Coert Family Tree
Johann Cords (in Levings Leibzucht) [1700 – ….]
Arround 1700 the Coert Family name must have been started. In that year Johan Cords in Levings Leibzucht was born in
Westcappeln (Western Germany). The name Coert must have been distracted from
Conrad or Conradus. He was born in 1700 in Westcappeln (Germany). It is not
known when he died and to whom he was married to in 1726. He had three
children. Stephan Heinrich, Jacob Heinrich and Johann Heinrich. It is possible
that he had some different extensions. ‘Cordt
der Becke’ or ‘Cordts in Levings Leibzucht’. He could have been married to
the daughter of ‘Leving’. He was a farmer and it is possible that the name of
the farm was ‘Auf der Becke’. The name ‘Coert’ with the current
spelling/orthography occurred when the two sons Stephan Heinrich and Jacob
Heinrich emigrated to Rotterdam (Holland) and inscribed/registered themselves
as Coert.
Stephan Heinrich Coert [1731 – ….]
He was the oldest son of Johann Cords. He
was born in Westcappeln on the 8th of July 1731. Stephan Heinrich
emigrated to Rotterdam between 1754 and 1756. On the 28th of
February 1758 he married in Rotterdam Anna van Tiel. They had two sons (Marcus
and Jacob Alexander) and one daughter (Cathryna). Marcus was born in Rotterdam
on the 17th of May 1761 and died in 1780 on the island Onrust.
Marcus moved to Indonesia in the year 1778. Jacob Alexander was born on the 27th
of February 1766. He married on the 13th of April 1790 in Rotterdam
to Marietje van der Werf.
Jacob Heinrich Coert [1733 – 1803]
Jacob Heinrich was born in Westcappeln in
1733 on the 18th of October. He emigrated to Rotterdam between 1754
and 1756. On the 11th of May 1761 he married to Alida Cornelia
Walraven (died on the 12th of September 1778) in Rotterdam. He had
one son Stephanus Hendrik and one daughter Jacoba. Stephanus was born in
Rotterdam in 1764 and died in 1784 in a Hospital in Batavia. He also moved in
1780 to Indonesia. Jacoba married Hendrik Jan Veenendaal on the 29th
of May 1791. She was born arround 1770 and died in Rotterdam on the 7th
of April 1803. They had one daughter called Elizabeth (born in Rotterdam 12th
of May 1792). On the 16th of November 1783 Jacob Heinrich then
married Lena de Groot in Heillegersberg. Jacob Heinrich died on the 26th
of March 1803 in Rotterdam.
Johann Heinrich Coert [1739 – 1773]
He was born in Westcappeln in 1739 and
died in Rotterdam in 1773 on the 9th of May 1773. In
1772 Johann
Heinrich moved / emigrated
with his wife and two children to Holland (Rotterdam) and they were inscribed
with the surname Coert. Johann Heinrich Coert found out that between 1754 and
1756 three other Coert’s were settled in Holland as well. Stephan Heinrich
and Jacob
Heinrich his brothers and the third one was Jan Johannes Coert
from Schotmar, Lippe-Detmold. On the 10th
of December 1758 he married Anna Maria Eckelmeijers. They had three sons Johann
Heinrich (Jan Hendrik), Jurgen Heinrich (born in Westcappeln in 1763 and died
on the 9th of April 1772 in Westcappeln) and Gerd Heinrich (born in
1764 and died on the 8th of July 1767 in Westcappeln) and one
daughter Anna Catharina (born in Westercappeln in 1766 and died after 27th
of May 1794).