I. ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
[a] Amsterdam
Gemeente Archief [Municipal Archive]
Baptismal registers
Marriage registers
Burial registers
Records of the Classis of Amsterdam
[b] Dordrecht
Gemeente Archief [Municipal Archive]
Baptismal registers
Marriage registers
Burial registers
Family Archive Balen
Records of the Church Council of Dordrecht
Transportregisters [Registers of transfers of ownership]
Oud-Notarieel Archief [Old Solicitors’ Archive]
Solicitors’ acts
[c] The Hague
Algemeen RijksArchief [General State Archive]
General correspondence, letters, and resolutions of the VOC
Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie
Van Welderen collection
Anonymous MS entitled Geschiedenis van het Geslacht Vaassen, vol. 8 (nd, twentieth century)
[d] Haarlem
Gemeente Archief [Municipal Archive]
Burial registers
Memorialen [Burgomasters’ records]
Oud-Notarieel Archief [Old Solicitors’ Archive]
Solicitors’ acts
[e] Leeuwarden
Gemeente Archief [Municipal Archive]
Authorization books
Certificate books
Mortgage books
RijksArchief in Friesland [State Archive of Frisia]
Hypotheekboeken Tietjerksteradeel [Tietjerksteradeel mortgage books]
2. UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS, THESES, AND TYPESCRIPTS
Boranga, Sofia. The Identification of Social Organisation on Gun Island (Post Graduate Diploma in Archaeology dissertation, University of Western Australia, 1998).
Hunneybun, Bernandine. Skullduggery on Beacon Island (BSc Hons dissertation, University of Western Australia, 1995).
Huystee, Marit van. The Lost Gateway of Jakarta (Fremantle: Western Australian Maritime Museum, 1994).
Snoek, Govert. De Rosenkruizers in Nederland, Voornamelijk in de Eerste Helft van de 17de Eeuw. Een Inventarisatie (PhD thesis, University of Utrecht, 1997).
Zuiderbaan, Louis. “Translation of a journal by an unknown person from the Dutch East Indiaman Zeewijk, foundered on Half Moon Reef in the Southern Abrolhos, on 9 June, 1727” (typescript, nd, copy in Western Australian Maritime Museum).
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———. De Ridderschap van de Veluwe (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1859).
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———. Leyds Veer-Schuyts Praetjen, Tuschen een Koopman ende Borger van Leyden, Varende van Haarlem nae Leyden (np [Amsterdam: Willem Jansz], 1630).
———. Wonderlijck Verhael van het Leven en Gevoelen van Jan Symensz Torrentius (Haarlem: Louwerens Jansz, 1630).
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———. The Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600–1800 (London: Hutchinson, 1963).
———. Dutch Merchants and Mariners in Asia 1602–1795 (London: Variorum Reprints, 1988).
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Bruijn, Jaap. “Between Batavia and the Cape: Shipping Patterns of the Dutch East India Company.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 11 (1980).
———. The Dutch Navy in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993).
Bruijn, Jaap, and E. S. van Eyck van Heslinga. Muiterij, Oproer en Berechting op de Schepen van de VOC (Haarlem: De Boer Maritiem, 1980).
———. “Seamen’s Employment in the Netherlands, 1600–1800.” The Mariner’s Mirror 70 (1984).
Bruijn, Jaap, and Femme S. Gaastra (eds.). Ships, Sailors and Spices: East India Companies and Their Shipping in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries (Amsterdam: NEHA, 1993).
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Coolhaas, W. Ph. “Aanvullingen en Verbeteringen op Van Rhede van der Kloot’s ‘De Gouveneurs-General en Commissarissen-Generaal van Nederlandsch-Indiï (1610-1888).’” De Nederlandsche Leeuw 73 (1956).
——— (ed.). Pieter van den Broecke in Aziï (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962).
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———. Het Soet Vergaren: Haarlems Buurtleven in de Zeventiende Eeuw (Haarlem: Arcadia, 1998).
———. “Communities Within the Community: Aspects of Neighbourhood in Seventeenth Century Haarlem.” Urban History 25 (1998).
———. Eenheid en Verscheidenheid: De Burgers van Haarlem in de Gouden Eeuw (Amsterdam: Prometheus/Bert Bakker, 2001).
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———. The Wreck on the Half-Moon Reef (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970).
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Estensen, Miriam. Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998).
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———. The Loss of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie Retourschip Batavia, Western Australia 1629: An Excavation Report and Catalogue of Artefacts (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1989).
