Day 3 - Leiden to Haarlem

31 miles/51 kilometers

Noord Zee/North Sea

Monday (morning) July 31: Leiden to Katwijk & Noordwijk aan Zee

The North Sea (Nord Zee) was our companion for three days during the Fietstocht, just as it was the constant companion of our ancestors for the hundreds of years they lived along its coastline.

The Sea both gave and took life.

Many of our ancestors were employed as Zeeman (Sailors),  Vissers (Fishermen) or in the businesses that supported them (such as rope making and sailmaking).

The sea also took lives and many of our ancestors (some listed below) either died or drowned at sea.

Klaas Corneliszn Hennevanger ( ?? - abt 1631) died at Sea around 1631 and his wife Martige Willemsdochter died around 1628. They left a young son, Cornelis Claeszn Hennevanger (born abt 1620). Klaas Corneliszn Hennevanger is the 11th Great Grandfather of HCP.

Jan Plug (1789 - 1831) was born in Noordwijk aan Zee and married Leuntje Waasdorp (1791 - 1833) in 1811. Together they had six children born from 1814 through 1827. Therefore their youngest child Petronella Plug was less than 4 years old when her father drowned at Sea.

Our ancestor, Cornelis Plug, was born in 1816 and would have been just 15 years old when his father, a fisherman, drowned in the North Sea.

Jan Plug and Leuntje Waasdorp are the 4th Great Grandparents of HCP.

Pieter Hendrikszoon van Lindhout (1706 - 1727). In May 1724, just before his 18th birthday,  Pieter H van Lindhout sailed out of Texel (aboard the sailing ship Luchtenburg as a deckhand in the employ of the VOC/Dutch East India Company) bound for Batavia (Dutch East Indies now Indonesia). When the ship docked at Kaapstad (Cape Town) South Africa in October of that year Pieter was hospitalized until 1725.

In May 1725 Pieter van Lindhout was hired aboard the VOC ship Slot Aldgonde and sailed with it to Batavia where it arrived in August 1725.

Pieter van Lindhout sailed on several ships in Batavia until October 1726 when he left aboard the VOC ship Magdelena to sail back ot the Netherlands. When the Magdalena docked in Texel on July 20 1727 it carried a letter for Pieter’s parents (Hendrik Pauluszoon van Linthout and Jannetje Danielsdochter vander Koi) informing them that Pieter van Lindhout had died aboard the ship 10 days earlier on July 10 1727.

Pieter Hendrikszoon van Lindhout is the 5th Great Grand Uncle of HCP.

Day 3: Leiden to Haarlem

through Katwijk aan Zee, Noordwijk aan Zee and Zandvoort aan Zee

31 miles / 50 kilometers