Op zondag 20 oktober 2013 20:18:55 UTC+2 schreef jan te boekhorst: > The present Hoogstraat is not the same as the pre-WWII Hoogstraat. This part > > of Rotterdam was destroyed by the German bombardement of May 1940. The present Hoogstraat is in an other location than the original one. > > Jan te Boekhorst (born in pre-WWII Rotterdam) Of course the new Hoogstraat is not the same as the old one, but on old maps you can see the Hoogstraat at the same place - starting at the dam in the Rotte which gave the town its name. Montenaken is a village, now in the Belgian province of Limburg; Weert is now in the Dutch province of Limburg. Jan Franszoon Montenaken was the son of Frans van Montenaken or Franchois Montenack, cloth dyer in Weert (mentioned 1617), whose heir he was in 1655, and Grietgen van Winckel. The whole family was in the textile business, as can be seen in the database of the late Leo Adriaenssen about migration from Brabant to Haarlem (http://www.leoadriaenssen.nl/databases.html, 'Meijerij 1610-1619').