The story of the Guelder's Stapels
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Our family decends from Jan Hendrik Stapel from Gendt, Guelderland. It is practically certain that he is the same person as Johann Henrich born 1758 in Eickel near Gelsenkirchen (G), son of David Stapel from Pomerania and Anna Margaretha Böger. Starting 1760 as detailed in "data in Gendt" we find them registered with their younger children in Gendt, Guelderland (NL), where initially they were sometimes named Stabel as well. David is said to have moved to Gendt because of its shipyards, seeking work as a carpenter. The Stapels were at home in Gendt, where in every sense of the word they enjoyed the wide horizons of the bordering river and its traffic and trade. Quite a few found their husbands and wives elsewhere in the country or in Prussia. Many worked at the farm, in brickyards or on the river, but North East of Arnhem Johannes' branch (born 1796) had jobs like civil servants and headmasters. David's son Johan Hendrik sailed with the Dutch East India Company to Java and for a while he was even a dike contractor maintaining the Pannerden's Canal, as detailed in his request to the dike-reeve. Overall I count 13 policemen or near 2% of those included in my Stapel genealogy worksheet. The menu item "their jobs" further expands on the kinds of work they seemed to prefer. Including the previous century some 500 Guelder's Stapels settled within a 25 km radius around Gendt.
Guelder's Stapels also started a flowering branch in The Hague, when Willem, firstborn of Davids third son Frederik, married there in 1825. Four of his cousin David's twelve children followed half a century later: Johannes, Bernardus*, Johanna Cornelia* and Elisabeth (* after marriages within the Bierenbroodspot family in Hoorn). Around 1900 more then a hundred Stapels had been or were still living in The Hague, descending from those five.
The story of Roosendaal's Stapels.
A further spread of our family was initiated by the first of Davids greatgrandsons, my greatgrandfather Jan Willem Carel (1830-1920). He married 1860 still in Gendt, but in the same year he became a County Constable in Northern Limburg along the river Maas. Out of ten children he and Elisabeth Ederveen had in Afferden, only five reached adulthood. When almost 50 he was transferred to Heijen (L) and in 1879 to Steenbergen in West Noord-Brabant. In 1883 they moved on to Roosendaal, where still newer industry emerged next to its international railway centre, offering interesting jobs to many family members in trains, station en maintenance shops. He could not foresee that amidst of all this progress both his eldest and his youngest sons were to die violently and painfully, due to the health & safety ignorance common in this era of industrial expansion (see newspaper bulletins on Jan Stapel and Bernard Stapel). He stayed in Roosendaal for the rest of his life but the example Jan Willem Carel set, the daily experience of railway mobility and the promises of a new world elsewhere inspired many of his offspring to move on, starting with two of his children, who at the close of the 19th century via various routes ended up in Amsterdam. They provided a welcome jumping board for the next Stapel generation, four of whom lived for some time in Amsterdam: Chris, Henk, Marinus en Rie. As did my uncle Carl Swolfs. But most went further, mainly to the south and west Netherlands, Canada, the USA and lately to France and New Zealand. A separate page about the emigrants in the family would be welcome to complete that part of the story, but no text has yet been prepared.
Family stories and documents, data from 26 public archives and many internet sources are included in this website family account. For privacy reasons more recent events can only be accessed via private family information, newspapers, hearsay and internet. Thus, young distant relatives are few in this and many other family trees. Within these restrictions I counted mid 2008 18 living male Stapels, six of whom over 60 years old. All decend from David Stapel, who came to Gendt around 1759. Also 29 deceased male Stapels could have had male offspring, not yet identified. Behold: Recent laws may enable children to assume their mother's maidenname as well.
Stapels who are or were in the news are mentioned in famous Stapels in the menu on the left, with a reference to the regional family they come from.
(home = www.cstapel.nl)
Our family decends from Jan Hendrik Stapel from Gendt, Guelderland. It is practically certain that he is the same person as Johann Henrich born 1758 in Eickel near Gelsenkirchen (G), son of David Stapel from Pomerania and Anna Margaretha Böger. Starting 1760 as detailed in "data in Gendt" we find them registered with their younger children in Gendt, Guelderland (NL), where initially they were sometimes named Stabel as well. David is said to have moved to Gendt because of its shipyards, seeking work as a carpenter. The Stapels were at home in Gendt, where in every sense of the word they enjoyed the wide horizons of the bordering river and its traffic and trade. Quite a few found their husbands and wives elsewhere in the country or in Prussia. Many worked at the farm, in brickyards or on the river, but North East of Arnhem Johannes' branch (born 1796) had jobs like civil servants and headmasters. David's son Johan Hendrik sailed with the Dutch East India Company to Java and for a while he was even a dike contractor maintaining the Pannerden's Canal, as detailed in his request to the dike-reeve. Overall I count 13 policemen or near 2% of those included in my Stapel genealogy worksheet. The menu item "their jobs" further expands on the kinds of work they seemed to prefer. Including the previous century some 500 Guelder's Stapels settled within a 25 km radius around Gendt.
Guelder's Stapels also started a flowering branch in The Hague, when Willem, firstborn of Davids third son Frederik, married there in 1825. Four of his cousin David's twelve children followed half a century later: Johannes, Bernardus*, Johanna Cornelia* and Elisabeth (* after marriages within the Bierenbroodspot family in Hoorn). Around 1900 more then a hundred Stapels had been or were still living in The Hague, descending from those five.
The story of Roosendaal's Stapels.
A further spread of our family was initiated by the first of Davids greatgrandsons, my greatgrandfather Jan Willem Carel (1830-1920). He married 1860 still in Gendt, but in the same year he became a County Constable in Northern Limburg along the river Maas. Out of ten children he and Elisabeth Ederveen had in Afferden, only five reached adulthood. When almost 50 he was transferred to Heijen (L) and in 1879 to Steenbergen in West Noord-Brabant. In 1883 they moved on to Roosendaal, where still newer industry emerged next to its international railway centre, offering interesting jobs to many family members in trains, station en maintenance shops. He could not foresee that amidst of all this progress both his eldest and his youngest sons were to die violently and painfully, due to the health & safety ignorance common in this era of industrial expansion (see newspaper bulletins on Jan Stapel and Bernard Stapel). He stayed in Roosendaal for the rest of his life but the example Jan Willem Carel set, the daily experience of railway mobility and the promises of a new world elsewhere inspired many of his offspring to move on, starting with two of his children, who at the close of the 19th century via various routes ended up in Amsterdam. They provided a welcome jumping board for the next Stapel generation, four of whom lived for some time in Amsterdam: Chris, Henk, Marinus en Rie. As did my uncle Carl Swolfs. But most went further, mainly to the south and west Netherlands, Canada, the USA and lately to France and New Zealand. A separate page about the emigrants in the family would be welcome to complete that part of the story, but no text has yet been prepared.
Family stories and documents, data from 26 public archives and many internet sources are included in this website family account. For privacy reasons more recent events can only be accessed via private family information, newspapers, hearsay and internet. Thus, young distant relatives are few in this and many other family trees. Within these restrictions I counted mid 2008 18 living male Stapels, six of whom over 60 years old. All decend from David Stapel, who came to Gendt around 1759. Also 29 deceased male Stapels could have had male offspring, not yet identified. Behold: Recent laws may enable children to assume their mother's maidenname as well.
Stapels who are or were in the news are mentioned in famous Stapels in the menu on the left, with a reference to the regional family they come from.