Meester-bakker en koopman, kapitein van een vrijcorps
(1795)
Uit dit huwelijk behalve 2 jong-overleden kinderen: Joost, Tjalling,
Binnert en Eeltje.
Hij woonde in het "geboortehuis" (thans postkantoor)
op het plein (thans Halbertsmaplein) te Grouw; in de gevel van
genoemd huis werden als geschenk van de Friezen, twee gedenkstenen
met medaillons van Dr Joost en Dr Eeltje aangebracht, terwijl
men, ter nagedachtenis aan laatstgenoemde, bovendien een borstbeeld
in het park te Grouw oprichtte
Halbe(r)tsma, a Dutch Mennonite family, formerly living in
the province of Friesland, now spread throughout the Netherlands.
From the side of the mother this family became Mennonite. Dr.
Scipio Halbetsma, a lawyer at the Court of Friesland, in 1669
maried Catharina Rinia Stinstra (Mennonite) of Dokkum (daughter
of Joost Rinia and Antje Hendricksz Stinstra). Their son Hidde
Halbetsma (1685-1762) was a silversmith and a member of the congregation
of Gorredijk (q.v.). Their son Joost (1732-88), b. at Gorredijk
moved to Grouw (q.v.), where this family resided for many generations
and where are still found the Halbertsma woodworking factories.
Joost's son was Hidde (1756-1809), a merchant and officer of
a volunteer corps. This Hidde was the father of Pastor Joost
Halbertsma (q.v. 1789-1869). Like him his brothers Tjalling (1792-1852),
a merchant, and Eeltje (1797-1877), a physician, both living
at Grouw, were active in promoting the Frisian language and culture.
Their popular literary work in the Frisian language was compiled
in the collection of Rimen en Teltsjes, of which a fifth edition
appeared at Leeuwarden in 1918.
These Halbertsma brothers have a large progeny, many of whom
served in several Mennonite congregations as deacons. Lieuwe
E. Halbertsma (b. 1824 at Grouw, d. Lippspringe, Germany 1854),
a son of Tjalling, went into the ministry after having been trained
at the Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary. He served the congregations
of Ternaard 1850 and Emden, East Friesland 1850-54.
Litt. doct. h.c., Doopsgez. pred. laatstelijk
te Deventer
Familietak sterft uit in 1995. Doopsgezind predikant te Bolsward
en te Deventer. Letterkundige (Leiden), collectioneur van oudheden
Friesland betreffend.
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