathedral of Utrecht), and Pieternella Tierens. Johannes was Prosecutor-General in the Provincial Court of Zuid-Holland (South Holland) in The Hague. Member of the Upper House (Eerste Kamer) of the Estates General.
The children of Elisabeth Jacoba Lucia Reitz (1789-1853) and Jhr. Mr. Willem Joannes Junius van Hemert (1790-1858) were:

1. Jhr. Joannes Pieter Junius van Hemert. He was born on May 9, 1814 in Zierikzee died on February 3, 1881 in Utrecht. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Cavalry. He married in Deventer on July 26, 1849 Wilhelmina Adriana Schimmelpenninck. She was born on October 9, 1824 in Deventer, and died on April 5, 1893 in Harderwyk. Daughter of Gerrit and Antonia Catharina Schimmelpenninck.
2. Jkvr. Aletta Elisabeth Antonia Jacoba Junius van Hemert. She was born on June 30, 1815 in The Hague and died on June 5, 1888 in Arnhem. She married in The Hague on May 8, 1845 Jhr. Francois van den Bosch He was born on March 15, 1813 in Zaltbommel and died on June 7, 1882 in Godesberg. 2nd Lieutenant 10th Regiment Lanciers. Son of Count Johannes Van Den Bosch and Catherine Lucrece De Sandol Roy.
3. Jhr. Mr. Dirk Anton Junius van Hemert. He was born on March 19, 1816 in The Hague and died on November 8, 1881 in Utrecht. He married in Batavia on September1, 1847 Jkvr. Charlotte Theunissen. She was born on January 4, 1827 in Weltevreden and died on March 12, 1867 in The Hague. Daughter of Jhr. Jean Baptiste Theunissen Reynst and Catharina Geertruida Scherpingh. He was Member of the High Court in Indonesia. Director of the Department "Middelen and Domeinen" (Taxes and State domains), in Indonesia.
4. Jkvr. Elisabeth Jacoba Lucia Junius van Hemert. She was born on February 12, 1820 in The Hague and died on August 12, 1895 in Zandvoort. She married in The Hague on June 8, 1840, Jhr. Hendrik van den Bosch. He was born on January 2, 1812 in Tiel and died on March 19, 1882 in de Bilt. Mayor of de Bilt. Son of Count Johannes van den Bosch and Catharine Lucrece de Sandol Roy.
5. Jhr. Mr. Willem Joannes Junius van Hemert. He was born on May 21, 1821 in The Hague and died on January 16, 1885 in Utrecht. Judge at the District Court in Almelo.
6. Jhr. Mr. Gijsbert Christiaan Junius van Hemert. He was born on September 23, 1822 in The Hague and died on September 22, 1887 in Avereest. Member of the Excecutive Committee of the Provincial Council of Overijssel. ("Gedeputeerde Staten").
7. Jhr. Mr. Franciscus Junius van Hemert. He was born on April 18, 1825 in The Hague and died on May 11, 1885 in Aden. He married in Batavia in 1853 Elisabeth Maria Susanna Debora Ambosia van Ryck. She was born on November 25, 1836 in Batavia and died on February 10, 1915 in Buitenzorg (Indonesia). Daughter of Carolus van Ryck and Elisabeth Lucia Smissaert. He was Chief Administrator and General Secretary for the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Lawyer at Buitenzorg.
8. Jhr. Paulus Zeger Junius van Hemert. He was born on March 4, 1827 in The Hague and died on June 5, 1875 in Rotterdam. He married in Arnhem on September 9, 1858 Baroness Henrieta Anna Maria Taets van Amerongen. She was born on May 4, 1836 in Utrecht and died on September 21, 1908. Daughter of Baron Mr. William John Peter Taets van Amerongen and Helena Maria Von Baumhauer. He was Mayor of Zalk and Veecaten.

NOTES:

Baroness Henrieta Anna Maria Taets van Amerongen is a descendant of the forebears of Judith Elisabeth Loogen, who in 1760 married Mr. Gysbertus Reitz.
The Branch of the Schimmelpenninck mentioned here, did not belong to the titled branch of the family. That branch descended from Rutger Jan Graaf (Count) Schimmelpenninck, raised to Comte de L'Empire by Napoleon, later incorporated in the Dutch Nobelity as Graaf (Count) for one branch, as Jhr. (Sir) for younger branches.
Apart from this family there are the Barons Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, of the old feudal nobility of Gelderland. The Schimmelpenninck, mentioned here is descended from an illegitimate son of the Schimmelpenninck family born 16/17 c.
("Gedeputeerde Staten" is the excecutive body elected (deputised) from the elected provincial Councils), as usually consisting of 3 members.
The male line Junius van Hemert became extinct in 1948.

BOSCH REITZ GENERATION X

Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866)

Bosch Reitz - Kuvel (1815)

GENERATION X

Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz. Only son of Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813) and Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch (1762-1832). The first Reitz with the surname Bosch Reitz. Gijsbert Christiaan was born in Utrecht on March 5, 1792 and died on June 9, 1866 in Amsterdam where he was buried in the Wester Cemetary. Baptised in the Eglise Wallone (church) on March 11, 1792 as "Sigisbert Chrétien" Reitz. His Godparents (or Baptismal witnesses, "Doopgetuigen") were his grandfather Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz (1731-1809), and his grandfather's step-granddaughter Anna GeertruidaJacoba Bosch (1767-1826), daughter of Mr. Matthias Bosch (1744-1767) and Anna Lucia Cramer van Veeren (1746-1783), heiress to the Manors of Bunschoten and Spakenburg, being the daughter of Mr. Jacob Jan Cramer van Veeren (.....1749) and Judith Elisabeth Loogen (1725-1765) who in 1760 had remarried Gijsbertus Reitz (1731-1809).
In the margin of the Baptismal Register of the Eglise Wallone an entry is made that on August 18, 1815, an Affidavat of identity ("Acte van Bekendheid") has been drawn up before the Attorney Gerardus Henricus Stevens, of Utrecht, stating that after the christian names of Sigisbert Chrétien the name Bosch should follow, which addition to the name is confirmed by a disposition of his Majesty the King of The Netherlands dated December 13, 1815, no 1096.
The wording of the affidavit seems to imply that it had been an omission that the name Bosch had not been entered at the time of the baptism in 1792. Certain is, that Gijsbert Christiaan used the surname Bosch Reitz before the Royal Disposition of 1815, namely when enrolling at the University of Utrecht on August 22, 1809.
The joining of the names Bosch and Reitz was done at the request of Anna GeertruidaJacoba Bosch, for reasons of consanguinity and with the intention of making her cousin the heir to her fortune, which comprised the Manors of Bunschoten, Spakenburg and Dykhuizen (including many farming properties in Eemnes and the surrounding region of Eemland), and a considerable collection of jewellery (most of which is depicted in the portrait of Anna Lucia Cramer van Veeren, painted in 1768, by A.C.Hauck).
The conjoining of the surnames Reitz and Bosch was confirmed by Royal Decree, dated 1815. However, when "Tante Bosch", as she was known, was 54, she married, in 1821 Professor Dr. Gabriel van Oordt (1757-1836), and in 1824 had the grandson of the latter's brother, Jacob Anne Matthias van Oordt (1824 -1904), named after herself, her father and grandfather, and by special legacy left him the Manorial rights of Bunschoten and Spakenburg and the farms belonging to them. These properties have been handed down in the van Oordt-family to this day.
Her cousin Gijsbert Christiaan Reitz, was so incensed by this, that he ordered the jewels which he did inherit to be sold at auction, to prevent members of his family wearing them..... Gijsbert Christiaan entered Utrecht University at the age of 17 on August 22, 1809 to read Law, but never seems to have taken his degree. He went into business in the field of Marine Insurance, was on the Board of Directors of the "Tweede Zeeverzekering Maatschappy" of which his son Dirk Antoni was a Manager. He was also a shipowner, fitting out passenger boats to the East Indies, apart from assisting his wife in the management of her Surinam plantations. In the public sector he was a Member of the Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten) of North-Holland. Chairman of the "committee of interested parties in Suriname agriculture". In 1853 appointed as a member of the "staats Commissie" (Government Committee) representing the plantation owners in Suriname and in 1863 appointed Chairman. The Committee was established to advise the Dutch Government on policies for the emancipation of the slaves in Suriname. The model proposed by Gijs was adopted. He married Utrecht on August 30, 1815 Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel. She was born on March 7, 1794 in Surinam, and died on April 1, 1866 in Amsterdam, four days after a fall in her bedroom in which she broke her hip. Gertrude Elisabeth was buried in the Westerkerk (Amsterdam).
It was Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel who brought about the close links between Surinam in the former Dutch West Indies and the Bosch Reitz family which were to continue for three generations after her.
The early years of her existence were entirely conditioned by the life-style of the upper ranks of the Europeans who ran the colony's administration, its Church and plantations, and she must have been affected time and again, as we shall see, by the emotional and matrimonial entanglements within that small and interdependant privileged group, as well as by the toll that death took especially among its younger members.
She herself compiled a detailed chronological record of the factual happenings of her life, without any comment on their often dramatic character. They are borne out and given a supplementary context by the documents in the public archives of Surinam. Her own account came down to us in a manuscript in the family-archives of her descendants Six, of Amsterdam, marked by one of her daughters as "Petit livre de Mémoires de ma chère Mère". It is written in French, the language she preferred to speak all her life, except when she was giving reprimands to her family in Dutch, as we know from the reminiscences on his grandparents written down by the only one of her Bosch-Reitz grandchildren born in time to have known them, Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch Reitz ("Oom Gijs"), the painter and art-historian (1860-1938).
Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel was born in Parimaribo on March 7, 1794, after a birth which cost her mother, her life four hours later. Her parents were Jan Kuvel (1762-1800), and Elisabeth de Cazenabe (1767-1794), who married in Parimaribo on May 16, 1788. After the death of her mother in 1794, she was taken back to Holland by her stepmother Juliana Andresa Roepel (1777-1811) and in 1801, placed in the custody of her grandmother Geertruida Kuvel (née van der Schilden 1727-1807).
After the death of her grandmother in 1807, Gertrude Elisabeth is sent to a boarding school in Paris where she is being cared for by her uncle Mr. Philippe Kuvel (1754-1821).
Gertrude Elisabeth after leaving school married in 1811 Martinus Frederic Stöckel (1792-1813), sole heir of his father's plantation Beekhuizen in Surinam, which passed to his widow in 1813 and her Bosch Reitz heirs after her. Both returned to Surinam where they arrived in 1812. Besides adopting one child, John Antoine Bouchez (1811-1830) they had two other children who died when young. In 1813 they returned to England where Martinus Stöckel died in 1813. In 1814 Elisabeth Kuvel returned to Paris where she took up residence with her uncle Mr. Philippe Kuvel (1754-1821). Returning to Utrecht for short visits she meets and on August 30, 1815 married Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866).
The children of Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866) and her first husband Martinus Frederic Stöckel (1792-1813) were:

1.Jeanne Elisabeth Sophie Stöckel. She was born on August 30, 1812 in Parimaribo where she also died on February 8, 1813.
2.Jacob Francois Stöckel. He was born at Clifton (Bristol) on November 15, 1813 and died in Paris on August 19, 1814.
Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel brought Surinam plantation's in her dowry. Among them plantation Beekhuizen, which she had inherited from her first husband, and remained her property until its sale on September 25, 1843. She also brought with her an adopted son:

1.John Antoine Bouchez. He was possibly an orphaned relative, possibly on the Stöckel family side. John Antoine was born in (Parimaribo?) on June 13, 1811 and adopted in Parimaribo on February 17, 1812.
At the age of 17 he became apprenticed to the captain of a Merchantman. He sailed for China on April 30, 1828, and returned to Amsterdam on June 1, 1829. He set out on his second journey on October 23, 1829, and died of an accident in Batavia, the news which was received in Amsterdam on May 16, 1830.
Although assisted by her husband, and later by her sons, in the administration of her plantation-interest in Surinam, she took an active and firm interest in them herself. We know of the following transactions from her own diary:
1843: "Beekhuizen" sold in exchange for "Houttuin". A drawing of Beekhuizen is kept in the Six/Bosch Reitz collection in Laren.
1845: "Geertruidenberg" with 90 negroes bought for fl.13.000,-
1850: "Zoelen" bought for fl.18.000,-, and Mr Breton's negroes for fl.24.000,-
1854: "Libanon" with 90 negroes bought for fl.23.000,- (this plantation was inherited by her great-grandson Norman Bosch Reitz (1905-1993).

