| Introduction | Inventaris van de goederen meubelen ende [obligatien ?] achtergelaten by Juffr. Laurentia van Vijven lest weduwe van Hans Hansz. van Soest, gemaeckt by my Jacob van Zwieten notaris ten versoucke ende ten overstaen van Arnout van de Cruijs, soo in qualite als vader ende voocht van de twee onmondige kinderen geprocreert by Susanna Strimes ende als procuratie hebbende van Sr. Jan Strimes wonende tot Coningsbergh, soon ende dochter respect. van de overleden Laurentia van Vijven zal. desen vierde February 1642. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert in dage ende ten overstaen als int hooft ende syn alle de selve goederen ende obligatien bij Sr. Arnout van de Cruijs naer hem genomen, uytgeseyt een oude bedde ende [onder ?] de voors. Solt sal blijven het bedde tegenwoordich int school van Jan Strimes ... alles oprecht gedaen. Antonij van Solt (who was mentioned in the inventory because he was married to Laurentia's daughter Hester and owed the estate 1,035 f. plus some smaller sums, which debts had apparently been forgiven in Laurentia van Vijven's testament) signed the inventory. |
| Commentary | Hans van Soest I, merchant, was already living in Amsterdam, on 11 October 1586, when, as widower of Antoinette Hazard, he married Jasperijntje Baergemaker, alias Bails, also from Antwerp. Abraham I (Jansz.) Soest, the son of Hans van Soest I, married Sara de Melder, a child from the first marriage of his father's second wife. On 16 August 1603, his son Hans II (Hansz.) van Soest, widower of Theodora Cremer, was betrothed to Laurenske van Vijve, widow of Joost Strijmes (Strimes) of the present inventory. Laurentia was from Brugge (DTB 762a/185). On 4 November 1607, Hans van Soest and Laurisken van Vijven had their son Jakobus baptized in the O.K. in the presence of Jacob Sollenberch, Jacob Jansz. Hert, and Lukresija van Vijven (DTB 4/219). Lucretia van Vijven was the child's aunt (the sister of Laurentia). On 19 November 1620, Hans van Soest (II) declared before the Orphan Chamber that his daughter Hester, 7 years old, was entitled to 800 f. from assets inherited by her mother Laurentia van Vijven (WK 5073/789). The siblings of Hans van Soest II were: Magdalena who married Jakobus van Cralingen, predikant in Oosthuysen (later in Woerden), in 1617; Susanna, who married Mainardus Bredius, predikant in Swammerdam, in 1622; and Jacques, who married Anne Jordaens, the sister of the painter Jacques Jordaen at an unknown date (Nederlandsche Leeuw 1983, col. 522-3). (There may be an error in this genealogy. It is not certain whether Jacques van Soest was the son of Hans van Soest I). On 21 March 1638, Laurentia van Vijven signed the marriage contract of her daughter Hester van Soest (I) with Anthony van Solt, the son of Hans van Solt II of R 21567, who had been baptized on 26 June 1612. He was assisted by his father Hans van Solt II and his guardian Pieter Passchaert, she, by her father Hans II (Jansz.) van Soest and her uncle by marriage Willelm van de Cogel (NA 910, Not. Eyloff). This Hester van Soest I should not be confused with her cousin of the same name, Hester van Soest II, who was the daughter of Abraham van Soest II (Abraham van Soest de jonge cited in R 30192 of Montias2). Hester van Soest II signed a pre-nuptial contract with Jacob van den Haeren on 3(or 9) June 1634. She was assisted by her brother Abraham van Soest III , by her uncle Hans (II) van Soest, and by her uncle by marriage Jacobus van Grolingen, predikant in Woerden (NA 911, film 1147, Not. Eyloff). Jacobus van Grolingen was married to Magdalena van Soest, the sister of Hans II and of Abraham van Soest II. Another sister, named Susanna, married the predikant Mainardus Bredius on 5 May 1622. Abraham Jacquesz. was the son of Jacques van Soest and Anne Jordaens. He married Susanna Melchiors van Cromhuysen. Their daughter Joanna, born in 1660, married David ten Hove in 1681 (Elias, Vroedschap p. 928). |
