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Peter Matthias Dohrs

Also Known As: "Doors", "Peter Mathias Dors", "Peter Cuypers Doors"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kaldenkirchen, Herzogtum Jülich, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
Death: December 28, 1638 (57-58)
Krefeld, Herzogtum Kleve, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation (Probably bubonic plague)
Place of Burial: Kaldenkirchen, Nettetal, Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Immediate Family:

Son of Tisken an gen Dohrs and Dohrs Dohrs
Husband of Lysgen Grietes
Father of Peter Doors; Infant Doors; Reiner Doors; Theiss Mathias Dohrs; Grietjen Pieters op den Graeff and 1 other

Occupation: shopkeeper
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About Peter Matthias Dohrs

Peter Doors

  • Born: 1580, Kaldenkirchen, Rheinland, Germany
  • Marriage: Lysgen Grietes in 1605 in Kaldenkirchen, Rheinland, Germany
  • Died: 28 Dec 1638 at age 58

At least two large families of Doors lived in the Kaldenkirchen vicinity during seventeenth century. One famly lived in a marshy area near the village. Kaldenkirchen was a little village in the forest near the Dutch border that has remained unmolested through two world wars; the Catholic and REformed churches that this family went to still stand, across the street from each other. It was six to thirteen miles from Krefeld. (Charles Custer) Krefeld was a center of religious upheaval because the land was turned over to the Protestant Dutch princes of Orange who practiced toleration, and the Thirty-years War and a Catholic Counter Reformation sent Mennonites fleeing up the Rhine to the Palatinate and to Krefeld.

Tisken An Gen Dohrs/ an gen Door b abt 1550 Kaldenkirchen, Germany, d 3/19/1614 Julian calender at Kaldenkirchen, Germany. (Jack Bowman, jack@bluenet.net)

This looks surmised; one would expect Peter's father to be named Cuypers. However, the Castor Soc book on the Kusters takes the position that this was Peter's father, I don't know on what grounds, and Michel extracted from Shirley WEbb the info that she thinks so, too.

He was Catholic. White cites Niepoth as her source on this; "Dohrs or Thiessens", an unpubl manuscript from Archives of Krefeld, transl by J.J. Aelmore, Wichita KS, and this is what she has on it.

Peter Doors (Cuypers), a shopkeeper, b 1580, d 1638, White has "must have died shortly bef 12/28/1638", the date on the Mennonite record below. In Kaldenkirchen. m Elizabeth Grietes 1638 Mennonite records of the village and parish of Kaldenkirchen say, "Lyssgen Daers widow whose husband died a few days ago. Their property after all debts are paid...worth about 36 Reichstalers. White speculates that he may have died of bubonic plague which was raging in the area at the time.


Notes

"Gertrude's father, Theiss Doors, baptized 12 September 1614 in the Catholic Church in Kaldenkirchen, was the son of Peter Dohrs/Doormans and Lysgen (Elizabeth) Grietes. Theiss' name appears in an article about the persecution and suffering of the Mennonites in the Julich-Berg Historical Journal under the surname Dahrs, Dahrmans, Peters and Peterschen which indicates that his father's name was Peter. Surnames in this period of time were not set. In fact, surnames were not required in the Netherlands (Kaldenkirchen lies almost on the border with the Netherlands) until 1811. Many families did adopt surnames around the 16th and 17th Centuries. Thus with Theiss' and Neess' children one willnote that some of the children used their father's surname of Doors while several used the patronymic of Theissen. Peter Doors was born about 1580 in Kaldenkirchen, the son of Tisken angen Door, a Catholic who was born about 1550, and died in Kaldenkirchen on 19 March 1615. Peter Doors must have died shortly before 28 December 1638, perhaps of the bubonic plague which raged in that area during this period. Accordingly, Mennonite records of the village and parish of Kaldenkirchen in 1638 cite "Lysgen Daers (Doors) widow whose husband died a few days ago. Their property, after all debts are paid off out of principal, shall be worth about 36 Reichstalers...

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Peter Matthias Dohrs's Timeline

1580
1580
Kaldenkirchen, Herzogtum Jülich, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1580
Kaldenkirchen, Nettetal, Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1609
December 9, 1609
Kaldenkirchen, Herzogtum Jülich, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1611
1611
Kaldenkirken, Herzogtum Juliches, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1613
1613
Kaldenkirchen, Herzogtum Jülich, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1614
September 9, 1614
Kaldenkirchen, Herzogtum Kleve, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1615
1615
Krefeld, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
1620
1620
Lower Rhineland, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1638
December 28, 1638
Age 58
Krefeld, Herzogtum Kleve, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation