Individual Details
Gertrudje Theisson Doors
(Abt 1645 - 23 Feb 1707)
The baptismal record of REiner in the REformed Church at Kaldenkirchen contains the interesting note that his mother "for a period of time was unable to use her mental faculties" and "Theiss and Agnes Doors promised to assume responsibility for the child in her behalf." She probably had post partum depression. Niepoth relates a story about Gertrude Door's parents' experiences with religious persecution which is taken from the "Julich-Berg Historical Journal".
A few days before the birth of Gertrude's sister, the bailiff had struck her mother in the face. The father was fined 100 gold Guilders and his goods taken. However the government intervened and declared that Gertrude's father should stay and not be persecuted.
Gertrude is their daughter, and currently arguably accepted as the granddaughter through her mother of Bishop Herman Op den Graeff, thus a first cousin of the three Op den graeff brothers who came to Germantown with the intense, difficult and cranky personalities. Their grandfather was a Mennonite bishop and leader, a signer of the Mennonite Confession Faith in 1632, and an extreme mystic, with his nose into every sort of it to appearances, and nearly half of their 18 children died, pretty much in their first year of life. Herman Op den Graeff was also a very well to do weaver and cloth and linen merchant with a substantial house with stained glass windows full of mystical symbolism and strange, egotistical hymns. If his childen died of neglect or starvation, something was wrong!
"...in the church records of the Reformed congregation of Kaldenkirchen. On 16 October 1668 were married there Paulus Kusters, bachelor of Kaldenkirchen and Gertrud Doors, spinster of Kaldenkirchen. Children of theirs baptized there were: 1. Arnold, baptized 9 June 1669; 2. Johannes, baptized 12 December 1670; 3. Matthys, baptized 6 December 1671; 4. Reiner, baptized 2 December 1674. Later other children were born, but not baptized at Kaldenkirchen; Elizabeth and Hermann."
"Going by the first name of the eldest son, the father of Paulus Kuesters, must have been the Catholic, Arret Kuesters, who lived in Kaldenkirchen."
Information Pedigree Chart provided by Orene Ehlers Custer from Google web search for Rebecca Nuzam. 7/24/2003.
Surname may be STREYPHERS
DEATH: Died soon after husband, Paulus. The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, edited by Jean M. White, 1991.
A few days before the birth of Gertrude's sister, the bailiff had struck her mother in the face. The father was fined 100 gold Guilders and his goods taken. However the government intervened and declared that Gertrude's father should stay and not be persecuted.
Gertrude is their daughter, and currently arguably accepted as the granddaughter through her mother of Bishop Herman Op den Graeff, thus a first cousin of the three Op den graeff brothers who came to Germantown with the intense, difficult and cranky personalities. Their grandfather was a Mennonite bishop and leader, a signer of the Mennonite Confession Faith in 1632, and an extreme mystic, with his nose into every sort of it to appearances, and nearly half of their 18 children died, pretty much in their first year of life. Herman Op den Graeff was also a very well to do weaver and cloth and linen merchant with a substantial house with stained glass windows full of mystical symbolism and strange, egotistical hymns. If his childen died of neglect or starvation, something was wrong!
"...in the church records of the Reformed congregation of Kaldenkirchen. On 16 October 1668 were married there Paulus Kusters, bachelor of Kaldenkirchen and Gertrud Doors, spinster of Kaldenkirchen. Children of theirs baptized there were: 1. Arnold, baptized 9 June 1669; 2. Johannes, baptized 12 December 1670; 3. Matthys, baptized 6 December 1671; 4. Reiner, baptized 2 December 1674. Later other children were born, but not baptized at Kaldenkirchen; Elizabeth and Hermann."
"Going by the first name of the eldest son, the father of Paulus Kuesters, must have been the Catholic, Arret Kuesters, who lived in Kaldenkirchen."
Information Pedigree Chart provided by Orene Ehlers Custer from Google web search for Rebecca Nuzam. 7/24/2003.
Surname may be STREYPHERS
DEATH: Died soon after husband, Paulus. The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, edited by Jean M. White, 1991.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1645 | Kaldenkirchen, Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | 16 Oct 1668 | Kaldenkirchen Reformed Church - Paulus Kusters | | ||
| Immigration | Bet 1696 and 1700 | Immigrated to Pennsylvania | | ||
| Death | 23 Feb 1707 | Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania | | ||
| Alt name | Gertrude Streyper | ||||
| Alt name | Gertrude Streepers |
Families
| Spouse | Paulus Kusters (1644 - 1708) |
| Child | Arnold Kuster (1669 - 1739) |
| Child | Johannes Kuster (1670 - ) |
| Child | Matthys Kuster (1671 - ) |
| Child | Reiner Kuster (1674 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Kuster ( - ) |
| Child | Hermann Kuster ( - ) |
| Father | Mathias Dohrs (1614 - 1663) |
| Mother | Agnes Neesgen Op Den Graeff (1614 - 1691) |
| Sibling | Reiner Theissen (1659 - 1745) |
| Sibling | Entgen Anna Doors (1641 - 1700) |
| Sibling | Cornelius Theissen (1652 - 1716) |
| Sibling | Agnes Doors (1654 - ) |
| Sibling | Derek Tyson (1657 - 1683) |
| Sibling | Peter Tyson Doors (1643 - ) |
| Sibling | Johanna Doors (1649 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Doors (1647 - ) |
| Sibling | Margarita Doors (1655 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Tyson (1660 - 1742) |
| Sibling | Hermann Doors (1663 - 1739) |
| Sibling | Elin Magadalen Tyson (1650 - 1729) |
Endnotes
1. The Decendeants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, p 51.
2. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 6, Ed. 1, Tree #1395, Date of Import: Dec 29, 1996The Ancestry of the Thirteen Krefeld Emigrants of .
3. The Decendeants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, p 51.
4. The Decendeants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, p 15.
5. The Decendeants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, p 51.
6. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 6, Ed. 1, Tree #1395, Date of Import: Dec 29, 1996The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters.