Grietjen Pletjes

Grietjen Margariette Pletjes

Father: Driessen Pletjes1 b. c 1550, d. 22 May 1608

Mother: Adelheid Goebels1 b. c 1562, d. 7 Jan 1640

Grietjen Margariette Pletjes. She married Herman van de Alderkerk Opdengraeff on 16 August 1605 at Old Church, Muir, Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.1 Grietjen Margariette Pletjes died on 7 January 1643 at Krefeld, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at age 54.1

Herman van de Alderkerk Opdengraeff b. 26 Nov 1585, d. 27 Dec 1642

Child

Isaac Herman Opdengraeff+1 b. 28 Feb 1616, d. 17 Jan 1669

http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p5995.htm#...

Margaret Jasper William Penn’s mother was the child of Alet Pletjes. Alet Pletjes is the sister of Greitjen Pletjes. Greitjen Pletjes marries Herman Op Den Graeff. The descendants of Herman and Greitjen Pletjes Op Den Graeff are among the original 13 Krefeld immigrants to Pennsylvania (Ulle, 1983), and they are William Penn’s first cousins.

(William Penn was the grandnephew of Herman1's wife, Grietje)

Herman Op De graeffin the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900-Name: Herman Op Degraeff Gender: Male Birth Place: Aldekerk, Herzogtum Kleve, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation, Birth Year: 1585 Spouse Name: Grietie Pleties,Spouse Birth Year:1587, Number Pages: 1 - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgibin/sse.dllindiv=1&db=WorldMarr_ga&...

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Margaret Grietjen Pletjes1

• F, b. 16 November 1588, d. 5 June 1643
• Father* Driessen Pletjes b. c 1560, d. 22 May 1608
• Mother* Adelheid Goebels b. c 1562
• Last Edited 29 Sep 2009
• Birth* 16 November 1588 Margaret Grietjen Pletjes was born on 16 November 1588 at Kempen, Westphalia, Germany.
  • She was the daughter of Driessen Pletjes and Adelheid Goebels.
• Marriage* Margaret Grietjen Pletjes married Herman Op Den Graef on 16 August 1605 at Aldekerk, Muir, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
• Death* 5 June 1643 Margaret Grietjen Pletjes died on 5 June 1643 at Krefeld, Westphalia, Germany, at age 54.

Note* She Is the mystery of the Op Den Graff windows all serendipity? Did our Bishop Hermen and his wife, Grietje attend Krefeld Market one day and find two or more window frames for their townhouse? The frames just happened to have hints of the Hebrew Cabala and signs of the Mysteries of the Rosary on them. Nevertheless, Hermen and Grietje decided such fancy work would be good advertising for the linen business and cloth industry. Their Pletjes family niece, Margaret Jasper had married a Van Der Schuren and migrated to Ireland to escape the ridiculous. Religious wars over church real estate and to invest in or inherit her own real estate; and her crazy son from her second marriage (William Penn, one of the largest real estate investors in history) had not yet been born to sit down, as if in front of the second window, to write or pen a pamphlet, entitled: "No Cross, No Crown."

So, after all this recitation, we are still confronted by a haunting mystery displayed on a beautiful set of stained glass windows dated 1630 AD: One Hermen Op Den Graff, one Blessed Mother of Christ, one missing family seal, one family motto, two extant windows, two different Lohengrin Swan Seals, three shields of a multiple Dukedom, three rectangular insets, four family seals, five centuries of Mennonite-Anabaptist Witness, twenty mystical circles of frame decoration, twenty centuries of Apostolic Interrogation: Who shall separate us from the love of God?

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Her father may have been Pletjes Driessen of Kempen, a small town halfway between Krefeld and Aldekerk. She sometimes went by surname Pletjes Driessen.

Had 18 children. Mennonite.

Sources

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Doors (Thiessen, Tyson) Family of Krefeld-http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/OldGeoc...

Op Den Graeff Ancestry -http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/OldGeoc...

From Our Family Ancestors - Thomas Maxwell Potts (1895), Page 37:

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-62766-83/our-family-ance

The Op Den Graeff Family

Herman Op Den Graeff, Sr., (536) was born Nov. 26, 1585, at Aldekerk in the Palatinate, near Holland, and died Dec. 27, 1642, aged 57 years, 1 month, 1 day. He removed to Crefeld, a city of the lower Rhine, on the borders of Holland, where he was an active Mennonite. He was a delegate from "Krevelt" to the Council of the Mennonite Church, which met at the city of Dordrecht, April 21, 1632, and adopted a Confession of Faith.

Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker says that nothing is known of his antecedents. A family tradition asserts that the family were French-Germans, and the name itself seems to indicate Dutch origin.

He married a Mennonite girl, Grietje Pletjes (537), daughter of Driessen (1074), Aug. 16, 1605. They are said to have had 18 children. Grietjes (Pletjes) Op Den Graeff died Jan. 7, 1643.

Note: Information relating to the Op Den Graeffs has been compiled mainly from the writings of Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker of Philadelphia.

Children of Herman and Grietje (Pletjes) Op Den Graeff

• 1. Isaac Op Den Graeff (268). See infra.

The settlement of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and the beginning of German emigration to Germantown- https://archive.org/stream/settlementofgerm01penn#page/148/mode/1up

GEDCOM Note

Category:Krefeld,_Nordrhein-Westfalen

Biography

Greitijen Pletjes, daughter of Pletjes Driessen of Kempen, a small town halfway between Aldekerk and Krefeld, wed Herman Op den Graeff in 1615. <ref name="Hull">William I. Hull, William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania: (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970), p.210.</ref>She became a widow on December 27, 1642 and followed her husband lessthan two weeks later on January 7, 1643.<ref name="Pennypacker">Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, The Settlement of Germantown Pennsylvania and the Beginning of German Immigration to North America: (Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1899), p.149.</ref>

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See also:

• "Margaret Grietjen Pletjes." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 23rd, 2019. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVDY-Q4G.
• Hurd, Jill J. The Ancestors & Descendants of Jan Lucken. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989.
• MyHeritage.com.
• "Grietgen* (Margaret) Pletjes." Our Family History. Accessed Jan. 23rd, 2019. http://sherrysharp.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I15485&tree....
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