Individual Details
Pieter Dohrs
(Abt 1580 - 28 Dec 1638)
Atleast two large families of Doors lived in the Kaldenkirchen
vicinity during seventeenth century. One famly lived in a marshy area
near the village. Kaldenkirchen was a little village in the forest near
the Dutch border that has remained unmolested through two world wars;
the Catholic and REformed churches that this family went to still stand,
across the street from each other. It was six to thirteen miles from
Krefeld. (Charles Custer)
Krefeld was a center of religious upheaval because the land was turned
over to the Protestant Dutch princes of Orange who practiced toleration,
and the Thirty-years War and a Catholic Counter Reformation sent Mennonites
fleeing up the Rhine to the Palatinate and to Krefeld.
Tisken An Gen Dohrs/ an gen Door b abt 1550 Kaldenkirchen, Germany
d 3/19/1614 Julian calender at
Kaldenkirchen, Germany. (Jack Bowman, jack@bluenet.net)
This looks surmised; one would expect Peter's father to be named
Cuypers. However, the Castor Soc book on the Kusters takes the position
that this was Peter's father, I don't know on what grounds, and Michel
extracted from Shirley WEbb the info that she thinks so, too.
He was Catholic. White cites Niepoth as her source on this; "Dohrs or
Thiessens", an unpubl manuscript from Archives of Krefeld, transl by
J.J. Aelmore, Wichita KS, and this is what she has on it.
Peter Doors (Cuypers), a shopkeeper, b 1580 (Sue Schlack,
smschlack@enter.net) d 1638, White has "must have died shortly bef
12/28/1638", the date on the Mennonite record below. In Kaldenkirchen.
m Elizabeth Grietes 1638 Mennonite records of the village and parish
of Kaldenkirchen say, "Lyssgen Daers widow whose husband died a few
days ago. Their property after all debts are paid...worth about 36
Reichstalers. White speculates that he may have died of bubonic plague
which was raging in the area at the time.
vicinity during seventeenth century. One famly lived in a marshy area
near the village. Kaldenkirchen was a little village in the forest near
the Dutch border that has remained unmolested through two world wars;
the Catholic and REformed churches that this family went to still stand,
across the street from each other. It was six to thirteen miles from
Krefeld. (Charles Custer)
Krefeld was a center of religious upheaval because the land was turned
over to the Protestant Dutch princes of Orange who practiced toleration,
and the Thirty-years War and a Catholic Counter Reformation sent Mennonites
fleeing up the Rhine to the Palatinate and to Krefeld.
Tisken An Gen Dohrs/ an gen Door b abt 1550 Kaldenkirchen, Germany
d 3/19/1614 Julian calender at
Kaldenkirchen, Germany. (Jack Bowman, jack@bluenet.net)
This looks surmised; one would expect Peter's father to be named
Cuypers. However, the Castor Soc book on the Kusters takes the position
that this was Peter's father, I don't know on what grounds, and Michel
extracted from Shirley WEbb the info that she thinks so, too.
He was Catholic. White cites Niepoth as her source on this; "Dohrs or
Thiessens", an unpubl manuscript from Archives of Krefeld, transl by
J.J. Aelmore, Wichita KS, and this is what she has on it.
Peter Doors (Cuypers), a shopkeeper, b 1580 (Sue Schlack,
smschlack@enter.net) d 1638, White has "must have died shortly bef
12/28/1638", the date on the Mennonite record below. In Kaldenkirchen.
m Elizabeth Grietes 1638 Mennonite records of the village and parish
of Kaldenkirchen say, "Lyssgen Daers widow whose husband died a few
days ago. Their property after all debts are paid...worth about 36
Reichstalers. White speculates that he may have died of bubonic plague
which was raging in the area at the time.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1580 | Kaldenkirchen, Rhineland, Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | 1605 | Lysgen "Elizabeth" Grietes | | ||
| Death | 28 Dec 1638 | Kaldenkirchen, Germany |  | ||
| Alt name | Peter Doors | ||||
| Occupation | shopkeeper |
Families
| Spouse | Lysgen "Elizabeth" Grietes ( - 1680) |
| Child | Peter Doors (1609 - 1689) |
| Child | Mathias Dohrs (1614 - 1663) |
| Child | Greitjen Peiters (1620 - 1683) |
| Child | Reiner Doors (1607 - 1677) |
| Father | Tisken an gen Dohrs (1550 - 1615) |
Notes
Death
1638 Mennonite records of the village and parishof Kaldenkirchen say, "Lyssgen Daers widow whose husband died a few
days ago. Their property after all debts are paid...worth about 36
Reichstalers. White speculates that he may have died of bubonic plague
which was raging in the area at the time.
Endnotes
1. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 6, Ed. 1, Tree #1395, Date of Import: Dec 29, 1996Dohrs or Theissens by Neipoth translated by Aelmor.
2. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 6, Ed. 1, Tree #1395, Date of Import: Dec 29, 1996.