Before the Bosch Reitz sons went out to manage the Surinam family estates, two sons of Gertrude Elisabeth's Uncle, Philippe Kuvel were employed by them there:
1. Victor Kuvel. Born in 1797 from 1815.
2. Philippe Kuvel (1800-1855) from 1820-1848.
The children of Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866) and Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866) were:

1. Aletta Elisabeth Bosch Reitz. She was born on April 29, 1816 in Utrecht (Oude Gracht) and died aged 12 years on November 16, 1828 in Amsterdam of tuberculosis, after a sickbed of 5 months. Aletta Elisabeth was named after her grandmother Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch(1762-1832).
2. Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz. He was born on August 20, 1817 in Utrecht (Oude Gracht). The first Bosch Reitz, who departed to Surinam on September 25, 1842, to manage the family owned plantations. He sold plantation Beekhuizen on September 25, 1843 and bought plantation Houttuin. In Surinam he suffered a yellow fever attack on October 25, 1843. Gijsbert Christiaan returned to Holland where he remained from July 30, 1845 to March 2, 1846. He returned to Parimaribo, to take charge of the family business-affairs once more, and in January 1851 he is joined in that task by his younger brother Guillaume Jacques Abraham (Willem), who after his brother's death in December 1851 succeeds him as head of the family affairs.
Gijsbert Christiaan died on December 23, 1851 aged 34 after being struck with yellow fever once more. Gijsbert Christiaan was buried on the "Steenen Begraafplaats" in Parimaribo (Surinam), the Surinam family burial plot where also lies buried; his younger brother Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham (1825-1880), and the latter's son John Philippe (1867-1952). Gijsbert Christiaan remained single.
3. Dirk Antoni Bosch Reitz. He was born on April 6, 1820 in Utrecht (Oude Gracht), and died aged 79 years in Amsterdam on June 5, 1899. He was named after his grandfather (Dirk Antoni Reitz 1763-1813). He was a ship owner and Director of a Marine Insurance Company, in partnership with his brothers Jean Philippe and John Antoine Corneille. Dirk Antoni was a long standing member of the Free Masons, in Amsterdam.
Dirk Antoni married in Apeldoorn on October 14, 1880, Sarah Maria de Balbiaan. She was born in Leiden on March 16, 1839 and died in Driebergen on March 22, 1920. She was the only child and daughter of Jacob de Balbiaan who was born in Leiden on April 14, 1814 and who died on April 12, 1838 and Wilhelmina Rebecca Leeflang, who was born on July 14, 1816. Sarah Maria De Balbiaan was the mother of Wilhelmina Maria (Minca) Bosch Reitz (1870-1950), refer Mr. Charles Bosch Reitz follows. Dirk Antoni Bosch Reitz and Sarah Maria de Balbiaan had no descendants.
4. Sophie Cecile Philippine Bosch Reitz. Sophie was born on April 1, 1822 in Utrecht (Oude Kerkhof) and died aged 73, unmarried on June 24, 1895 in Clarens (Switzerland). In September 1856 Sophie falls ill and attends cures in Zandvoort, (Holland) Schwalbach and Marienburg near Boppard, (Germany).
5. Jean Philippe Bosch Reitz. Philippe was born on the Country house Kweekhoven on the river Vecht in Breukelen, (near Utrecht) on December 8, 1823 and died aged 65, unmarried in Amsterdam on December 11, 1888. Philippe was underwriter and owner of the plantation Zoelen. Founder of the "NV Landbouw Maatschappij Commewijne" (27.1.1882-1895) which incorporated the family owned plantation Zoelen. He also was the owner of plantation Geertruidenberg, which he bequeathed to his nephews, Guillaume Jacques Abraham (1863-1890), Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952) and Jhr. Jacques Van Kretschmar van Veen (1857-1931). Philippe, also was Director of one of the most prestigeous Waterboards in Holland, the "Leidsche Duinwaterleiding". In 1884, he visited Surinam. Philippe, after having being diagonised of having cancer of the throat took his own life. He remained single.
6. Dr. Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham (Willem) Bosch Reitz. He was born on the Country house Kweekhoven on the river Vecht in Breukelen, (near Utrecht) on June 11, 1825 and died aged 55 in Surinam on February 16, 1880. He married in Parimaribo on July 21, 1858, Josephine Gibson Austin.
7. Dr. Mr. Charles Bosch Reitz. Charles was born on June 7, 1829 in Amsterdam, and died aged 50 on July 3, 1879 in Nieuwediep (den Helder) on July 3, 1879. He was enrolled as a Law student in Amsterdam from 1848-1851, and also in Leiden in 1849, where he took his degree as Dr of Law on June 14, 1854, which he celebrated with a grand dinner at The Hague in hotel Paulez, famous until its destruction by German bombs in 1943. Charles was the founder in 1857, of the Water Company in den Helder. Charles was also Director of the Gas and Waterboard of den Helder. Member of the Provincial Council of North Holland from 1870 to 1879.
Co-founder of the H.T.S. (Higher Technical College) in Amsterdam and founder and Director (1872) of the Steamship Coy. Java. Founder of the waterboard in Leiden. Officer in the Civic Guard in Amsterdam. In 1854 Charles moved to den Helder, where he lived on the Hoofdgracht. Charles had a natural daughter, Wilhelmina Maria (Minca) Bosch Reitz (1870-1950), who was born in Amsterdam on October 7, 1870, and whom he recognised and legitimatized by his will dated in den Helder on May 29, 1878, appointing his brother Dirk Antoni as guardian, who on October 14, 1880 in Apeldoorn married Minca's mother Sarah Maria de Balbiaan. Refer Dirk Antoni. Charles did not marry.
8. John Antoine Corneille Bosch Reitz. He was born on March 25, 1831 in Amsterdam, where he also died aged 82 on July 16, 1913. John Antoine married in Amsterdam on May 12, 1859 Jkvr. Catherine Isabella Teding van Berkhout.
9. Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz. She was born on March 18, 1833 in Amsterdam and died aged 46 in Bad Nauheim (in the Principality of Hessen, just north of Frankfurt) on August 3, 1879. Aletta Elisabeth married in Amsterdam on July 31, 1856 Jhr. Constant Leopold Charles van Kretschmar.
10. Jeanne Théodore Bosch Reitz. She was born on October 25, 1835 in Amsterdam where she also died aged 76 on February 3, 1911. Jeanne Théodore married in Amsterdam on December 1, 1864 Henri Unico Wilkens.
11. Wilhelmina Jacobie Lucia Elisabeth Bosch Reitz. Wilhelmina was born on December 11, 1837 in Amsterdam and died aged 88 unmarried on August 6, 1925 in Carens (Switzerland). She was named after her uncle Jhr. Mr. Willem Johannes Junius van Hemert (1790-1858) and Elisabeth Jacoba Reitz (1789-1858). Wilhelmina was the focal point of the large family of nephews and nieces and their offspring who frequently stayed with her in Clarens. Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952), who continued the Bosch Reitz, branch of the family, son of her brother Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham, boarded with her in 1882, during his further education.
Jeanne Antoinette Cornellie Guiderit. Unofficially adopted member of the family Bosch Reitz. She was born on February 17, 1804 in Surinam and died unmarried on February 15, 1865 in Amsterdam, where she is buried in the Westerkerk (Westerchurch). She was daughter of Charles Paulus Guiderit (c.1780-1805) and Jeanne Esther de Cazenabe (1777-1797), sister of Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel's mother. Jeanne Antoinette Cornellie lived in the Bosch Reitz house in Amsterdam till her death.

NOTES:

The youngest daughter of Henri Unico Wilkens and his first wife Jenny Adrienne toe Laer, was Adrienne Louise Wilhelmine Wilkens "Tante" (aunt) "Antonini", who was the Godmother of Adrienne Louise Wilhelmine van Kretschmar born in 1894. She was born December 21, 1860 and died in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1949.
She married in Lausanne on July 22, 1903 Dominique Antonini. He was born in Cairo around 1862 and died in Lausanne on April 10, 1940 at the age of 78. He was the son of Paul Francois Antonini who died in Cairo on July 16, 1910 at the age of 82. Adrienne Louise Wilhelmine Wilkens had a son who was born in Lausanne in 1904 when she was 44 years of age!
The Antonini family was of Corsican French descent and settled in Egypt in the wake of the Napoleonic invasion. As cotton farmers they became inmensely rich. "Tante" (aunt) Antonini as she was called in the family always remained part of the "clan" of her Bosch Reitz stepmother.
It was when accompanying her (step) cousin Elise Van Kretschmar, who was going blind, to an eye clinic in Germany, that she met Dominique Antonini, who was also going blind as the result of an Egyptian eye disease. During the summer months they lived in a villa in Lausanne and the rest of the year in Cairo. In both places they kept an open house for the widening circle of the Bosch Reitz and van Kretschmar cousins.
The grand children of Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz and Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel totalled 24:

9 from Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz's
3 from John Antoine Corneille Bosch Reitz's
1 from Charles Bosch Reitz's daughter
4 from Aletta Van Kretschmar's children
7 from Jeanne Wilkens'
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only 9 of which were born during their lifetime.

The poor management of the Agent who at the time was managing the family owned plantations, neccessitated Gys Bosch Reitz moving to Surinam in 1842, where he took over the management of the plantations. (notes by Sigisbert Chretien in his recollections of his Grandparents, written in 1933). Details of correspondence concerning the plantations are located in the Six archives in Amsterdam.
Jean Philippe's visit to Surinam in 1884 was associated with his interest in plantation Geertruidenberg, which was later sold.

REITZ GENERATION X

Jeanette Théodora Reitz (1794-1866)

Kol - Reitz (1815)

GENERATION X

Jeanette Théodora Reitz. 3rd and last child of Dirk Antoni Reitz (1763-1813) and Aletta Elisabeth van Pesch (1762-1832). She was born on January 23, 1794 in Utrecht where she also died on June 27, 1866. She married in Utrecht on April 27, 1815 Mr. Jan Kol. He was born on March 30, 1789 in Utrecht where he also died on January 7, 1848. He was a Member of the Provincial Council of Utrecht, and Chief Executive of the Banking House Vlaer and Kol, located on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht, not far from "Groot Groenewoude" the parental home of his wife. He was the son of Everard Kol (1753-1824), partner of the Banking house Vlaer and Kol, Utrecht; Member of the City Council of Utrecht and of the Provincial Council of Utrecht, married 1777 Henriette Smit (1754 -1820), daughter of Mr. Jacob Smit and his first wife Willemina Florentina Vlaer. Jan Kol was the grandson of Jan Kol (1726-1805) and his first wife Anna Elisabeth Vlaer (1726-1778), and stepgrandson of his third wife Aleida Reitz (1734-1812). The two married sons of Jan Kol, and Jeanette Théodora Reitz, had many descendants. It was through their youngest son Jan Kol (1828-1898) and his wife Baroness Ulbina d'Ablaing van Giessenburg that Aletta Bosch Reitz (1833-1879) and Jhr. Constant Leopold CharlesVan Kretschmar (1826-1874) met each other at Moersbergen Castle, (Doorn), the parental home of Baroness Ulbina d'Ablaing van Giessenburg.
The children of Jeanette Théodora Reitz (1794-1866) and Mr. Jan Kol (1789-1848) were:

1. Everard Henry Kol. He was born on May 15, 1816 in Utrecht where he also died on April 8, 1888. He was Partner in the banking firm Vlaer and Kol. Member of the Provincial Council in Utrecht. He married first in Middelburg on April 15, 1842 Baroness Elisabeth van Heeckeren van Brandenburg. She was born on March 29, 1813 in Utrecht where she died on March 11, 1843.
She was the daughter of Baron Derk Jan Gideon van Heeckeren van Brandenburg and Anna Elisabeth Van Beeck. Everard Henry married for the second time in Rotterdam on November 2, 1848 Sophie Smith. She was born on December 18, 1822 in Rotterdam and died on March 17, 1881 in Utrecht. She was the daughter of William Smith, Lord of the Manor of Engelen, and Sara Geertruyda Van Hoey.
2. Aletta Elisabeth Kol. She was born on September 23, 1817 in Utrecht where she also died unmarried on January 20, 1841.
3. Jan Kol. He was born on June 3, 1828 in Utrecht, and died in Brussel on May 4, 1898. He married on November 13, 1851, Baroness Ulbine d'Ablaing van Giessenburg. She was born on May 22, 1829 at Moersbergen Castle (Doorn), and died on June 21, 1904 in Great Missenden in England. She was the daughter of Baron Joan Daniel Cornelis Carel Wilhelm d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Lord of the Manors of Giessenburg, Giessen-Niewkerk, Cadzand, Moersbergen, Vorde, Stöckum and Camp zum Thurm, and Baroness Albertina Otteline Rengers. They had issue

NOTE:

The banking house Vlaer and Kol is one of the oldest banks in the world.

