Blankendaal

From Heemskerk to Aotearoa

A family line traced back to about 1440

The Blankendaal coat of arms: a gold chevron with three gold horseshoes on a black shield, under a helmet with blue and gold mantling.
Arms: three horseshoes and a chevron

Heraldry

Our name & crest

The family name was originally “Van Blanckendael”. Proof of what the name means is hard to find; it probably comes from a piece of land or a house.

The oldest name in the line is Symon van Blanckendael, born about 1440 near Houten (Utrecht).

Claas Symonszn van Blanckendael (born about 1475) was a smith in 1507–1516. In his day a smith was an important man and often held side offices such as schout, schepen or dijkgraaf. Official documents were signed with a signet ring or seal bearing a family coat of arms, and his seal showed three horseshoes (hoefijzers), as on the arms: a gold chevron with three gold horseshoes on a black shield.

From the foreword

The story

The Heemskerk branch of the family begins in 1859, when Arie (Adrianus) Blankendaal, aged 22 according to the foreword, settled in Heemskerk. Arie had many sons, yet the line continues because of Piet Blankendaal, the author’s father: in the author’s words, it is thanks to him that there is a line of descendants.

  • 264people named Blankendaal at the May 1947 census, 246 of them in Noord-Holland, especially in the northern tip (Warmenhuizen, Tuitjehorn).
  • 27 · 48 · 5grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of Piet, as of the foreword (February 2008).

Since then the name has spread through emigration, especially to New Zealand and Australia.

Compiled by N.M. Blankendaal, Rosmalen, February 2008.

Stamreeks

The family tree

One direct line of fourteen generations, from Symon van Blanckendael (born about 1440) to Pieter Blankendaal (1879–1944), with the wives. Names, trades and places are kept as written in the family book.

Reading the Dutch
*
born
x
married
overl.
died (overleden)
ca
circa, about
smid
smith
schoenmaker
shoemaker
chirurgijn
surgeon
metselaar
bricklayer, mason
schilder
painter
schout
a local officer, similar to a bailiff or sheriff
te
at, in
  1. I Symon van Blanckendael

    * ca 1440

  2. II Claas Symonszn van Blanckendael

    * ca 1475

    smid in 1507/1516

    zegelt met drie hoefijzers

  3. III Symen Claeszn van Blanckendael

    * ca 1492

  4. IV Claes Symenzn van Blanckendael

    * ca 1525 Houten · overl. 7-1587

    Schout van Schonouwen

    x ca 1555 Elbregje van Rossum

  5. V Adriaan Cleaszn. van Blanckendael (to be verified)

    * ca 1575 Utrecht · overl. 31-8-1640 Utrecht

    schoenmaker

    x ca 1598 Adriaantje (overl. ca 1650)

    Source line also shows 'Adriaansdr. Hermans' under his name; meaning unclear.

  6. VI Gijsbert van Blanckendael

    * ca 1610 Utrecht · overl. 2-4-1654 Alkmaar

    x 12-6-1634 Alkmaar Aeltje Jansdr. Drieberrien (overl. 10-4-1681 Alkmaar)

  7. VII Adriaen Blanckendael

    * ca 1640 · overl. 1-5-1685 Beverwijk

    Chirurgijn te Egmond

    x 2-10-1667 Alkmaar Neeltje Pieters

  8. VIII Pieter Blanckendael

    * ca 1670 Egmond · overl. 19-1-1726 De Zijpe

    metselaar

    x 17-8-1698 Zijpe Grietje Dirks (* ca 1670)

  9. IX Dirk Pieters Blankendaal (to be verified)

    * ca 1700 Zijpe

    metselaar

    x ca 1720 Haasje Teunis (* ca 1700 · overl. ca 1733)

    Trijntje Pieters

    x 30-4-1758 Maartje Ariens

    Three marriages are listed; only the third has a full date. The second wife's marriage date is not shown.

  10. X Pieter Blankendaal

    * 5-9-1736 Zijpe · overl. 24-3-1809 Schoorl

    metselaar

    x 17-6-1760 Grietje Jans Halman (* 30-11-1733 Schoorl · overl. 21-8-1800 Schoorl)

  11. XI Dirk Blankendaal

    * 5-9-1767 Schoorl

    metselaar

    x 23-1-1791 Maartje Bregman (* 27-5-1768 Akersloot · overl. 29-5-1803 Bergen)

  12. XII Pieter Blankendaal

    * 22-12-1792 Bergen · overl. 29-3-1862 Bergen

    metselaar

    x 4-9-1825 Trijntje Dalenberg (* ca 1793 Groet · overl. 5-1-1850 Bergen)

  13. XIII Adrianus Blankendaal

    * 28-8-1835 Bergen · overl. 24-1-1885 Heemskerk

    metselaar

    x 9-5-1858 Egmond Anna Henneman (* 25-9-1833 Egmond · overl. 10-3-1868 Heemskerk)

    x 28-7-1869 Heemskerk Maria Bleeker (* 27-12-1845 Heemskerk · overl. 15-2-1913 Heemskerk)

    The foreword names the man who settled in Heemskerk in 1859 as 'Arie' (Arie is a short form of Adrianus), aged 22; the list gives 1835 as the birth year, which would make him 23 or 24. Sources disagree slightly.

  14. XIV Pieter Blankendaal

    * 3-6-1879 Heemskerk · overl. 6-6-1944 Haarlem

    schilder

    x 8-11-1911 Heemskerk Maria Nijman (* 19-8-1890 Heemskerk · overl. 9-5-1951 Heemskerk)

More branches to be added. The data so far follows one line of descent only.