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Maarten van der Hoogt and Aaltje de Bruin are my fourth great-grandparents. They lived in quite a few places during their lives: Hazerswoude, Zevenhuizen, Moerkapelle, Leiderdorp, Kouderkerk, probably more – towns and villages in the same region in the province Zuid-Holland. I still miss quite a few vital records for them. But with all the scans available on the FamilySearch website it should not be hard to find those.

I had in my notes that they probably married in Hazerswoude. And sure enough, I found them in the church books there:

Marriage banns of Maarten van der Hoogt and Aaltje de Bruin, Hazerswoude

Marriage banns of Maarten van der Hoogt and Aaltje de Bruin, Hazerswoude

Maarten van der Hoogt, from Hazerswoude, and Aaltje de Bruin, from Zevenhuizen. Pro deo. Banns 27 July 1791. Attest for Zevenhuizen given 7 August.

OK, banns in Hazerswoude because Maarten van der Hoogt lived there at the time. But they married in Zevenhuizen. And scans from Zevenhuizen are also on FamilySearch:

Marriage of Maarten van der Hoogt and Aaltje de Bruin, Zevenhuizen

Marriage of Maarten van der Hoogt and Aaltje de Bruin, Zevenhuizen

This one is harder to read. But I think I transcribed, interpreted and summarized it correctly:

Banns on 27 July 1791, married on 31 August. Maarten van der Hoog [sic], born and currently living in Haserswoude, and Aaltje de Bruin, born in Moercapel [Moerkapelle], currently living in Zevenhuizen.

Great! So I can fire up my genealogy software and add 31 August 1791, Zevenhuizen, as marriage data!

Source Information: “Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province, Church Records, 1367-1911.” Images. FamilySearch. https://familysearch.org : accessed 2013.