| Introduction | Inventaris van den huysret ende inboel ten huyse van d'eerbare Sara Berwijns, weduwe van Guillame de Wijs zal-r ged. alwaer d'selve geinventariseert, beschreven ende getaxeert by Marritge Andries ende Barbara Jacobs dochteren als gesworen wtdraegsters getrouwelijck ende sinceerlijck (volgende haen verclaringe) getaxeert, zijn als volcht. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert, beschreven, getaxeert ende gepriseert op ten negentwintichsten julij anno xvi ende derthien ter presentie van Jeuriaen Corvil als getuijge hiertoe versocht. Bruijningh Not. Publ. 1613. |
| Commentary | Sara Berwijns was the daughter of the merchant Bernard Berwijns, who came from Antwerp to Amsterdam in or shortly before 1586, and of Cornelia Anthonis. She was the sister of Maria Berwijns, married to Steven Pinel (of INVNO 715), of Barbara Berwijns (Berrewijns) (of INVNO 1137), married to Pieter Boudart (probably identical with Pieter Boddart), and of Cornelia Berwijns, married to Pieter Rombout. She married Guilliam Wijs (1552-1611) in 1600. Sara Berwijns and Guilliam Wijs had at least the following children: Jan (or Hans) Wijs (1602-1634), merchant, who married Catharina de Marees in 1600; Abraham Wijs (1603-1660), merchant, who married Sara de Potter in 1628, and Sara Wijs (1609-1670), who married Francois van Os in 1631 (S.A.C, Dudok van Heel in Jaarboek Amstelodamum 80(1988), pp.42-3). Jan Wijs supervised the inventory of his aunt Barbara Berwijns. On 17 September 1626, the Orphan Chamber named Hans Francx (of R 20713) and Pieter Rombout as co-guardians of the children and heirs of Bernaert Berwyns and Cornelia Anthonis (WK 5073/512, fol. 39vo.) Sara Berwijns lived from about 1575 to 1617. Her first husband Guillame Wijs died in 1611. She remarried with the spices merchant Pieter Mercijs on 20 August 1613, shortly after the present inventory was taken. On the auction sale of the goods left by Pieter Mercijs of 13 February 1625, see INVNO 578. For more information on the Berwijns, Wijs, and Mercijs families, see the article by Dudok van Heel, cited under PUBL above. |
