Godefried van den Berg was born circa 1807 in Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands to Johanna Magdalena van den Berg and died 11 December 1867 Ommerschans, Overijssel, Netherlands of unspecified causes. He married Catharina Johanna Maria van den Eijkhof (c1807-1878) 23 June 1847 in Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands.
From Wikipedia [Ommerschans]:
In the early 19th century, the Dutch government changed it into a resocialisation institution and labour camp for beggars, prostitutes and alcoholics from Amsterdam and other western cities. They were supposed to learn farming and morals by experience so they could reintegrate into society. In reality the beggars were used for semi-forced and all-but-unpaid labour to reclaim the wetlands surrounding Ommerschans, eventually reclaiming an area of 4 by 2½ kilometres. Politician and novelist Jacob van Lennep visited Ommerschans during his walking tour with Dirk van Hogendorp the younger across the newly independent United Kingdom of the Netherlands in the summer of 1823, and documented his appal at the conditions at the labour camp: "These hours are certainly among the saddest I have lived through."
When the institution went bankrupt in 1859 the Dutch government managed the labour camp until 1889, when it was finally closed down. During its years in operation, between several hundred and two thousand workers would live at Ommerschans at any one time, and an estimated 5448 workers died whilst at Ommerschans.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Johanna Magdalena van den Eijkhof (c1838-1860) | |||
| Catharina Johanna Maria van den Berg (c1839-1884) | |||
| Wilhelmina van den Berg (c1842-) | |||
| Nicolaas van den Berg (1844-1845) | |||
| Nicolaas van den Berg (c1850-) | |||
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