Cornelia van Nijenroode

She was taken to Batavia with her sister Hester after the death of their father, despite the fact that their mother was still alive, to receive a Christian education.

Through her unhappy second marriage, she lost the right to manage her own property and business to her spouse, who wished to control her finances, which caused a severe conflict.

[1] In the Netherlands, the court rules that she must hand over her property to her husband, but, as her fortune was not accounted for, the matter was still unresolved at her death.

She has been referred to as a typical example of the independent Eurasian women of the Dutch colonial empire.

She is the subject of Leonard Blussé's Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century.