Green, Jeremy, and Myra Stanbury. “Even More Light on a Confusing Geographical Puzzle, Part 1: Wells, Cairns and Stone Structures on West Wallabi Island.” Underwater Explorers’ Club News (January 1982).
Green, Jeremy, Myra Stanbury, and Femme Gaastra (eds.). The ANCODS Colloquium: Papers Presented at the Australia-Netherlands Colloquium on Maritime Archaeology and Maritime History (Fremantle: Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology, 1999).
Halls, C. “The Loss of the Ridderschap van Holland.” The Annual Dog Watch 22 (1965).
———. “The Loss of the Dutch East Indiaman Aagtekerke.” The Annual Dog Watch 23 (1966).
Hare, Robert. Psychopathy: Theory and Research (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970).
———. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us (New York: The Guildford Press, 1999).
Heeres, J. A. The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606–1765 (London: Luzac, 1899).
Henderson, Graeme. Maritime Archaeology in Australia (Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1986).
———. “The Mysterious Fate of the Dutch East Indiaman Aagtekerke.” Westerly (June 1978).
Henderson, JA. Marooned (Perth: St. George Books, 1982).
———. Phantoms of the Tryall (Perth: St. George Books, 1993).
———. Sent Forth a Dove: Discovery of the Duyfken (Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1999).
Henderson, S., and T. Bostock. “Coping Behaviour after Shipwreck.” British Journal of Psychiatry 131 (1977).
Herbert, Zbigniew. Still Life With a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas (London: Jonathan Cape 1993).
Israel, Jonathan. Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
———. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
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Laurence, John. A History of Capital Punishment (New York: Citadel Press, 1960).
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———. Batavia Cahier 3: De Herbouw van een Oostindiïvaarder (Lelystad: np, 1990).
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———. Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australis by Willem de Vlamingh in 1696–97 (Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1999).
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Dutch Pronunciation Guide
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CHRISTIAN NAMES |
PHONETIC |
ENGLISH EQUIVALENT |
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Belijtgen |
bel-LIGHT-ren |
Mabel |
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Coenraat |
CORN-rat |
Conrad |
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Cornelis |
cor-NAY-lee-us |
Cornelius |
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Hilletgie |
HILL-et-treen |
Gilberta |
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Gijsbert/Gsbert |
GUYZ-bert |
Gilbert |
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Gillis |
HILL-is |
Giles |
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Jan |
YANN |
John |
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Janneken |
YONN-a-kun |
Jane |
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Jeurian |
YOOR-ee-an |
George |
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Maeyken |
MY-ken |
Mary, Maria |
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Mattys |
MATT-ayz |
Matthew |
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Marretgie |
MARR-et-heuh |
Margaret |
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Roelant |
ROO-lant |
Roland |
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Teunis |
TERN-is |
Anthony |
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Tryntgien |
TRENT-ee-en |
Catherine |
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Wiebbe |
webb-UH |
[Frisian name] |
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Willemijntgie |
will-em-EEN-tee-ah |
Wilhelmina |
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Wouter |
VOW-ter |
Walter |
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Wybrecht |
VY-brecht |
“Glittering strife” |
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Zwaantie |
SVAAN-tee-ah |
“Little swan” |
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Surnames |
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Cardoes |
kar-DOOS |
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Cornelisz |
cor-NAY-lee-us (-zoon) |
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Loos |
LOW-se |
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Places |
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Hoorn |
horn |
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Houtman’s Abrolhos |
HOWT-man’s ab-ROL-hoss |
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Leeuwarden |
loo-WAH-den |
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Monnickendam |
MON-ik-an-dam |
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Texel |
TESS-el |
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VOC SHIPS |
PHONETIC |
MEANING |
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Aagtekerke |
AHG-te-kerk-eh |
Named after a village in Zeeland |
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Batavia |
BAT-ah-fee-uh |
Named for the VOC’s main base in the EastIndies |
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Duyfken |
DYFE-ken |
Little Dove |
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Fortuyn |
FOR-town |
Fortune |
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’s Gravenhage |
SCHRAR-vun-har-chen |
The Hague |
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Meeuwtje |
MAY-oot-chee-ah |
Little Seagull |
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Ridderschap van Holland |
RIDD-er-schap |
Knighthood ofHolland |
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Vergulde Draeck |
fer-HOOL-duh DRAAK |
Gilt Dragon |
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Zeewijk |
ZAY-vayk |
Named after a village in Zeeland |
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Zuytdorp |
ZOWT-dorp |
Named after a village in Zeeland |