| Cannoot | Cock , Kokken | Coolen . Colen | ||||||||
| Donders | Leijten | Mutsaerts . Metsaars | ||||||||
| Peijnenborch | Pijlijser | Schellekens (van Gorp) | ||||||||
| Van Beurden | Van Dalem Van Dongen | Van Meel | ||||||||
| Van Mierlo | Trompen, Valkenaars, Van de Wiel en Van Rijsewijk | Miscellaneous surnames | ||||||||
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This family name is derived from the name of a place Carnoy, which was common in Belgium for a forest of beech trees. ( haagbeukenbos ) in Latin called carpinetum. On this website descendants Cannoot/Canoot/Cannot, of a family from Sint-Martens-Leerne Oost-Vlaanderen beginning of the 17e eeuw
We already know our progenitor named Dyrc de Cock. For this investigation i get a lot of information from Roger Kokken (living in Belgium) and Rinus van den Heijkant.
As far as the investigation to our ancestors is progressed ( until the beginning of the 18th century ) our progenitors originate from the villages Bladel and Netersel and begins with Waltherus ( Wouter ) Coolen. His great-grandchild Josephus born 1814 in Netersel, married in Hoogemierde and his son Hendrikus born 1852 in Hoogemierde married in Tilburg Geertruida Bemelmans. The rest of our family tree continues in Tilburg. Many family names are derived from the name of a municipality ( Van Mierlo or Van Dongen ) and many times it's a transformation from the name of the father ( de son of Hendrik p.e. is called Joannes Hendrikszoon, Hendrikzn, Hendriksen, Hendriks ). Our family name Coolen could find its origin in the transformation of the name Nicolaas, used as fathers name Co .... Colen and Coolen.
The name Donders finds its origin in a nickname of a person ( called the Donder ), who has a very heavy voice or with a ugly face. The data of all "Donders" in this database are, for as far as they belong to this family tree, retrieved from the book "het Tilburgse geslacht Donders"( the generation of the Donders from Tilburg the Netherlands ). This book had its first publication in 1938 and is accomplished by investigation of many years by Ir.J.van der Eerden and P.W.F. Donders. There are renewed publications in 1982 and 1996. Although the people of the first 8 generations in this book is called "De Beer", the author has managed to prove a change of name from "De Beer" in to "Donders", that took place approximately in the year 1600. The book and the data of this generation, what in the book starts in Tilburg at the beginning of the 14th century, lies under administration of a foundation called "Stichting Familiearchief Donders", and is available at there address. The purpose of this foundation is to keep the data of this generation and all its descendants up-to-date. Contact address ; Stichting familiearchief Donders Antoine Artsplein 25 5037 RS Tilburg The Netherlands
In the database presented on this website, in witch we collected different families, you can find the first generations of this book, more than once, as our ancestors. It is known that whenever you go far enough back in time, it is common that we could encounter the same persons more than once.
There seems to be a "Donders" family in the Dutch Limburg and one in Belgium, but there is not yet found any connection with this family.
The surname Leijten is in most cases derived from a mothers name Aleijt. Investigators encountered a person called Gielis Leyten in Diest Belgium in 1449. Investigation by José Leijten
The data on this website are checked with the publication in a book called "De nakomelingen van Mutsart-Mutsaerts-Mutsaers-Musters" from 1270 till 2000 by J.C.F. van Osch. See the Dutch version of this webpage for a part of its content, but it isn't translated. =========================== I would like to say thanks to Hans Metsaars and his nephew Willem who did give me information about the families Metsaars, Metsaers and Biemans.
The origin of the name Peijnenborgh, Pijnenburg , Poynenborch ....
A part of the data on this website are from "Kroniek van de geslachten Pijnenburg en van den Brekel 1290-1990" by ir.CHJ van den Brekel.
The origin of this name is unkown but probably has something to do with the steel point on the arrows ( Pijlijser = The iron part of an arrow ). One thing is sure, this family name is taken from one of the mistresses of Duke Jan I of Brabant (1252-1253). His firstborn Jan born in 1272, conceived with his mistress Hanneke, could not get the title Duke because it was an illegitimate child and became as compensation a Knight ( = Ridder ). This son used the title "Ridder Jan Pijlijser" where he used the surname of his mother. HANNEKE PIJLIJSER, one of the best known mistresses of Jan, described as "passionate" and red-headed. Possible a daughter of Henrick, son of Geldulf, the only known Pijlijser in Brabant in this period. He was alderman of Brussels from 1250 till 1275. The family Pijlijser most probably originates in the West Flanders. Ridder Jan Pijlijser (1272), lord of Coeckelberghe at Brussels, married Catharina Clutinc and got only one known descendant and that one used the same title. This Jan married Oedele daughter of lord Otten van Valkenvoorde. Through this marriage he owned a substantial amount of feudal estates in Drunen and the land of Heusden {NB,NL}. Jan and Oedele got only one child, named him Jan and he used the title "Ridder Jan Pijlijser van Valckenvoirdt". He married in 1392 Jonckvrouwe Geertruijt daughter of lord Willem van Buextel. ( Boxtel {NB,NL}). His firstborn Willem is an ancestor of many families from Tilburg and his son Hendrik bought about 1500 the farm called "waterhoef", later known as "Pijlijserhoeve", in Tilburg. ( pulled down in 1960 more than 460 years old ). His firstborn Barbara Willem Pillisers married before 1495 Peter Niclaes sPapen. There children and grandchildren married other very known families form Tilburgis, including the surnames Pulskens, Reijnen, Van Boerden, Mutsaerts and Colen. On this website you would find the data of the ( never published before ) family chart of Barbara Willem Pijlijser, by Antoon van de Wiel.. At this time I want to express my thanks to the contestants of the forum called "soc-nederlandse-adel", in with amongst others Hans Vogels for many years already trying to investigate the Dutch middle-ages.
