Genealogy of Betcke in the Netherlands

Genealogie van Betcke in Nederland

Genealogie von Betcke in die Niederlande

last update 12 Jan 2008

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voor Nederlanders:

Ik ben een Nederlander met een Duitse achternaam, en dus duitse voorouders. Omdat ik niet zoveel zin heb deze site in twee talen te schrijven, en ik ook wel eens mailtjes uit de VS over de Betcke genealogie heb gekregen,  heb ik deze pagina maar in het Engels geschreven.  Mijn genealogische database is wel grotendeels in het Nederlands. Mocht je er niet uitkomen, stuur dan even een mailtje naar: stamboom AT betcke PUNT net


für Deutschen

Ich bin ein Niederlander mit ein deutsche Familiename. Weil ich nicht soviel lust habe diese Website in zwei Sprachen zu schreiben, und auch Englischsprachigen mal Interesse gezeigt haben, ,habe ich diese Website im Englisch geschrieben. Meine genealogische genealogische Datenbank ist mit teilweise in Deutsch.
Möchte es ein Verständnisproblem geben, schick mich dan ein Email: Stammbaum AT betcke PUNKT net


International

Once in while I  get an e-mail from a Betcke who typed "Betcke" into Google and  asks me if we are related. Mostly my answer is: "could be".  This page is an attempt to give a little bit more info to those people. The data is very incomplete: Traditional genealogy involves visiting archives, shifting through papers,looking at microfilms, travelling to lot's of different town-halls and breathing in dusty air. Nice if you have a lot of time and are not allergic for dust. Since this does not apply to me I mostly wait for others to do the dirty work for me and publish it on the internet. Here you can find my first harvest. If you know more than me, please let me know: stamboom AT betcke DOT net.

Update dec 2007:  Recently I changed my research policy ;-) and visited the Amsterdam city archive at their magnificent new location, here I found Information about the first two Betckes in the Netherlands (see next section).

Origins of Betcke in the Neterlands

Around 1800 two Betckes emigrated from Germany to the Netherlands. I am a direct descendant from Johan Wilhelm Michael Betcke, born in 1780 in Lenzen (a png image with his ancestors and  descendants can be found here).  But there was also an Adolph Heinrich Betcke, born in 1805 in Fürstenberg (a png image of his tree of descendants can be found here).  It is unkown to me if they were related.

The name Betcke and variations such as Bethke and Baetcke,  originate from  the German regions Mecklenburg and Brandenburg. According to a website which is no longer online, it means "small Bertram", where Bertram is a surname.

My family tree as far as I know it

Here you can find an overview of all the persons I gathered in my genealogical database. I use the German program  Ahnenblatt to sort my genealogical data. I like the functionality of the program, but it only speaks German. Since the data itself is in Dutch the website generated by Ahnenblatt is now a strange mixture of Dutch and German.  If you have a problem understanding the website, please let me now at stamboom AT betcke DOT net.

Links

Geneological data of Betcke's


Netherlands

MARGARETHA CATHARINA BETCKE, geb. Rotterdam 24 feb 1896, overl. Zeist 3 jul 1974
Catharina Joanna Elisabeth BETCKE, geboren ong. 1820 te Amsterdam
Johan Wilhelm BETCKE Geboren : 25 Juni 1879 in Rotterdam Overleden : 28 Mei 1908 in Rotterdam
Hans BETCKE geb:14-10-1913 Overl: 14-11-1966

Germany
4359 Anna Sophia Catharina BETCKE
3259 Eva Margaretha BETCKE,BETKE,BETHGE,BETGE
Catharina Elisabeth Betcke
Julius August Wilhem Betcke aus Neu-Töplitz, geb. 12.10,1839, gest. 13.11.1897 in Potsdam
Betcke, Johann Georg Christoph

Betcke Home pages
Wolfgang Betcke
Timo Betcke

Web pages about specific Betcke's
Betcke, Max - Gedächtnis Berlin
Betcke, Adam - Gedächtnis Berlin
Hans Betcke, strip/cartoon artist


My direct family
Bewoners Ambarawa 6  Een (niet complete) bewonerslijst van Ambarawa 6
VKVisie december 1998: Kerknieuws


Misc
Not a nice Betcke (near bottom of page)

By the way: Genealogy by the family-name is stupid

A Englisch survey once showed that 10% of the people have a different biological father than they think they have. This means that you have a 90% chance that the man who gave you his name is really your father, that you have 81% chance that the guy who gave him his name is really your grandfather. If you extrapolate this you find out that after seven generations you have less than 50% chance that the guy who's name you are carrying is really a biological ancestor. So only following the female line, like Jewisch people do to determine who is Jewisch,  is much smarter. 
    However, science more and more agrees that both nature and nurture are responsible for who you turn out to be. So there is still some kind of connection with the man who's name you are carrying. Besides, one name just looks nicer.