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Barent Kriekenbeek. 
\_Secretaris van Politie^Golombo^ll'd^; Onderkoopman^n56; 
Member of the Landraad, Colombo, 1760 ; Superintendent 
of the Iron Magazine, 1761 ; Secretaris van Justitie, 1762 ; 
retired in 1772 with the rank of Onderkoopman^ and died in 
1778. Barent Avas born in Colombo, 25th August, 1712, 
being the son of Marinus Petrus Kriekenbeek and Susanna de 
Bruyn, and the grandson of Rutgerus Kriekenbeek of Wyk 
by Duurstide, the original settler, who came out in 1659 by 
the ship "Zeelandia." Barent was twice married, (1) in 
1736 to Catharina Ritmeyer and (2) in 1747 to Cornelia 
Dominicus.] 
Dirk Berghuys. 
[Dirk Berghuys, Chief Surgeon, was (about 1720) married 
to Adrianna Swinnas, and was stationed in Galle, 1721-33.] 
Willem van Gent. 
Mattheus van der Spar. 
[Mattheus van der Spar, born in JaflEna, 19th May, 1730 ; 
died in Galle, 24th November, 1806, where he was Adminis- 
trateur ; was first married in Galle, 20th February, 1757, to 
Dorothea Cornelia van Dam of Colombo, daughter of 
Christiaan van Dam of Tuticorin and Anna Driemont of 
Batavia. He married (2) in Colombo, 29th July, 1781, 
Johanna Gertruida Fybrandsz, daughter of the Rev. Johan 
Joachim Fybrandsz. The only child of the second marriage 
was Johan Joachim van der Spar, Consul for the Netherlands 
and merchant in Galle.] 
Johannes van der Spar. 
[Born in Jaffna, 1733, was brother of Mattheus. He was 
Gonsumptie Boekhoude?' in the office of the Dissave, Galle, 
1760 ; Gonsumptie Boekhouder^ Mannar, 1780 ; Chief Clerk 
of PoUtie, Jaffna, 1783 ; and died in 1802. He married in 
Galle, 4th May, 1760, (1) Adriana Dorothea van Bern, born 
in Colombo, 1744, daughter of Hermanns van Bern Bellinger- 
woldeschans, Dissave, Colombo, died there 1746, and Elizabeth 
Wilhelmina Driemont of Tuticorin, born 19th October, 1724, 
daughter of Paulus Driemont, Chief of Manapaar, and Doro- 
thea Maria Sonderburg. Johannes van der Spar married (2) 
Anna Henrietta Dormieux, widow of Abraham Evert Lebeck.] 
Adrianus van der Spar, 
Justinus van der Spar. 
[Justinus van der Spar, Secretaris van Justitie^ Jaffna, was 
married to Maria Petronella Dormieux, half-sister of Anna 
Henrietta Dormieux, wife of Johannes van der Spar.] 
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