Gilles Hessels Mesdag

1706 - 1759  (53 years)    Has 3 ancestors and 43 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Gilles Hessels Mesdag
  Birth	27 Jan 1706	Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Dec 1759	Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
  Person ID	I705161	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Hessel Gerbens
  Mother	Riemke Gillis Mesdach,   b. 1673, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
  Family ID	F321650	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Aaltje Wopkes Knoop   d. 1734
  Marriage	23 Mar 1731
  Children	1. Dieuwke Mesdag,   b. 1734   2. Aagjen Mesdag
  Family ID	F321653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Claaske Dirks Hesling,   b. Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland d. 1745
  Marriage	18 Aug 1743	Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
  Children	1. Dirk Mesdag
  Family ID	F321655	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2018

  
  

  Family 3	Riemke Coopmans
  Marriage	1747
  Children	+ 1. Taco Gilles Mesdag,   b. 3 Apr 1753, Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland d. 20 Jan 1814, Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F309085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2017

  
  

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  		Birth - 27 Jan 1706 - Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland Marriage - 18 Aug 1743 - Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland Death - Dec 1759 - Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Donia State was bought in 1752 by Gilles Hessels Mesdag and Riemke Coopmans. They were the first burgers owning, and living in, that "noble" house in the country. They were proud of their possession. In their will they state that the "noble house" had to stay in the family. The glamour of the previous owners was thought to be transferred on the current ones. Now they, naturally, rented out the farm land. One privilege was not transferred to Gilles Mesdag. It transpired that the hunt of swans had been exempted. Even legal action did not lead to results. However, Gilles now obtained the right to establish a burial chamber in the church of Burgwerd. And he used this right. [Sint Janspoort, Bolsward; 1793 Bendorp] After his death, his coffin was transported from his house at the Grote Dylacker in Bolsward (see map inset), through the Saint-Jans gate at the northern tip of Bolsward (see picture) and by the ship-canal Bolsward-Leeuwarden to Burgwerd, then three times around the church before it was put to rest in the burial chamber. In the 19th century people mocked this by saying that Gilles had become skipper after his death, because in winter the chamber often flooded. Gilles was the only Mesdag burried there. In the Napoleonic times, The Netherlands were a true republic for a while and all signs of aristocracy were removed from the public sphere, like coats of arms being removed from tombstones. Gilles and Riemke lived alternatingly in Bolsward and Burgwerd. Both had children when they married and, together, at Donia in Burgwerd, they got one child, Taco. This boy Taco grew up in that noble house and after his marriage went to live mostly there. After having been sold, Donia State was taken down in 1866-1870.