Gualterus "Wouter" Woutersz (ca. 1670,
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– 5 February 1759,
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
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) was commander of
Jaffna
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for the
Dutch East India Company
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and interim
Governor of Dutch Ceylon
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between the departure of
Stephanus Versluys
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Versluijs was the son of Adriana de Muncq and Cornelis Versluijs, mayor of Middelburg and t ...
on 25 August 1732 and the arrival of
Jacob Christiaan Pielat
Jacques Christian or Jacob Christiaan Pielat (sometimes ''Pielaat'') (27 August 1692, Rotterdam – c. 3 August 1740, Loosduinen) was the 22nd Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch colonial time from 2 December 1732 until 27 January 1734.
Pielat wa ...
on 2 December 1732.
Woutersz was the son of Ursula Wees and Gualterus Woutersz Senior, who in 1681 was
schepen A schepen (Dutch; . ') or échevin (French) or Schöffe (German) is a municipal officer in Belgium and formerly the Netherlands. It has been replaced by the ' in the Netherlands (a municipal executive).
In modern Belgium, the ''schepen'' or ''éch ...
of Middelburg. Gualterus Junior arrived in Ceylon in 1689 on board the ship ''Schoondijk''. He married Hester Otley. The couple had five children between 1705 and 1719.
[F. H. de Vos]
Genealogy of the Woutersz of Ceylon
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1670s births
1759 deaths
18th-century Dutch people
Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka
Governors of Dutch Ceylon
People from Middelburg, Zeeland
Dutch East India Company people