Mr Jurriaanse

"de heer Jurriaanse", in Liesbeth Verweij's account as Noordman prints it, from a booklet she wrote, he says, "direct na de oorlog" (just after the war) (Noordman, pp. 301, 303)

About: By Liesbeth Verweij's account, the forester's house Kijkuit, where Murphy, Walsh and Hardy were hidden from 26 October 1944, was "een boswachterswoning van de heer Jurriaanse" (a forester's house of Mr Jurriaanse), and no other source names him as its owner; ◐ he may be the forestry engineer A. E. Jurriaanse, a co-owner of the Leuvenhorst estate near Hulshorst.

Where: Kijkuit, in the Leuvenumse Bos near Hulshorst, in Verweij's account and Noordman's captions (below); ◐ our reading puts it on the Leuvenhorst estate, which is a different property from the Leuvenumse Bos in Het Volk of 1931. A. E. Jurriaanse at The Hague in 1931 (as "A. R."), at Hierden in 1939, and living at Hulshorst when he died, at Ermelo, in 1960.

Evidence: ⚠︎ Verweij's account in Noordman, p. 303, the only source to name him; for A. E. Jurriaanse, ✓ Het Volk, 24 September 1931 and Zutphensche courant, 31 May 1939, both checked on the image; ✓ Niko Tinbergen, Curious Naturalists (1958), p. 8; civil records, index summaries; Het Parool, 9 May 1960.

No source puts him at Kijkuit in 1944, or with Murphy.

• The house. When the Germans were expected to search Elspeet, Liesbeth Verweij and Dirk van Eysinga took Murphy, Walsh and Hardy to Kijkuit on a pitch-dark night; in her account, as Noordman prints it, "Eric moest op ‘de Kijkuit’ zitten in het Leuvenumse Bos, een boswachterswoning van de heer Jurriaanse" (Eric was supposed to be at "de Kijkuit" in the Leuvenumse Bos, a forester's house of Mr Jurriaanse) (Noordman, pp. 302–303). Hardy's report dates the move to the evening of 26 October and calls the house "BRUMMAGER's house in LEUVENUM" (Hardy).
• Who lived there. Joop Migchelsen, whose group kept the men, described it in his statement of 14 June (◐ 1945), in his American file, as "Hierderweg 132 Hulshorst Post Elspeet: a double house; in one half a forester's family was living named v.d. Vlist, the other half was put at my disposal by Mr. van der Elst, Cliostraat in Amsterdam …" (his file, p. 3); see Zegert van der Vlist and Mr van der Elst. The questionnaire made out for Van der Vlist gives his address as "'Leusenhorst' woods, between Elspeet and Hulshorst" (his file, p. 2).
• The men there. Murphy, Walsh and Hardy stayed until they were taken on to Harskamp at midnight on 6 November; Banwell joined them on 29 October (Hardy). Migchelsen's statement, cited above, has the men instead "Delivered 'en bloc' on 11th Nov. 1944", to Bos at Staverden (his file, p. 3), five days after Hardy's 6 November; STORY-4 weighs the two. The rest of the household is on Kijkuit and Harskamp.

◐ Our reading, which no source states: Van der Vlist's "Leusenhorst" woods are the Leuvenhorst estate, and a forester's house there would be "of Mr Jurriaanse" to a local, because a Jurriaanse was among its owners. Against it, Verweij's account, Noordman's caption and Hardy put Kijkuit in the Leuvenumse Bos or at Leuvenum, and the 1939 list below has a separate estate "Leuvenum" next to Leuvenhorst, with another owner.

