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The first generations
The history of the Hogewoning family starts in Rotterdam. Founder was Dirk Janszoon (Dirk, son of Jan). He was a
besom-maker. His name is found for the first time in a notaries act from 1604 when he acted as a
witness. As a witness he had to be at least 25 years old, so Dirk must have been born before 1580. Dirk Janszoon himself never used the name
Hogewoning. He had three children: a boy and two girls. His son Pieter Dirkszoon, a besom-maker like his
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At least three of his seven son's also became besom-makers. Two of
them, Jan and Cornelis, tried to earn their living in the city of Leiden. In Leiden Jan married the widow of a
besom-maker. They remained childless. Cornelis Pieterszoon Hogewoning married three
times. From the second marriage two children reached adulthood: Cornelis and
David. In 1692 Cornelis signed on as a sailor on a ship of the Dutch East Indies Company
(VOC). He died childless in the hospital of Batavia. |
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David married in 1704 at Rijnsburg and bought a house in the center of the village along the Vliet. He is the forefather of all the namesakes Hogewoning living
today. Lijsbeth van Rijn, David's first wife, came from Lisse. She died in
childbirth. The widower remarried Elisabeth Kromhout, a woman from a well known family from
Rijnsburg. They had seven children: four daughters and three sons: Cornelis, Pieter and
Willem. All later generations can be traced back to these three. |
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Distribution in the 20th century
In the spring of 1947 a census was taken in the Netherlands for the first time since the end of the Second World War. The name Hogewoning is counted 488
times. We see the following varieties of the spelling of the name: |
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Spelling
Hogewoning
Hoogewoning
Hoogewooning
Hoogewoonink
Ho(o)genwoning
Total
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Number
383
41
4
58
2
488
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Percentage
78.5
8.4
0.8
11.9
0.4
100
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The largest proportion of Hogewonings is found in Rijnsburg, namely 139 or 29%. Second in the order of municipalities is The Hague with 75 namesakes (15%), followed by Amsterdam where 58 Hogewonings (12%) lived in 1947. Oegstgeest is on the fourth position with 27 namesakes or 6%. Katwijk follows with 25
namesakes, which constitutes almost 6%. These figures imply that in 1947 approximately 40% of the Hogewonings lived in or near
Rijnsburg. Until today many Hogewonings have their residence in the town of
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Family meetings
In April 1994 the first meeting was held in the Voorhof at
Rijnsburg. Almost three hundred people attended the meeting. The first results of the research were shown to the public by the Working Committee Genealogy
Hogewoning. A second meeting was held in September 1995. The main event was the presentation of the book
'Terug naar de Hoege
Woeninck, genealogie van de familie Hogewoning' . On Saturday 27 September 1997 the third meeting was held at
Rijnsburg. The theme for this meeting was emigration. The stories were told of families who left the Netherlands and tried to build an existence
elsewhere. Emigrants from Canada and descendants of emigrants to the USA came to
Rijnsburg to meet there
ancestors. The fifth meeting took place on 28 September 2002. The sixth meeting
was held on 24 Sep 2005. During the eight meeting on 16 April 2011 a new
family genealogy was published.
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Rijnsburg 15 April 2000
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The research
The research into the Hogewoning name still continues. Since the book was published in 1995 a number of questions could be answered. The new information is published in the foundation's newsletter 'Messages from the Hoege Woeninck'. Also the new information can be found in
the 2011 edition of the family genealogy Terug naar de
Hoege Woeninck (1575-2010). Still a number of questions remains to be answered. Please refer to our page: 'Questions'.
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