Pieter Losecaat Vermeer (1856–1909) served as a notary in Aalten from 1894 to 1908.
Pieter Losecaat Vermeer was born on 8 January 1856 in Beek (Ubbergen), the son of Pieter Anthoni Jacobus Losecaat Losecaat Vermeer and Ephraïma Bartha Johanna De Jong.
At the end of 1894, he was appointed notary in Aalten, succeeding notary J.B.W. Maitland, who had passed away shortly before. At the time of his appointment, he was working as a trainee notary (kandidaat-notaris) in Nijmegen.
Notary Losecaat Vermeer lived and worked at various addresses in Aalten, successively: Landstraat 23-25 (now Kuypers Florist), Markt 1 (now the police station on Köstersbulte) and Hogestraat 2a (later known as the premises of saddler Gerstmann).
On 18 May 1905, at the age of 49, Pieter Losecaat Vermeer married Paulina Cornelia Johanna Antoinetta de Wilde from Schoonhoven, who was 21 years his junior, in Haarlem.
Illness
In early 1906, illness forced him to step down from his duties. J.H.W. Mensink, until then a trainee notary in Winterswijk, was appointed as deputy notary. Unfortunately, Losecaat Vermeer did not recover from his illness. In November 1908, he was granted an honourable discharge by Royal Decree, and Mensink was appointed as his successor.
At the end of November 1908, Pieter and his wife moved to Haarlem. Just a few months later, on 20 March 1909, Pieter Losecaat Vermeer passed away there. He was buried at the General Cemetery in Schoonhoven.
