This is a registration where Anna van Broeckhoven states she personally guarantees (with her possessions as collateral) the inheritance her children should receive from her deceased husband as stated in a will she and her husband composed before notary Jan de Molijn on 28 January 1611; children were entitled to an equal part each of the inheritance of a deceased parent; the surviving parent needed to guarantee the children would receive their part once they reached legal maturity (at their 25th birthday or the day they marrried) as well as proper legal guardianship for those children. This could be arranged via a will or an arrangement with the local Orphan's Chamber (Weeskamer); the latter institution also took care of this if no prior arrangements or wills were made.
In this case Anna and her late husband had made these arrangements via the will of 1611 and had excluded the Orphan's Chamber. As this usually was done for their own children, I assume that the children mentioned were their own and not from a previous marriage:
Ludolff - aged 23
Aeltge - aged 17
Rachel - aged 15
Maria - aged 13
Jacobus - aged 11
Anne
zei op donderdag 12 december 2024 - 11:50