Wiepkje Tevis

About Wiepkje Tevis

• Occupation: unknown
• Lived: 1795–1837
• Employer: not applicable
• In which maritime sector did she work? As far as is known, she was not active in the maritime world

What else can be said about her maritime life?

In 1823, she married Captain Eildert Bergman (1802/3–1851), and the couple had three children. She came from a maritime family; her father also sailed as a merchant marine captain, and she passed on the maritime tradition: both her eldest son, Harmen Tevis (an “illegitimate” child), and her youngest son, Jan Bergman, became mates or captains, and her second son, Cornelis, was a mate’s apprentice when he died young. Jan Bergman also married Maria Otto from the well-known shipbuilding family, which was related to the Van der Giessen shipbuilding family. It is unknown whether Wiepkje Tevis pursued any education or held a job, nor what caused her death at the age of 41.

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