II The family

Genealogy

The family tree shown below is the result of research into the origin of the name Kingma by members of the family: the chart of 2 November 1998, redrawn and updated in 2026. More extensive is the genealogy that Tjeerd Kingma compiled in 2008 for De Kinkhoorn 18, with the poster Complete genealogie van Jelle van Kingum en zijn nazaten tot en met 1700 (Complete genealogy of Jelle van Kingum and his descendants up to 1700; pdf). The family tree goes back to Jelle Kingum, who was born around 1450, was probably still alive in 1514 and probably died before 1529. He was the first known inhabitant of the sate (a Frisian farmstead) Kinghum, later Kingma State. Among his descendants are several prominent family members, such as Saeckle Intes van Kingma († 1652), who was a commissioner in the Court of Audit of Friesland, his son Ignatius († 1700), brigadier and colonel of the cavalry of the United Netherlands and the last Kingma to live at the state, and Saeckle's brother Jan Intes († 1645), who was a member of the Provincial Executive (Gedeputeerde Staten) of Friesland.

First part of the Kingma family tree, c. 1450–1650 — First part of the Kingma family tree (c. 1450–1650): the chart of 2 November 1998, compiled by Kees, Wieb and Joost Kingma, redrawn and updated in 2026. Church photo: A.J. van der Wal, 1968, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (CC BY-SA 4.0).

More up to date than this drawing: the interactive family tree holds all known Kingmas from Jelle Kingum to today, the lines to Rauwerd, Wijtgaard, Utrecht and Makkum and thousands of people from the archive indexes, each with their source.

Many Kingmas from this period are buried in the Regina Church in Zweins. The drawing also shows where their graves lie in the church.

Inte (or Ynte) is a very common given name in the family; Ignatius is the Latin form. The name Ynte also occurs in the line to Rauwerd and Wijtgaard, among the ancestors of Sake Kingma, who was born at Wijtgaard in 1886. His great-grandfather Ynte Oenes Kingma (baptised in 1772) was a son of Lipkje Yntes and Oene Sakes. Lipkje was a daughter of Ynte Yntes, probably a son of Ynte Dircks (1656–1708). Ynte Dircks was probably a grandson of Claes Willems and Trijncke (Trijntje) Dircks Kingma, who according to the chart of 1998 married in 1617. Trijncke was a granddaughter of Jelle Pieters Kingum, who lived at Kingma State around 1600. For the uncertain links no record has been found that names the parents; the line follows the genealogy in De Kinkhoorn 18, and naming patterns and other clues make it probable.