My Neighbor is my cousin
Shortly before the end of the year 2025, Vincent de Vaucresson, my next-door neighbor in The Jambottries of Saint Martin Lars (South Vendée), asked me if by any chance Isabelle van der Dussen, wife of Foullon, one of his ancestors, was among mine. Upon checking, yes, Isabelle VDD NXIII is indeed my ancestor. My neighbor […]
Edito Jan 2026
To all van der Dussen and related families worldwide: best wishes for 2026. The year 2025 saw the publication of the new edition of “History of the VDD”, Book 1, in French. This edition was distributed primarily in Belgium, but also in France and England. There are still about ten copies available; feel free to […]
Struggle in The Hague II
Dutch text follows. Sorry for the bad ponctuation. It’s probabily an excerpt scanned from the book : « De jurisdictie-geschillen tusschen het Hof van Holland and de Magistraat van Den Haag », van der Schueren, between 1902 and 1907. If you, reader, know the exact reference, please let me know. Een kleine twintig jaar later werden […]
Struggle in The Hague
The autopsy was a recurrent source of conflict. One example in 1699 involved deputy sheriff Van der Dussen, a local police officer of the council with which the Court had previously had trouble in a similar case as he had taken the corpse of a man who had been stabbed to death on the […]
The castle of Ottignies
Its men, its history Etienne van der Dussen de Kestergat – 2016 Preliminary note: summary of City and Commune of Belgium “Tarlier and Wouters”: 1873. Ottignies Castle is located in the Dyle valley, on a rocky spur in the immediate vicinity of the town center. It has its origins in the Middle Ages, it is […]
Edito 2
February 2025 To all the van der Dussen’s and allied families: may the new year strengthen the bonds between us. For more than a year, the renewed van-der-dussen.com site has taken over the function of the old, obsolete vanderdussen-story.com site. It turns out to be more stable and more readable and has earned us several […]
Une descendance d’Anna
Libert VAN DER DUSSEN, né vers 1530, décédé le 7 août 1590, inhumé le 9 août 1590 – Sainte Gudule, Bruxelles, Receveur (1585, 1586) et échevin (1577, 1588, 1590) de Bruxelles, juge à la Chambre des tonlieux (1570), seigneur de Bornival et de la Tour, admis au lignage Sweerts (1561). Promesse de mariage 28 mars 1557, Termonde, Oost-Vl. […]
Kestergat castle
In the 1970s, Jean Kestergat undertook the complete restoration of Kestergat Castle. His ancestor Jean-Adolphe van der Dussen had built it in 1685, but the building left the family during the French invasion at the end of the 18th century. JK’s father, Marcel van der Dussen de Kestergat, bought it after the First […]
A van der Dussen family near the IJssel.
I received a message from Alexandre van der Dussen, the pruning contractor in the Haarlem area. His father, Antonius Frans Johannes van der Dussen, had researched his ancestors, and established his genealogy since the 17th century. You will find this genealogy below. What stands out in this genealogy is that his ancestors were very stable […]
An unknown van der Dussen “substitute-schout” in The Hague
Among the many “van der Dussen” references that appear on the Internet, one caught my attention: it is a substitute-schout (deputy bailiff?) of The Hague, who had a disagreement with the Court (here in the sense of the government) in 1699. He even served some time) in prison, which is not the first nor the […]
