Another famous relative
Inspired by my previous discovery I started browsing through some of the internet-published ancestries of famous Dutch people. A helpful resource is the website linked to an earlier genealogical television program in the Netherlands called Verre Verwanten (distant relatives).
The idea behind this program was a bit different. They would invite one famous Dutch person and one ‘ordinary’ person. For the Dutch celeb they would find the earliest relative that would be of humble situation. The ordinary person was selected based on his descendancy of a famous historical figure. By gradually moving back in time they would discuss historical facts, professions, and all sorts of trivia related to the people they were tracking. This was done in the form of a quiz where the number of correct answers along the way were the number of hints they would receive at the end towards guessing the profession of the poor ancester of the famous person, and the identity of the famous ancestor of the ordinary person. All would be revealed in the end and the information of the family history traversed was published on the website which (thankfully) still exists today.
The show that is relevant today was the fifth episode of the second series which aired februari 1st 2005. The two guests were Loes Luca (famous dutch actress and singer) and Jan Groneman. Their family history had been research by the Central bureau of Genealogy (CBG) in the Netherlands. As it turns out, I share a common ancestor with Loes Luca.
Interestingly, Loes Luca was born in Rotterdam with a lot of her ancestry in that area of the Netherlands as wel. This coincides with a lot of ancestry on my mother’s side. The link however is on my father’s side, more specifically on his mother’s side. This family is called Mudde. Mudde is interesting in it’s own right as this is where I get my Scottish heritage about which I posted previously. So Loes Luca also has Scottish roots (but may not yet know about it…)
Let’s see how Loes is part of the Mudde family tree. Her father was named Luca (as you would expect) and his father was married to a Mrs Catharina Wilhelmina Pons. Pons is a well known and well researched name in the Rotterdam Area. Her father, Louis Hendrik Pons, born in Kralingen, which is now part of Rotterdam, on 10 okt. 1869, was a Masoner, and married to Aaltje de Bruijn. Aaltje was born in Lekkerkerk on the 12th of November 1870. Lekkerkerk is where my great-great grandfather Leendert Mudde was born in 1818. This really is Mudde-territory. It was John Thomasz (Jan Teunisz Muddi that moved there from Rotterdam in somewhere in his life between 1678 and 1736. You see the English name still used. His father was born in Masterton, Scotland. That’s why Lekkerkerk is so important as a basis for this family.
Let’s get back to Aaltje de Bruijn. Her father Cornelis was married to Hester Oudenaarde, born around 1834 in Lekkerkerk. The Oudenaarde name was the trigger for me to check into this family relation as it was present in my data. It is her grandfather, Claas Gerritse Oudenaarde, who is married to a Mudde. Hester Mudde, born in 1780. It takes two more generations to find our common ancestor: first Ernst Mudde, Hester’s father and then Jacob Jansz Muddi, born July 10 1712 in Lekkerkerk. There we have the common ancestor, together with his wife Hester Ernst van Rheenen, baptised February 14 1719 in Lekkerkerk.
I must say here, Welcome to the Mudie Clan, dear Loes!
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