International homepage of a Smedema family from Friesland in the Netherlands

Earliest known ancestors are Johannes Wessels (16 dec 1764) and his father Wessel Jans from Wanswerd who died in Morra in 1788 and was married to Klaaske Johannes.

• Familytree (Last modified on [an error occurred while processing this directive])
• Smedema Family History
• Deed of the nametaking Smedema 1811
• Netherlands 1603
• Johannes Wessels and the ‘Kollumer rebellion’ on 3 en 4 February 1797
• Old map Oost-dongeradeel

Other Smedema family information:

• Old map of Dockum drawn in 1788 bij J. Smedema, very likely a son of the mayor Dirk Smedema
  • Small (A4, 216Kb)
  • Large (A3, 1.2Mb)
  • Huge (original 50x60cm high resolution, 3.0Mb)
• The crest from the mayor Smedema of Dockum, mayor from 1702 until 1727 (not continious) (not a relative!)
• Lookalike crest from the same neighbourhood Small Large
• Zilveren penning(414Kb) from Dirk Smedema mayor of Dockum 1702-1726 (no family)

Interesting links

• Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk
• Ryksargyf genealogie
• Vereniging van Archiefonderzoekers te Dokkum
• ancestry.com (with the Smedema Family tree)
• Cyndi's List of genealogy sites
• Genealogie op naam startpagina
• Genealogy yn Fryslân

Last modified on 17 November, 2007