De family name Schellekens could find its origin in different places. One of them is the nickname "Schelle" for somebody who rattles the bells But for most people in this database called Schellekens or Scellekens, (as mentioned in an article of Jona Schellekens in GENS NOSTRA 2002), "The name Schellekens is derived from the fathers name Godschalck. The tribute-money-book from Hilvarenbeek mentions in 1340 a Scelkinus van Gorp, a Latin form of the Mid-Hollands Sc(h)elleken. His decendants called themselves Schellekens. It is possible that other people called Schellekens are descendants of other people called Godschalck who lived in this part of Holland in the 14the century. Van Gorp, van Ghorpe, van Ghoerphe, are all references to a place called Gorp. Many villages had such a place, so the name is very common in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Trompen, Valkenaars, Van de Wiel & Van Rijsewijk The results of this investigation, that is besides other families available on this website, are completely the accomplishment of the continuing efforts of Antoon van de Wiel, living in Enschot. For the close family members, he summarized this data in beautiful books and provided them with a wide variety of background information of the family and its origin. The titles of these books ; 300 Jaren van de Wiel : Kwartierstaat van de Wiel - Trompen Terug naar het begin : Van van de Wiel - Trompen terug naar Arnulf van Metz 300 Jaren familiegeschiedenis in het land van Hertog Jan : Kwartierstaat Van de Wiel - Valkenaars This name "Van de Wiel" ( a Wiel is a wheel ) is seen in many varieties like : van Wiele, van den Wiele, van der Wielen, van de Wille, Vanduille, Van der Weel, Verwiel and Verwijlen. A part of the history of the family Van de Wiel, in special the ancestors named Trompen, is derived from the book "Trompenaars Trompen Tromp" by Drs. L.F.W. Adriaenssen. The information presented on this website of the families Trompen, Valkenaars, Van de Wiel & Van Rijsewijk, are all copied from these books of Antoon van de Wiel, and are located in a region nearby the villages Boxtel, Bergeijk, Luyksgestel, Gemonde, Enschot, Hilvarenbeek and Schijndel in Noord-Brabant. On some ancestors he managed to go back until the 6th century, a person called Arnulf van Metz born about the year 582.
As is applicable for Barbara Willem Pijlijser it is for Jan Roelofszn Van Dalem Van Dongen, they will be a part of the ancestors-tree of many people from The Netherlands. To restrict the numbering of our ancestors we stopped numbering the trees for all individual persons, and started a new numbering for these two ancestors Barbara Willem (BwpNr.) or Jan Roelofszn (VDvNr.)
The surname "Van Meel" probably finds its origin the name of a village called Meel or Meerle ( part of Hoogstraten, Antwerpen Belgium ). And it is correct whenever you let the people living in that village, say the name of there home town, it sounds like Meel.
Other sources talk about a derivation of "Van Merlen" ( from a blackbird in Dutch named "merel") or from "Van Medele" ( a big forest east of Kortrijk ).
Until the beginning of the 19the century, the ancestors of this branch of our family is situated in Antwerpen Belgium.
But via a detour over Roosendaal, we have found the oldest ancestor of this branch 'Joannes Willem Huybrecht' (+/- 1650) came from Meerle in Flanders.
The surname "Van Mierlo" most certainly finds its origin in a village called Mierlo in the province Noord-Brabant Nederland. The family name is already found in the archives in Mechelen in the year 1333 with a person called Makerius de Mierle. This investigation to the ancestors of my wife, we progressed after 5 generations from Antwerp to the Eindhoven branch of the "van Mierlo's". En with the information from Hans van Mierlo, with many thanks, we now know to be a descendant of THE Jan van Mierlo (~1525 in Aalst). One of his descendants, after a number of generations, born in 1754 "Arnoldus Adrianus" in Retie (or what they used to name Rethy) in the province of Antwerp Belgium. This Arnoldus moved together with his father Joannes Antonius, who then already was a widower, back to Eindhoven. Arnoldus married in 1785 and founded his family in Eindhoven. His second son Henricus left for Antwerp in the beginning of the 19th century. The rest of these ancestors resides in Antwerpen Belgium. We have connected the "Heren van Mierlo" from the middle-ages to our family-tree ( as it will be for many Brabanders ), although not yet for the more recent families called Van Mierlo in our file. The history and genealogy of these lords and the town Mierlo is published by Hans Vogels in a book "MIERLO zijn oudste heren en hun familie" with the HEEMKUNDE KRING MYERLE in 1999.
While investigating our ancestors and there descendants, we stumbled across a couple of other surnames more than once. As curious as we are, we have tried to make the link between these persons with identical family name. In this process ( using Isis the digitalized archives, and other personal websites as source ) we have created partial family trees from other families ( mostly residing in the province Noord-Brabant ), among others ; Castelijns - Couwenberg ( Cauwenbergs ) - Eijkens - Fiers - Goossens - Hendriks - Jansen ( Janssens ) - Jacobs - Robben - Van Hoof ( Hove ) - Van Iersel - Verhagen - Vermeulen - Verstijnen - Wollaert. Please look at the complete list of all surnames to check for the families of your interest. Napoleon started about 1800 the registry of population in the cummunities and made the use of surnames obligatory, but "...... the idea that at this moment everyone got his surname is not completely correct. Many families already had a surname...". Source: Voorouders in beeld : stamboom en familiegeschiedenis / Rob van Drie (red.). - Utrecht : Stichting Teleac/NOT, 1997. - 255 p. : ill. - ISBN 90-6533-443-2. (p. 64)
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