Margareta was named after her maternal grandmother, Margareta de Vente who is mentioned in the church baptism entry.

When Margareta Bernarda was born, her parents were living at Schoenmakerstraat 442^[1].

Bruggestraat 16 (was 109 in 1830s)

By October 1829 they had moved to Bruggestraat 109^[2].  The 1830 Census of Harderwijk^[3] shows Margareta living with her parents at Bruggestraat 109.  She and her family continued living at Bruggestraat 109 through to at least 1835^[4,5] but by 1839, they had moved to Bruggestraat 114 and remained there until at least 1841^[6,7].   (The Harderwijk Census of 1840^[8] states that the family was living at Bruggestraat 111 but this was probably an error.)

In October 1850, aged 23 years, Margareta gave birth to a daughter, Maria Frederica Louisa^[9].  The father was not named on the birth certificate.  Her birth certificate stated that Margareta was unmarried and had no occupation and was living in the Bruggestraat at the time – probably still with her parents.

Strangely, there is an annotation to Maria Frederica Louisa’s birth certificate (6 months after her death), to the effect that Margareta declared before an advocate that Maria was her daughter.  Why was this necessary?  Perhaps something to do with inheritance of the house mentioned below?

This house was owned by Petrus Josephus Roosen but he never lived there.  The Harderwijk records state that it is a capital house with a garden.  In fact it was a very impressive sized garden!

In 1872, ownership passed to his daughter, Margareta Bernarda^[10].

In 1888, she sold it to her son-in-law, Hendrikus Lambertus Hoedemaker.  Margareta’s daughter, Maria Frederica Louisa, had already passed away.  Sometime later, it was sold again to another ‘Hoedemaker’.