Vlieland in Leiden .

We promised to tell you more about the Vlieland family that lived in Leiden .
Opposite de Waag is the mandemakersteeg (basket maker alley) where Cornelis Vlieland
then fisherman lived .

Cornelis Vlieland was baptised 25-11-1798 te Katwijk aan de Rijn he married
04-05-1821 Leiden Anthoinetta Marianne DOLL.She dies 21 February 1859.
He marries for the second on 24-01-1862 Leiden Grietje de BOER, 49 years old .
From his first marriage there are 9 children.
Cornelis started a fish shop and advertised a lot in the local newspaper.
It is amazing to find they sold oysters ,herring and all kind of other fish.
He also wrote an advert which reads like a poem in 1845 about his herring.

They moved house and shop and started a fishshop nearby on the fishmarket.
His son Theodorus Ferdinand Vlieland did not like the fish that much so he started a business in seeds.
And this shop with the name Vlieland on it still excists in the hart of Leiden and is now a pet shop.

There is another family with the name Vlieland living in England and they are descendants of this Cornelis and Anthoinetta.