The Family Van Dorsser

The Family Van Dorsser

The Coat of Arms of the Van Dorsser Family Description	Source: Families Van Dorsser and Stehouwer: Research at the Centraal Bureau Genealogie, Den Haag by J.A.C. van Dorsser, Rozenburg, NL and contributions by A.P. van den Hoek. Genealogy file Familieboek \| Familybook De Meijer-Van Dorsser (Family only)	Van Dorsser The History of our the Family Van Dorsser, including De Haas van Dorsser, starts with Thonis Thonisz, farmer at Dubbeldam, born in Sliedrecht in the year 1600. He died in Dordrecht. The following 4 generations were ship's carpenters and wood traders untill the end of the 18th century. Dordrecht was an important harbour, as can be seen on the picture by Hendrik de Meyer II (1737 - 1793). Adrianus Stephanusz van Dorsser (VI th generation, 1777 - 1843), born in Dordrecht, became a fiscal inspector in Dinxperlo and Budel. His son Johannis Adrianus settled as "Oeconoom" (farmer) on the island of Rozenburg. First on farmstead "Zeerust- en Landrust" and in 1840 on the farm "De Zuiderhoeve". His grand-grandson Johannes Adrianus Cornelus continued farming on the island untill 1966 on the farmstead "Bouw- en Veelust". Johannis' brother Jacob Cornelis had already started as farmer-owner on Rozenburg in 1834. His son Hubrecht de Haas van Dorsser, born in 1836, adopted, as the only of the children, the name of his mother Jannetje de Haas. Other branches of the family stayed in Dordrecht or emigrated to North America. (More to follow later).

Arms of the Isle of Rozenburg showing two roses and a "burght" or castle Map of the South-West of The Netherlands) Below: The Estuary of the Meuse river with the area of Delft in the upperpart and the islands of South-Holland below. The Isle of Rozenburg is in the centre. By Nicolaas Visscher Amsterdam, after1681.	Rozenburg Until 1958 Rozenburg was an island situated between The Nieuwe Waterweg (the waterway to Rotterdam) in the north and the Brielse Maas in the south. In that year preparations started to convert the island in a vast industrial area with seaharbours, connecting waterways and roads. Although the village of Rozenburg remained as a habitat for the many people working in the port and industry, all of the farmers were expropriated and the farmsteads, some of them centuries old, dissapeared. The last farms, amoung which "Bouw en Veldlust" of Johan van Dorsser, were demolished in 1966. This is a selectio of some of the most important and nicest farms of the island. The farms of Rozenburg I The farms of Rozenburg II The farms of Rozenburg III The farms of Rozenburg IV	Adrianus Martinus van Dorsser (1886-1948) with one of his horses on his farmstead "Bouw- en Veelust", Zandweg 20 in Rozenburg. His son Johannes worked this beautiful farm until it was expropriated for the extension of Rotterdam harbour in the sixties of the 20th century. The entrance of "Bouw -en Veelust", Rozenburg.