VLOECKER, DAVID [SSNE 7962]

Surname

VLOECKER, VLOEKER

First name

DAVID

Nationality

SCOT

Region

BESWETH or LASWETH ?

Social status

MUSKETEER

Text source

David Vloecker was a Scottish musketeer in the VOC, serving on the Cleynen Erasmus under Captain Jan Pietersz. He named his wife, Liesbeth Pietersz van Ceulen, his heir. Their two children were to inherit everything in case of her death.

 

Sources:

Rotterdam Notarial Archive

http://www.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/archieven?mivast=184&mizig=365&miadt=184&milang=en&miview=ldt

GRONA (Nicolaas v.d. Hagen), 103/120/205. Testament, 12 April 1622.

 

Steve Murdoch, “The Repatriation of Capital to Scotland, a case study of seventeenth-century Dutch testaments and miscellaneous notarial instruments,” in Mario Varricchio (ed.), Back to Caledonia: Scottish Homecomings from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Edinburgh, 2012), p. 40.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, ROTTERDAM, VOC

Arrived 1622-04-12

Capacity MUSKETEER, purpose VOC [MILITARY, COMMERCIAL]