Marselis

Annette Sweerts of Amsterdam, The Netherlands has reported the following about the Marselis family in Amsterdam. The two brothers Gabriel and Selio Marselis assisted in the recruiting of officers to the Danish-Norwegian army in 1657, an in the following short genealogy we will see that this family was heavily involved in the kingdom Denmark-Norway.

Since this is not a part of the main genealogies presented on this site, I leave Annette Sweerts documentation unchanged. This makes it a bit more difficult to read, as all sources are mentioned as you read, but on the other hand it will leave those of you with special interest in this family with good source documentation for further studies.

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There are two famous families, one is written Marselis and another one Marcelis, but they have nothing to do with each other.

I Jan Marselis {Amstelodamum 38}.
Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: names of this couple.He was married to @ van der Marck {Amstelodamum 38}. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: names of this couple. From this marriage: 1 probably Jan {Amstelodamum 38}, born circa 1543 (?), follows II.       

II Jan Marselis {Amstelodamum 38}, born circa 1543 (?), probably son of I.
Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: not sure about the parents following the book. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: names of this couple. He was married to Dina van Duffle d'Elswith {Amstelodamum 38}, born circa 1549 (?). Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: names of this couple. From this marriage:

1 Gabriel (senior) {NedLeeuw 1981}, born circa 1575, follows III.      

III Gabriel (senior) Marselis {NedLeeuw 1981}, koopman, commissaris and resident, born circa 1575, living in Hamburg (Duitsl.), died there on July 20, 1643, aged approximately 68 years, son of II.
Source Ned Leeuw 1981: he was presumably of the Southern-Netherlands; merchant in Rotterdam and later in Hamburg
Source Ned Leeuw 1975: commissionary and resident of the king in Denmark. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67:
date of his death; commisioner and resident of the king of Denmark
He was married to Anna l'Hermite (Ermit d'Ermitage) {NedLeeuw 1981}, coming from Antwerpen (Antwerpen) (BEL), born circa 1577 (?), died in Hamburg (Duitsl.) in January 1652, aged approximately 75 years, daughter of Pieter l'Hermite (Ermit d'Ermitage) {Amstelodamum 38} and Elisabeth Haunders {Amstelodamum 38}. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: place of death and date; names of her parents.
From this marriage:

1 Pieter (Peter) {NedLeeuw 1981}, born in Rotterdam (Z.H.) (NL) (?) circa 1600, died in the year 1672, aged approximately 72 years. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: He moved to Russia; he opened there iron mines and ironindustry, amongst others in company with Andreas Denijsz Winius. He became Danish resident in Moscou in 1640, was a delegate for the tzar to Denmark in 1643 and was by that occasion nobled by the Danish king.

He married the second time Anna Akkema, whose grandfather was from Harlingen. Peter's decendant does not play an important international role anymore. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: delegate of Russia in Denmark; nobled 17.06.1643. In 1632 he went to Russia where he was involved in a company of Duth industrials who leased the ironworks at Toela from tzar Alex Michael Romanov.
2 Selio (Celio Sillius) {NedLeeuw 1981}, born in Rotterdam (Z.H.) (NL) circa 1602, follows IV-a.
3 Gabriel (junior) {NedLeeuw 1981}, born in Hamburg (Duitsl.) in the year 1609, follows IV-b.
4 Leonard {NedLeeuw 1981}, christened in Hamburg (Duitsl.) on July 3, 1611 St Petri Kirche, follows IV-c.
5 Elisabeth {NedLeeuw 1981}. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: her son in law Poul von Klingenberg was from 1665 til 1667 Danish ambassador in the Republic. She was married in the year 1629 in church to Albert Baltzer Berns (Berg Bern) {NedLeeuw 1981}, born circa 1599 (?). Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: the familyname is two times different: Berg and Bern. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: probably from Dutch origin, but several family members lived in Denmark or had there their contacts. Through this marriage the contacts for the family Marselis were made stronger with Denmark and also with the Danish crown.     

