Lysgen Grietes

Biography

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"Gertrude [Door]'s father, Theiss Doors, baptized 12 September 1614 inthe Catholic Church in Kaldenkirchen, was the son of Peter Dohrs/Doormans and Lysgen (Elizabeth) Grietes. Theiss' name appears in an article about the persecution and suffering of the Mennonites in the Julich-Berg Historical Journal under the surname Dahrs, Dahrmans, Peters andPeterschen which indicates that his father's name was Peter. Surnames in this period of time were not set. In fact, surnames were not required in the Netherlands (Kaldenkirchen lies almost on the border withthe Netherlands) until 1811. Many families did adopt surnames aroundthe 16th and 17th Centuries. Thus with Theiss' and Neess' children one will note that some of the children used their father's surname of Doors while several used the patronymic of Theissen.
Peter Doors was born about 1580 in Kaldenkirchen, the son of Tisken angen Door, a Catholic who was born about 1550, and died in Kaldenkirchen on 19 March 1615. Peter Doors must have died shortly before 28 December 1638, perhaps of the bubonic plague which raged in that area during this period.

Accordingly, Mennonite records of the village and parish of Kaldenkirchen in 1638 cite "Lysgen Daers (Doors) widow whose husband died a few days ago. Their property, after all debts are paid off out of principal, shall be worth about 36 Reichstalers..."

References

• The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters of Kaldenkirchen, Germany and Germantown, Pennsylvania the first four generations by Jean M. White, Editor published by The Castor Association of America, pp.47-48 < GoogleBooks >
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/OldGeoc...
• FamilySearch
• Elmer Leonard Hauser Genealogy
• William Howard Hauser Genealogy