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Children of Jacques van Gorkom and Alida Frederika Batens (Jack and Li, generation XII-j21).
Jacques was a son of Izak van Gorkom and Janna Elisabeth Klaassen (generation XI-i86) and grandson of Izak van Gorkom and Ingetje Maria van der Hoek (generation X-i53).
XIII-l43. Louise Jacqueline
Born in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1943. Living in Amsterdam. Retired English teacher. Married in Delft in 1968 to Johan Frans van der Horst, English teacher, born in Leiden in 1944. They divorced in 1980. Two children.
XIII-j46. Johanna Elisabeth
Born in Rotterdam in 1946. Living in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK. Married in Manchester, UK, in 1965 to Michael James George Sargent, born in 1945. In 1977 she qualified as a primary school teacher. Their son is Dean Michael Sargent, known as Mallison, born in Derby, UK, in 1967. He is a project worker for the homeless in Watford. Johanna remarried Stephen Richard Mallison, born in Nottingham, UK, in 1946. Their first son, James Mallison, was born in London on 13 October 1978 and died on 15 October 1978. He was burried at Kensal Green Cemetary in London. Their second son, William Richard Mallison, was born in London in 1980. He is a dental technician, working in London.
 
XIII-i47. Ineke
Born in The Hague in 1947. Living in Belgium. Two daughters with John van der Werf, named Lieke van der Werf (1980) and Jessica van der Werf (1982).
XIII-d49. Diederik
Born in The Hague in 1949. Living in Kloetinge, the Netherlands. Son and two daughters. He is called Dick.
On the photo Louise and Johannes in the front garden of the house in Werrington in 1962.
XIII-j60. Johannes
Designer of this site, the youngest of five. People call me John. I was born in the midst of Summer 1960 in the Nepean Hospital of Kingswood, Penrith, nowadays a western suburb of Sydney, Australia. Penrith had its short moment of world fame during the Olympics of 2000, when the rowing matches were held in the newly dug Lake Penrith. At the time of my birth we lived in St. Mary's in a "chicken shed", as my mother called it. Soon afterwards we moved to 62 Princess Street in Werrington. St. Mary's and Werrington are both in the neighbourhood of Penrith.
In September 1964 we left Australia and went back to Holland, where we moved in with my mother's mother (Louise Sustrath) in The Hague. After a year my parents found a suitable place to live in Delft, as mentioned in the section about my father. Delft, famous for it's Delft Blue porcelain and the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, is the city where I grew up. For tourists it is a lovely old city, but it is far less interesting when you are a teenager. At the Stedelijke Scholengemeenschap Hugo Grotius, called Grotius College nowadays, I got my VWO-diploma (high school A-levels) in 1978. It gave me the opportunity to go to college somewhere that would be far away enough from Delft. This turned out to be Utrecht, more or less by coincidence. I didn't know anything about our family roots then. That was going to take another five years.
In Utrecht I studied biology, my major being cell biology. In 1981 I married Isabelle Caroline Le Poole, born in Delft in 1960, daughter of Prof. Dr. Jan Bart Le Poole and Maria Alida Croiset van Uchelen (genealogy of the Le Poole family in: Nederland's Patriciaat, 80th edition, 1997, published by Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie in The Hague). After two years our daughter Emilie Geertruida (generation XIV-e83) was born in Utrecht in the Lange Smeestraat in 1983. Exactly two years later again we divorced technically. And after a two year break from Summer 1985 till Summer 1987 I resumed my studies. I studied history of science as a second major and got my master's in May 1988. In October 1988 I moved to Amsterdam, where I still live, earning a living as webdesigner.
Research on family history
I started researching family history in September 1983. It was mere coincidence that my mother just had told me that my father's father was supposed to have come from Utrecht. As my daughter Emy had just been born, in Utrecht, I went to the city archive to look up the details. I was absolutely very lucky to find out that our family lived in Utrecht for some nine generations, going all the way back to approximately 1600. It meant that I could get all the research done without ever having to leave the city for it. As a matter of fact, at the time I lived one block away from the Geertekerk, the church in which Thomas Rutgerse, probably the first Van Gorkom in Utrecht, married Elisabeth de Leeu in 1617. After a few years, I abandoned family history research for more than 15 years. Only after the birth of my granddaughter Jana (picture to the left) in 2002, I started constructing this website, which went into the air in March 2003.
A few months later third cousin Johan joined in, who provided the site with much more and better data. While we had never met before, it turned out that Johan had also studied biology in Utrecht, just like me, had also studied the family's genealogy twenty years before and had also recently picked up the subject again. By now (this is an update, written in November 2008) he has contributed approximately 80 percent of the website content.
The future
The picture below shows the future of my grandchildren and all the others of their age. On 21 June 2004 the first commercial space ship came home from its very first trip; a hundred years after the first serious flights with an airplane by the Wright brothers. Picture by Richard Seaman.
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