Hendrik Merks
GenDatabase.com VOC Staff Record
Hendrik Merks
GenDatabase.com VOC Staff Record
Personal Information
- Names: Hendrik
- Surname: Merks
- City of Origin: Amsterdam
- Remarks:
- Engeland
Employment Information
- Date Employed: 1738-12-27
- Occupation: Junior ordinary seaman
- Description:
- (Dutch: jongmatroos)
- Date Terminated: 1742-00-00
- Place Terminated: Amsterdam
- Reason Terminated:
- Shipwrecked
- Remarks:
- This is only noted when the ship has sunk and the seafarer has drowned. It applies only to ships that were part of Dutch Asiatic Shipping. If the seafarer had been rescued while the ship was lost a different end of tenure is recorded. Example 1: The ship
Departure Information
- Ship Name: Middenrak
Return Ship Information
- Returning To: Amsterdam
- Ship Name: AMSTERDAM
- Departure Date: 1741-11-07
- Arrival at Cape: 1742-01-25
- Depart Cape: 1742-03-15
- Arrive at Destination:
- Remarks:
- The 22 passengers aboard the AMSTERDAM included admi-raal Adriaan Valkenier with 5 servants and 13 lijfschutten (bodyguards). At the Cape this former Gouverneur-Generaal was arrested; he was accused by the future G.-G. Van Imhoff of being responsible for
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Family Information
- Family Links:
- Seijna Luca [Moeder]
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