History of the
Jansen op de Haar family
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names, dates of birth and members of the
Jansen op de Haar family who are not in the family tree yet.
The name of Jansen op de
Haar was officialy registered in 1826. In 1911 Napoleon introduced the
Registery of Births, Deaths and Marriages, but it is unknown why the name was
not registered until 1926. In those days the farm De Haar was occupied by
(Her)mannus Hegeman and Gerritdina van de Haar (a 'haar' is a natural rise in
the landscape). Before that the farm was owned by the parents of Gerritdina. In
those days it was customary that people took the name of the farm they lived
on. Nor was it uncommon that a husband took the name of his wife. Mannes'
father was called Johannes (Jan). Thus the name of Jansen (=son of Jan) op de
Haar was formed:
Provincie Overijssel
Arrondisement Deventer
Gemeente Diepenveen
Extract uit het Register van aangenomen Geslachtsnamen over den jare Eenduizend acht honderd Zesentwintig.
Voor ons Burgemeester van Diepenveen Provincie Overijssel, is gecompareerd Mannes op de Haar, woonachtig in deze Gemeente, de welke heeft verklaard aan te nemen als zijne vaste Geslachtsnaam, de Naam van Jansen op de Haar, en tot zijn voornaam Mannes, hebbende Zeven Kinderen als Johannes oud negentien jaren, Jan Derk oud achttien jaren, Willem oud veertien jaren, Gerrit Jan oud elf jaren, Mannes oud Zeven jaren, Gerrit oud vier jaren, Martinus oud een jaar, woonachtig in deze Gemeente, zijnde deze Akte nadat hem dezelve was voorgelezen door ons getekend verklarende den comparant niet te kunnen schrijven.
The original farm De Haar
should have looked like a small wooden castle standing on a rise (haar) on the
registered B343 (543). Only the farm was owned by the farmer. The land belonged
to the Mark of Borgele. A mark was a certain piece of land on which a number of
farms stood, but which was not owned by the farmer. The farmers were called
smallholders.Furthermore they had no right to vote. After the house burned down
a new farm was built on the registered B341 (541), the current address is
Wechelerweg 54 in Diepenveen. The name of the area used to be Kolmschate and
the land was owned by the mark of Borgele. For the use of the land the farmers
had to pay rent. In 1832 Mannes op de Haar closed a lease with the Mark of
Borgele for a period of six years. He paid ƒ 14,80 for this.
On 15th Februari 1842 the
Mark of Borgele sells the registered 541 to 546 to ‘Hermannus Jansen and
his housewife Gerritdina Jansen, farmers living on the farm de Haar outside
Diepenveen’. What happened to de Haar after that is not known, but on 4th
April 1873 Jannes Jansen aan de Haar sells the farm to Johanna Jansen aan de
Haar. It is said that neither of them have anything to do with the Jansen op de
Haar family, they only took the name of the farm. Mannus dies in Vrieswijk,
Diepenveen on
In 2005 the book ‘Achter leilinden en kastanjebomen’ ,‘De
geschiedenis van boerderijen, landhuizen en hun bewoners in de voormalige
gemeente Diepenveen’ by Tonny Mulder was published. This book mentions the following about the Op
de Haar farm:
“The farm is first
mentioned in 1683 when there had to be paid tax for one fireplace. In 1684
Willem op de Haar married Jenneken Gerrits. They staid on the farm Op de Haar
and had to take care of the old father. About one and an half centuries later
Johanna Jansen op de Haar was born on this farm. In 1873 she married Hendrikus
Kolkman. Their daughter Antonia married Willen Marinus Haarman and they carried
on the work on her parents’ farm. Johanna Jansen op de Haar died in 1929.
She was the last resident who bore the name of the farm. Her grandson Hein
Haarman married Wilhelmina Johanna (Mina) Klein Douwel in 1948. Their marriage
remained childless. In the old baking house Mina opened a shop where she sold
eggs, vegetables and fruit. During the liberation the farm was partly
destroyed.“
A cadastral map of De Haar
at the Wechelerweg number 54 in Diepenveen. The original De Haar stood in the
circle on the other side of the road. Also the Wechelerweg ran differently. The
land on which the original De Haar stood, now belongs to De Kleverkamp, a farm
that was built at the end of the 19th century opposite the Wechelerweg 54.
