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Thomas Willemszn van Rhee (Ree), geb. 16 dec 1634 te Wijk bij Duurstede, ovl. 31 mrt 1701 te Batavia (IndonesiÙ), beroep(en): was een koopman in dienst van de VOC, zoon van Wilm (Willem) van Rhee en Margareta (Margarita) Antonis van Heijngst (Hengst)
https://ceylondatabase.net/files/Ancestors.pdf
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Willem_Ferdinand_van_Brunswijk
Individual Note: 1692, Governor of Ceylon
Occupation 1: 1665, Bookkeeper for the Dutch East India Company
Occupation 2: 1668, UnderMerchant for the Dutch East India Company
Occupation 3: 1674, Merchant for the Dutch East India Company
Occupation 4: 1678, UpperMerchant for the Dutch East India Company
Occupation 5: Bet. 1686 - 1692, Commander,Galle

In 1659, he arrived in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. From 1674 until 1678, he worked in Negapatnam. He was appointed Governor of Dutch Ceylon on 19 June 1693, and held the post until 29 January 1695, when he became Council of India. He was succeeded by Gerrit de Heere

Gehuwd 7 aug 1661 te Galle (Sri Lanka) met:
Henrietta Kriekenbeek, geb. 1 okt 1640 te Wijk bij Duurstede, ovl. 24 okt 1696 te Colombo (Sri Lanka), begr. te Wolvendaal Burial Ground, Colombo, dochter van Rutgerus Kriekenbeek en N.N.
https://ceylondatabase.net/files/Ancestors.pdf
Immigration: Bet. 3 April - 27 September 1659, Captain Jacob Bartelsz via the Cape of Good
Hope during this voyage 2 children were born

Haar grafschrift is nog te zien in de Wolvendaalkerk in Colombo
1) Willem van Rhee, geb. te (...), ovl. ± 1700 te Colombo (Sri Lanka), beroep(en): opperkoopman en hoofdadministrateur in Colombo met:
Catharina Africana van Dielen, geb. te (...), ovl. te (...)
2) Engelbert van Rhee, geb. te (...), ovl. na 1707
Engelbert, wordt in 1707 genoemd als opperhoofd van Calpentijn. Engelbert was vermoedelijk de vader van de Thomas van Rhee die in 1739-1740 en 1741-1742 opperhoofd van Deshima was

zie: Sophia Anthonisz (vertaler), Memoir of Cornelis Jan Simons, Governor of Ceylon, for his successor Hendrick Becker, 1707. H.C.Cottle (1914).
3) Johanna van Rhee, geb. te (...), ovl. te (...) met:
Tay van Wezel, geb. te (...), ovl. te (...)
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