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The Vortmann / Vortman / Voortman family
Descendants of Gerdt Vortmann and Marcke Meyer von der Musslage

This page describes the posterity of Gerdt Vortmann and Marcke Meyer von der Musslage. At the end of the 17th century and start of the 18th century Gerdt and Marcke lived near Badbergen located just north of Osnabrück in the German federal state Niedersachsen.
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From these parents the following families are descended:

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Dutch Branches
The Dutch branches Voortman and Vortman both are descended from the ancestors Gerdt Vortmann - Rolff Vortmann - Johann Lampe Vortmann - Johann Jürgen Vortmann.
In the year 1813 Johann Jürgen Vortmann moved to the region called Oldambt in the Dutch province Groningen. He married twice there and lived successively in Scheemda, Wagenborgen en Midwolda. His house in Midwolda was kept in the family until it was left from the widow Vortman-Oudekerk in 1968.

The first child of Johann Jürgen, Roelf Voortman, moved with his family from the region Oldambt to the region called Westerkwartier (round Zevenhuizen) in the western part of the Dutch province Groningen. Their descendants spread out widely with concentrations in the region Ooststellingwerf in eastern part of the Dutch province Friesland and adjacent part of the Dutch province Drenthe (Noordenveld). The other children and the early generations grandchildren mainly stayed in the eastern part of the province Groningen.

Vortman - Voortman
One of the grandchildren of Johann Jürgen, Wemeltje Vortman, got children born out of wedlock. remarkable is the fact that three of the four children did not get their mother's surname Vortman (with single-o), but were called Voortman with double-o.

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Many data of both male and female descendants from Gerdt Vortmann en Marcke Meyer von der Musslage are brought together in the parenteel van Gerdt Vortmann en Marcke Meyer von der Musslage (Dutch) and the Engish report "descendants of Gerdt Vortmann".

Sources
The four most significant sources of these data are :

My dad, J.Veeninga, Roden, the Netherlands Data of:
  • persons in the part of the genealogical tree starting with Gerdt Vortmann from Badbergen and leading to the family in Oldambt, Groningen, the Netherlands;
  • family members of who the data can be found in the public registers of the Dutch provinces Groningen and Drenthe;
  • many members of the family who are still alive and live in the Dutch provinces Groningen and Drenthe.
Mr. Chr.P.Hintzbergen, Balkbrug, the Netherlands Data of:
  • persons in the part of the genealogical tree starting with Gerdt Vortmann from Badbergen and leading to the family in Oldambt, Groningen, the Netherlands (additional to the data from Mr. J. Veeninga);
  • many members of the familiy who are still alive and live in the Dutch provinces Groningen and Drenthe (additional to the data from Mr. J. Veeninga);
  • members of the family in the Netherlands outside the provinces Groningen and Drenthe.
Family-archive zum Vorde - Vortman(n) - Voortman, Zaandam, the Netherlands
info@vortmes.nl / r_voortm@dds.nl		 Data of:
  • persons in the part of the genealogical tree starting with Gerdt Vortmann from Badbergen and leading to the family in Oldambt, Groningen, the Netherlands (additional to the data from Mr. Chr.P.Hintzbergen and Mr. J. Veeninga);
  • Other German family members.

Distribution, publishing or any other use of these data is prohibited without permission of the owner of the archive.
Mrs. D.E.Vortman-Henry, Queensland, Australia Data of:
  • members of the family in Australia.
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