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Here you will find extensive genealogical research conducted by J.A.M.A.Dormans on the Dormans family dating back to 1597
Here you will find extensive genealogical research conducted by J.A.M.A.Dormans on the Dormans family dating back to 1597
What can you find in this pedigree except your ancestors?
The oldest act is the marriage on 10-21-1579 in Heerlen between Thijs Dormans and Trijn van den Nesschen. Page 14. See also chapter “Reunion, powerpoint presentation pdf file”
In this pedigree there were 50 stillborn children. The couple most greatly plagued by stillborns was Paul Haesen and Maria Sophia Dormans. Married in 1900, this couple suffered four stillborn children. Page 48.
Over these four centuries, 132 children died within their first year of life.
23 twins were recorded, who had a Dormans father or mother (p. 3).
In Hoensbroek on 08-01-1942, three family members died and four members were hospitalized for more than one week by eating overripe spoiled stinky Limburgian cheese. Page 53.
In 1920 Jan Paulus Dormans bought a two centuries old farm called Old-Ehrenstein with 20 hectares in Kerkrade for Fl. 60.030. Page 51.
The largest number of children from one father Peter (Joseph) Willem Dormans, married in 1909, was 18. Page 58.
In 2014, there were 628 people with the family name Dormans, living in the Netherlands, Belgium (p. 40, 41, 42, 51, 68, 78), Luxembourg (p. 59,78, 79), Germany (p. 77), USA (p. 56, 57, 58, 62, 63), New Zealand (p. 86), and Australia (p. 43). See also: chapter “Dormans around the world”.
The noble family de Dormans in the city Dormans in the Champagne region in France, living from 1290 till about1550, has no proven link with the South-Limburgian family (p. 7-12).
The oldest Dormans, as far as I know, is Maria Louise Elisabeth Dormans, born in 1918 and and died at 05-23-2021 at the age of 102 years and 11 months (p.75).
The most popular first names through the ages are Jan, Johannes, Maria, and Anna. Page 4.
The German writing of the family Dormanns (for example in Aachen) is traced back to the name Dormans. See: chapter “Dormans around the world” / Are the German and Dutch families related ?
During 420 years, only one couple between a Dormans and a Dormans was seen. Jean Peter Dormans (page 48) and Maria Gertrudis Dormans (page 67) were married in 1831.
Through the ages, three family members were condemned by the court for mistreatment (pages 15, 28, 32).
Father Lambertus Dormans, born 07-14-1808, his 3 sons and 2 grandsons, and a brother of Lambertus, Pieter Laurens and the father-in-law of his son Hubertus had all the same profession: carpenter, wheel maker, joiner.
In 1834 Petrus Regout founded a glass- and pottery factory in Maastricht. In these factories many family members (born in 1866, 1875, 1878, 1883, 1891, 1893, 1918, 1921) worked as porcelain painter, potter, glass packer, firepuller, ceramist or earth worker.
There are 4 persons in this pedigree who have been honoured with a royal award for their contribution in the field of culture, religious life, nature or care. They are : Willem Hubert Dormans, Jan Renier Dormans (birthdays not mentioned), Joannes Hubert Adolf (Dolf) Dormans (* 1926) en Alida Cornelia (Alie) Dormans-Visscher (* 1948).
Click below to access Jan Dormans' research culminating in a comprehensive read on our ancestral past detailing occupations, familial ties, and important dates. Jan has graciously given us permission to post the English translation of his work here.
Dormans Family History *new updates January 2025* (docx)
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