IV-a Selio (Celio Sillius) Marselis {NedLeeuw 1981}, koopman, ijzermijnen and bankier, born in Rotterdam (Z.H.) (NL) circa 1602, living in Oslo (Noorw.) and in Kopenhagen (Denem.), died there in the year 1663, aged approximately 61 years, son of III. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: On 15.06.1638 he delivered the Admirality of Amsterdam 6 twelvepounders and six sixpounders. On 13.18.1638 4 twelvepounders (half of iron and half op copper) of 9 1/2 and 10 feetlenght, which he will let castored by the towns guncastor,probably Ahashuerus Coster.
One month later there is an other order of 5 pieces.
In october he bought the old guns from Amsterdam and let them be castored by the guncastor of Utrecht for the Admirality. The business went well in the year 1639/1640; also for the family Trip

Celio shipped
        09.05.1640 50 pieces artillery and 20.000 balls to La Rochelle
        05.06.1640 6 pieces artillery and 20.000 balls to Hamburg
        07.08.1640 5.000 pound gunpowder to England
        26.08.1640 20.000 pound gunpowder to England.
       
He was not very truthworthy, because he was charged several times for not delivering, or to many goods in the ship what was not declared well. Most of the time this was settled by the Admirality because they needed him too much, but they kept an eye on him and they let the authoroties search several his ships. He was called - in Dutch - De Lorrendraaier (in Norwegian: Lurendreieren), because he was not trustworthy and because of trade with the enemy. Source Algemeen Nederlands Familieblad X blz 185 and 213: several dates of birth,marriage and death of this family. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: at first he was a merchant in Amsterdam." In the heritance of his father was also  the ironwinning in Norway, which made him to move to Norway in 1644. There he founded in Kristiana (the nowadays Oslo) a house Marselienborg, of an unknown style for those region in that time; he reorganised as postdirector the postsystem; he was also involved in the strenghtening of the Danish warfleet.  He died in 1663 in Kopenhagen.

Also his decendants did not play a big role anymore. Source Jaarboek Amstelodamum 38 (1941) article from Dr M.G. de Boer: Een Amsterdamsche "Lorrendraaijer" (play a nasty trick) He had brothers in law Samuel Sauteyn and Jan van Starten junior. He was married to Anna van Straten {NedLeeuw 1981}, died before 1644, daughter of Jan Fransz van Straten {Amstelodamum 38} and Sara Monx (Munx Moncks Munniks)) {NedLeeuw 1981}. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: she is the sister of Isabeau van Straten X Gabriel Marselis (brother of Selio).

• From this marriage:
  1 Anna {Amstelodamum 38}.
  2 Sara Digna {Amstelodamum 38}. She was married to Arent Cool {Amstelodamum 38}.
  3 Johan {Amstelodamum 38}.      IV-b Gabriel (junior) Marselis {NedLeeuw 1981}, koopman, commissaris and ridder, born in Hamburg (Duitsl.) in the year 1609, died in the year 1673, aged 64 years, son of III. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: he was a merchant and Danish commissioner and resident of Amsterdam; he was nobled in 1665 by the Danish king.  Loans from him and from his father to the Danish crown were payed off in 1661 in the way that the crown the creditors forced to accept as payment domaingoods for a to high valuation. That is how a great goodscomplex in the surrounding of Arrhus came in hands of the family .GA Amsterdam: he had ironworks in Moskovia in 1641. Source Amstelodamum Jaarboek nr 38 1941 page 48-67: Lord of Haureballegaard, Tjildballe, Kallundborg and Moen; born march 1609 in Hamburg, commissioner of the king of Denmark, knight in the Danish Order of the Elefant; he married 15.06.1635 in Beemster with Isabeau van Straten born jan 1616 + 28.09.1652 (father Jans Fransz and Sara Munniks) He got the banns published in Beemster (N.H.) on June 15, 1635 and was married in the year 1637 in church to Isabeau van Straten {NedLeeuw 1893-76}, born in Beemster (N.H.) on June 15, 1635, daughter of Jan Fransz van Straten {Amstelodamum 38} and Sara Monx (Munx Moncks Munniks)) {NedLeeuw 1981}. Ned Leeuw 1893 blz 76 naam + huwelijksjaar.
  

