The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Grootenhuijs, Jan Hendricksz.		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	469
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	569 fol. 263 and foll.
Date	1637/10/07
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	death inventory
Family Name	Grootenhuijs
Owner Name	Grootenhuijs, Jan Hendricksz.
Owner Notes	and his last wife Annetge Symons
Life Dates	? |d 1637
Marriage Date	1627/08/19
Type of Ceremony	Pui
Occupation	Merchant (largescale) |a Wine, brandy
Residence	Op de Lastagie in Amsterdam
Religion	Roman Catholic
Introduction	Inventaris en specificatie van allen den goederen nagelaten by z. Jan Hendricksz. Grootenhuijs sulx hij die metter doot ontruijmt ende met Annetge Symons zijn leste huijsvrouw int gemeen beseten heeft. Postscript: Compareerde Annetge Symons weduwe van Jan Hendricksz. Grootenhuijs ende verclaerde [den inventaris alle de meuble goederen in te houden etc..] Aldus gedaen in Amstelredamme desen 7-en october 1637 ter presentie van Claes van Zanten ende Harmen Anthonisz.
Commentary	On 12 November 1624, Jan Hendricxz. Grotenhuys and his brother Herman Hendricxz. Grotenhuys, together with their swager Hendrick Dircxz. Gruys (the brother of Jan Hendricksz.'s wife Grietie Dircx) set up a company for the exploitation of a brandery (brandy distillery) in trade with France (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 78(1933), p. 549). On 19 August 1627, Jan Hendriks Grotenhuijs, from Tielburch, widower of Grietie Dircx, living on the Princegracht, was betrothed to Annetie Sijmons, from Amsterdam, 32 years old, assisted by her father Sijmon Sijmonsz. (of INVNO 146) (DTB 670/277). On 23 August 1629, Joannes Henricus and Anna Simons had their son Joannes baptized in the R.C. Church in the presence of his uncle (avunculus) Laurentius Soms (DTB 316/7). In 1631, Jan Heijndricx Grootenhuijs, living on the North side of the Bantemerstraet, paid a tax of 40 f. (Kohier, fol. 115vo, p. 27). On 19 May 1637, Jan Hendrickse Grotenhuis, was buried. 26 f. were paid for the ringing of bells on his behalf (as a Roman Catholic) (DTB 1045/97). On 1 November 1638, Annetgen Symons, assisted by Jan Cornelisz. Molenaer, her chosen guardian, presented her three children --Sijmon, 10, Claergen, 8, and Annetjen, 2--whose late father was Jan Hendricksz. Grootenhuys, wine dealer, to the Orphan Chamber, and declared that the children were entitled to 13,000 f. from their father's inheritance (WK 5073/789). The sermon boeck Hendrico Adriani and the autargoet in the inventory confirm that Grootenhuijs was Roman Catholic.
Notary	L. Lamberti
Total Value	2339 |d 13 st.
Art Value	151 |d 2 st.
# of Items	52
Montias1 #	370