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Maria <I>Pieck</I> Toorzee

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Maria Pieck Toorzee

Birth
Death
3 Mar 1695 (aged 28–29)
Colombo, Colombo District, Western, Sri Lanka
Burial
Colombo, Colombo District, Western, Sri Lanka Add to Map
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Wife of I. Toorzee, Military engineer and surveyor of the Dutch East India Company (1672-1709). He came from Jutland, Denmark.
Maps he made have been preserved. See: http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/detail.aspx?page=dpers⟨=nl&id=359

A picture of the grave in: Marion Peters, Ferry André de la Porte (photographs), In steen geschreven: leven en sterven van VOC-dienaren op de Kust van Coromandel in India, Amsterdam: Lubberhuizen 2002, 130. Photograph (by Ferry André de la Porte) reproduced by courtesy of the publishers.
Wife of I. Toorzee, Military engineer and surveyor of the Dutch East India Company (1672-1709). He came from Jutland, Denmark.
Maps he made have been preserved. See: http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/detail.aspx?page=dpers⟨=nl&id=359

A picture of the grave in: Marion Peters, Ferry André de la Porte (photographs), In steen geschreven: leven en sterven van VOC-dienaren op de Kust van Coromandel in India, Amsterdam: Lubberhuizen 2002, 130. Photograph (by Ferry André de la Porte) reproduced by courtesy of the publishers.

Inscription

Psal. 63V4. Uwe Goedertierenheit is beter dan het leven. Hier rust Iuff. Maria Pieck in haer leven huysvrouwe van I. Toorzee Constapel Majoor en Ingenieur op Ceylon. In den Heere ontslapen den 5 maart 1695, out 28 jaren 9 maanden en 24 dagen


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  • Maintained by: JCK ReadtheBio
  • Originally Created by: FS
  • Added: Mar 21, 2009
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35068534/maria-toorzee: accessed ), memorial page for Maria Pieck Toorzee (1666–3 Mar 1695), Find a Grave Memorial ID 35068534, citing Dutch Period Museum, Colombo, Colombo District, Western, Sri Lanka; Maintained by JCK ReadtheBio (contributor 47663196).