Branch D:
Jan Casimir Theodorus van Motman
Jan Casimir Theodorus died when he was only 46 just like his eldest brother Willem (branch A). He was lord of the estate Tjikandi Ilir (Bantam). We do not know much about him. In a letter of Willem van der Hucht to his brother Jan he described him as “one of his best friends. He is a honest and good man but he has never been in Europe, keep this in mind and don’t go by the looks. I go bail for his intrinsic merit”. Jan C.Th. lived at that time in Batavia at the Molenvliet next to the inn of the widow Stelling (150) where Jan van der Hucht stayed temporarily.
Together with Pieter Holle Jan C.Th. ran the coffee-estate Bolang from 1843 until Pieter’s death on August 15th, 1845, Pieter putting in his management and Jan the land. Pieter Holle was buried by way of exception at the graveyard of the family Van Motman in Djamboe.
His wife Anna was only 16 when she married Jan and died 10 years later leaving behind her six children between two and nine years, that is five daughters and one son. Not much is known about
Anna. We know that her father Frits Quentin founded in 1837 together with 53 other members of the freemasons’ lodges ‘La Vertueuse’ and ‘La Fidele Sincérité’ the new joint lodge ‘De Ster in het Oosten’. He was of German origin (Kassel, Hessen); he had besides Anna two other daughters who married into the families Van Gelder and Palmer Van Der Broek.
After the decease of Anna the children were brought to their uncle Jacob and aunt Aldonse (branch C) in Dramaga where they grow up and from which place they married. With exception of Jans the oldest daughter, all married when they were 20. Jans married not until she was 25 probable while she had a task in bringing-up her younger sisters. She and her sister Miam married both with sons of Pieter Holle and Alexandrine van der Hucht, respectively with Adriaan and Albert. Both sons died relatively young, so their wives were early widows and moved to Holland.
Jans and Adriaan had a son Alex (no offspring) and a daughter Eleonore who married first with John Lamberts who died early and nine years later she remarried J.A. baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten. The portraits of GWC and Reiniera were in the possession of him and his wife and got unfortunately lost when their house De Lange Hut in the woods around Arnhem was destroyed by a fire. The son Alex came in the news as the Dutch uncle Alex of Simone Arnoux (*1915, † 2001) who married in 1951 with Aschwin, the brother of the Dutch prince Bernhard (father of queen Beatrix).
Alex was not a real uncle but the husband of the aunt of Simone (151).
Miam and Albert Holle had four children of whom three daughters who married in the Families Krayenhoff, Brewer and Broese van Groenou.
There was a third sister, Aldonse, who married with a Holle but this Holle was not parented to the other family Holle. She got permission to write and call herself Quentin Van Motman. The story goes that one of her sons (Louis) wanted to marry a foreign princess and to make more impression on that lady he asked his mother to change her name. Perhaps the idea occurred to him while his mother-in-law called Van Vessem had added the name Van Motman to her name, apart from that for quite another reason.
150 This concerns the Hotel de Provence, property of Isabella Cornelia Lehmann, widow of Peter Christiaan Stelling and remarried with Cornelis Denninghoff. Their son Friederich Denninghoff Stelling married Alexandrine, the youngest daughter of Peter Holle. The Hotel de Provence was renamed in Hotel Rotterdam in 1851 and in Hotel des Indes in 1856.
151 Her first husband was a Watzdorf; from that marriage 2 sons Stephan and Thilo.
Two sisters left: Wilhelmina married August Verbeek. This marriage lasted only four years while August drowned during a military operation in the river Bila in N.E. Sumatra. Cato married Gustav Mundt who was appointed to manager of the tea plantation Parakan Salak after the death of Adriaan Holle in 1879. In 1885 he was appointed to be president of the Soekaboemische Landbouw Vereeniging in succession to Albert Holle.
The only son Casimir didn’t marry but he had two daughters from a relation with the inland woman Sariama and a son and a daughter from a relation with the Chinese woman Tan Atieh Nio, who were all recognized and legalized. The son Frederik Casimir had two daughters and a son named Casimir but his marriage with Ietje Muller was without issue.
From a later relation of Jan C.Th. with the Chinese woman Tan Kim Nio another two children were born, a daughter Mien who married her nephew Cornelis F.J. (branch B3) and a son Jan who grew up at the house of his uncle Piet (branch E) together with his later wife Margaretha de Haan. They had two daughters who married into the families Luymes and Bennebroek Evertsz and a son Cornelis who married twice and got a daughter but no son. Subsequently branch D died out.
Jan Casimir Theodorus van Motman