BOSCH REITZ GENERATION XI

Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz (1825-1880)
John Antoine Corneille Bosch Reitz (1831-1931)
Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz (1833-1879)
Jeanne Théodore Bosch Reitz (1835-1911)

Bosch Reitz - Gibson Austin (1858)

GENERATION XI-A

Dr. Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham (Willem) Bosch Reitz. 6th child and fourth son of Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866) and Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866). He was born on the Country house Kweekhoven on the river Vecht in Breukelen, (near Utrecht) on June 11, 1825, and was baptised in St Pieters church in Utrecht. Willem died in Surinam on February 16, 1880. He was named after his uncle, Vice-Admiral Abraham Kuvel (1757-1832), and the latter's daughter Wilhelmina (Mina) Jacoba Hillegonda Kuvel (1801-1888) his mother's favourite cousin, who in 1832 married Jhr. Pierre Theodore Bicker. Willem was enrolled as a Law student in Amsterdam, (from 1844 till April 12, 1848) where he graduated in Law (Mr.), and also at Leiden University (on May 24, 1844), where he Graduated as a Dr. of Law on May 4, 1850.
Willem, departed on November 28, 1850 from den Helder (Holland), on the ship "Lodewyk Antoine", under Captain Spekman and joined his brother Gysbert Christiaan (1817-1851) in Parimaribo (Surinam) on January 4, 1851 to assist in the management of his parents plantations. Willem, after his brother's death (December 23, 1851) is appointed "Head" of the Surinam family affairs, August 1852.
On May 8, 1866 Willem is appointed as a member of the first Surinam Parliament, which was established on May 5, 1866. From May 1868 to May 1873, Willem was Secretary, and from May 1877 to June 1878, President of the Colonial Assembly ("Staten") of Surinam (First Parliament of Surinam). Willem died in Surinam on February 16, 1880 where he was buried on the "Steenen Begraafplaats" (Stone Cemetary) beside his brother Gijsbert Christiaan (1817-1851). Willem met his young (16 year) wife Josephine Gibson Austin in Parimaribo (her parents lived on plantation Kleinhoop), and he announced his engagement to his parents in the autumn of 1857. The couple married in Georgetown, (British Guiana) on July 21, 1858, where many members of the Austin family resided. Willem never returned to Holland.
Josephine Gibson Austin, was born in British Guiana, on January 10, 1842 and died in Georgetown (British Guiana) on June 6, 1917 where she was also buried. In her memory, a wooden Altar, dated June 7, 1917 was presented to Christ Church (Georgetown). Josephine Gibson, was the daughter of Richard Barker Austin (owner of plantation Kleinhoop, in Surinam), who was born on March 4, 1801 (Barbados) and died on November 19, 1858 in Surinam (buried on plantation Kleinhoop, Surinam), married in Barbados on September 27, 1836 Melicent Inniss, who was born in Barbados on April 25, 1814 and who died in British Guiana. Willem and Josephine lived at No 36 Waterkant in Parimaribo.
As a widow Josephine Gibson returned to Kingston (British Guiana), where she went to live in the Austin family home in Duke Street, with all her children except Philippe John, her third son. For his education he was sent to Switzerland (Vevey), where he was cared for by, Wilhelmine Jacobie Lucia Elisabeth Bosch Reitz (1837-1925), the sister of his father.
The children of Dr. Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz (1825-1880) and Josephine Gibson Austin (1842-1917) were:

1. Gertrude Elisabeth Sophie Bosch Reitz. She was born on January 20, 1860 in Parimaribo (Surinam) where she was baptised on June 20, 1860. She was named after her paternal grandmother. She married on June 9, 1891 in British Guiana, her first Cousin, Nicholas Farrar.
2. Richard Dirk Bosch Reitz. Named after his maternal grandfather and father's brother. He was born on October 13, 1861 in Parimaribo (Surinam) where died when young on October 13, 1864.
3. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz. Named after his father. He was born on October 23, 1863 in Parimaribo (Surinam), and died unmarried in Georgetown on January 9, 1890 where he is buried. Recorded as a Law student and "Notary Public" in Georgetown. In 1882 Assistant in the Receiver-Generals Office and in 1889 Assistant Sworn Clerk in the Registrars Office, Victoria Law Courts in Georgetown.
4. Josephine Wilhelmina Jacoba Bosch Reitz. Named after her father's sister. She was born on November 5, 1864 in Parimaribo (Surinam) where she died when young on May 19, 1865 and was buried on the "Steenen Begraafplaats" in Parimaribo, adjacent to her fathers grave.
5. Philippe John (Philip) Bosch Reitz. Philip was born on February 12, 1867 in Parimaribo (Surinam), where he also died on December 4, 1952. He married in Parimaribo on May 22, 1902 Frederika Fransoise Aman.
6. Charles James (Charlie) Bosch Reitz. Named after his father's brother. He was born on February 21, 1870 in Parimaribo and died on April 10, 1933 at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe, Bournemouth (England). Charles James was Clerk 1st Class with the Immigration Department in Kingston, Georgetown (BG). He departed for England where he married Eileen Louise Arnold on December 2, 1927 who was his housekeeper. She was a widow in Norwich, with one son and one daughter. Charles James deleted Bosch from his surname and called himself Reitz, (by doing so he showed his awareness of his Reitz descendency). His death notice in the London Times reads: Bosch Reitz-On April 10,1933, at Pine Hurts, 4 Moorlands Raod, West Moors, Dorset, Charles J. Bosch Reitz, late of British Guiana, aged 63. His stepson visited British Guiana.
7. Sarah Jane Bosch Reitz. She was born on October 13, 1873 in Parimaribo where she also died when young on November 5, 1875. She was buried on the "Steenen Begraafplaats" (stone cemetery) in Parimaribo, adjacent to the grave of her father.
8. Edward Bosch Reitz. He was born on May 19, 1874 in Parimaribo and died on September 22, 1903 in Georgetown. He was a Public Servant with the Department of Mines in Hadfield street Georgetown in 1898. He was not married.
9. Melicent Mary (Millie) Bosch Reitz. She was born on September 10, 1879 in Parimaribo and died in England in 1968. Melicent married in Georgetown, Demerara, on January 2, 1904 Alfred Waterfield.

NOTES:

After her husband's death in 1880, Josephine Gibson Austin, mother of the aforementioned, returned with all her children (except Philippe John) to British Guiana, re-joining the Austin clan. All her children, after being taken back to British Guiana, adopted the British Nationality, except Philippe John, who retained his Dutch Nationality and who continued the Bosch Reitz branch.
British Guiana after obtaining independence in 1966 was renamed Guyana.
The original Law Degree Certificates, obtained by Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz at Amsterdam, (Mr.) and Leiden University (Dr.) are in possession of his great-grandson Norman Anton Bosch Reitz (1942-......) in Australia.

Bosch Reitz - Teding van Berkhout (1858)

GENERATION XI-B

John Antoine Corneille Bosch Reitz. 8th child and Sixth son of Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866) and Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866). He was born on March 25, 1831 in Amsterdam, where he also died on July 16, 1913. Named after his adopted brother John Antoine Bouchez (1811-1830), and his mother's adopted cousin Cornélie (Nelly) Guicherit (1804 -1865). He was an Insurance broker in partnership with his brothers Dirk Antoni and Jean Philippe, keeping office in the parental house on the Keizersgracht 414 (Amsterdam), into which he moved with his family after his parent's death in 1866. He married in Amsterdam on May 12, 1859 Jkvr. Catharine Isabella (Kettsey) Teding van Berkhout. She was born on October 16, 1837 in Amsterdam, where she also died on September 12, 1881. She was the daughter of Jhr. Mr. Pieter Jacob Teding van Berkhout and Baroness Hieronyma Maria Antonia Fortunata van Slingelandt.
The children of John Antoine Bosch Reitz (1831-1913) and Jkvr. Catherine Isabelle Teding van Berkhout (1837-1881) were:

1. Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch Reitz (Oom Gijs). Oom Gijs was born in Amsterdam on February 20, 1860 (baptised on April 8, 1860) where he also died unmarried on April 9, 1938 after an accident when boarding a moving tram in Amsterdam, and where he is buried in the Zorgvliiet cemetery. Highly esteemed both as a painter and Art-Historian. As an artist he was little known to the general public largely because of his aversion to exhibiting or selling his work. He was internationally well-connected in the world of arts in London, Paris, Japan and New York, where he served the Metropolitan Museum in the years 1915-1927 as the head of the Department of far Eastern Art, which he completely revitalised and for which he purchased its most valuable exhibits.
Oom Gijs lived and worked in Laren (North-Holland) in a house, which he named Pruikenburg and a studio designed by himself, to a large extent to house his large collection of the Reitz and his mother's Teding van Berkhout-family portraits. The collection (largely still intact) was inherited by his nephew and Godson Jhr. Ir. Gijsbert Christiaan (Gijs) Six Van Wimmenum, and now by the latter's sons who, regrettably, sold several of the Reitz family portraits at auction in Amsterdam (Sotheby) in the 1970's without giving warning to other interested descendants. In 1883, Uncle Gijs went to Munich where he studied for a year at the Königliche Kunstgewerbe Hochschule. In 1885 he moved to Paris where he received further training in painting in the "atelier" Julian. In 1889, Uncle Gijs was awarded the gold medal from the Paris Salon for his painting, "Old Woman at the bedside of a sick child" (currently in possession of Norman Bosch Reitz (1942-......) in Australia.
Between 1900-1901 Oom Gijs, travelled to Japan and studied Japanese Art. In 1914 he was appointed to a position at the Louvre, which due to the war was never realised. We also owe to him the chronicling of the events and personal details of his Grandparents and their large family.
From an entry in his diary dated August 22, 1888 it becomes clear that it was "Oom Gijs" who was responsible for the decision to depart from the correct early Modéra Version of the early Reitz generations and to adopt the more "glamorous" version published by Vorsterman van Oyen in 1890. The diary entry reads "In the evening I correct the proofs of Vorsterman van Oyen's article Bosch Reitz".
2. Hieronyma Maria Antonia Fortunata Bosch Reitz (O.O.N). She was born in Amsterdam on February 20, 1867 and died on July 7, 1951 at Huize Jagtlust ('s-Graveland). She married in Amsterdam on March 20, 1890 Jhr. Professor Dr. Jan Six van Hillegom and Wimmenum (C.O.N. R.N.L).
3. Gertrude Elisabeth Bosch Reitz. She was born in Amsterdam on March 9, 1872 and died on May 7, 1957 in The Hague. She married on April 9, 1901 her first cousin, Aubin Octove Unico Wilkens.

NOTES:

The studio and adjoining living quarters of the residence of Uncle Gijs Bosch Reitz, in Laren, inherited by his Godson Jhr. Ir. Gijsbert Christiaan Six van Wimmenum (1892-1975), is currently occupied by the latter's youngest son, Jhr. Mr. Gijsbert Christiaan (Gijs) Six (August 18, 1928-......), married to Elisabeth Josephine Pauline (Betty) De Groof (March 29, 1931-......). The current occupants have retained the orginal layout of the furniture in the studio, including the location of various original paintings by Uncle Gijs (1987).
In the garden of Pruikenburg is located the marble statue "Flora", together with two pedestals, one of the three marble statues which, once, were located on plantation Johanna Catharina in Surinam. The second marble statue "Demeter", orginally located at "Pruikenburg" is, since 1975, in possession of Jhr. Jan Pieter Six van Wimmenum (Eldest son of Jhr. Ir. Gijsbert Christiaan Six van Wimmenum (1892-1975), in Hilversum. Both statues obtained by Uncle Gijs, were transported to Holland, after plantation Johanna Catharina, the last remaining Bosch Reitz plantation, was sold in 1915. This research has not been able to locate the current location of the third marble statue.

van Kretschmar - Bosch Reitz (1856)

