GENEALOGY STREMMELAAR

(ZWOLLE)

Generation I
Derk Stremmelaar

Generation II
Balster Derks Stremmelaar 'young man living in Wijhe'
x (publication of the banns in Zwolle 15.4.1719) attestation to marry in the church of Wijhe
witnesses: his father,  her mother,
Hendrikje Jans Koeleman 'young daughter living outside the Sassen-gate',
daughter of Jan Couleman and of Janneghien Jans.
From this marriage: 

a. Jan. Follows III

Generation III
Jan Baltus (Bals, Balster, Balssen) Stremmelaar (Stremler)
x (1) Zwolle 20.8.1736
Janna Gerrits, daughter of Gerrit Jans and of Willempjen Juries, buried  17.1.1748 Bergklooster cemetery.
x (2) Zwolle 4.5.1749
Anna Catharina Gerrits
From this marriage: 

a. Gerritdina, ~4.3.1750
b. Jan, ~ 3.10.1754

In 1759 a son is born out of wedlock: Baltus. Follows IV.

Generation IV
Balts Stremmelaar, ~ 2.2.1759 in Zwolle. 'illegitimate son of Johannes Baltus and the widow Anna Lagemans', 
night watchman; rattle-man',
Baltus was a 'rattle-man', a night watchman who calls the hours. But he did not always 'rattle'. In 1791 the town council delibered about a complaint that the night watchmen outside the Dieze gate, Baltus Stremmelaar and Jacob Bok,  "had not called out in the night of 5-6 february, on the hours between one and four, and in the following night both did not call out between one and two hours, and one of them did not call between two and three".  Both the men could not deny to have been wrong, received a 'serious warning' and were fined 1 gulden 10 stuivers, to be paid in 2 times 24 hours.

buried 12.2.1800 in Zwolle:  'Balts Stremmelaar living in the Nijstad is buried at the Bergklooster Cemetery 12 feb. 1800'.
x  Zwolle 13.3.1780 'Baltus Stremmelaar, young man, nightwatchman, living in the New Town outside the Dieze-gate, and Janna Hoekveld, young daughter living in the Noose-alley outside the Dieze-gate, doing farmwork'. Witnesses were Gerrit van Dijk on the Dyke, and Aaltje Blankvoort wife of Gerrit Hoekveld outside the Dieze-gate in the Noose- or Stocking alley.
Johanna Hoekveld, daughter of Gerrit Hoekveld and of Aaltje Blankvoort.
From this marriage: 

a.Jan, ~ 4.7.1780 in Zwolle, in the Nijstad (Zwolle, Nieuwstad = New town). 
b.Willem, * 5.1.1783, ~ the same day ('a sunday') in Zwolle, outside the Diesergate (= Nijstad). 
c.Gerrit Jan, * 6.2.1791 in Zwolle. 
d.Hendrik, follows V 
e.Arent, * 25.2.1795 in Zwolle. ~ 4 maart 1795. 'Arent, son of Balts Stremmelaar, witnessed by Willemina van Wierden wife of Jacob Hoekveld, and Belia Bruins, wife of Jan Hoekveld living on the Jufferenwal, and the mother Janna Hoekveld, the father was absent because he was in military service. 

In 1805 the house belonging to the widow Balts Stemmelaar, Janna Hoekveld, 'standing on the New Town outside the Dieze-gate, a little house with a small courtyard at the back' was valuated at 475 gulden. Her other possessions were: 4 fields of farmland on the Ooster Enk valued at 700 gulden, another piece of land worth 350 gulden and a cow, worth 63.

In the house: 2 beds 2 matrasses and 2 pillows, 2 pair of curtains,  a 'cupboard-set' (usually 3 delft blue vases),  2 tables, 6 chairs, 33 plates and saucers, 2 mirrors, 2 chests, 1 tin saucer and 1 plate, 10 spoons, 2 copper kettles, 1 water bucket, some earthenware, 2 white curtains, 1 coffee mill, 1 pot, 1 set of fire-irons.

