Evert Dirkse van Eps

Notes

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Despite a range of search strategies, the baptisms of the children of Dirck Everts van Eps have not been found in Amsterdam. The index is complete in the sense that all surviving records have been indexed. The information in the index does not say whether all records have survived.

Evert must have been named after his paternal grandfather, Evert van Eps. That makes it likely that he was the eldest son, as the eldest son was traditionally named after the paternal grandfather. That would make Jan the second son. Lijsbeth may have been named after the maternal grandmother, as was customary for the eldest daughter. Jan may have been named after the maternal grandfather, as was customary for the second son. Jan was probably not born posthumously (after the death of his father), or he would have been called Dirck, as it was customary to name a posthumous child after the father.