• From this marriage:
  1 Jan {NedLeeuw 1981}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) in the year 1641, follows V-a.
  2 Frans {NedLeeuw 1981}, jonkheer, born in the year 1643, living in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL), died in the year 1705, aged 62 years. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: the line died probably in 1794.
  3 Willem I {NedLeeuw 1981}, jonkheer, born in the year 1645, living in (Denem.), died in the year 1683, aged 38 years. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: he received under the name Gyldenkrone in 1673 a raise of his property to the barony Vilhemsborg. From him decends the now living Danish family Gyldenkrone, which possessed Vilhemsborg till 1923. Of course this makes the question why at this raise the familyname Van Marselis - the father added the van after his nobilitation- was changed in Gydenkrone.
  4 Constantijn {NedLeeuw 1981}, kolonel and jonkheer, born in the year1647, living in (Denem.), died in the year 1699, aged 52 years. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: his barony Marselisborg was raised in the same way as his brother Willam's in 1680, without a namechange. This was done in the form of a loan; when Constantijn died childness the barony expired again to the Danish crown. He was married in the year 1670 in church to Charlotte Carius (Charisius?) {NedLeeuw 1981}, christened in 's-Gravenhage (Z.H.) (NL) in the year 1657, died in the year 1706, aged 49 years, probably daughter of @ Charisius {NedLeeuw 1981}. Source Elias page 871: her christian name + mariage year + and year of death.
  5 Anna {Elias p 871}, jonkvrouw. She was married to Gerard Treschouw {Elias p 871}, born in Meen (Denem.).
• V-a Jan Marselis {NedLeeuw 1981}, jonkheer, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) in the year 1641, living there, died in the year 1702, aged 61 years, son of IV-b. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: he founded a line who died in 1818. After that the name van Marselis was taken over by the family Hartsinck. Amongst Jan's decendants we see in 1748 for the first time a member of the council of Amsterdam; so only after one and a half century after coming to the Republic a meber of this family, whoch was on financial territory one of the first in Europe, established such a position. Source Elias page 871: year and place of birth. He got the banns published on October 9, 1668 in church to Catharina (Cornelia) van Thilt {Elias p 871}, born in Haarlem (N.H.) (NL) in the year 1649, died on November 12, 1702, aged 53 years, daughter of Jan van Thilt {Elias p 871} and Maria Reynst {Elias p 871}.
  From this marriage:
  1 Isabella Maria {Elias p 871}, born in Haarlem (N.H.) (NL) in November 1669, died there in the year 1692, aged 23 years.  She got the banns published in Amsterdam (Sloten) (N.H.) on January 7, 1687 in church to Johannes Romswinckel {Elias p 871}, born in Blaricum (N.H.) (NL) in the year 1652, died in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on July 3, 1703, aged 51 years, son of Mattheus Romswinckel {Elias p 871} and Catharina de Greve {Elias p 871}. Source Elias page 871: councillor and commisionor of the king Of Prusia in Amsterdam.
  2 Gabriel {Elias p 871}, born in the year 1671, died young.
  3 Jan {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 1, 1672, follows VI.       
• VI Jan Marselis {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 1, 1672, died on December 22, 1727, aged 55 years, son of V-a. Source Elias page 871: dates of his two marriages and the names and parents of his two wifes and two kids from the first marriage. He got the banns published in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on September 30, 1698 in church (1) to Anna Elisabeth Pater {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) circa 1660 (?), died on June 5, 1706, aged approximately 46 years, daughter of Dirk Pater {Elias p 871} and Elisabeth van Heeden {Elias p 871}.
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Jan {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on May 24, 1700, follows VII.
  2 Theodorus {Elias p 871}. He got the banns published in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on September 22, 1711 in church (2) to Catharina Margaretha d' Auxbrebis {Elias p 871}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on June 1, 1674, daughter of Isaack d' Auxbrebis {Elias p 871} and Catharina van Schrijvelbergh {Elias p 871}.      
• VII Jan van Marselis {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, schepen, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on May 24, 1700, living there, died there on January 25, 1776, aged 75 years, son of VI. Source Elias page 871: alderman He got the banns published in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 5, 1729 in church to Johanna Georgesdr Clifford {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on February 22, 1709, died on October 13, 1767, aged 58 years, daughter of Georges Clifford {NedLeeuw 1910-14} and Johanna Bouwens {Elias p 871}.
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Jan (jonkheer van Zandvoort) {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on November 1, 1731, follows VIII.     
• VIII Jan (jonkheer van Zandvoort) van Marselis {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, bankier, born on November 1, 1731, died on August 7, 1792, aged 60 years, son of VII. Ned Leeuw blz 14: heer van Zandvoort, geb. 1 Nov. 1731, overl. 7 Aug. 1792, Bankier, Directeur van den Levantschen Handel, Schepen van Amsterdam, Kolonel der schutterij, He was married in the year 1754 in church (1) to Catharina IJda Loot {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born circa 1729 (?), died before 1764, aged at most 35 years, daughter of Paulus (junior) (heer Zandvoort en Schoten) Loot {NedLeeuw 1910-14} and Elisabeth Bertha van Ceulen {NedLeeuw 1910-14}. Ned Leeuw blz 14: vrouwe van Zandvoort Kinderloos huwelijk. He was married in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on March 20, 1764 (2) to Marie Rembrandina Agnes Buteux {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in 's-Gravenhage (Z.H.) (NL) circa 1732 (?), died in Vogelenzang (N.H.) (NL) on July 12, 1790, aged approximately 58 years, daughter of Pieter Buteux {NedLeeuw 1910-14} and Agnes Anna van Sandick {NedLeeuw 1910-14}.
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Johanna Henriette (jonkvrouwe) {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on April 10, 1765, follows IX-a.
  2 Maria Petronella (jonkvrouw) {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on December 27, 1766, follows IX-b.  
  IX-a Johanna Henriette (jonkvrouwe) van Marselis {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on April 10, 1765, died on October 4, 1818, aged 53 years, daughter of VIII. She was married on October 7, 1781 in church to Jan Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, schepen, born on October 21, 1759, living in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL), died in Delft (Z.H.) (NL) on April 30, 1823, aged 63 years, son of Pieter Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14} and Johanna Margaretha Hasselaer {NedLeeuw 1910-14}.
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Jan Pieter {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on December 5, 1784, died in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on December 2, 1859, aged 74 years. Ned Leeuw blz 14: consul der Nederlanden te Alicante, wethouder van Delft
  2 Catharina Susanna {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 24, 1796, follows X.
  3 Maria Rijnbrandina {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on November 24, 1800, died in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on May 17, 1860, aged 59 years.
  4 Henriette Agnes {NedLeeuw 1910-14}. X Catharina Susanna van Marselis Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 24, 1796, died in Brummen (Geld.) (NL) on April 10, 1874, aged 77 years, daughter of IX-a. Geb datum en plaats Dig Stamb Delft. She was married in Delft (Z.H.) (NL) on July 5, 1820 to her cousin Hendrik van Marselis Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on December 31, 1790, died in Brummen (Geld.) (NL) on May 16, 1872, aged 81 years, son of IX-b. Geb datum en plaats Dig Stamb Delft.  Ned Leeuw 1941: auditeur bij den Staatsraad van Koning Lodewijk Napoleon en controleur der belastingen Huw datum en plaats Dig Stamb Delft.
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Jean Henri {NedLeeuw 1910-23}, burgemeester, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 17, 1821, died in Nunspeet (Geld.) on December 25, 1877, aged 56 years. Ned Leeuw blz 23 burgemeester van Ermelo He was married in Leeuwarden (Friesl.) (NL) on August 6, 1846 (1) to Maria Berdina Jongsma {NedLeeuw 1910-23}, born in Leeuwarden (Friesl.) (NL) on May 3, 1820, died in Delft (Z.H.) (NL) on May 14, 1853, aged 33 years. He was married (2) to Vitringa Coulon {NedLeeuw 1910-23}, born circa 1821 (?).
  
