The Van Rooyen Family

South African Dutch Settlers https://www.geni.com/projects/South-African-Settlers-Dutch/9704 https://www.pinterest.com/merleschmidt92/history-south-african/ Painting prior to 1868 by Castro, Lorenzo (Active c. 1664 - died c.1700?) Title Dutch Levanters in a Rough Sea wikidata:Q23928695 Object type Painting Date Before 1686 From Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Castro,_Lorenzo_-_Dutch_Levanters_in_a_Rough_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Painting of The Noord Nieuwland with Table Mountain in view 1672

I am unsure how the VOC sailed from Holland to Ceylon, but it could be via the Cape of Good Hope at the southernmost tip of South Africa. I have translated the web contents from Dutch to English and edited the contents to make out the genealogy for the van Rooyen descendants. Princess van Rooyen is the only van Rooyen name I have, to search for my ascendants. Original source in Dutch: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vanrooyen/stamvader.htm --- CORNELIS VAN ROOYEN Cornelis van Rooyen (van Rooijen, van Roijen) was from Gorcum (today known as Gorinchem), near Merwederivier in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. Cornelis was baptised at the Reformed Church in Gorinchem on 1695-04-15. He was the son of Reijnier Roijen, a miller by trade, and Fijke Vermeulen (Fijke is a variant of the name Sophia (Sofieken). His left his home  Zealand  and departed on 1713-10-14 on the ship  Middle Forest  in the service of the VOC (United East India Company) as mids

VARIANTS OF THE SPELLING FOR VAN ROOIJEN The spellings and way names are written are not specific and there are many variants of even one name. In the case of van Rooyen, there are 17 ways of writing this Dutch surname. It makes it more difficult to trace the descendants of a named person - eg Princess van Rooyen. Van Rooijen (11,921) of Roijen (5275) van Rooij (471) of Roij (188) van Rooyen (208)  of Roeijen (105) of Roojen (110) van Royen (106) Of Rojen (24) of Rooie (16) of Rooije (14) van Rooijen High (5) of Rooijje (2) van Rooy (1) of Roje (2) of Roijen Grel (1) With the Roijen of (1) http://home.planet.nl/~benf0000/ --- ORIGIN OF VAN ROOIJEN Where did the surname van Rooijen originate? Geographically, it originated from an area between the provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant, southeast of Eindhoven. The van Rooijen people have lived mainly in Rotterdam in Holland (now the Netherlands) for more than 300 years. Many of the people of Rotterdam are van

Welcome to the VOC Van Rooyen Family blogspot. I created this blog for my forefather, a van Rooyen. Faridah