In 1907 the grocery store of Derk Jan ten Bruggencate (dutch link) in Nijverdal burned to the ground. The paper reports the following NIJVERDAL Saturday night there was another fire in our town. There were none for a while, and we hope we are not entering another period of fires, like …
Among the items that go onto our Christmas tree every year is this glass boat. It looks a bit dilapidated, but it came from my husband’s parents and as such is a cherished part our tree. It measures about four inches long. The hull is a golden brown color, and …
While I was providing obituary look-ups for the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, I would come across many people who had, like me, immigrated from the Netherlands. I started collecting the obituaries, and posting them to the web. Eventually I developed a small database, and did some additional research to …
Radburn, NJ became a National Historic Landmark Site in 2005. It was planned in the late 1920’s by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright as a model city, after the English Garden City model of Ebenezer Howard. The plan called for a town of about 30,000 inhabitants, with mixed housing, industry …
Where the name ten Bruggencate originates, is not clear. Huizinga (1) explains it as a small farm (a “kate” or “kotterstede”) near a bridge, but B.J. Hekket (2) in his book “Oost Nederlandse familienamen” suggests the possibility that the name is derived from the first name “Burg.”. The Meertens Institute …
The ancestors of my grandchildren are a diverse lot. On my side they are all in the Netherlands (Overijssel (Gast, ten Bruggencate) …
Almelo is a medium sized town in the eastern part of the Dutch province of Overijssel. The present municipality consists both of …