GENERATION XI-C

Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz. 9th child and third daughter of Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866) and Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866). Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette was born in Amsterdam on March 18, 1833 and died in Bad Nauheim (in the Principality of Hessen, just north of Frankfurt) on August 3, 1879 where she had gone to take a cure, as she had done previously in 1862 and 1863.
She married in Amsterdam on July 31, 1856 Jhr. Constant Leopold Charlesvan Kretschmar. He was born in Mons (Belgium) on September 5, 1826 and died at Buitenzorg (Ellecom) on February 2, 1874. He was the son of Jhr. Jacob Adriaan van Kretschmar van Veen, Lord of the Manor of Veen on the river Maas, and Jkvr. Christina Alberda Van Menkema.
The history of the Van Kretschmar family commences with Michael Kretschmar, a Lutheran Minister at Sachwitz and Laskowitz near Breslau (Silezia) who died around 1590. His sons Johan, Michael, and Martin were created Nobles of the Holy Roman Empire on May 2, 1607 by Diploma of Kaiser Rudolph II.
By decree of the Sovereign Ruler of the Netherlands (later King) dated August 28, 1814, Jacob Charles van Kretschmar, Lord of the Manor of Veen, was nominated a member of the House of Knights of the Province of Noord Brabant. By Royal decree of February 11, 1826 his nephew and heir Jacob Adriaan van Kretschmar and his three brothers were incorporated into the Dutch Nobility with the style ("predicaat") of Jhr. (given to the members of the so-called Noblesse non titree) equivalent to "Sir"
Constant Leopold Charlesvan Kretschmar was born at Mons (Belgium) where his father Jhr. Jacob Adriaan was stationed in the garrison. His mother was Jkvr. Christina Alberda van Menkema of the Menkemaborg in Groningen. His parents built the country estate Buitenzorg situated on the extension of the Middachter Allee at Ellecom. Constant Leopold Charlesvan Kretschmar died before his father, as a result, the Lordship of the Manor of Veen passed from grandfather Jacob Adriaan who died in 1875 to grandson Jacob Adriaan (1857-1931).
The couple had met at the parties which were held at Moersbergeb Castle in Doorn, which were organised by a cousin of the Bosch Reitz's, Madame Kol-d'Ablaing van Giessenburg and her mother Baroness d'Ablaing van Giessenburg née Baroness Rengers.
Constant's first marriage-proposal in April 1855 was turned down by the Bosch Reitz parents who did not approve of the ease with which Constant's father spent his own fortune and that of his very wealthy wife!
And they considered Constant van Kretschmar a dull country man with very little intellect to match their Amsterdam-life style.
In January 1856 Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette's parents relented and granted permission and on July 17, 1856 the engagement was announced and the marriage took place on July 31, 1856 in Amsterdam. The newly weds went to live on the country house Buitenzorg, which his father, Jacob Adriaan, had vacated after the death of his wife, who died shortly before the marriage.
Constant's father moved to Neder HemertCastle where he was looked after by his daughter Baroness van Nagell and where he spent the last twenty years of his life. In fact he outlived his son by one year, who therefore did not inherit the title van Veen, a title which passed to his grandson Jhr. Ir. Jacob Adriaan (Jacques) 1857-1931.
In the mémoirs of "Uncle" Gijs Bosch Reitz (1860-1938) who was a good friend of their son Jacob Adriaan (Jacques) and who often stayed at Buitenzorg he described Aletta as being "lively, amusing with plenty of charm, but not necessarily beautiful". The marriage turned out to be one of happiness with a cheerful family environment and with many visits to the nearby neighbours including the inhabitants of MiddachtenCastle on the neighbouring estate, Count van Aldenburg Bentinck, whose wife was Countess Von Waldeck Pyrmont, and rather "grand".
After the early death of her husband at 48, Aletta sold the estate Buitenzorg (1876) and went to live in The Hague with her three daughters. As a result of her deteriorating health she died not long after her move, in the German Spa Bad Nauheim (August 3, 1879). The house Buitenzorg still exists in reasonable condition as a Child-Welfare home.
After Aletta's death her son Jacob Adriaan who attended as one of the first pupils, the Technical High School newly founded in Delft, moved with his sisters into a house in the Anna Paulowna street on the corner of the Anna Paulowna square, which was then a new quartier of The Hague.
It was not long after in 1882 that the sisters moved to Neder HemertCastle where they were being looked after by their aunt van Nagell and it was from there that they married and where the grand children van Kretschmar, Repelaer and Van Wassenaer spent their holidays until "tante (aunt) van Nagell", by then a legendary figure in the region, died in 1910.
It was this castle and its extensive estate that uncle Baron van Nagell bequeathed to his god child Anne Maurice Adrienne van Kretschmar 1861-1920 (daughter of Jhr. Constant Leopold Charlesvan Kretschmar 1826-1874 and Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz 1833-1879), a decision, which was the result of his animosity towards his sister Huyssen van Kattendyke, who should have been his legitimate heir. A matter that caused family friction for generations. Neder Hemert Castle was destroyed during World War II and re-built in 2005.
The title of Heer (Lord) van Veen was inherited by Jacob Adriaan in 1875 from his grandfather. In 1890 the branch of his grandfather's brother, Colonel Jhr. Willem Gerrit van Kretschmar, Lord of the Manors of Wyk and Aslburg, died out, and these titles also passed to Jacob Adriaan.
They had been brought into the family through marriage in 1763 and were thus reunited in the person of Jacob Adriaan. After his death they were divided among his three son's. The villages of Veen, Wijk and Aalburg are situated on the river Maas in the Province of Noord Brabant opposite the Island and Castle Neder Hemert where the van Kretschmar's also had extensive landed property since 1763.
The children of Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz (1833-1879) and Jhr. Constant Leopold Charles van Kretschmar (1826-1874) were:

1. Jhr. Ir. Jacob Adriaan (Jacques) van Kretschmar van Veen. (R.N.L., C.O.N., Commandeur Legion d'Honneur, Commander of the Rising Sun of Japan). He was born on Buitenzorg in Ellecom on September 14, 1857. Known as Jacques, Lord of the Manors of Veen, Wyk, and Aalburg. Civil Engineer. One of the leading Railway pioneers of his generation. Builder of the railway system in South Africa as director of the Dutch South African Railway coy until the end of the Boer War. Director of the first electrified Railway coy in South Holland. Director-General of the State Railways. And after he had affected the amalgamation of the State Railways with all the private Railway Companies, Director-General of the United Netherlands Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen).
After his retirement Jacques took up the Directorate of the Deli Railways on Sumatra in an advisory capacity. Jacques married in The Hague on August 5, 1886 Clara Peggy van de Poll. She was born on September 9, 1864 in Utrecht and died in The Hague on January 1, 1956. She was the daughter of Hendrik Johan van de Poll and Elisabeth van de Wall Bake. Jacques died on August 17, 1931 on the country estate "Heidepark" a property brought into the family by his wife from her Grandfather van de Wall Bake's estate. They had 7 children.
2. Jkvr. Elisabeth Geertruida (Aunt Lise) van Kretschmar. Aunt "Lise" was born on Buitenzorg in Ellecom on November 27, 1858. Named after her Grandmother Elisabeth Bosch Reitz/Kuvel. When she turned blind she sought medical treatment in Germany. During these appointments she was accompanied by her step cousin aunt "Antonini" nee Wilkens. Aunt Lise died blind in the Bikt on March 19, 1913.
3. Jkvr. Christina Elisabeth Anna Gerhardina (Aunt "Christine") van Kretschmar. Aunt "Christine" was born on Buitenzorg in Ellecom on January 11, 1860 and died in Dubbeldam on the estate Sorghvliet on July 1, 1925. Aunt "Christine" was named after her grandmother van Kretschmar and aunt van Nagell. Aunt Christine married at Neder HemertCastle on May 31, 1892 Jhr. Paulus Jacob Johan Repelaer. He was born in Dordrecht on February 28, 1859 and died in The Hague on January 29, 1908. He was the son of Jhr. Mr. Paulus Repelaer, Lord of the Manor of Spykenisse and Emerentia Johanna Jacoba Pit. They had 2 children.
4. Jkvr. Anne Maurice Adrienne van Kretschmar. She was born on Buitenzorg in Ellecom on January 29, 1861, and died in Arnhem on March 24, 1920. Godchild and namesake and heir of the estate of her Uncle Baron Anne Jan Herman Maurits van Nagell (1820-1880), who was the son of Baron Charles Anne Daniel van Nagell, Lord of Neder Hemert Castle, and Countess Frederique Louise Bentinck.
Baron Anne Jan Herman Maurits Van Nagell, was married in 1851 to Jkvr. Elisabeth Anna Gerhardina Van Kretschmar, who after her husband's death in 1880 and as Lady of Neder HemertCastle brought up and cared for the three daughters of her deceased brother and sister in law (Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz).
Anne Maurice Adrienne Van Kretschmar, Aunt "Annie" married on NEDERHEMERT Castle on September 8, 1896, Baron Ernst Willem Frederik Hendrik van Wassenaer. He was born on den Briellaard Castle near Barneveld on May 24, 1863 and died in The Hague on January 10, 1954. He was the son of Baron Willem Frederick Hendrik van Wassenaer and Countess Justina Goverdina Johanna Adolphine van Rechteren.

NOTES:

The Estate "Buitenzorg" after being sold in 1876 eventually became a children's home and still exists as such.
This very detailed family composition was made possible, largely as a direct result of Jhr. Frederik Gerhard Lodewyk Oswald van Kretschmar (O.O.N.), (Grandson of Jhr. Ir. Jacob Adriaan van Kretschmar van Veen), born in Soerabaja (Indonesia) on September 2, 1919, former Director of the Iconographic Bureau in The Hague, and currently residing in England who:
Personally researched various Archives in both Holland, and Germany, and who documented and provided the very detailed genealogical and biographic information, of particularly the German and Dutch ancestors, contained in this family composition.
In addition he also searched for, and provided the many rare, and very difficult to obtain, portraits of the early ancestors, included in this family composition.

Wilkens - Bosch Reitz (1864)

GENERATION XI-D

Jeanne Théodore Bosch Reitz. 10th child and fourth daughter of Gijsbert Christiaan Bosch Reitz (1792-1866) and Gertrude Elisabeth Kuvel (1794-1866). She was born in Amsterdam on October 25, 1835 where she also died on February 3, 1911. She married in Amsterdam on December 1, 1864 Henri Unico Wilkens. He was born in The Hague on September 16, 1827 and died in Amsterdam in 1904. He was the son of Unico Wilkens, born in Parimaribo on March 15, 1797 who died in Voorst on May 21, 1805 and Adriana Wilhelmina Otteline Nering Bögel, born in Zutphen August 21, 1798 and died in Voorst on December 31, 1855, they had married in Parimaribo on July 30, 1820. Henri Unico was first married on June 3, 1858 to Jenny Adrienne toe Laer, (born on October 27, 1835 died on October 1, 1861 in Soden, daughter of Jean Adrien toe Laer and Gerardine Johanna August, this marriage produced two daughters,
The children of Jeanne Théodore Bosch Reitz (1835-1911) and Henri Unico Wilkens (1827-1904) were:

1. Gertrude Elisabeth Wilkens. Known as "Tante" (Aunt) Be. Aunt Be was born on October 6, 1865 in Amsterdam, at 3.15 am. She died unmarried on (estate) the "Nieuwenhof" in Voorst of tuberculosis on July 4, 1945. Buried at Westduis cemetery.
2. Unico Hendrik Wilkens. He was born on January 2, 1867 in Amsterdam, at 11 pm. He departed for the Dutch East Indies in 1893 and returned to Holland, where he died shortly after his arrival at the mental hospital in Meerenberg on December 4, 1896.
3. Agneta Gabriella Wilkens. She was born on April 25, 1868 in Amsterdam, at 8 pm, and died on (estate) the "Nieuwenhof" in Voorst on September 29, 1868.
4. Sophie Cecile Philippine Wilkens. Known as "Tante" (Aunt) Sophie. Aunt Sophie was born on May 11, 1869 in Amsterdam, at 11.45 am. She died unmarried in Deventer on October 12, 1951.
5. Gerardine Johanna Margaretha Catharina Wilkens. She was born on February 26, 1872 in Amsterdam, at 6.15 pm. She moved to Apeldoorn on November 10, 1911. She married c.1914 Herman van Ginkel. He was born in Zutphen on March 3, 1892. The family moved to South Africa on July 30, 1928. Based on currently available information it is likely that she died in South Africa, during the second World War, which would account for her death not having been announced in the papers in Holland.
Gerardine Johanna Margaretha Catharina would have died before 1951 when she no longer signs the announcement of the death of Sophie C.P.Wilkens, together with her sisters, as customarily was done. Based on available information Herman Van Ginkel lived in Pretoria in 1927, when he announces the death of his father Albert Johannes van Ginkel Senior, in Amsterdam, who died at the age of 88. The son of Gerardine Wilkens and Herman van Ginkel was:

1. Herman Gerard van Ginkel, born on December 4, 1914 in Bethal Transvaal (South Africa). On August 27, 1957 he announces in the Dutch papers, the death of his Aunt Helena Henrietta Wilkens, he being the senior nephew of the last of the 7 Wilkens brothers and sisters to die. He married G.Coetzee in Pretoria. It is not known if they had descendants.

6. Helena Henriette Wilkens. Known as "Tante" (Aunt Helene). Aunt Helene was Born on January 27, 1874 in Amsterdam, at 3.30 am and died unmarried on the (estate) "Nieuwenhof" in Voorst on August 27, 1957.
7. Aubin Octove Unico Wilkens. He was born in Amsterdam on November 8, 1876 and died Merano (Switzerland) on March 21, 1939. He married on April 9, 1901 in Amsterdam his first cousin, Gertrude Elisabeth Bosch Reitz. She was born on March 9, 1872 in Amsterdam and died on May 7, 1957 in The Hague, daughter of John Antoine Corneille Bosch Reitz (1831-1913) and Jkvr. Catherine Isabella Teding van Berkhout (1837-1881). They had two children born in the same year, to follow.

1. Jeanne Ernestine Wilkens, born January 30, 1902 in Sas van Gent and died in Medea, Pensylvania (USA) in 1996. She was married on September 21, 1922 by Proxy Hilversum/Lawang (Java, Indonesia) to Johannes (Job) F.Geveke.
He was the brother of Mrs Wattez-Geveke, Mrs de Byl Nachenius-Geveke, Mrs Stap-Geveke, Mr and Mrs Geveke-Boelen. He was born in Amsterdam on December 25, 1894 son of Hendrik Lodewyk Geveke and Anna Zoet Meuring. Jeanne Ernestine Wilkens, moved in 1958 to Switzerland (Geneva). They had at least two sons:

1. Hendrik Lodewyk Geveke. He was born on the February 13, 1926 in Bandoeng (Indonesia). He resides in Australia.
2. Johannes (Hans) Willem Geveke. He was born on the May 27, 1935 in Pleved. He married Akkie, and they have one son.

