The Ancestors of My Grandchildren

     Marinus Joseph Broekman was born on 24 Aug 1904 in Jülich.^1,2 He married Puck Bolsius on 23 Apr 1929 at Voorburg.^2,3 He died on 25 Mar 1992 in Vancouver.⁴

Other information: He lived at the time of his marriage at Voorburg. He had moved there less than six months ago from Delft.² On 19 Jun 1946 his name was legally changed to Marinus Joseph Broekman ten Brink by act of Government of Curaçao #8515 of 19 Jun 1946.⁵
Marinus Joseph Broekman was in 1929 a civil engineer.² He lived on 22 May 1947 at Panoramaheuvel 503 in Balik Papan, Borneo, Nederlands Oost Indie.^6,7
     Ir. M.J. Broekman ten Brink worked from Nov. 1932-1935 in Pladjoe (near Palembang) for the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij and from 1936-1943 on Curaçao for the Curaçaosche Petroleum Industrie Maatschappij. In 1944 he was assigned in Washington to the American army.⁸
     They emigrated later in life to Vancouver. They had no children.⁴
     Juup is registered in Aug 1912 in the civil register of Amsterdam in the family of his grandfather Marinus Johannes. Following the death of Mar in 1917, Rosalia and Frits can only in 1919 return to Holland, because of the war [1st World War]. Because Rosalia was of German descent, in Gibraltar they had to swear an oath that they were not German sympathisers. They are registered on 6 Mei 1919 in the civil register of Amsterdam, and Juup is registered with his mother on 12 May 1919.^9,10

Name variants: Juup Broekman (nickname.)⁴