• ✓ Leuvenhorst, 1931. The ministers listed the Leuvenhorst estate under the Natuurschoonwet, the estates law of 1928.
  • It ran to over 1,118 hectares under Ermelo, Harderwijk and Nunspeet, "ten Zuiden van den spoorweg Zwolle—Harderwijk, dicht bij het station Hulshorst" (south of the Zwolle–Harderwijk railway, close to Hulshorst station), bordering the Leuvenumse Bos to the west and the Hulshorsterzand to the east, both owned by Natuurmonumenten.
  • It belonged to the burgerlijke maatschappij Leuvenhorst, among whose partners the paper names "de heer ir. A. R. Jurriaanse te 's Gravenhage" (Mr A. R. Jurriaanse, engineer, of The Hague; ◐ "R" for "E", by the paper of 1939) (Het Volk, checked on the image).
• ✓ Leuvenhorst, 1939. A list of the Veluwe estates under the same law has Leuvenhorst "onder Ermelo en Harderwijk, ir. A. E. Jurriaanse e.a. te Hierden, de geheele oppervlakte 1,119 ha. …" (under Ermelo and Harderwijk, A. E. Jurriaanse and others, at Hierden, the whole 1,119 hectares) (Zutphensche courant, 31 May 1939, checked on the image). The same list has a separate estate, "Leuvenum", of "jhr. dr. C. J. Sandberg te Elspeet", 518 hectares (75 under the law).
• ✓ Tinbergen at Hulshorst. The zoologist Niko Tinbergen, who began his studies of the bee-killing digger wasp there and ran the Leiden laboratory's summer camps "year after year at Hulshorst", thanked "the generous owner of this lovely stretch of country, Mr A. E. Jurriaanse, who so cordially welcomed us every summer" (Tinbergen, p. 8, checked on the page image). The book does not date the camps; it says the work went on after he left for Oxford in 1949.
• ◐ Leuvenum, 1915. An advertisement offered for sale the wooded estates of Nieuw-Soerel, under Nunspeet, and "LEUVENUM groot ca 965 H.A. gelegen onder Hulshorst" (Leuvenum, about 965 hectares, under Hulshorst), with information from "J. Jurriaanse, Hoflaan 62, Rotterdam" (Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 30 October 1915, read on the image). ◐ A. E. Jurriaanse's father was Jurriaan Jurriaanse (birth, index); that he is the J. Jurriaanse of the advertisement no source says.
• ◐ His life, from the civil records. Adriaan Ernst Jurriaanse was born at Rotterdam on 31 July 1877, the son of Jurriaan Jurriaanse and Wilhelmina Philippina de Vogel, and died at Ermelo on 30 April 1960, aged 82, a forestry engineer (bosbouwkundig ingenieur) (birth; death; index summaries). Het Parool's list of the dead, from the notices, gives him as "Adriaan Ernst Jurriaanse, 82 j., Hulshorst (Post Hierden bij Harderwijk)" (9 May 1960, read on the image). That he is the A. E. Jurriaanse of Leuvenhorst rests on the name, the forestry, Hierden and Hulshorst.

• Whose house it was. "Een boswachterswoning van de heer Jurriaanse", in Verweij's account (Noordman, p. 303); a double house, the forester Van der Vlist's family in one half and the other half lent to Migchelsen by Mr van der Elst of Amsterdam, in Migchelsen's statement (his file, p. 3); "BRUMMAGER's house", ◐ Bram Baar's, in Hardy's report (Hardy; Bram Baar). ◐ These can all be true at once: an owner, a tenant who lent his half, and the man who kept the evaders there.
• Where it was. "In het Leuvenumse Bos", in Verweij's account and Noordman's caption; "'Leusenhorst' woods, between Elspeet and Hulshorst", on Van der Vlist's questionnaire (his file, p. 2); "LEUVENUM", in Hardy's report. Het Volk has Leuvenhorst and the Leuvenumse Bos as neighbouring estates with different owners (1931), and the Zutphensche courant of 1939 lists a Leuvenum estate of its own, of jhr. dr. C. J. Sandberg of Elspeet (1939).
• His initials. "A. R." in Het Volk in 1931, "A. E." in the Zutphensche courant in 1939 and in Tinbergen.

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