| Commentary | Note that the glassmaker's equipment (gereetschap tot glasemackerswinckel) sall door de gilde knecht specifice werden getauxeert. The glassmaker and engraver Jan Jansz. Denta (?), alias Fonteijn, was born in 1580. In 1606, Jan Jansz. bought lots in the Haarlem lottery (GAA 22/78 F 160). In 1613, he lived in the Kalverstraet. He died in the Keisersgracht in de Roode Fonteijn. He married Neeltge Croon, the daughter of Cornelis Croon, who died about 1618, on 27 January 1613. She was then widow of Jan Jacobsz. Lons (Elias, Vroedschap van Amsterdam, p.154). On 20 September 1619, Maria Loots, widow of Cornelis Croon, named Sr. Francoijs van Zeel living in St. Pauwels in the land of Waes (in Southern Netherlands) to collects rents due to her in that locality (NA 382, fol. 75, Not. Jacob and Nicolaes Jacobsz.) Jan Jansz., glass engraver, was also a buyer at auction (R 31132 of Montias2, the NOTES for which supply additional bio data on Jan Jansz.) Jan Jansz. was buried on 15 August 1620 (Elias, ibid.) The inventory of a glassmaker named Jan Jansz., which was taken on 15 February 1622, may be his (NA 562A, Not. Westfrisius). Neeltge Croon remarried with Hendrick Anthonisz. de Vries, glassmaker on the Keizersgracht, on 8 March 1622. It is curious that no mention was made of her third husband in the INTRO to the present inventory. Her son Willem Jansz. Fontain, cakebaker, of R 33728, was 21 years old when he was betrothed to Jannetje Ariaens, 20, assisted by her father Ariaen Francken, living in the Haarlemmerstraat, on 17 July 1636 (DTB 455/22). He was one of the neighbors of the jeweler Seger Pietersz. in 1640 (see the NOTES to R 32330 of Montias2). |
