The purpose of this website is to record the descendants belonging to the Weerdesteijn family.
The information on this website may freely be used because the info is retrieved from public resources available for everyone
or published with permission of the owner.
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Regards Chris Werensteijn, Email: chris.werensteijn@gmail.com
General
Throughout the years, the original name Weerdesteijn has been changed many times because of analphabetism and miswriting by officials who wrote the certificates.
Due to this, in the familytree you find all these variations of the name Weerdesteijn like Waardesteijn, Wierdesteijn, Weeresteijn, Werdesteijn etc and also the end part of the name steijn is written as stijn, stein, styn and steyn.
So if your name is one of these variations of the name Weerdesteijn it is very likely that you and your descendants belong to this familytree, in which case I hope we can work out together where you fit in.
All male people who carry the family name are represented in the familytree with partners and children, all females who carry the family name are represented with their partners, the children and the partners of their children after which it stops.
Searching in the familytree can be done in two ways which is using the alphabetic index at the bottom of the familytree or using Ctrl+f and type the keyword in the search window.
De name Weerdesteijn can have its origin from 3 sources.(1) The most likely source is Ridderhof (Castle) Weerdesteijn in Nederlangbroek (Provence Utrecht in Holland), if you belong to the familytree on this website.
(2) The source can also come from a tower called Werestein which does not exist anymore and was located on the Smitsdijk in Cothen (Provence Utrecht in Holland).
(3) Or the source can come from a place called Huis Weerestein Located in Loenen next to the river 'de vecht' (Nieuwersluis Provence Utrecht in Holland) built in the seventeenth century.
In this case the name Weerestein consist of 'Weere' which means land separation and 'stein' stands for stone.
It is unknown who founded this place, the first known owner of the house was 'Jan Cramen' who bought it around 1720 but the house must have been built before 1668.
In the backyard they found in 1760 a box with the remains of several people under which the remains of a bishops helper which was hanged on the gallows, they suspect he was the helper of a bishop called Bonnifacius who was killed in Dokkum (Provence Friesland Holland)
The picture on the left is a etch made by Johannes Leupenius in 1668, and can be found in the archives of city Utrecht under catalog number 202073.