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MEMORABILIA
Philips v. Leeuwenhoek married Margriete Bel v.d. Beroh. Berch 30 Jan. 1622
Their son Antony van Leeuwenhoek born at Delft
   baptized 		24 Oct. 1632
4 Nov. 1632
Father buried 8 Jan. 1638
Mother remarried 18 Dec. 1640
Apprenticed to draper in Amsterdam 1648
Draper and haberdasher in Delft circa 1654
Married Barbara de Meij 29 July 1654
Maria his daughter born 22 Sept. 1656
Appointed Sheriffs' Chamberlain of Delft 26 Mar. 1660
Mother buried 3 Sept. 1664
First wife (Barbara) died 11 July 1666
Appointed Surveyor 4 Feb. 1669
Married Cornelia Swalmius 25 Jan. 1671
Addressed first letter to Royal Society of London Apr. 1673
Discovered the Protozoa
   and the Bacteria 		1674
1676
Executor of Vermeer's estate 30 Sept. 1676
Wine-gauger of Delft 15 Aug. 1679
Fellow of the Royal Society 29 Jan. 1679/80 O.S.
[ = 8 Feb. 1680 N.S.]
Second wife ( Cornelia) buried 6 Jan. 1694
Correspondant de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris 4 Mar. 1699
Died at Delft
   and buried in the Old Church 		26 Aug. 1723
31 Aug. 1723
Tomb erected 1739
Maria died 25 Apr. 1745
Microscopes sold 29 May 1747

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Publication Information: Book Title: Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals": Being Some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and His Multifarious Discoveries in These Disciplines. Contributors: Clifford Dobell - editor, Antony van Leeuwenhoek - author. Publisher: Harcourt, Brace. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 16.
    
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