Netherlands Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

What if I can't read the record? Civil registration records are written in Dutch. The language used in the record may also be in French during the time Napoleon occupied the country. See the [[Netherlands Language and Languages]] or [[France Language and Languages]]. <br>  

== Echtscheidingen / Divorce Records == <br>  

Divorce cases are handled by the district courts. A record of the divorce will be recorded at the back of the marriage register of the municipality where the couple lived at the time of their divorce. For large cities in later years they will be in separate registers. There is sometimes a note in the margin of the original marriage record. Divorces before the 20th century were uncommon. <br>  

== Overlijden / Deaths == <br>  

The Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie or [http://194.171.109.12/lang/EN cbg] has records of everyone who has died since 1940.  

Following are examples of birth, marriage and death records translated from original records:  

Civil Registration - births  

Number ninety-one  

Today, the 6th of August eighteen hundred sixty -three, appeared before us (name of registrar) Frederic Louis Rambonnet, Burgermeester (mayor) , official of the civil registration office of the Gemeente Wijhe; Jan Westerveld, age forty years, day laborer, living in Wijhe, assisted by two witnesses, the first one named Lucas Eikelboom, age forty-nine years, farmer or builder (occupation) , and the second Hendrikus Johannes Christinus van Assen, age thirty-three years, blacksmith (occupation) , living in Wijhe, who has declared before us that his wife Willemina de Weerd, a laborer by occupation on the sixth of this [month] in the morning at three o’clock gave birth to a child of female gender , and to whom the first name of Martha Hendrika is given, from which declaration we have created this record, which, after having been read, is signed by us and the witnesses.  

who asked us to perform their anticipated marriage, for which the public announcements had been made in front of the main door of the city hall here, on Sunday, the eighteenth, and Sunday, the twenty-fifth of April eighteen hundred fifty-eight, at eleven o’clock in the morning.

Since no objections to the said marriage were known to us, we have, after the future marriage partners had declared that they would take each other for spouses and dutifully fulfill all their duties, which are associated by the Law with the state of matrimony , declared in the name of the Law that

Jan Westerveld and Willemina de Weerd are united in marriage.  

Of which we have created this record in the presence of  

Lammert Halfwerk, age fourty-nine years, capenter, Willem Neppelenbroek, age fifty-three years, farmer Jozienus Eduard van Assen, age thirty-two years, employed by the Canton, and Jan Willem Broekhus, age fifty-four years, day laborer, all living in Wijhe, who have signed this record, after it had been read , together with us and the contracting parties.  

Number twenty-six

Jan Westerveld, age thirty-four years, and Berend Gerrits van der Wijk, age forty-three years, day laborers, both living in Wijhe

who have told us that Aalt Huge van de Beek, age thirty-nine years, born in Hattem, day laborer, spouse of Willemina de Weerd, by occupation a day laborer, living in Wijhe, son of Jan van de Beek and Fennigje Kolkers, day laborers living inHattem

living in Wijhe, has died on the sixteenth of this months at three o’clock in the afternoon at his home in the hamlet of Herxen.

Of which declaration we have written up this record, which, after having been read, was signed by us and the first witness; the second one did not know how to write.

<br> Marriage Supplements (Huwelijksbijlagen)  

Overijssel Province Gemeente Wijhe  

Civil Registration  

Extract from the birth register of the above-named Gemeente  

In the year one thousand eight hundred twenty-two on the twenty-first of the month of December was born Jan , son of Gerrit Westerveld and Marta Dollemans  

As extract the mayor , official of the civil registration of the gemeente Wijhe. Wijhe, 17 April 1858  

Extract From the birth register of the Gemeente Heerde was extracted that Willemina, daughter of Hendrik Jan Geerlig de Weerd and Jennigje Boldewyn- married couple- was born on the seventh of April eighteen hundred thirty five [crossed out and corrected in the margin to

[signed by the registrar and certified as a proper copy on the bottom]  

3. Militia certificate  

National Militia Province Overijssel Certificate  

The King’s commissioner in the province of Overijssel declares that Jan Westerveld, born in Wijhe on 21 December 1822, chair maker, son of Gerrit and of Marta Dollemans, by occupation nietdekken is enrolled in the National Militia in the gemeente of Wijhe, that in the lottery he received number 34, and that he is exempt in accordance with the decision made by the military council, which was held at Zwolle, .................... ......................... ................................... .  

Given in Zwolle, on 15 April 1858  

the King’s Commissioner in the Province  

4. Death certificate of the wife’s first husband  

 

 

Certified by the mayor, official of the civil registration office in the Gemeente Wijhe.