2. Unico Hendrik Aubin Wilkens, born in Bussum on December 27, 1902, and died in Russikon (near Zurich) on 10.11.1990. He married in Zürich (Switzerland) on November 14, 1939 Carla E.P.Nacke.

1. Aubin Unico Wilkens. He was born in Zürich on 15.4.1941. He married Joke van Herk. She was born on 22.3.1940 in Leiden. They reside in Nijmegen. They have three children. Helena Elisabeth (15.1.1971), Clara Petra (30.6.1973) and Unico Aubin (22.11.1975).
2 Jeanne Ernestine Wilkens. She was born in Zürich on 19.2.1943. She married Gerard Noordijk. He was born in Rotterdam on 17.4.1943.Their children: Paulina Remina (3.3.1970), who has two sons and Maarten.

NOTE:

After the death of Aunt Helena in 1957 "Nieuwenhof" the Wilken's family estate was sold and demolished and redeveloped as a home for the elderly.
The Wilkens family owned plantations in Surinam.

BOSCH REITZ GENERATION XII

Gertrude Elisabeth Sophie Bosch Reitz (1860-1946)
Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952)
Melicent Mary Bosch Reitz (1876-1967)
Wilhelmina Maria Bosch Reitz (1870-1950)
Hieronyma Maria Antonia Fortunata Bosch Reitz (1867-1951)

Farrar - Bosch Reitz (1891)

GENERATION XII-A

Gertrude Elisabeth Sophie (Lizzie) Bosch Reitz. 1st child and daughter of Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz (1825-1880) and Josephine Gibson Austin (1842-1917). Named after her paternal grandmother. Lizzie was born on January 20, 1860 in Parimaribo (Surinam) and died in Demerara (Guiana) on December 6, 1946. Lizzie married in Guiana, on June 9, 1891 her first cousin, Nicholas Farrar. He was born on October 1, 1866 in Guiana, (Guyana) and died in Toronto (Canada) on February 13, 1927. Nicholas was the youngest son of Thomas Farrar, Archdeacon in New Amsterdam (Berbice) who was born on December 22, 1830 and who died on August 21, 1893 who, on August 13, 1857 had married Melicent Ann Austin. Melicent Ann was born on May 5, 1840 and died on September 16, 1925 in Guiana, she was the sister of Lizzie’s mother. Nicholas in 1904, is recorded as being Audit Clerk with the office of Public Buildings in Georgetown. Thereafter he went to British Central Africa (later called Nyasaland) as Post-Master, where his wife and children joined him as the first white women in that part of Africa. Phyllis and her mother describe their long tortuous journeys up the Zambeze and Shire rivers and thence by caravan and native machilla (hammock) overland to Zomba, Government Headquarters. After Nyasaland, Nicholas became Post-Master General of British Guiana. For the further education of their children the family retired to Canada (Toronto). After the death of her husband, Lizzie returned to Guiana where she died.
The children of Gertrude Elisabeth Sophie Bosch Reitz (1860-1946) and Nicholas Farrar (1866-1927) were:

1. Josephine Irene Farrar. She was born in Guiana on February 25, 1892. She married on February 9, 1924 Arthur Robert Meade. For her further education Josephine Irene, aged 18, boarded with the Six family in Amsterdam for about one year. Irene was killed in a car accident in Barbados in ca. 1964. They lived on the plantation Comelia Ida in British Guiana. He was born in Guiana and died on April 23, 1953. They had no issue.
2. Wilhelmina Elisabeth Farrar. She was born on March 21, 1894 in Guiana where she also died on April 9, 1895.
3. Phyllis Blanche Farrar. She was born in Guiana on November 25, 1899 and died at Compton, Surrey (England) on April 22, 1989. After living in Nyasaland and England, Phyllis went to Montreal and trained as a nurse. She married in Toronto on August 15, 1925 Norman Rothwell, then moved to Purleigh, Essex where they farmed until 1946. Norman was born in Ireland, on January 4, 1897 and died at Newtownstewart in County Tyrone on June 6, 1958.
Norman after having being offered a position with the Canadian Bank of Commerce had moved (1912) to Toronto (Canada) where he joined (1914) the army and saw active service in France during WWI.

1. Desmond Bor Rothwell. He was born on March 8, 1927, married in Ireland on September 24, 1958 Elisabeth Doramie Whelan, she was born in Ireland on February 14, 1926 daughter of a clergyman in Ireland. Desmond studied Chemistry (Queens University, Belfast). Desmond joined I.C.I and went to the Far East becoming in 1956 Manager of the Bangkok office. He then moved to Canada where he worked for the international chemical Company Albrigh & Wilson. He returned to England in 1962 to become Director of a smaller company and then, in 1975 moved South to Compton near Guilford to start his own chemical trading Company-Chemox Ltd. which in 1995 still thrived. Their children:

1. Richard Farrar Rothwell. He was born on January 31, 1964 in Yorkshire. Obtained a Chemistry degree at St John’s College Cambridge before graduating as a Chartered Accountant. He is (1995), a Fund Manager at Postel Investment Management Ltd in the City of London.
2. Caroline Deborah Rothwell. She was born on May 26, 1967 in Yorkshire. Completed an Arts degree at Camberwell College and now has her own studio in Auckland, New Zealand. She married on April 22, 1995 at Compton in Surrey, Alan D’Arcy Erson.

2. Brian Rothwell. He was born on July 13, 1931. Chemical Engineer (Queens University, Belfast). He joined Alumina Company of Canada and later Dupont Ltd. He later became a teacher at Selwyn House School in Montreal. Brian married in Ireland, on June 1, 1956 Elizabeth Ellis, of Rash House, Omagh. She was born on October 24, 1927. In 1970 they moved to Guelph in Ontario where Brian deals in real estate.They have three children:

1. Susan Mary Rothwell. She was born on September 12, 1958 she married on April 4, 1987 Ching Yu Wang, who was born on March 23, 1960. They moved to Hong Kong in 1989.
2. Christopher Norman Rothwell. He was born on July 23, 1961 married on May 25, 1984 Joy Leschiutta, who was born on September 10, 1961. They live in Guelph.
3. Heather Anne Rothwell. She was born on June 30, 1964 and married on May 11, 1985 Kent Wadsworth, who was born on December 3, 1961. They live in Guelph.

Bosch Reitz - Aman (1902)

GENERATION XII-B

Philippe John (Philip) Bosch Reitz. 5th child and third son of Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz (1825-1880) and Josephine Gibson Austin (1842-1917). Named after his fathers brother, Jean Philippe (1823-1888). Philip was born on February 12, 1867 in Parimaribo (Surinam), where he also died on December 4, 1952 not long after breaking his hip. He was buried on the "Steenen Begraafplaats" (Parimaribo) beside his father. Philip was the only child, who on his mother becoming a widow in 1880, was not taken to British Guiana. Instead he was sent to Europe for his further education, first living with his father's unmarried sister Aunt Wilhelmine (Wilhelmina Jacobie Lucia Elisabeth) Bosch Reitz (1837-1925), in Clarens (Switzerland), where he received part of his education. At the age of c.16 years he was sent to Edinburgh to be educated as a Dr. in medicine.
However his real interest lay with agriculture and having nearly completed his medical studies (final year) aged 20 and in 1887, he returned first to British Guiana, where his mother had returned to, after the death of her husband in 1880. Here he received his formal training as a planter on the plantation "Rose Hall" on the Canje Creek. It was also here that he met the locally well known planter Van Genderen, who became a lifelong friend.
Philip, aged 21, returned to Surinam where on October 1, 1888 he is appointed as Director of the last remaining cocoa plantation of the Bosch Reitz-Kuvel estates (acquired after 1861), the Plantation Johanna Catharina, where he lived in the large plantation house. In 1898 he returned once more to Europe, for a two year stay. During this period he visited his aunt Wilhelmine in Clarens, his Wilkens nieces in Voorst and also Austin relatives in England. During this stay he also sought financial assistance for the further development of the plantation. However like so many other planter-colleagues before, and notwithstanding his considerable efforts: Crop diseases, and declining demand heralded the end of the plantation industry. During this period he also made contact with the well known botanicus Professor Harisson, personally known to him, seeking a cure for the destructive cocao disease.
In 1915, aged 48, Philip retired from the plantation and moved to Parimaribo (Capital of Surinam), where he entered Government service as a Supervisor until his retirement in 1925. He was an acknowledged local expert in agriculture, carrying out research on his "experimental" plantation Dijkveld, (which in 1842 belonged to the Roepel estate) purchased after he had left Johanna Catharina (1915). Philip was a long standing member of the Free Masons (50 years). During his retirement Philip lived in the Maagdenstraat (street) in Parimaribo.
He married in Parimaribo on May 22, 1902 Frederika Fransoise Aman. A marriage which was not well received by his relatives in Holland. She was born on October 24, 1877 in Parimaribo where she also died on October 1, 1970 and where she is buried in the Catholic Cemetary.
She was the second daughter of Frederik Aman and Wilhelmina Olmtak (1855-1928), both born in Surinam. After the death in 1952 of her husband , Frederika Francoise, departed to Holland where she went to live in Utrecht with her oldest daughter Leonie Francoise Hoekstra (nee Bosch Reitz, 1908-......). At an advanced age Frederika Francoise returned to Parimaribo where she died and was buried.
The children of Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952) and Frederika Francoise Aman (1877-1970) are:

1. Norman Bosch Reitz. Norman was born on June 30, 1905 in Surinam on the plantation JOHANNA CATHARINA, the last remaining plantation of the Bosch Reitz/Kuvel estates, owned by his father Philippe John and died in Utrecht on March 19, 1993. He married in Padang, Sumatra (Indonesia) on February 21, 1933 Maria Antoinetta Therese Boekwijt.
2.Alfred John (Uncle Fred) Bosch Reitz. Uncle Fred was born on February 12, 1907 in Parimaribo (Surinam) where he also died on June 8, 1991. He married in Dordrecht (Holland) on September 6, 1934 Carolina Maria Theodora (Lien) Hasselo. Lien was born on March 10, 1910 in Holland where she also died. After their divorce on March 17, 1966 Lien returned to Holland where she remarried Dr. Schouten. In 1927 Uncle Fred departed for Curacao, where he was employed by the "OGEM" (Overseas Gas and Electricity Company), in charge of the construction of new electricity facilities. For his further education he departed to Holland in 1930, where he became qualified as an Electrical Engineer (Ing). In 1934, he returned to Curacao, where he was appointed Assistant Director of the Gas and Electricity Company.
Uncle Fred departed from Rotterdam on the ss Baloeran on 23.12.1937, for Indonesia, where he worked for the "OGEM", first in Tandjong Karang, later in Batavia. In 1942, and before the Japanese invasion he returned to Curacao where he was appointed as Acting Director of the "OGEM". In 1947, he returned to Indonesia where he was appointed Director of the "OGEM", first in Batavia, later in Medang. In 1947 or 1950 he returned to Surinam, where he was appointed Director of the "OGEM". He retired in 1957. Together with his brother Norman, they established a company "BEM" (Bedryf Explotatie Maatschappy) producing crushed rock for use in concrete.
Uncle Fred also established the first Surinam plastic Company "ESPO" (Eerste Surinaamse Plastic Onderneming), manufacturing fibre glass boats. He returned for a short period to Holland (1970), but returned to Surinam where he remained for the rest of his life and where he died and is buried.
3. Leonie Francois (Aunt Leonie) Bosch Reitz. Aunt Leonie was born on October 10, 1908 in Parimaribo (Surinam) and married in Parimaribo on May 11, 1939 Rev David Adrianus Hoekstra.
4. Phyllis Esseline (Aunt Phyllis) Bosch Reitz. Aunt Phyllis was born on May 8, 1910 in Parimaribo (Surinam) and died in Leidschendam on 26.5.2004. She married in Parimaribo on December 2, 1936 Arthur Johan May.

NOTE:

Alfred John Bosch Reitz, in 1962, produced a limited family composition written in Dutch.The document is based on previous written accounts of the family history, with the early family descent based on the genealogy produced by Vorsterman van Oyen.
The above, when young, boarded with the Samson family in Parimaribo, where they also received part of their formal education.