• 2 Renaud Charles {NedLeeuw1941-32}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on May 24, 1828, died there on January 28, 1896, aged 67 years. He was married in Heerenveen (Friesl.) (NL) on May 7, 1881 to Juliana Anna Margaretha Wouters {NedLeeuw1941-32}, born in Sneek (Fr.) (NL) circa 1838 (?), died on May 24, 1892, aged approximately 54 years. Ned Leeuw 1941: bij testamentaire beschikking bestemde zij haar buiten "Veenwijk" te Oudeschoot tot een tehuis voor "bejaarde, onbemiddelde dames uit den beteren stand", de Julia Jan Wouterts stichting.     
• IX-b Maria Petronella (jonkvrouw) van Marselis {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on December 27, 1766, died on September 20, 1818, aged 51 years, daughter of VIII. She was married on September 21, 1785 in church to Pieter Cornelis Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, schepen, born on December 16, 1756, living in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL), died on June 6, 1809, aged 52 years, son of Pieter Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14} and Johanna Margaretha Hasselaer {NedLeeuw 1910-14}.
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Pieter {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born on December 3, 1786, living in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL), died on June 18, 1859, aged 72 years. Ned Leeuw blz 14: lid van de Raad van Amsterdam
  2 Hendrik {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on December 31, 1790, died in Brummen (Geld.) (NL) on May 16, 1872, aged 81 years. He was married in Delft (Z.H.) (NL) on July 5, 1820 to his cousin Catharina Susanna van Marselis Hartsinck {NedLeeuw 1910-14}, born in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on April 24, 1796, follows X
• IV-c Leonard Marselis {NedLeeuw 1981}, koopman and merchant, christened in Hamburg (Duitsl.) on July 3, 1611 St Petri Kirche, living there, died in Haarlem (N.H.) (NL) on October 5, 1667, buried in Heemstede (N.H.) (NL) in the year 1667, aged 56 years, son of III. He got the banns published in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on July 22, 1645 and was married there on August 29, 1645 in church (1) to Catalina (Catharina) van Cracauw {NedLeeuw 1981}, born in Hoorn (N.H.) (NL) on January 24, 1621, died in Amsterdam (N.H.) (NL) on June 3, 1646, aged 25 years, daughter of Carel Carelsz van Cracauw {NedLeeuw 1975} and Anna
  Hermensdr van Ens {NedLeeuw 1975}. Source Ned Leeuw 1975: her ancestors. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: She was daughter of the Dutch resident in the Sont Catharina van Cracow van Hoorn met hare moeder Anna van Ens, noch een vader hebbende in de Sont. He got the banns published in Haarlem (N.H.) (NL) on February 18, 1648 in church (2) to Aletta van de Camer {NedLeeuw 1981}, born in Haarlem (N.H.) (NL) circa 1622 (?).
  
