Vermeer family name
Vermeer (Vermeeren, Vemeren, Van der Meer), a common Dutch family name. Adriaen Vermeer of Leiden was an Anabaptist martyr, executed at Haarlem, Holland, in 1537. Joos Vermeeren (Joachim de Suickerbacker) of Antwerp, Belgium, was a Mennonite elder in the 1560's. Later there were some Mennonite Vermeers in the Rotterdam congregation and Vermeerens at Haarlem until ca. 1900.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 816. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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