Aeilko Jans Zijlker

1840 - 1890  (50 years)

• Name	Aeilko Jans Zijlker
  Birth	31 May 1840	Nieuw Beerta, Beerta, GR, NLD
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1880	Sumatra, IDN   [1]
  	manager of the East Sumatra Tobacco Company
  Reference Number	90383
  Death	27 Sep 1890	General Hospital, Singapore, SGP   [1]
  	45y!?; died suddenly of meningitus, "his vision still unrealized. His grave was marked with an inconspicuous monument" Some of this from akte in Veendam dated 14 Sep 1891
  Person ID	I90383	Haasdijk family tree
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Jan Freerks Zijlker,   b. 28 Apr 1805, Nieuw Beerta, Beerta, GR, NLD d. 02 Mar 1868, Winschoten, GR, NLD (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Talje Derks de Ruiter,   b. 24 Nov 1810, Beerta, Oldeambt, GR, NLD d. 12 Sep 1882, Winschoten, GR, NLD (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	17 May 1831	Beerta, GR, NLD
  Family ID	F39194	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Sumatra Oil 1885 The discovery of oil in teh jungle at Telaga Said beginning in 1885, on teh island of Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies, made Royal Dutch a major competitor in world markets. From "The Prize"

  
  

• Notes

  formed "The Royal Dutch Company", an oil company drilling the first wells in Indonesia

  
  

• Sources

  [S329] Daniel Yergin, The Prize, (Free Press; Simon and Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, 2009), pp. 57-59.