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(Van) Oudenaerde (Oudenaarden) is a Dutch Mennonite family, probably emigrants from the Belgian town of [[Oudenaarden (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium)|Oudenaarden]], was from the 17th century found at [[Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands|Netherlands]]. Willem van Oudenaerde, d. 27 October 1726 at Rotterdam at a very advanced age, a grocer and a linen merchant, married to Wilhelmina van Eyse, was in 1682 appointed preacher of the Rotterdam [[Flemish Mennonites|Flemish]] congregation and in 1691 elder; in 1694 he moved to [[Middelburg (Zeeland, Netherlands)|Middelburg]], and thereupon to [[Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Dordrecht]], but in 1696 he was back in Rotterdam as a preacher in the [[Waterlanders|Waterlander]] congregation. After the [[Flemish Mennonites|Flemish]] and the Waterlander congregations merged in 1700 Willem van Oudenaerde was preacher of the united congregation 1701-1705. Some of his descendants served in Rotterdam as deacons. Marinus Oudenaarden published a pamphlet, <em>Korte Aanmerkingen</em> (Rotterdam: 1718), against Jan Suderman and Aelbert van Meurs, who had protested against the appointment of [[Heyst, David van (1675-1746)|David van Heyst]] as preacher. The van Oudenaerde family has died out.
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