Genealogy of the family van Dort: Albums

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1	Anchovy fishing, Oosterschelde - The Netherlands A WASTE OF TIDE “Fishing for Anchovy in the Netherlands?” “Isn’t Anchovy this little fish from the Mediterranean?” Fisherman Cor van Dort has seen many surprised faces over the years. More surprised faces from customers in the shop; “No Anchovy today?” “You didn’t catch any?” For generations his and other families have been fishing for Anchovy in the Oosterschelde near the town of Bergen op Zoom. Unlike other fishermen Cor van Dort is not hunting the fish, he’s waiting for them. Twice a day at low tide he sails towards his funnel shaped trap on the edge of a sandbank. Anchovy likes the shallow warm waters near these sandbanks. With the low tide the fish are, if Cor has a lucky day, caught within his funnel, of which the arms of can stretch over a kilometre. The current of the low tide takes them in further and further. In the short season he can catch a 1000 Kg of Anchovy per tide, sometimes none…or as Cor calls it: “a waste of tide”. There used to be many other fishermen in this area using the same method of fishing but nowadays Cor shares these waters with only one remaining colleague.	9
2	Bergen op Zoom Pictures of van Dorts from the Bergen op Zoom archives	10
3	Coats of arms While digging in the archives and contacting people several coat of arms of the van Dort families came up. Because the right to carry arms is a privelege attached to a certain branch of a family, a genealogy must proof a family relationship, before you can claim a certain coat of arms. Below are 8 different coats of arms, so this must be an encouragement to do a genealogy study! Of course it's just fun to know that there are coats of arms of different families. More info about heraldry can be found on Heraldry on the Internet.	19
4	Fishing in Bergen op Zoom Van Dorts involved in fishing in Bergen op Zoom. From the archives of Bergen op Zoom	5
5	Legends of Ceylon by Aline Van Dort Legends of Ceylon in fairy tales Eké mat eké rataké (Once in a certain country) from http://www.iaf.nl/Users/janpoel/	8
6	Overview of the families van Dort The family van Dort from The Netherlands is probably not one family. It is more likely that several families moved away from Dordrecht, also called Dordt, at a certain period of time. When they settled down in a new city they were called van Dort, which could mean from Dordt or from Dordrecht. A genealogist, who looked into the family Schot, a family which is closely related to the family van Dort in Bergen op Zoom, claims to have found evidence that the family van Dort from Bergen op Zoom, originally came from Dordrecht. We didn't find evidence in Bergen op Zoom to support this theory yet, but it is very well possible. In the Netherlands of the 17th century people with the name van Dort could be found in various cities: Bergen op Zoom and Rotterdam, Utrecht, the Beemster, Gorinchem and The Hague, Delft and Rijswijk and Amsterdam and Muiden. There is no connection yet established between the people in the several cities. In the 18th and 19th century people with the name van Dort were spread all over The Netherlands and Sri Lanka. And in the 19th and 20th century people with the name van Dort were spread over the whole world: the US, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Germany, England and Belgium. The following pages contain the stories of the different families van Dort. The stories are based upon information from the genealogy research of my father and me and all the information provided by people from the families van Dort, whom we had the pleasure to write and talk to. You'll notice that some parts are more detailed than others. We welcome all help to fill in the missing gaps, for instants in the area of the unsolved puzzle of the various coats of arms.	14
7	Paintings by J.L. Kalenberg Van Dort Sketches of Ceylonese Life, 1861 The volume is largely the work of the illustrator John L. K. Van Dort, whose Ceylonese works are represented in the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Leiden, Netherlands). In 1951 a book was published about this artist's work entitled Ceylon: the near past. He was, according to the manuscript text (in another hand), 'a clever, self-taught artist who at that time was a Draughtsman in the Surveyor-General's office, Colombo, Ceylon. He was a native of the Island, but descended from a Dutch family who settled in Ceylon before the English took possession.'. The book seems to have been originally merely a series of illustrations by Van Dort, another (later) hand completing the text in about 1889. The volume is a bound book of forty-sevem sketches by Van Dort divided into three parts: pictures of native dignitaries, tradesmen and villagers. Someone with initials C.J. has added a text to most of the pictures, which, he states, were 'taken from various sources, but principally from Sir Emerson Tennant's work on Ceylon, and from personal recollection'.	10
8	Paintings by Willem van Dort Jr. and Sr. Other more or less well known van Dort's from Bergen op Zoom are Willem van Dort (1875-1949) and his son Willem van Dort Jr. (1905 - 1995). They were both painters of landscapes, portraits and flowers. The father was an impressionist. His son taught at the gold smith school in Schoonhoven, and the art academy in Rotterdam. In '95 there was an exhibition of their paintings in museum the "Markiezenhof" in Bergen op Zoom.	9

octobre 1996 - march 2007, created by Mascha van Dort, Delft, The Netherlands.