Godfried Carel Meurs, on October 24, 1737 in the service of the Dutch East India Company
- Departure
- 1737
- Thursday, 24 October
Godfried Carel Meurs (uit Den bos) joins as midshipman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Rooswijk bound for Batavia - 1738
- Sunday, 8 June
227 days after departure
Arrival of the ship Rooswijk on the Cape - Friday, 27 June
19 days after arrival at the Cape
Departure of the ship Rooswijk of the Cape - Tuesday, 23 September
88 days after departure from the Cape, 334 days after departure from the Netherlands
Arrival of the ship Rooswijk in Batavia - 1780
- Friday, 14 April
15513 days after employment
Resignation Godfried Carel Meurs (Asia), reason: deceased
Remarks
Month certificate: No / Debenture: No
Source citation
Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6058, folio 200
VOC - voyagers, this index was developed through a joint initiative of the archives of Delft and Rotterdam, Zeeuws archief, Westfries Archief (Hoorn and Enkhuizen) and the departments of history from the Universities of Leiden and Ghent.
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Internet address
https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/index/nt00444/http://hdl.handle.net/10648/4760f815-2242-1db4-ffb2-dc0cd416de01
Comments
On Friday, 30 March E.C.Vermij wrote
Volgens het scheepssoldijkboek van de Rooswijk isGodfried Carel Meurs in 1744 met schip Padmos voor kamer Zeeland gerepatrieerd. Kennelijk vertrok hij daarna opnieuw naar Indië, alwaar hij in 1780 overleed. Deze tweede reis, en dus ook zijn overlijden in 1780, zijn niet in de database te vinden.
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