Johan van Wely (abt. 1568 - bef. 1616)

Born about 1568 in Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor (Hawkins) Haeckens — married 2 Jan 1597 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Descendants

Died before 26 Mar 1616 before about age 48 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

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Biography

Johan (Jan)  was  born  in 1568  or 1569  at Barneveld  in Gelderland ^[1] Uit het ondertrouwregister  blijkt dat Jan van Wely  in januari 1597 op 28 jarige  leeftijd  trouwt  met  Leonora :  On 2 January 1597, Jan van Wely the younger, from Barneveld, 28 years old, assisted by his father Jan van Wely, was betrothed to Leonora Hawkins, from Antwerp, 18 years old, living in the Warmoesstraat, assisted by her mother Anna Wilkens. ^[2][3]. His  parents  were Johan ( Jan)  van  Wely  en  Geertruyt  van  Bijler (Bijlaer ?) About his father we don't know a lot, only that he owned a loan below Rijswijk en must have come from that area, mother Geertruyt, born at Barneveld around 1555 had some brothers that went to Amsterdam and were succesfull in business. The van Wely’s,  or actually the  van  Leeuwen  van  Wely’s, were pawned with two area's two and a half acre land at the kerspel Rijswijk ( the Neder Betuwe) and again three acres of land in the same kerspel. This property passes from father to son and when his father passes away around 1570 Jan is the successor.

Occupation

Jan just like his brother Willem (1579‐1653)^[4]probably was in Den Hague where he was apprenticed to a jeweler or a goldsmith to become a goldsmith , diamond engraver and the engraver of gemstones. He settled after his marriage in Amsterdam where he was associated with his brother Willem. After almost 20 years it must have been tempting for the company of both brothers and Kiliaens trading company to join. In 1614 the trading-company  Jan van Wely & Co was set up ^[5]

Jan was a jeweler, sometimes also mentioned as banker and international trader. He also was in the art and rarity business.

Marriage

Wolfert  van Bijler  (ca. 1557 1615), his uncle and a younger brother of his mother Geertruyt, was working in the diamont and art- business, trough Wolfert, Jan probably met Leonora Hawkins, she was Wolferts stephdaughter, and they married January 1597 at Amsterdam. ^[6] Jan  van  Wely  de jonge, van Barneveld  (doorgestreept van Rijswijk), 28 jaar, geass. d. z. vader  Jan van Wely, de geboden  moeten ook  te  ’s  Gravenhage gedaan worden  ondertr. op 2. jan. 1597  met Leonora Hawkins,  geb . te Antwerpen,18 jaar, dochter v.d. lijnwaadkoper Thomas Hawkins, won. in  de  Warmoesstraat, geass. d.h.  moeder Anna Wilkens. ^[7]

Children

1. Johan born ca 1599 , stayed single.
2. Thomas, of him we know he must have been born around 1600 he married  Anna  Maria  Isaackz, a daughter of the painter Pieter Isaacksz
3.  Anna was the eldest daughter and must have been born around  dochter 1601 zijn  geboren. Anna  (1601‐1670) ended up the best, she  married 1627 the 16 years older, Killiaen  van  Rensselaer  (1585‐1643), grounder of the colony  Rensselaerswijck in the  New‐Netherlands.
4. kind: Willem doopdatum: 18-10-1609 kerk: Oude Kerk godsdienst: Hervormd vader: [van] Welij, Johan moeder: Hakins, Leonora ^[8]
5. kind: Geertruijt doopdatum: 11-03-1612 kerk: Nieuwe Kerk godsdienst: Hervormd vader: Welij, Johan moeder: Huberts, Leonora ^[9]
6. kind: Susanna doopdatum: 06-10-1613 kerk: Nieuwe Kerk godsdienst: Hervormd vader: [van] Welij, Jehan moeder: Hakius, Leonora ^[10]
7. kind: Davit doopdatum: 10-05-1615 kerk: Oude Kerk godsdienst: Hervormd vader: [van] Welij, Johan moeder: Hakins, Leonora ^[11]

