Beleka van Kleef1

F, #11762, ° s 1720, +. Dec 1768
  • Other names or spelling variations:
  • Belia van Cleef (in the Mennonite list.)2
  • Proven or possible relations:
  • Was Beleka van Kleef possibly the daughter of Willem van Cleef? Beleka married Maria Judith Kok in 1722 in Zwolle, died after 1738; Beleka's father died before 1747, also from Zwolle, no children in Almelo.
     Beleka van Kleef was from in Zwolle at her marriage.1 She married Jacob Bavink, son of Hendrick Jansen Bavinck and Jannetje Blijdenstein,3,2 (banns (NH) 29 Apr 1747, Almelo)1 They went with certificate to Zwolle.1 She died on 1 Dec 1768 in Zwolle.2

More Information:
Her father was Willem van Kleef. (He died before 1747.)1 She was baptized on 2 Oct 1729 in Zwolle.2
Beleka came on 23 Sep 1747 to Almelo with certificate from Zwolle. She went back to Zwolle in 1758, after the death of her husband.2,3

Census records:
1748 Stad Almelo census: Household of Jacob Bavink, not mentioned by name (4th quarter.)4

Source(s)

  1. [S10] DTB NH Almelo, Huwelijken/Marriages : Jacob Bavink en Beleka van Kleef, 29 Apr 1747.
  2. [S18] Baptist, Almelo, Baptisms, Marriages, Church Members : Bk 2 (1754), pg 16 (image 94b), #5. Belia van Cleef, huisvrouw van Jacob Bavink.
  3. [S18] Baptist, Almelo, Baptisms, Marriages, Church Members : Bk 1, pg 27 (image 19b), #7. Beleka van Cleef, 23 Sep 1747.
  4. [S24] Volkstelling Twente, Stad en Landgericht Almelo, 1748. pg. 15v, #24.