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Gabriël Andriessen was unfortunately lame and could not keep up with the farm and it would certainly not be easy for him to be an innkeeper either. However, he was a good student and it was decided to choose a suitable profession for him. He would leave for Brussels to train as a "watchmaker", according to tradition he had lodgings with a distant relative. When he returned to Bergen op Zoom he started his own company and on [[18. Juli/de|18. July]] [[1848/de|1848]] registered himself in the guarantee register as a merchant of gold and silver watches. Shortly afterwards he was able to rent his own building in the Engelse Staat number 42. This building called "Romeijn" dated from [[1610/de|1610]] and it was also here that his son and later successor Dionisius Cornelis was born. However, the building was demolished in [[1889/de|1889]] to make way for a larger building. In [[1859/de|1859]] Gabriel and his family moved to the Bosstraat to set up a larger shop. (now Bosstraat 1) In [[1884/de|1884]] Gabriël dies, a year earlier D.C. Andriessen had already taken over the company. The deed of the takeover of the goods from that time gives a nice picture of what was in stock at that time. | Gabriël Andriessen was unfortunately lame and could not keep up with the farm and it would certainly not be easy for him to be an innkeeper either. However, he was a good student and it was decided to choose a suitable profession for him. He would leave for Brussels to train as a "watchmaker", according to tradition he had lodgings with a distant relative. When he returned to Bergen op Zoom he started his own company and on [[18. Juli/de|18. July]] [[1848/de|1848]] registered himself in the guarantee register as a merchant of gold and silver watches. Shortly afterwards he was able to rent his own building in the Engelse Staat number 42. This building called "Romeijn" dated from [[1610/de|1610]] and it was also here that his son and later successor Dionisius Cornelis was born. However, the building was demolished in [[1889/de|1889]] to make way for a larger building. In [[1859/de|1859]] Gabriel and his family moved to the Bosstraat to set up a larger shop. (now Bosstraat 1) In [[1884/de|1884]] Gabriël dies, a year earlier D.C. Andriessen had already taken over the company. The deed of the takeover of the goods from that time gives a nice picture of what was in stock at that time. | ||
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− | Dionisius Cornelis | + | Dionisius Cornelis turned out to be not only a talented watchmaker but also very artistic. As a young boy he already showed himself to be a gifted draftsman and at first it was not at all certain whether he would be able to take over his father's business, the clientele doubted whether he was as good as his father. He had rather modern ideas. For example, he was a strong advocate of the new flat French watches instead of the thick heavy English clocks. His first job was not as a watchmaker but he was appointed by the municipal authorities as "supervisor of hand drawing in the Stadsteekenschool", where he himself had been a pupil. After three years he decided to call it a day and resigned in [[1875/de|1875]] and went to work in his father's business. He increasingly takes over the work and since his marriage in [[1881/de|1881]], there is increasing talk of taking over the company, which then actually happens in [[1883/de|1883]]. |
− | + | Two girls have already been born in the family, but a son as successor only presents himself in [[1886/nl|1886]] Cornelis Johannes Gabriël. Eventually the family consists of 9 children, 5 of whom end up in the jewelry trade. In addition, it was very common for a large and good Catholic family to produce at least a few clergymen. The late vocation of Father Piet Andriessen, who had first trained as a watchmaker, is therefore special. As a missionary priest in the Congo, he started a school in the city of Bondo where people could learn the trade of watchmaker. As the family grew, the company also grew; in addition to watches, the sale of gold and silverware was also taken up. In addition to the building on Bosstraat, the buildings Grote Markt 22 and 22a were purchased. D.C. Andriessen not only expanded the company, but he was also very active socially, including in the R.K. Poor Board and the board of the poorhouse, which is still known as "de Blok". His sudden death was not only a shock for the family but apparently also a loss for the city, given the reporting in the newspapers of those days.| | |
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