In total the possessions were valued at 1627 gulden 5 stuivers. Her debts amounted to 726 gulden 14 stuivers, remained 900 gulden 11 stuivers of which sum the children received 450 gulden 5 stuivers 8 cents. To be able to pay this she sold her fields.

Generation V
Hendrik Stremmelaar, * 18.10.1792 in Zwolle. wine merchants servant, saddlemakers servant,
Description: 'Length 5 foot 4 1/2 thumb, Face Oval, Forehead Round, Eyes Blue, Nose Big, Mouth Ordinary, Chin  Broad, Hair Dark Brown, Visible signs None. Signature: has declared not to be able to write'.
† 23.11.1856 in Zwolle, on the Nijstad outside the Diese gate,
x 12.2.1818 Zwolle
Grietjen Willems Bos, * 11.2.1796 in Zwolle, ~ 14.2.1796 in Zwolle, servant,
daughter of Hermen Willems Bos, farmer and of Janna Gerrits Schutte, labourer.
† 28.3.1868 in Zwolle. 'At 3 o'clock in the afternoon has died Grietjen Willems Bos in the Diezerstraat, aged 72 years, born in Zwolle, living in Zwolle, widow of  Hendrik Stremmelaar, daughter of Hermen Willems Bos and Janna Gerrits'. 
From this marriage: 

a.Barta, * 18.10.1818 in Zwolle. 
b.Balt, * in Zwolle. 
c.Hendrik, * in Zwolle. 
d.Johanna, * in Zwolle. 
e.Geesien, * in Zwolle. 
f.Balt, * in Zwolle, pub(lic house) keeper, swine merchant. 
g.Geerlig, follows VI 
h.Roelof, * in Zwolle. 
i.Gerrigjen, * in Zwolle. 

Generation VI
Geerlig Stremmelaar, * 24.9.1833 in Zwolle, carter, waggoner, pub(lic house) keeper,
 † 1.7.1880 in Zwolle. 'At one o'clock in the afternoon has died Geerlig Stremmelaar, labourer, aged 46 years, born in Zwolle, living in Zwolle on the Nijstad, son of Hendrik Stremmelaar and of Grietje Willems'.
x Zwolle 22.8.1861
Johanna Stegeman, * 22.12.1830 in Stad Hardenberg, pub(lic house) keeper,
daughter of Gerrit Jan Stegeman, farmer, and of  Margaretha Johanna van der Velde.
† 6.3.1920 in Zwolle.  'Today at six o'clock in the morning has died Johanna Stegeman, widow of Hendrik Maat, earlier widow of Geerlig Stremmelaar, aged 81 years, living in the  Thomas à Kempisstraat'.
From this marriage: 

a.Grietje , * 2.1.1864 in Zwolle. 
b.Gerrit Jan, * 11.8.1866 in Zwolle. 
c.Hendrik, * 22.12.1868 in Zwolle. 
d.Hendrik, * 10.7.1871 in Zwolle. 
e.Barta, * 20.11.1876 in Zwolle. 
f.Gerrit Jan, follows VII 

Generation VII
Gerrit Jan Stremmelaar, * 26.2.1880 in Zwolle, painter, shopkeeper,
† 1.2.1922 in Zwolle. 
x Zwolle 3.11.1908
Elisabeth Francisca Kleinsorge,  * 29.11.1876 in Assen, shopkeeper,
daughter of Franz Kleinsorge, merchant, and of Johanna Catharina Morriën.
† 30.11.1963 in Zwolle.
From this marriage: 

a.Johanna (Jo), my grandmother, married Dirk Gerrit Franssen in 1933.
b.Franz, * 9.12.1910 in Zwolle, at the Diezerpoortenplas 38. 

A view of the Diezerpoort (Dieze-gate) in 1921, decorated to celebrate the visit of Queen Wilhelmina. Around the corner at the right side, on the way out of town, is the Diezerpoortenplas and across the water is what was in the 18th century called the 'Nieuwstad', the 'Newtown'. 'My' Stremmelaars almost all lived in the Nieuwstad (now: Thomas à Kempisstraat), outside of the Diezerpoort. My great-grandfather Gerrit Jan Stremmelaar owned a paintstore on the Diezerpoortenplas.

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