"Genealogy families Lourens & van Bochove"

Welcome to the Genealogy page of
Kees Lourens and Ria Lourens‑van Bochove.


Kees is descended from the Lourens family from Gelderland in the Netherlands. The eldest known ancestor Petrus Laurensen , a.k.a. Petrus Lou(w)rensen, was born about 1701. Petrus Laurensen and Angenes Goossens, a.k.a. Agnes Gossens, had 4 children, among them 1 son with descendants: Rijn(dert) Lourens, a.k.a. Reinardus Louwrensen, born about 1757, who settled in Dodewaard after his marriage. Rijn Lourens and Elisabeth van Loon had 4 children, among them 2 sons with descendants: Johannes Lourens, also known as: Jan Lourens; Anthonij Laurens, also known as: Antoon Laurens. The children of Johannes (Jan) mostly use the surname Lourens; the children of Anthonij (Antoon) mostly use the surname Laurens. And so did their descendants.
	Ria is descended from the Van Bochove family from the Hoeksche Waard in the Netherlands; the eldest known ancestor Aart Anthonisz van Bochove settled down in 1599 in the hamlet Zinkweg near Oud-Beijerland, where a son was born in 1600. One of the female lines, Herweijer, even goes back till about 1230.

I made a schematic overview of the first 6 generations of the Lourens family and the van Bochove family.
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Description databases	Last update
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To the "TNG database" families Lourens & van Bochove TNG not only presents any type of overview (in English and other languages), but you can also do advanced searches in our database.	10/10/2009


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Ancestors chart of Kees Lourens Descendants chart of the Lourens family Ancestors chart of Ria Lourens-van Bochove Descendants chart of the van Bochove family	[*]

Remarks
Ancestors charts and descendants charts are generated dynamically from the TNG-database, whenever you ask for them. If a chart is shown in a language you cannot read, choose your own language at the top-right of that chart.	[*] means date of charts is equal to date of last TNG-database update.