Third Generation

14. Jan Matthijs SOMSEN²⁹ was born on 4 Mar 1725 in Aalten, GE, Netherlands. He died on 2 Mar 1798 in Aalten, GE, Netherlands. He was buried on 5 Mar 1798 in Aalten, GE, Netherlands. He has a reference number of [P1016].

Jan Matthijs werd in 1752 ingeschreven als lidmaat de NederuitsGereformeerde Gemeente Aalten. [Jan Matthijs was registered as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Aalten in 1752.]

Jan Matthijs SOMSEN and Jenneke BENNINK were married on 1 Jul 1758 in Aalten, GE, Netherlands.^30,31,32

Jan Matthijs en Jenneke Bennink leenden op woensdag 6 februari 1793 fl. 147.-. tegen 3% rente per jaar van de Diakomte van Aalten, en 'agt en twintig gulden' van Barent Rensink en zijn vrouw Harmina Husstede tegen een rente van fl. 1.-. per jaar. Aan beide leningen incl. rente verklaarden zij 'te verbinden haar eigendimmelijke plaasen - Jtijes - genaamt gelegen onder Aalten in de Buurschap IJserlo bestaande in getimmer van Huijs, hoff en Bou(w)land en al wat daar onder behoort zoo als door Comp.ten word bewoond en gebruijkt'. (Bron: fotocopie van akten uit het Rijksarchief te Arnhem). Jan Matthijs en Jenneke Bennink lieten in het Katholieke Bochtolt (Duitsland) hun beide zonen dopen. In het doopregister worden zij vermeld als: Matthuis Sumpsen en Joanna Benning. (Bron: brief 01-02-1995 Stadtarchiv Bochtolt (Dtsl). [Jan Matthijs and Jenneke Bennink borrowed Fls. 147, from the poor-relief board of Aalten at the rate of 3% per annum on Wednesday 06 February 1793 and 'eight and twenty guilders' fron Barent Rensink and his wife Harmina Husstede at the rate of Fls. 1. per annum. For both loans including interest they stated 'to pledge themselves for their holding, called Itijes, situated near Aalten in the hamlet of Ijserlo, consisting of structure, yard and farmland and everything belonging to it as inhabited and used by appearers'. (Source: photocopy of certificates from National Archives, Arnhem). Jan Matthijs and Jenneke had their two sons baptised in Roman Catholic Bochtolt (Germany). In the baptismal register they are recorded as: Mattheus Sumpsen and Joanna Benning (source: Letter from Town Archives Bochtolt, 01 February 1995).].

Jenneke BENNINK³³ (daughter of Geert BENNINK and Johanna BENNING) was born about 1729 in Bocholt, BRD. She died on 19 Sep 1795 in Aalten, GE, Netherlands. She was buried on 22 Sep 1795 in Aalten, GE, Netherlands. She has a reference number of [P1028]. ook wel: Joanna Benning. in Duitsland (Spork 27), waar zij woonde, schreef men Benning. [also: Joanna Benning. in Bocholt, Spork 27 (Germany) where she lived, it was written Benning].

Before her father's marriage, Geert was called: Geert Hellekamp but gave himself the name Benning after the wedding. In the register of deaths it says: 'Joannes Hellekamp, Reformed religion, from the Duchy of Geldern (Germany) died by chance with the farmer Benning in Spork.' )Source: family card file Weber p 36). Jan Matthijs SOMSEN and Jenneke BENNINK had the following children:

30	i.	Theodorus Joannes SOMSEN34 was christened on 9 Sep 1759 in Bocholt, BRD. He was born in Sep 1759 in Bocholt, BRD. He died about 1760. He has a reference number of [P1896].
+31	ii.	Derk Jan SOMSEN.