• From this marriage:
  1 Anna Margaretha {NedLeeuw 1975}, christened in Hamburg (Duitsl.) on August 6, 1648, follows V-b.      
• V-b Anna Margaretha Marselis {NedLeeuw 1975}, christened in Hamburg (Duitsl.) on August 6, 1648, died in Depenau (Holstein), buried in Preetz on March 23, 1736, aged 87 years, daughter of IV-c. She got the banns published in the year 1668 in church (1) to Albert Baltzer Berns auf Wandsbek {NedLeeuw 1975}, christened in Hamburg (Duitsl.) on December 18, 1642, died in Wansbek in the year 1670, aged 28 years. She got the banns published on October 1, 1672 in church (2) to Joachim von Brockdorff auf Depenau {NedLeeuw 1981}, born on April 2, 1643, died in Depenau (Holstein) on June 14, 1719, aged 76 years. Ned Leeuw 1975 genealogy van Cracauw: " Oberst "Source Ned Leeuw 1981: He was her cousin or nephew (we use the same word in Dutch for both of them)
  From this marriage:
  1 Anna Constance {NedLeeuw 1981}. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: after her divorce of her first husband she bacame the mistress of August II of Poland. She was married (1) to (and divorced from) Adolph Magnus (count) van Hoym {NedLeeuw 1981}, minister. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: He was the minister of finance of Saxon. She was married (2) to August II of Poland {NedLeeuw 1981}. Source Ned Leeuw 1981: sovereighn of Saxon