Death

In March 1616 the whole country was in turmoil because of the: grouwelijcke moord begaen aenden person of Jan van Wely , coopman ende juwelier van Amsterdam. The gruesome murder of Jan Wely, merchant and jeweler from Amsterdam. Two Frenchmen in the service of Prince Maurits wanted the expensive jewels the jeweler had with him when he wanted to sell it at the court of the Stadtholder. The fact he was murdered by two servants of Prince Maurits, was a great scandal in the early seventeenth century , and is well known to historians of the early modern Dutch history.^[12]Den Hague March, 1616. On the landfill of the Courtyard 's the lifeless body was found of the well-known Amsterdam jeweler Jan van Wely, who two months before this, was reported missing by his family and was last seen in the Stadholderly department from Maurice at the Parliament Buildings . According to insiders at the court van Wely wanted to sell a diamond studded hat band to the governor. Jan van Welij was buried at Amsterdam (Zuiderkerk) March 26, 1616.

Burial

ingeschrevene: Jan [van] Welij, date funeral/ datum begrafenis: 26-03-1616 begraafplaats: Zuider Kerk ^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ De Roever noemt 1568, anderen 1569.SAA, DTB, inv.nr. 408, f. 112  (2 januari 1597) .
2. ↑ DTB 408/50 - (van Dillen)
3. ↑ Source: 17th Century Hollanders Ondertrouw Amsterdam
4. ↑ according de Roever
5. ↑ WIC: Groot-kapitaalboek Kamer Amsterdam, Naam: J. van Welij
6. ↑   SAA,  DTB,  inv.nr.  408,  f. 112  (2 januari  1597).
7. ↑ SAA, DTB, inv.nr. 408, f. 112  (2 januari 1597); transcriptie  in J.G.  van  Dillen , Het oudste aandeelhoudersregister van de Kamer Amsterdam der Oost­Indische Compagnie  (Den Haag 1958), 143
8. ↑ bronverwijzing: DTB 4, p.296 Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Doopregister: NL-SAA-24395226
9. ↑ bronverwijzing: DTB 39, p.279 Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Doopregister: NL-SAA-24229454
10. ↑ bronverwijzing: DTB 39, p.330 Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Doopregister: NL-SAA-24506290
11. ↑ bronverwijzing: DTB 5, p.142 Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Doopregister: NL-SAA-24238715
12. ↑  N. de Roever, Uit onze oude Amstelstad. Schetsen en tafereelen betreffende de geschiedenis der veste, het l terdam 1890), 115‐121; P.P. de Baar, ‘De moord op 2‐344. even en de zeden harer vroegere bewoners (Amsterdam 1890) Maurits’ juwelier’, Ons Amsterdam 12 (2000), 34De Baar, ‘De moord op Maurits’ juwelier’, 344.
13. ↑ bronverwijzing: DTB 1089A, p.11 Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Begraafregisters voor 1811: NL-SAA-11231030 (needs new link)

• ‘Verscheyden gentilessen ende fraeyicheden’ van Jan van Wely (ca. 1568­1616), koopman te Amsterdam Een onderzoek naar de handelsactiviteiten van een handelaar in juwelen, rariteiten en kunst en de positie van Jan vanWely in de Amsterdamse elite. door Marloes Scholtens Dutch source
• Sententie over de grouwelycke moordt begaen aen den persoon van Jan van Wely Jaar: 1616 the gruesome murder
• about the gruesome murder
• ‘Verscheyden gentilessen ende fraeyicheden’ van Jan van Wely (ca. 1568 1616), koopman te Amsterdam Een onderzoek  naar de handelsactiviteiten van een handelaar in juwelen, rariteiten en kunst en de positie van Jan van Wely in de Amsterdamse elite. by  Marloes Scholtens.Dutch
• Letters from Jan Wely to Carolus  Clusius
• van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts
• WIC: Groot-kapitaalboek Kamer Amsterdam, Naam: J. van Welij

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