Overview
The Lueb family
The roots of the Catholic Lueb family lie in Rees, Germany. There, Jacob Lueb and Maria Kaldenhoeven had a son baptised on 9 February 1785. They named him Johannes, known as Jan. He became a baker and regularly called at the imposing gate of the Wasserburg in Anholt, either to bake bread in the kitchen or to deliver it. During one of these visits he met Françoise Persille (1777–1824), a governess born in Nancy, France, who had come to Anholt for work. The meeting led to their marriage in Anholt in 1811.
At some point, for reasons not revealed by the sources, the couple moved to Bredevoort. Five children were born there: the first stillborn (1812), followed by Lodewijk (1813), Maria Magdalena (1817), Grada Aleijda (1819) and Françoise (1824). Françoise Persille died in Bredevoort on 9 January 1824, aged 47, leaving Jan Lueb to care for four young children. On 24 August 1826, he remarried in Aalten. His second wife was 41-year-old Harmina Johanna Meijerink (1785). They had one daughter, Carolina Berendina (1827).
For several years, Jan Lueb served as churchwarden of St George’s Church in Bredevoort. Minutes of the board meetings portray him as a calm man who avoided escalating contentious matters and could persuade others to do the same. The parish clearly trusted him: he leased a cow pasture from the church on the Zwanenbroek in Bredevoort for three guilders a year. On 21 July 1842, the Roman Catholic parish also granted him a private loan of one hundred guilders, on which he had to pay annual interest. The surety was W. Meijrink, a reasonably prosperous relative of Jan Lueb’s wife.
Around 1853, Jan Lueb ran into serious financial difficulties when his four children from his first marriage claimed their inheritance. On 7 July 1853, the church board therefore wrote to Monsignor Johannes Zwijsen, Bishop of Utrecht. The letter described the situation as follows:
“Volgens een onderhandsche obligatie in de kerkenkist alhier aanwezig waarvan duidelijkheidshalve ingesloten de Copie Sub. No. 1 wordt overgezonden, is de kerkmeester J. Lueb een kapitaal van f. 100,— schuldig aan deze Gemeente. Omdat het alhier algemeen bekend is dat de voornoemde kerkmeester door zijn meerderjarige voorkinderen, die hun erfdeel eischen, en door verschillende andere Crediteuren tot den verkoop van alle Zijne goederen wordt genoodzaakt, en het volgens het algemeen gevoelen en zelfs volgens de mondelinge verklaring van een zijner schoonzonen meer dan waarschijnlijk is dat er een te kort kan plaats hebben, zoo wenschte het kerkbestuur gaarne te weten, hoe het hierin moet handelen, daar de borg onvermogend is.”
Zwijsen advised the church board to examine carefully whether there was still a realistic prospect of recovering the hundred guilders and the interest due. At its meeting of 26 November 1854, which also dealt with this matter, the board decided to take no further action against Jan Lueb until 1 January 1855, first waiting to see whether he would repay the recalled principal and outstanding interest.
Because of the problems surrounding Lueb, together with earlier disputes in the parish about other parishioners’ use of church property, the church board had an inventory drawn up on 12 July 1855. It listed everyone who leased meadow from the church or owed money to it under a bond. The entry for Jan Lueb read:
“Een obligatie ten laste van J. Lueb, gewezen kerkmeester, groot f. 100,00 met ene borg. Er is beslooten omdat er geen rente is betaald en de debiteur waarschijnlijk een frauduleus bankroet heeft gemaakt of nog zal maken en de borg reeds vele jaren bankroet is, deze obligatie in handen van bovengenoemden notaris te stellen, ten einde te handelen volgens de wet.”
The board subsequently felt compelled to write again to the Bishop of Utrecht. In a letter dated 29 June 1856, arranged under five separate points (A to E), it dealt with the Lueb case under point B:
“Het kapitaal van J. Lueb, gewezen kerkmeester, is volgens het gevoelen van het kerkbestuur bijna zeker verloren. Het kerkbestuur heeft alle mogelijke zachte middelen gebruikt, om er nog iets van terug te krijgen, doch alle moeite is vruchteloos geweest. Den weg van regten durft het kerkbestuur niet in te slaan, omdat dit wellicht evenmin zou baten. Het kerkbestuur is derhalve van meening om deze zaak ook maar stil te laten berusten.”
On 4 July 1856, Monsignor Zwijsen added just one line on the matter beneath the letter received from Bredevoort: “De authorisatie in A. B. en C. bovenstaande wordt bij deze gegeven.” He then returned the letter to Bredevoort.
Jan Lueb left for Winterswijk on 20 April 1867. At the end of 1872, he returned to Bredevoort, where he died on 2 February 1874.
Residents
Population register 1823-1838
Joannem Lueb (Rees, 09-02-1785), baker
(1) Françoise Persille (Nancy/F, 19-03-1777)
(2) Harmina Johanna Meijerink (Aalten, 04-05-1785)
Population register 1838-1850
Joannem Lueb (Rees, 09-02-1785), baker
Harmina Johanna Meijerink (Aalten, 04-05-1785)
Population register 1850-1860
Joannem Lueb (Rees, 09-02-1785), baker
Harmina Johanna Meijerink (Aalten, 04-05-1785)
Next residents, daughter and son-in-law:
Population register 1860-1870
Franciscus Antonius Balink (Winterswijk, 29-04-1826), baker
Carolina Berendina Lueb (Bredevoort, 11-07-1827)
Next residents:
Garrit Jan Huinink (Aalten, 01-04-1811), farmer
Janna Berendina Neerhof (Aalten, 13-02-1821)
Next residents:
Population register 1870-1880
Jan Willem Dammers (Lichtenvoorde, 12-06-1845), blacksmith
Gerritjen Veldhorst (Varsseveld, 28-01-1832)
Next residents:
Theodorus Klein Nibbelink (Lichtenvoorde, 27-02-1839), blacksmith
Carolina Geertruida Schneider (Dinxperlo, 09-02-1852)
Population register 1880-1890
Theodorus Klein Nibbelink (Lichtenvoorde, 27-02-1839), blacksmith
Carolina Geertruida Schneider (Dinxperlo, 09-02-1852)
Next residents, widow and second husband:
Jan Roelof Kleinhesselink (Heelweg, 03-02-1860), blacksmith
Carolina Geertruida Schneider (Dinxperlo, 09-02-1852)
Population register 1890-1900
Jan Roelof Kleinhesselink (Heelweg, 03-02-1860), blacksmith
Carolina Geertruida Schneider (Dinxperlo, 09-02-1852)
Population register 1900-1910
Jan Roelof Kleinhesselink (Heelweg, 03-02-1860), farrier and stove smith
Carolina Geertruida Schneider (Dinxperlo, 09-02-1852)
Population register 1910-1920
Jan Roelof Kleinhesselink (Heelweg, 03-02-1860), blacksmith
Carolina Geertruida Schneider (Dinxperlo, 09-02-1852)
Next residents:
Engelberthus Hendrikus Brethouwer (Bredevoort, 16-05-1895), factory worker
Antonia Carolina Lammers (De Heurne, 10-02-1898)
Address directory 1934
Bredevoort 76 > Prinsenstraat 3
E.H. Brethouwer
Address directory 1967
Prinsenstraat 3
E.H. Brethouwer
Owners
This overview is incomplete.
| Year | Plot | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | B-229 | Jan Lueb, baker | 310 m² house & yard |
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