Van Herwaarden Coppersmith Workshop, Aalten

Peperstraat 4 (a), Aalten

At this location once lived the Van Herwaarden family, a lineage of coppersmiths who operated a workshop here for approximately 125 years until 1850. Around 1725, the couple Everhard van Herwaarden and Berendina van Isendoorn settled in Aalten, initially living with Berendina’s father, Abraham van Isendoorn, a man of high social standing. They subsequently established a coppersmith workshop on the small street that later became known as Peperstraat.

Generations later, their children and grandchildren also lived in Weesp, Naarden, and Amsterdam, including Jacobus Hendricus van Herwaarden. He was born in 1817 in Weesp, as the son of coppersmith Jacobus Everhardus van Herwaarden and Anna Catharina Berner, a ‘coppersmith-trader’. Jacobus Hendricus moved in with his grandfather Jacob(us), who had taken over the coppersmith workshop in Aalten and saw in him a successor.

However, this succession in Aalten never came to fruition. In 1837, the twenty-year-old Jacobus Hendricus left for Amsterdam and from there departed for Suriname. In 1848, Jacobus, nearly 89 years old, returned to his city of birth, Amsterdam. This marked the end of the Van Herwaarden coppersmith workshop in Peperstraat.

Owners

Overview is incomplete.

Year	Plot	Owner	Description
1832	I-1148	Jacobus van Herwaarde	240 m² house & yard

Residents

Jacobus van Herwaarden (Amsterdam, 21-10-1759 – Amsterdam, 05-01-1854)
married on 22-03-1789 in Aalten to
Mette te Kulve (Winterswijk, 23-09-1763 – Aalten, 27-02-1844)

Jacobus became a church member in Aalten on 07-04-1779.

Jacobus is mentioned in 1813 as a ‘garçon de chaudronnier’ (coppersmith’s assistant) in the Register Civique of Aalten.

Population register 1823-1838

Aalten 254

Jacobus van Herwaarden (Amsterdam, 21-10-1759 – Amsterdam, 05-01-1854), coppersmith
Mette te Kulve (Winterswijk, 23-09-1763 – Aalten, 27-02-1844)

Population register 1838-1850

Aalten 269

Jacobus van Herwaarden (Amsterdam, 21-10-1759 – Amsterdam, 05-01-1854), coppersmith
Mette te Kulve (Winterswijk, 23-09-1763 – Aalten, 27-02-1844)

Next residents:

Jacob Simon Schaap (Aalten, 02-02-1813), merchant
married on 04-02-1836 in Aalten to
Rebecca van Gelder (Winterswijk, 10-12-1812)

Population register 1850-1860

Aalten 269

Jacob Simon Schaap (Aalten, 02-02-1813), merchant
Rebecca van Gelder (Winterswijk, 10-12-1812)

Next residents:

Cornelis Philippus Jacobus Penning (Zutphen, 04-01-1818), registrar
married on 18-09-1857 in Aalten to
Maria Jacoba Bekink (Amsterdam, 24-06-1821)