In search for my RABBELIER ancestors
As the webmaster of the CarPark I have a question:
my name is Willem RABBELJEE.
Up till now I did trace my ggg grandfather and his spouse, who lived and
died in Nijmegen (NLD):
JOANNES RABELIE/RAPPELLIER/RABELJEE,bapt.
23-09-1750....died 1802
MARIA JOANNA VAN (S)ZACHTEN, born 1773
I did trace some further family-members, listed under the following names:
WILLEM RABBELIER
MARIA RABELIE
DOROTHEA RABELLIER
GERARDA CHRISTINA RABBELJEE (with an accent aigu on the second
'e')
ARNOLDUS RABBELJE
Putative father and mother of Joannes
are:
Christianus (Chretienne) Rabbeljer and Maria
Hu(i)bers
There all related and found in the 18th century in the environments of
Nijmegen (NLD). Many of them moved to the city of Groningen upnorth in
theNetherlands, all bearing the name Rabbeljee (the Dutch phonetic rendering
of Rabbelier). Another large group of the family moved to the Rotterdam
area, all bearing the name Rabbelier.
A long considered assumption that the name could be pointing to Huguenotte
ancestors is most probably unfounded: the name Rabbelier and the various
(probable) variations found within this family
could not be found in any Huguenotte register.