Waterfield - Bosch Reitz (1904)

GENERATION XII-C

Melicent Mary (Millie) Bosch Reitz. 9th child and youngest daughter of Mr. Guillaume Jacques Abraham Bosch Reitz (1825-1880) and Josephine Gibson Austin (1842-1917). Millie was born on September 10, 1879 in Parimaribo and died in England in November 1968, where she was buried in the Church yard of Pevensey in East Sussex. Millie was named after her maternal Grandmother. She married in Georgetown, Demerara on January 2, 1904 Alfred Waterfield. Alfred was born in 1873 in India, and died on January 29, 1948 in England, and was buried in the Church yard of Pevensey in East Sussex. He was the son of Edward Waterfield and Matilda Gossip. Alfred was manager of a number of plantation estates in British Guiana: Le Ressouvenir, Success (1904) Demerara, Hampton Court and Walkenaam (Essequibo), Blairmont (Berbice). Alfred also managed plantations in Malaya. They moved to England in 1931.
The children of Melicent Mary Bosch Reitz (1879-1968) and Alfred Waterfield (1873-1948) are:

1. Elsie Doreen Waterfield. She was born on September 14, 1905 at Hampton Court Estate, Essequibo (British Guiana) and died in Wiltshire on August 19,1999. She married in New Amsterdam (Berbice, British Guiana) on June 1, 1929 in Geoffrey Haward Smellie (C.B.E, 1955). He was born on April 13, 1895 in Georgetown, (British Guiana), and died on December 4, 1979 in Sussex (England). Son of Thomas Traill Smellie (1867-1942) and Edith Roberta Garratt (1866-1943). Geoffrey Haward was educated in Georgetown and St Edmunds School, Canterbury (England). Saw active service during W.W.I in the Balkans and Mesopotamia (Salonika). Was managing Director of the firm Garnett & Co. in Georgetown, where he was also appointed to the Executive and Legislative Councils. Both returned to England. They have two sons:

1. David Haward (David) Smellie (now Smiley). David was born in Guiana on June 8, 1930. Educated at Malvern College and Cambridge University. Retired former computer lecturer in Sydney (Australia). David married in England in 1961 Joan Therese (Joan) Hogan. Joan was born in New South Wales (Australia) on September 15, 1935. Joan was a teacher and retired in 1997. The family currently lives in Sydney. Their children:

1. Catherine Mary (Kate) Smiley. Catherine was born in London on February 8, 1962. She married Alex HENSHAW, in Australia. They have two children: Rose and Sophia.
2. David John Haward (John) Smiley. David was born in London on December 28, 1964.
3. Madeleine Anne (Madeleine) Smiley. Madeleine was born in London on October 18, 1965. She is married.
4. Rebecca Claire Mary (Rebecca) Smiley. Rebecca was born in Sydney on October 21, 1970.

2. Timothy John (Tim) Smellie. Tim was born in British Guiana on December 12, 1933. Educated at Malvern College and Cambridge University. He works as a Chemist. He married on September 27, 1967 in Debrecen (Hungary) Katalin Takats. She was born in DEBRECEN on May 20, 1941. She was previously married to Petroczy, and had one son Zsolt Istvan, born on December 29, 1961 in Debrecen, who changed his name to Steven Zsolt Vellance, he studies Law. The family lives in Wiltshire (England). They have no issue.

2. Alfred Jack Waterfield. Jack was born on June 8, 1907 at Hampton Court Estate, Essequibo (British Guiana). Jack, attended Bradfield College. Jack was first an overseer in British Guiana, thereafter he departed to British North Borneo and in 1940 was gazetted to the 1st Battallion of the JAT Regiment in India. Jack was a Captain in the infantry.
Fighting the Japanese at the Chindwin river in Burma, Jack, on May 10, 1942 was reported missing believed killed. After the war the body of Jack was recovered and he was buried in the Military Tankkyan Cemetary in Burma. Jack was not married.
3. Dorothy Eileen (Doddles) Waterfield. Doddles was born on November 11, 1908 at Hampton Court Estate, Essequibo (British Guiana) and lived in a home for the elderly (Liphook) in Hampshire (England) where she died on June 27, 1998. Doddles married in Bombay on September 22, 1936 John Howard Bavin. He was born in Berkhamsted (England) in 1901 and died on June 13, 1982 in Horam (Sussex). Son of John Thomas Bavin (1869-1937) born in Stixwould and Grace Durance(1871-1939) born in Lincoln.
John Howard, was a Colonel in the army and later worked for the Indian Railways. He was married previously to Muriel Joyce Berryman in 1925 in Berkhamsted, who was born in 1901 at Handon and who died on October 1, 1935 at Hampstead. This marriage produced two children, Allen Cassels Bavin and Michael John Bavin, (no further details). Dorothy Eileen Waterfield and John Howard Bavin had one son.
The son of Dorothy Eileen Waterfield and John Howard Bavin is:

1. Anthony Julian (Anthony) Bavin. Anthony was born on May 5, 1938 in Berkhamsted (England). Anthony married in 1967 at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, Jacqueline Anne Curzon Willson, she was born in 1946 and died in 1992. They divorced in 1987.
Jacqueline Anne Curzon Willson, was the daughter of Anne Mildred Curzon (eldest daughter of Richard Nathaniel Curzon, Viscount Scarsdale of Kedleston and Mildred Carson and Walter James Willson.
Anthony Julian married secondly in 1991 Caroline Walters, (née Stephens) born on April 24, 1943. She was previously married and divorced. The children from Anthony Julian Bavin and his first marriage are:

1. Francesca Louise Curzon Bavin. She was born on March 14, 1970 (England).
2. Joanna Alexandra Curzon Bavin. She was born on June 20, 1972 (England) and died on October 1, 1987.
3. Nicholas Giles Curzon Bavin. He was born on October 3, 1974 (England).
4. Robert Dominic Curzon Bavin. He was born on November 2, 1976.

NOTES:

Richard Nathaniel Curzon was the nephew of George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925), Fifth Baron, First Earl and First Marquesss Curzon of Kedleston, who was Viceroy and Governor General of India 1898-1904 and again 1904-1905.

Verster - Bosch Reitz (1902)

GENERATION XII-D

Wilhelmina Maria (Minca) Bosch Reitz (R.O.N). Minca was born on October 8, 1870 in Amsterdam as the natural daughter of Mr. Charles Bosch Reitz (1829-1879) by Sara Maria de Balbiaan (1839-1920). Her father legitimatized her as his daughter in his will dated den Helder May 29, 1878. As her guardian he appointed his elder brother Dirk Antoni Bosch Reitz (1820-1899) who subsequently married her mother in Apeldoorn on October 14, 1880 one year after her father's death.
Minca was the author of a number of novels in which her children featured. Her greatest fame was as a sculptress with a number of exhibitions to her name. Minca was the receiver of many awards culminating in the Grand Prix of the Paris World Exhibition of 1900, after medals received in Utrecht, Vienna, Antwerp, Berlin and Amsterdam. Received the Order of Leopold of Belgium in Brussels, 1902. Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau. Expert linguist (7 languages).
At an advanced age Minca was learning Russian. Minca died on January 27, 1950 in Heemstede and was buried in Amsterdam (Zorgvliet cemetary). Minca married in Amsterdam on April 8, 1902 Cornelis Willem Hendrik (Kees) Verster.
Kees was born on May 25, 1862 in Leiden, and died on December 22, 1920 in Driebergen (where they lived). He was buried in Amsterdam (Zorgvliet cemetary). Kees was the son of Florentius Abraham Verster, who was born in Boxtel (1826-1923), Lord of the Manor of Wulvenhorst, and Everdina Margaretha Kaathoven, born in Leiden (1832-1911), who was Regentes (Trustee) of the Orphanage in Leiden. Kees was Heraldic engraver and designer and also Art Critic. He wrote a number of articles about Minca. He was the brother of the well known Dutch painter Floris Verster.
The children of Wilhelmina Maria Bosch Reitz (1870-1950) and Cornelis Willem Hendrik (Kees) Verster (1862-1920) were:

1. Maria Everdine (Bout) Verster. She was born on June 25, 1903 in Hilversum and died on March 22, 1984 in Zeist. She married in Heemstede on October 5, 1931 Sjoerd Rienk Schaafsma. He was born on April 19, 1904 in Leeuwarden and died on March 13, 1963 in Zeist. He was an accountant. Son of Alle Hubert Schaafsma, born in Dokkum December 16, 1870 and died in Beverwyk on May 7, 1934 and Ida Schaafsma (his cousin), born in Dokkum on November 3, 1870 and died on November 27, 1947 in Beverwijk (Zeist). The children of Maria Everdine Verster and Sjoerd Rienk Schaafsma are:

1. Henriette Theodora Schaafsma. She was born in de Bilt on November 22, 1932 and married in Zeist on June 4, 1956 Harmanus Steenhuizen. He was born in Winterswyk on January 19, 1920. She was a nurse. He is Manager at the Nyverdal ten Cate factory in Almelo. They have three daughters.
2. Ida Schaafsma. She was born in de Bilt on August 12, 1934 and married in Zeist on July 15, 1961 Hugo Herman Blankenbyl. He was born in Zeist on October 17, 1936. She is a translator (English), he is a consultant of a factory (Holland). They have two sons and one daughter.
3. Alle Hubert Schaafsma. He was born in Zeist, on July 2, 1936 and married in Bellingwolde on December 28, 1964 Heike Frouke Stel. She was born in Bellingwolde, on May 24, 1937. He was a researcher with the Forest Research Institute of the State Forest (Holland). Retired in 1994.They have one son and one daughter.

1. Sjoerd Rienk. He was born in Holland on April 20, 1967.
2. Annet Marian. She was born in Holland on October 25, 1970.

4. Cornelis Willem Schaafsma. He was born in Zeist on January 19, 1938, and married in Turramurra (N.S.W. Australia), Christine Marcia Mann. She was born in Sydney on December 13, 1946. He is a Chartered Engineer (Ing). She is a private secretary. They currently live in Sydney. They have two sons.

1. Timothy. He was born in Sydney on October 6, 1973.
2. Andrew. He was born in Sydney on March 30, 1975.

2. Henrietta Anna Elisabeth Verster. She was born on August 27, 1906 in Hilversum, and died on June 7, 1989 in Laren. She married in Heemstede on September 22, 1931 Drs. Hendrik Jan de Kort. He was born on May 6, 1900 in Utrecht and died on November 20, 1970 in Hilversum. Lecturer in Chemistry at the Nieuwe Lyceum in Hilversum. They had no issue.
3. Sabina Verster. Sabina was born on January 8, 1909 in Hilversum and died on August 28, 1984 in Heemstede, where she is also buried. She married in Heemstede on May 1, 1934 Frederik Willem (Frits) Kotte. Frits was born on March 25, 1906 in Amsterdam and died in Leiden on June 6, 1995, and was buried in Heemstede. Son of Phillip Kotte, born on September 8, 1877 in Amsterdam, died on July 19, 1951 in Beverwyk, who was married on May 25, 1905 to Heijltje Ophoven, born on August 18, 1932 in Amsterdam, and died on March 10, 1975. Frits was Company Secretary and member on the Board of Directors of the Pharmaceutical Consortium, Brocades-Stheeman in Amsterdam. Their children:

1. Minca Heyli Kotte. She was born in Heemstede on July 26, 1937 and married on May 20, 1961 Wouter de Brijne. He was born in Leiderdorp on August 12, 1933. He is a medical Dr. in Leiden.
2. Philip Anthony Florentius Kotte. He was born in Heemstede on April 8, 1946 and married on June 23, 1970 Charlotte Wouters. She was born on June 2, 1943 in Bilthoven. He is a Mechanical Engineer.

NOTE:

Frits Kotte on beig contacted by the author, provided many additional details on Minca Bosch Reitz and her work as an artist and author, previously not known.

Six - Bosch Reitz (1890)

GENERATION XII-E

Hieronyma Maria Antonia Fortunata Bosch Reitz (O.O.N.) Second child and oldest daughter of John Antoine Corneille Bosch Reitz ( 1831-1913) and Jkvr. Catherine Isabella Teding van Berkhout (1837-1881). She was born on February 20, 1867 in Amsterdam and died on July 7, 1951 at Huize Jagtlust ('s Graveland). Patron of the Arts in Amsterdam. Instrumental in establishing the Six foundation. She married in Amsterdam on March 20, 1890 Jhr. Professor Dr. Jan Six (C.O.N., R.N.L.). He was born on February 2, 1857 in Amsterdam where he also died on December 8, 1926. Professor at the Ryks-Academy for fine Arts and at the University of the City of Amsterdam in Aesthetics and the history of Arts.
He was the son of Jhr Dr. Jan Pieter Six, who was born in Amsterdam on November 6, 1824 and who died in Hilversum (home Jagtlust) on July 17, 1899, Lord of the Manors of Hillegom and Wimmenum married on April 18, 1856 with Jkvr. Catharina Teding van Berkhout, born in Haarlem on October 30, 1834 and died in Amsterdam on June 18, 1887. They lived in Amsterdam in the magnificent Six house located on the Keizersgracht 511, and in summer time in the early 18th century house Jagtlust one of the group of ancient "Buitenplaatsen" (Country Houses) built by the Amsterdam merchant princes, to which they dispatched their families during summer to escape the stench of the Amsterdam canals.
The famous Six collection (Six foundation) of portraits (including the painting by Rembrandt of Jan Six) and furniture was moved by their son to another "Amsterdam Grachtenhuis" (canal house) namely number 218 on the Amstel. The collection May be viewed by making prior arrangements with the bureau of tourism (V.V.V.) in Amsterdam.
The children of Hieronyma Maria Antonia Fortunata Bosch Reitz (1867-1951) and Jhr. Prof. Dr. Jan Six (1857-1926) are:

