an antique, 18th - 19th century wax seal with a coat of arms:
it was hard to describe the arms
and therefore difficult to find at CBG-Den Haag, but I did:
Seeuwen
and the CBG approved and published it:
the CBG gives two descriptions of the Italian style arms:
omgekeerd gekeperd van vier stukken, goud en rood, waar overheen een zilveren paal beladen met een adelaar, overtopt door een kroon
reversed chevron of four pieces, gold / Or and red / Gules, surmounted by a pale of silver / Argent with on it an eagle, surmounted by a crown
and
twee maal gedeeld, I: geschuinbalkt van vier stukken, II: een gekroonde adelaar, III: links geschuinbalkt van vier stukken
twice divided, I: diagonally barred of four pieces, II: a crowned eagle, III: left diagonally barred of four pieces
The name led on the internet to many different ways of writing the name, like:
Seeu - Seeuwen - Seuwen - Zeeuwen - Zeeu - Zeeuw - Zeuwen - Zeeuwen Ceeuwen - Ceuwen - Cheeuwen - Cheeuws
like in this family:
also knewn as, or called Zeehaven (zeehaven means seaport) like here:
E.H. Jacobus Zeeuwen (E.H. for "Eerwaarde Heer" a title for a Reverend sir)
is Jacobus Adriani Zeeuwen, his surname is also documented as Zeehaven and Ceeuwen
this Jacobus Adriani is the oldest Zeeuwen / Seeuwen we found documented: born circa 1530 in Oudenbosch - deceased 1580 in Loenhout, he became a monk in 1551 in the Sint Bernardus abdij in Hemiksen
and during 1560-1580 rector eeclesie in Loenhout
Seeuwen and Zeeuwen
People from the Dutch province Zeeland are called Zeeuwen and they are Zeeuws. Zeeuw is not derived from the name Zeeland but from zee = sea, for zeeuw / seeuw is an older word for zee, like seo and sae, and there is the Gothic word saiws.
And what you call Zeeuws (older: seeusch and zeeusch) - meaning from Zeeland is derived from: near the zee - sea, and in a 1528 document a Zeelander was called Zeeu
some more finds:
Rombout Heinrixsz Seeuwen and Emmerens Pouwels
had their son Rombout baptised in 1613 in Amsterdam:
in the 16th and 17th Century there are
Adriaen Seeuwen and Adrianus Seeuws:
a family Seeuwen lived in 1893 in Utrecht at Maliesingel 63:
ending the search of Seeuwen and Seeuws
with the most famous girl from Zeeland:
Zeeuws Meisje
the seal stamp is sold by Delta 98 Den Haag
to a Seeuwen in the USA
- please know that my research was only limited and unprofessional -
collection of Delta 98 Den Haag
text by Marx Warmerdam
