Genealogy "van den Houten"

Jan Jacobus van den Houten

Born	04-02-1859 Kerkwerve
Died	07-13-1909 Zierikzee
Age	50
Occupation	Farmer, Castelijn, Innkeeper.

Father	Cornelis Or Kornelis van den HoutenCornelis Or Kornelis van den Houten * 05-16-1817 Kerkwerve † 02-03-1881 Zierikzee ∞ Geertje Natte, 07-27-1835 Kerkwerve, 6 children ∞ Neeltje Krabbe, 06-12-1850 Kerkwerve, 9 children
Mother	Neeltje KrabbeNeeltje Krabbe * 02-03-1826 Kerkwerve † 05-15-1898 Zierikzee ∞ Cornelis Or Kornelis van den Houten, 06-12-1850 Kerkwerve, 9 children

Partner	Paulina van de or van den EndePaulina van de or van den Ende * 07-31-1864 Zierikzee ∞ Jan Jacobus van den Houten, 03-20-1889 Zierikzee
Marriage	03-20-1889 Zierikzee

From the Prologue of the booklet De Gekroonde Suikerbiet est 1873. A formidable story about The Best Café in the Netherlands, by Corine Nijenhuis. ISBN 9789493095434 Beautiful book. De Gekroonde Suikerbiet (The Crowned Sugar Beet.) It's 1892. The quay of the Nieuwe Haven is full. Mountains of sugar beets; a bumpy landscape that keeps getting higher and wider. The peas are brought in from the nearby fields on wagons that are raised with wooden bulkheads, they are so fully loaded that the horses hang in their harness to move forward. Innkeeper Jan Jacobus van den Houten is a smart person. Thanks to the decline in madder cultivation in 1870, sugar beet cultivation has received an enormous boost, and he sees that the transport from the Zeeland ports to the sugar factories is increasing every year. The number of day laborers who order a drink at the bar of their café after work is increasing. The mood is invariably festive: the beet campaign, which continues for months, generates work. Skippers and servants, porters and farmers; They all associate the sugar beet with prosperity and pleasure. Jan Jakobus van den Houten is enough of an entrepreneur to benefit from it. He calls his inn De Gekroonde Suikerbiet. The name that the café still carries with equal pride today.