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| 11th
Chapter, Part 3: Descendants
Ahasverus de Créqui
dit la Roche's child with Betje Adriaens
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First time published on
6th January 2005 |
By
Carsten Berg Høgenhoff |
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Contents
Swerus Sweruszoon
Laroche
SIECs contact in Monster, Gerard, reports about a Swerus Sweruszoon Laroche who was first mentioned
in militia list for the year 1672. The list is an inventory of able
bodied men between 16 and 60 years of age - indicating that Swerus was
born no later than 1656 - but besides that, at any time after 1641/42.
To our knowledge, this was the time the de Créqui dit la Roche
family settled in Monster. Swerus was the illegitimate child of Ahasverus
de Créqui dit la Roche. Swerus married in 1685 [1] and had at least five children, born between 1686 and
1698. He must have been quite poor, as he is absent on most tax lists.
Swerus'
mother is now identified. Elisbeth [Betje] Adriaens, born in 1620, came
from a respected family in Monster, on the other side of the Vaart,
and close to where the de Créqui family lived. She was the daughter
of Adriaen Claesz Vooijs and his first wife Trijntje Willems.
Alas,
the court records are undated, but Betje's insinuation is that she and
Ahasverus de Créqui dit la Roche had bodily conversation on several
occasions, and there was no other man. She confirmed this to the midwife
while giving birth; one of the midwives' obligations were to ask during
labour for the father's name. Customary obligations for a mother were
to:
send the child to the father immediately after
giving birth, thus forcing him to ackowledge or reject the child,
or take the father to court for alimony and costs of defloration of
the mother
Betje
took the case to court, demanding alimony for the child, payment of birth
costs and a sum for her defloration; a total of 600 Guilders, which was
a considerable sum of money. Three hearings appeared where the father
or his solicitor was ordered to appear. Ahasverus had rejected her claim,
but did not appear in court. After this, with the child by then 20 weeks
old, she handed the case to the court to take action. Alas, there is no
date or year on these documents, they simply describe the situation until
the hand-over [to the court]. However, the fact that Swerus carried the
patronymicon and family name
after Ahasverus, must mean that the court has decided in her favour and
declared him as the father.
There is no proof that Betje ever got married, but she was still alive
in 1685. At her grandchildren's baptisms, she were not listed as a witness,
but her niece witnessed on two occasions.
Since we have no date or year, we cannot know whether Swerus was
born before or after Ahasverus de Créqui dit la Roche got married
to Judith Sweers in 1648. There is no mentioning of broken wedding vows
in Betje's insinuations, but on the other side no mentioning that Ahasverus
should already be married to another woman.
Notes
[1] See also Carsten Berg
Høgenhoff: Ahasverus de Créqui dit la Roche, slektshistorie
i Nederlandene og Norge - Addenda et corrigenda, Norsk Slektshistorisk
Tidsskrift XXXIX/4, Oslo 2004. In
this short article, a
Sweris Sweris Laroche is briefly
mentioned on page 453, in conntection with other children of Ahasverus
and of his brother, Jean. However, at the time of publication, the court
records about the boy's mother were not yet known, and Sweris/Swerus
could not be placed in any connection with the rest of the family.
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