1. Familie Herlin / Heerlien / Herlijn / Herlyn

"Jan van der Meulen de Jonge, geb. Antwerpen vóór 1520, + Antwerpen 1563/1564, begr. Antwerpen Borchtkerkhof; tr. Antwerpen juli 1543 Elizabeth Seghers, geb. Lier ca 1520, + Bremen 17 juni 1587, dr van Aert Seg(h)ers en Anna van den Eijnde."

S. 598 "Little is known about Jan van der Meulen. Like Jan de Oude, Jan came from humble origins. Born in Antwerp, his father was at first a shoemaker and then became a merchant. Jan married Elizabeth Zeghers in 1543. The marriage contract that the couple signed on 2 July 1543 shows that Jan agreed to bring £83.6.8 to the marriage, while Elizabeth brought £60. From these origins, Jan increased the family’s wealth significantly over the next twenty years. Jan’s trading activities involved connecting Antwerp to the fairs of Frankfurt and Strasbourg, which would make up the main line of the trade of the Van der Meulen family well into the 1580s. On 15 October 1556, the couple signed a testament that stipulated that the surviving spouse would have full control over the mercantile capital of the family to continue the business. By June 1564, the testament was put into effect. Jan must have died before 25 December 1563, when a state of the capital he left was drawn up. At his death, he possessed a capital of £2,000, over twenty times what he had brought to the marriage. A seventeenth-century document that described the history of the Van der Meulen family claimed that Jan had converted to Calvinism by the time of his death. However, this might simply have been an attempt to augment the Calvinist lineage of the family."