In our familytree are a lot of men with this name. The following life-discription is on the great-grandfather of Interstuif.

Adrianus Roelands was born the 11th of februari 1863,  at 5 a.m. The place of birth was 't Hout in Princenhage near the river Aa of Weerijs,  today this is a part of the city of Breda. Adrianus was born in the house with nr.84, according to the birth reccord.

't Hout
't Hout lis the neighbourhood around  Houtakkerstraat and Dr. Batenburglaan, in the south-western part of  Breda. Northeern border of 't Hout is Graaf Engelbertlan, on the westrn side ther is nowadays the motorway A16 and the N263 (Rijsbergseweg), in south-eastern direction   we can find the river Aa of Weerijs (with the Houtbrug towards Mastbos). In 1840 't Hout had 11 houses, with 116 inhabitants. Today (2014) ca. 60 houses, 150 inhabitants.

Adrianus was As far as ifoud out the sole son to Matheus Roelands (1833-1907) and Adriana Damen (1835-1903). According to his birthreccord his father an mother were farm-aids. Adrianus was named after his grandfather AdriaanRoelands (1797-1868)

At the age of 27 jarige Adrianus married Anna Maria Kooijen, 29 years old, in the municipality of Princenhage. Date of the marriage was 7 mei 1890. The grooms profession is "bouwman" (farmer), the brides profession is "dienstbode" (maid, domestic aid). The marriage wase officialy announced  on sundays 20th and 27th of april 1890. Father of the bride was no longer alive. The photo of the couple was taken much later, possibly at the marriage of one of their cildren.

It is nt sure that tey were aware of the fact they were related. I found a common forefather about 6 generations earlier: Adrianus Roelen (Bertrams) 1595-1661. You might notice that the familyname  Roelands was not consistent all the way in history. It depended on those who had the tastk to write it down in the (church-)registers. I have found families in wich the cildren have up to 3 different familynames...

Out of the marriage 6 children were born. Adriana, Petrus Matheus, Matheus Cornelis (Interstruifs grandfather) Johanna Maria, Adrianus Simon and Johanna Wilhelmina. Matheus Cornelis is subject to a life-description too. At the birth of Adriana the family is living in number 113 in 't Hout. As of the birth of Johanna Maria there is not an adress in the records anymore. Adrianus signed the birthreccords  with "A Roelanst",  as he did in his own marriagereccord. Writing was probably not a daily affair for him.

On november 9th 1914 the family moved to Gilze. Someof Adrianus' and Anna Maria's children lived only a short while in Gilze. Adriana left home in 1917 moving back to Princenhage at het marriage. The first adres in the reccords show  the family is living at number A 24 (Raakeind, now Hoogstraat 7).

Adrianus died in Gilze in 1927 at the adres  C  68 (schoolstraat, Molenschot) on   juni 17th at 10.30 a.m. according to the reccords. His death was declared by some neighbours:  Adrianus Woutherus van Gestel (52 years old, farmer) and Adrianus Hermans (42 years, farmer). Adrianus' widdow moved in later with one of their children in the municipality of  Ginneken en Bavel, she died in Gilze januari 11th 1940, staying there. There are in fact two reccords of het death, as the orriginal reccord was lawfully coppied in het official residence.