1. Jhr. Jan Six (O.O.N). Jan was born on January 6, 1891 in Amsterdam and died on May 31, 1961 in Roelofarendsveen. Lord of the Manor of Hillegom. Member of the board of management Amstel Brewery. Jan died in Roelofarendsveen. Jan married in Amsterdam on August 1, 1916 Diderika van der Crab. She was born on October 15, 1892 in Loenen and died on May 31, 1961 in Leiden. She was daughter of Johannes Diederik van der Crab and Adriana Margaretha Tyssen. ( Both died in a tragic car accident). They had issue.
2. Jhr. Ir. Gijsbert Christiaan Six (O.O.N). Gysbert Christiaan was born on May 8, 1892 in Amsterdam and died on April 29, 1975 in Naarden. Lord of the Manor of Wimmenum.
Gijsbert Christiaan was an Architect. He married first in Dubbeldam on April 27, 1922 Jkvr. Anne Maurice Adrienne Repelaer. She was born on January 14, 1894 in Dubbeldam died on March 1, 1972 in Naarden. She was daughter of Jhr. Paulus Jacob Johan Repelaer (1859-1908) and Jkvr. Christina Elisabeth Gerardina Anna Van Kretschmar (1860-1925), his cousin, who was the daughter of Jhr. Constant Leopold Charles van Kretschmar (1826-1874) and Aletta Elisabeth Antoinette Bosch Reitz (1833-1879). Gijsbert Christiaan married for the second time on September 12, 1974 Maria Schoen. She was born on December 1, 1909 in Grootebroek, daughter of Cornelie Schoen and Grietje Ens. They had issue.
3. Jhr. Ir. Willem Six. Willem was born on August 31, 1893 in Hilversum, 's-Graveland (estate Jagtlust) and died on June 13, 1971 in Utrecht. Chief Electrical Engineer of Philips Tele-Communications. Willem married in Amsterdam on March 4, 1920, Johanna Arnoldina de Vos. She was born on July 10, 1895 in Amsterdam, daughter of Pieter de Vos and Arnoldina Johanna Duker. They had issue.
4. Jhr. Pieter Jacob (Piet) Six (R.M.W.O., R.O.N. ere Ridder J.O. Lid Kapittel M.W.O). Piet was born on April 5, 1895 in Amsterdam and died unmarried on April 27, 1986 at 's-Graveland (estate Jagtlust). He was Secretary of the Dutch-American Chamber of Commerce. Secretary of the Italian-Dutch Chamber of Commerce. Reserve Colonel (Cavalry). Active member of the Dutch underground during W.W. II. Chief negotiator preventing the further flooding of parts of Holland planned by the withdrawing German forces.
5. Jkvr. Catharina Isabella (Toti) Six. Toti was born on March 9, 1897 in Amsterdam and died unmarried on November 2, 1986 in s'Graveland (estate Jagtlust).
6. Jkvr. Hieronyma Maria Antonia Fortunata (Nine) Six. Nine was born on March 29, 1905 in Amsterdam and died in 's-Graveland (estate Jagtlust) on January 1992. Nine did not marry.

NOTE:

Diderika van der Crab's, sister was, Joanna van der Crab, who died in Hilversum on April 30, 1929. She was married on October 26, 1915 to Pierre Jean Joseph Michel Cuypers (1891-1982) Architect. He was the grandson of Dr. Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers (1827-1921) and Antoinette Catharina Thérese Alberdingk Thijm (1829-1898). the great grandparents of Maria Antoinette Therese Bosch Reitz (née Boekwijt) 1912-...... The country house "Jagtlust” was sold in 1992".

BOSCH REITZ GENERATION XIII

Norman Bosch Reitz (1905 - 1993)
Leonie Francoise Bosch Reitz (1908-.....)
Phyllis Esseline Bosch Reitz (1910-.....)

Bosch Reitz - Boekwijt (1933)

GENERATION XIII-A

Norman Bosch Reitz. Oldest son of Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952) and Frederika Francois Aman (1877-1970). Norman was born on June 30, 1905, in Surinam on the plantation Johanna Catharina, the last remaining plantation of the Bosch Reitz/Kuvel estates, owned by his father Philip John, and died on March 19, 1993 in Utrecht. Norman worked on plantation Ma Retraite from September 1927 to October 1928 when he departed to Holland where he qualified as Mechanical Engineer on March 18, 1929 in The Hague. He then departed (1932) to the Dutch East Indies where he worked as a planter on a number of plantations including: Ophir (near Padang-Sumatra), Dempo (Sumatra), Silosanen (Java) and Tandjong Karang (South Sumatra).
Here at the commencement of World War II, he was severely burnt while carrying out Government instructions, to destroy plantation equipment before capture by the invading Japanese forces. Some of his planter colleagues (including his close friend Smissaery) were excecuted for similar acts as they were considered saboteurs by the Japanese, but Norman received the sympathy of a young Japanese Doctor opposed to the war.
From 16 February 1942 to 22 February 1942 he was cared for at Kota Agoeng by the 'Controleur de Boer' after which he was placed in the local hospital of Kota Agoeng where he remained until 25 June 1942. From then onwards he was placed in solitary confinement when interned at Tandjong Karang (Sumatra) where he arrived on 25 June 1942 (Camp commander, Kamphuis), from here he was moved (date unknown) to Muntok (Sumatra), and later to Belalau (Camp commander Van Asbeck), near Loeboek Linggau (Sumatra), where he remained until the end of the war August 15, 1945.
Norman survived this ordeal because of the assistance of a young Indonesian who supplied him with water and food. His survival, he contributes to these acts of humanity. After the War, he remained for a few more weeks at Belalau, from where he was transported to Palembang (Sumatra), where he remained for a further few weeks. On December 3, 1945 he was flown to Java. He departed on May 4, 1946 from Java on the steamship Boissevain to Holland where he arrived on May 31, 1946.
From Holland Norman was sent to England, (Waterperry, Pevensey Bay, Sussex) where he received plastic surgery. In England he also made contact with his father's sister Melicent Bosch Reitz. Late 1946 he returned to Bussum in Holland where he was reunited with his family. Norman departed for Surinam in March 1947, followed by his family who departed on the liner Aegis on June 21, 1947 and who arrived in Surinam, on July 9, 1947.
They first went to live at No 4 Maagdenstraat, then moved to No 51 Maagdenstraat, the home of his parents, thereafter they built their home at 236 Anton Dragtenweg, at Gyersflijt. A former plantation subdivided in housing lots. Together with his brother Alfred John (1907-1991) they established a flourishing business "BEM" (Bedryf Explotatie Maatschappy) producing crushed rock for use in concrete. Norman married in 1933 in Padang (Dutch East Indies):
Maria Antoinette Therese (Mies) Boekwijt. Mies was born on December 19, 1912 in Berlin and educated in Switzerland. Mies died in Bilthoven on 30.8.2007 and is buried in the burial vault of her great grandfather Dr Pierre Cuypers in Roermond. Named after her mother and maternal grandmother. First child and only daughter of Johan Louis Boekwijt, born in Holland on September 15, 1888 who died in The Hague on May 10, 1940 and Maria Therese Modeste Taen, born in Berlin on February 14, 1894 who died in Eindhoven on July 19, 1972.
Mies is the great-granddaughter of Dr. Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers (Architect) 1827-1921, married to Antoinette Alberdingk Thijm (1829-1898). The Cuypers family lived at No 17 Vondelstraat, Amsterdam.
The couple had met on "Nieuwenhof" (Voorst, Holland) the country estate of the Wilkens family who were cousins of the Bosch Reitz family. Mies, who had been employed as stenographer by Dr. Baljet's chemical works in 1930 in Holland and by the “Algemene Kunstzyde Unie” in Arnhem from June 1930 to Jan 1933, departed for the Dutch East Indies on the steamship Kota Agoeng and arrived in Emmahaven (Dutch East Indies) on 19 February 1933, with the marriage taking place on 21 February 1933 in Padang. In 1935 the couple made a world sojourn visiting Japan, USA, Surinam and Holland for vacation where in Velp, their oldest son Michel John was born. Following the invasion by the Japanese of Java on March 8, 1942, Mies was interned with their children in: Tjandoer, near Bandoeng, from 19 December 1942 until the end of December 1942. Bloemenkamp, near Bandoeng, from December 1942 until October 1943. Tjihapitkamp, near Bandoeng, from October 1943 until December 1944. Adek, in Batavia, from December 1944 untill February 1945, and in Tjideng, (Sonei, the Japanese commander of this camp, for atrocities committed was sentenced to death in 1946) in Batavia from February 1945 until the end of the war August 15, 1945.
After the War, Mies, departed from Batavia on May 4, 1946 to arrive in Holland on May 31, 1946. Here she stayed first at Huizen (home) Lest Best in Twello, and later with Sophie Keidel where she was joined by Norman after his medical treatment in England. Not long after they moved to Bussum, (16 Bisonstraat) where they stayed with the Hoekstra family. On 21 June 1947 they departed on the steamship Ageuis to Surinam where they arrived on 9 July 1947. For the further education of their 4 children, first Frans, their second oldest son was sent to Holland on July 27, 1953 followed by their oldest son Michel, who departed for Holland on July 17, 1955. For the further education of their two other remaining sons (Tony and Roel), and concerned about the future in Surinam, after the declaration of independence, they returned to Holland on the steamship Cottica on August 8, 1956.
They first lived in Utrecht on the GeerteKerkhof, opposite, the Geertekerk, where Norman's forefather Prof. Dr. Johann Friedrich Reitz (1695-1778) was buried. In 1978 they moved to de Bilt (Blauwkapelseweg). Norman, suffered a serious stroke in 1987 which left him paralysed. He died in Utrecht on March 19, 1993 where he was cremated.
The children of Norman Bosch Reitz (1905-1993) and Maria Antoinette Therese Boekwijt (1912-2007) are:

1. Michel John (Michel) Bosch Reitz (R.O.N). Michel was born on April 13, 1936 in Velp. Michel married in Utrecht on February 11, 1966 Odilia Schuurmans.
2. Philippe Luc Francois (Frans) Bosch Reitz. Frans was born on June 13, 1937 in Djember, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
Baptised on January 21, 1940. Named after his paternal grandfather and grandmother. Frans together with his mother and other brothers was interned during World War II. After the War, together with his other brothers taken to Holland by his mother on May 30, 1946. In 1947 the whole family departed to Surinam, where Frans received part of his formal education.
For his further education, Frans was sent to Holland on July 27, 1953 where he boarded with his aunt "Titi" Romp-Hasselo in Dordrecht. Frans also boarded in Utrecht, where he qualified in Architecture (Ing). Frans worked for a number of renowed leading Dutch Architectural practises. (Onno Greiner, Prof. Hertzberger). He also worked for the office of De Jong, Taen and Nix, an architectural practise of which his mother's uncle, Theodorus Josephus (Théo) Taen (1889-1970), grandson of Dr.P.J.H.Cuypers (Architect), was a co-owner. Frans currently lives in de Bilt.
3. Norman Anton (Tony) Bosch Reitz. Tony was born on September 30, 1942 in Sindanglaja, Java, Indonesia. Tony married in Melbourne (Australia), on April 22, 1967 Leonie Joy McMath.
4. Roel Bosch Reitz. Roel was born on November 13, 1954 in Parimaribo. (Surinam). In 1956 Roel, together with his brother Tony, was taken by his parents to Holland, where he completed his secondary education in Architecture. Roel currently resides in The Hague, where he works, on a architectural practise. Roel married in the Hague on 7.5.2003, Hellen Esseveld. They divorced in 2007.

Hoekstra - Bosch Reitz (1939)

GENERATION XIII-B

Leonie Francoise (Leonie) Bosch Reitz. Third child and daughter of Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952) and Frederika Francoise Aman (1877-1970). Named after her mother. Leonie was born on October 10, 1908. in Parimaribo (Suriname) and died in Utrecht on 14.12.2005. Leonie married in Parimaribo on May 11, 1939, Dominee (=Rev) David Adrianus (David) Hoekstra. David was married before in Groningen on February 26, 1917 to Debora Mathilda Horn (1894-1937). David was born on January 8, 1892 in Hoogerzand, and died of a stroke on January 9, 1949 in Oostwoud and was buried in Utrecht. David was Pastor in Oldehove, Wildervank, Uitwierde and Zierikzee. Pastor in Surinam in 1933. They returned to Holland in 1946 where he was appointed as Pastor in Oostwoud and Midwoud. Secretary of the "Society of Liberal Members of The Netherlands Reformed Church" and of the "Dutch Protestant Union".
The children of Leonie Bosch Reitz (1908-2005) and Rev. David Adrianus Hoekstra (1892-1949) are:

1.Phyllis Hoekstra. Named after her mothers sister. Phyllis was born on May 24, 1941 in Parimaribo (Surinam). Educated in Holland. She departed to America in 1962 where she married on August 22, 1962 Anthony Meima. The marriage was dissolved in 1996. He was born on January 8, 1943, in America. They currently reside in California (USA). The children of Phyllis Hoekstra and Anthony Meima are:

1. Leonie Meima. Leonie was born in California on May 7, 1964.
Twins
2. Rolf Meima. Rolf was born in Utrecht on September 6, 1965.
3. Derek Meima. Derek was born in Utrecht on September 6, 1965. Derek married in September 1995.
4. Horst Meima. Horst was born in California on December 13, 1967. Horst married in September 1995.

