Billaerts, Nicolaes and Pilcken, Tanneken van (17th century)
Nicolaes Billaerts and his wife, Tanneken van Pilcken, members of the Flemish congregation of Den Blok at Haarlem, Dutch province of North Holland, were the founders of an orphanage on the Klein Heiligland near the old people's home called the Blokshofje. Particulars concerning these benefactors are lacking.
Bibliography
De weeshuizen der Doopsgezinden te Haarlem 1634-1934. Haarlem, 1934: 13-14, 16-17.
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