Early Unconnected Roll Families
in the Netherlands
The Earliest Recorded Dates*

Opperkoopman Heyn Rol sailed, in 1618, from Hoorn in North Holland for Java in the East Indies on a voyage of incredible adventure with Schipper Willem IJsbrantsz Bontekoe in the ship Nieuw-Hoorn owned by the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie.**

Willem IJsbrantsz Bontekoe

Map of Early Roll Families
in North Holland
in the 17th and 18th Centuries

The map below gives some idea of where we are beginning to search for the ancestors of the our Roll family in the Netherlands.

Maps by

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The Earliest Year of Record in North Holland
Rol, Van Rol, Van de Rol, Roll or Van de Roll

(0. Alkmaar, 1631, the marriage of Anneken Pieters)†
1. Andijk, 1761, baptism of Grietje Jacobs Rol
2. Hoogkarspel, 1720, birth of Willem Dirksz Rol
3. Hoorn, 1793, baptism of Hendrik Van de Rol
4. Uitgeest, 1690, birth of Jacob Rol
5a. Markenbinnen, 1782, marriage of Grietje Gerrit Rol
5b. Krommenie, 1737, birth of Hannis Rol
6. Wormerveer, 1761, birth of Grietje Gerrit Rol
7. Assendelft, 1773, birth of Lijsbeth Willems Rol
8. Zaandam, 1757, birth of Lijsbeth Jacob Rol
9. Amsterdam, 1748, birth of Betuel Rol
10. Durgerdam, 1714, birth of Jacob Rol
11. Haarlem, 1729, marriage of Margaret Roll

The Earliest Record in Other Provinces
Rol, Van Rol, Van de Rol, Roll or Van de Roll

The surname also appears in other provinces of the Netherlands, the earliest year of record being

1787, Arnhem, Gelderland, the baptism of Catharina Van Rol
1676, Bolsward, Friesland, the marriage of Jacob Roll
1727, Groningen, Groningen, the baptism of Tonnisjen Rol
1791, Leeuwarden, Friesland, the baptiam of Georg Theodorus Roll
1666, Nijkerk, Gelderland, the baptism of Aalt Hendricksen Rol
1654, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, the marriage of Hein Peters Rol
1714, Woudenberg, Utrecht, the marriage of Jacobus Rol††
1768, Zaltbommel, North Brabant, the marriage of Teuntje Van de Roll

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* This information is from the IGI (International Genealogical Index,) unless otherwise noted.

** Thomas Rosenboom, editor. Het journaal van Bontekoe. Athenaeum-Polak en Van Gennep, 131 blz, fl.35, 92.

Opperkoopman=chief merchant , Schipper=skipper , Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)=the United East India Company.

Bontekoe, W. Y., and Geyl, Pieter. Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage (1618-1625). Translated from the Dutch by C.B. Bodde Hodgkinson with introduction and notes by Pieter Geyl. Reprint. First published in 1929, London. 1992, 164 pages, 10 plates.

"De 28e december van het jaar onzes Heren 1618 ben ik, Willem IJsbrantsz. Bontekoe uit Hoorn, met oostenwind van Texel vertrokken als schipper van de Nieuw Hoorn, die ongeveer 550 lasten groot was, bemand met 206 eters."

† Anneken Pieters married as her second husband Jacques Kinnekom, a Scottish soldier under the command of Colonel Balcklough, in Outdorp, Alkmaar, North Holland, the Netherlands, 2 Mar 1630/31. She was the grandmother of Tryntje Pieters Van Woggelum who married Jan Mangels Roll, the first American Roll ancestor.

The marriage record was researched in the archive in Alkmaar, North Holland, the Netherlands, and translated by Tom Van Baar t.vanbaar@quicknet.nl.

†† The greatest number of persons with the surname before 1800 listed in the IGI, were in Woudenberg, Utrecht, the Netherlands. The Roll family tradition is that Jan Mangels Roll, the progenitor of the family in America, was born in Utrecht. But it is only a legend that remains to be proven.