2.Maud Hoekstra . Maud was born on September 22, 1942 in Parimaribo (Surinam). Educated in Holland. She married in Amsterdam on December 22, 1970 Tibor Snelders. He was born in Amsterdam on December 21, 1942.
Tibor is the son of Daniel Johannes Snelders (1922-1988) and Hendrika Antonia SIKKERS (1925-1985), she was born and died in Amsterdam.
Maud and Tibor departed to New Zealand in September 1980 where they currently reside. Maud Hoekstra and Tibor Snelders have one son:

1. Bjorn Snelders. Bjorn was born in Amsterdam on December 19, 1972. Bjorn attended University obtaining a Bachelor in Art.

3.Fred Hoekstra (Ing). Fred was born on February 14, 1944 in Parimaribo (Surinam). Educated in Holland. Qualified as a Mechanical Engineer. Fred married in Utrecht on May 14, 1968 Anje Marianne (Anje) Leppers. Anje was born on June 24, 1946 in IJsselstein. For a short period they lived in Surinam. They returned to Holland and currently reside in Werkhoven (near Utrecht). Fred Hoekstra and Anje Leppers have two sons:

1. David Hoekstra. David was born in Utrecht on July 30, 1971.
2. Harold Hoekstra. Harold was born in Utrecht on February 5, 1974.

The children of Rev. David Adrianus Hoekstra (1892-1949) and his first wife Debora Mathilde Horn (1894-1937) are:
1. Cornelis Danile (Kees) Hoekstra. Kees was born in Wildervank on February 22, 1922. Kees married in Utrecht on July 26, 1945 Eline Dresden, who was born on January 4, 1923 in The Hague. The family moved to the U.S.A in 1958. Kees divorced and married Jacqueline Mac Goodwin, she was born on September 9, 1929 in Minville (U.S.A). Kees divorced Jacqueline, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon (U.S.A). The children of Kees and his first marriage are:

1. Daniel Adrianus Hoekstra. He was born in Utrecht on April 28, 1942.
2. Debora Mia Hoekstra. She was born on March 22, 1946 in Schyndel.
3. Juliana Mathilda Hoekstra. She was born on March 22, 1948 in Schyndel.
4. Cornelis Daniel Hoekstra. He was born on December 7, 1948 in Schyndel.
5. Eline Marijke Hoekstra. She was born on June 18, 1953 in Eindhoven.

2. Rev. Johan Fedor (John) Hoekstra. John was born on April 27, 1925 in Uitwierde (Delfzijl) and married in Zeist on July 3, 1959 Anna Janna (Anneke) Poldermans. She was born in Zierikzee on March 13, 1925.
John studied theology in the U.S.A. The Netherlands and Canada. Served churches in Canada, Surinam, The Netherlands and Bermuda. John is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada. The family currently resides in British Columbia, Canada. They have two children:

1. Ronald Wayen Hoekstra (adopted). Ronald was born on October 11, 1958 in Ohsweken, Ontario Canada.
2. Deborah Maria Hoekstra. She was born on June 9, 1960 in Palmerston, Ontario, Canada

3. Ir. Willem Maarten (Kini) Hoekstra. Kini was born in Uitwierda (Delfzijl) on December 27, 1926 and married in Breda on August 8, 1953 Magdalena Johanna Van der Gijp. She was born in The Hague on February 15, 1926. Kini graduated in Delft (Holland) as an electrical engineer. Worked at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Hydro Company in Canada. For a number of years he was Director of the Gas and Fuel company in Curacao. Kini divorced and married in Marigot (French St Martin) on September 7, 1973 Celestine Victorina Pestana, she was born in Curacoa on June 10, 1939. Kini resides in Curacoa. The children of Kini and his first wife are:

1. Philip John Hoekstra. He was born on March 5, 1957 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
2. Wilfred James Hoekstra. He was born on June 15, 1958 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
3. Jeanette Francoise Hoekstra. She was born on March 19, 1960 in Parimaribo (Surinam).

4. David Adrianus (David) Hoekstra. David was born in Zierikzee on June 4, 1929. He married in Surinam Ursula Carolina Ho a Fat, she was born on December 4, 1930 in Surinam. David qualified in Holland as a skipper in the merchant navy, and was the manager of a shipping company in California (U.S.A), where the family has resided since 1960. Their children:

1. Peggy Ann Hoekstra. She was born in Surinam on May 8, 1954.
2. David John Hoekstra. He was born in in Surinam on July 23, 1955.
3. Fred Arnold Hoekstra. He was born in Surinam on July16, 1958 and died in the USA in September 2009. He was married and had three children. He divorced and married for a second time in April 2009.

May - Bosch Reitz (1936)

GENERATION XIII-C

Phyllis Esseline (Phyllis) Bosch Reitz. Youngest daughter of Philippe John Bosch Reitz (1867-1952) and Frederika Francoise Aman (1877-1970). Phyllis was born on May 8, 1910 in Parimaribo (No 18 Maagdenstraat) and died in Leidschendam on 26.5.2004. Her birth was notified by Leonara Juliana Jong Baw and her brother Richard Julius Louis Jong Baw and James George A-Tjak. Phyllis qualified as a primary school teacher. Phyllis married in Parimaribo on December 2, 1936 Johan Arthur (Arthur) May (O.O.N). Arthur was born on July 2, 1903 in Parimaribo, and died of a stroke on February 8, 1979 in Leidschendam (near The Hague). He was the son of Pieter Albertus Johannes May, born on September 17, 1864 and died in Parimaribo on June 2, 1915 Inspector for Taxation in Surinam and Johanna Henriette Weerselo, born on June 22, 1870 and died in Surinam on June 8, 1935. Arthur was appointed Chairman of the "Committee of Self Government", the first independent form of Government in Surinam. In 1948/1949, they departed for Holland (Wassenaar), where he was appointed as Head of the Western District of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The Hague). After his retirement in 1968 he returned to Surinam, where he was appointed as Prime Minister. In 1972, both returned to Holland. Phyllis currently (1990) lives in Leidschendam.
The children of Phyllis Esseline Bosch Reitz (1910-2004) and Johan Arthur May (1903-1979) are:

1.Kitty May (R.O.N). Kitty was born on February 11, 1938 in Parimaribo (Surinam). She died in Leidenschendam in 4.3.2004. She came to Holland with her parents in 1948/1949. Attended the Rynlands Lyceum in Wassenaar. Skilled linquist in Greek and Latin. Received a Degree as English Interpreter. Kitty worked first for the American Embassy, afterwards she joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kitty was stationed in a number of Countries: Jamaica, Ecuador, Moscow, Athens, Africa, Mozambique and Washington. Kitty in 1993, was Vice-Consul in Bombay. Kitty retired in 1997. Kitty remained single.
2.Hugo May. Hugo was born on September 28, 1939 in Parimaribo (Surinam), where he died on May 20, 1981 and where he was buried. He came to Holland with his parents in 1948/1949. Attended the Rynlands Lyceum in Wassenaar. Hugo was very talented in car mechanics and was one of the first Dutch amateurs to build a sport racing car (1960). He worked for the Opel car company in Germany. Aged 20, Hugo returned to Surinam, where he established a trading company, dealing in cars, coffee, tea, etc. For a short period he returned to Holland. Hugo married in 1963 in Surinam, Mildred Nemelc, she was born in Surinam. They divorced in 1970, without issue.
3.John May. John was born on December 6, 1941 in Parimaribo (Surinam). He came to Holland with his parents in 1948/1949. Attended the Rynlands Lyceum in Wassenaar. For his further education John was sent to England, where he attended a business school, and also Paris. John worked for a Dutch International Company, first in Athens (1967), later in Spain (1968). In 1975 he returned to Holland, where he currently works as an export manager for an International Company involved in paints.
John married in The Hague on August 13, 1966 Thea Gerda De Man. Thea was born on May 15, 1943 in Voorburg. She is the daughter of Theodoor Frederika Maria De Man, born in Amsterdam on August 27, 1910 died in Wassenaar on August 13, 1985 and Neeltje Elisabeth Petronella Kappeten, born in The Hague on October 13, 1915. Thea works in a Patent office. Active member of the local hockey and golf club. They currently reside in The Hague. The children of John May and Thea Gerda de Man are:

1. David Arthur Frederik May. He was born in Barcelona, on August 16, 1970. He was named after both his grandfathers.
2. Miriam Elisabeth Phyllis May. She was born in Barcelona on December 10, 1972. She was named after her grandmothers. She married in 2007.

BOSCH REITZ GENERATION XIV

Michel John Bosch Reitz (1936-.....)
Norman Anton Bosch Reitz (1942-......)

Bosch Reitz - Schuurmans (1966)

GENERATION XIV-A

Michel John (Michel) Bosch Reitz (R.O.N). Oldest son of Norman Bosch Reitz (1905-1993) and Maria Antoinette Therese Boekwijt (1912-......). Michel was born on April 13, 1936 in Velp (Holland), during his parents sojourn there from Indonesia. He was taken back to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), where during W.W.II, together with his mother, and other brothers, he was interned in a number of prison camps. On May 30, 1946 and together with his other brothers (Frans and Tony) he was taken to Holland by his mother, first to Twello, later to Bussum. In July 1947 the whole family departed on the liner Aegis for Surinam, where he received part of his formal education.
For his further education Michel was sent to Holland on July 17, 1955 where he boarded in Dordrecht, with his Aunt "Titi" Romp-Hasselo. She was the sister of the wife of his father's brother. In Rotterdam he qualified as a Mechanical Engineer (Ing). Reserve 1st Lieutenant artillery. Active member in the Dutch world of basketball. For ten years Michel was International Wheelchair basketball referee (1974), and a referee for the National Basketball League. He served for a number of years as Chairman of the Federation of Utrecht Basketball Clubs. He was Chairman of the Utrecht basketball club Midland. Appointed as a basketball umpire judge. Member of the committee of basketball umpires and committee of education (1960). In April 2005, and for services rendered to basketball, he was awarded and received the Knight Order of Orange Nassau (R.O.N). He married in Utrecht on February 11, 1966:
Odilia Schuurmans. Odilia was born on January 2, 1947 in Utrecht. private secretary at Utrecht University, retired in 2007. Daughter of Dirk Schuurmans (1910-1989) and Antonia van Duyn (1912-1974).
Michel John Bosch Reitz (1936-......) and Odilia Schuurmans (1947-......) have one daughter:

1. Quirine Bosch Reitz. Quirine was born in Utrecht on December 7, 1966. Quirine works as a private secretary. She has a son (Noor) with her partner Ashim.

Bosch Reitz - McMath (1967)

GENERATION XIV-B

Norman Anton (Tony) Bosch Reitz. Third son of Norman Bosch Reitz (1905-1993), and Maria Antoinette Therese Boekwijt (1912-......). Tony was born on September 30, 1942 in Sindanglaja, Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), at 11 p.m and was baptized in the Reformed Church in Parimaribo (Surinam) on 9.11.1947. Named after his father. After the War, on May 30, 1946 together with his brothers (Michel and Frans) he was taken to Holland by his mother, first to Twello later to Bussum. In July 1947 the whole family departed to Surinam, where he received part of his formal education. Together with their parents, Tony and his younger brother Roel, returned to Holland (1956) and where in Utrecht he completed his secondary education in architecture.
Tony departed to Australia, where he arrived on April 20, 1964 in Melbourne, where on September 19, 1977 he acquired Australian Citizenship. He completed his studies as an Architect at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (R.M.I.T) in Melbourne. Appointed (1977) Associate Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (A.R.A.I.A).
In 1977 appointed member of the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia. Tony, in 1984, was appointed as an examiner for the Architects Registration Board of Victoria. Composer of this family genealogy. He worked as an Architect, for the Public Works Department Victoria and Department of Planning and Development and retired in 1997. In Melbourne, he married on April 22, 1967:
Leonie Joy (Leonie) McMath. Leonie was born on December 18, 1943 in Melbourne. Only child and daughter of John Joseph McMath, born in Melbourne on July 25, 1910 manufacturer, and Elva May Walls, born on February 11, 1913 in Dunolly (Victoria). Leonie graduated as an Infant Teacher at Toorak Teachers College in 1963, and obtained a Bachelor Degree in Infant Teaching followed by a Degree in Special Education. Leonie was a primary school teacher.
The children of Tony Bosch Reitz (1942-......) and Leonie Joy McMath (1943-......) are:

1. Anton Richard Théo (Théo) Bosch Reitz. Théo was born on February 23, 1972 in Melbourne. Named after his father. On March 25, 1991 Théo acquired Dutch Citizenship.
2. Melanie Elise Antoinette (Melanie) Bosch Reitz. Melanie was born on July 23, 1975 in Melbourne. She was named after her paternal grandmother. Melanie attended Melbourne University obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood.

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