Isaac ten Bruggenkate (dutch link) and Herman ten Bruggencate (dutch link) were grain merchants. On 5 June 1747 they went to the steward of “Huize Ootmarsum” to get a load of rye. They got into an argument about payment, which ended with a brawl. The steward died afterwards, and Isaac and Herman …
My son-in-law’s grandmother descends from Thomas Bedient, who came to this country sometime before 1695. He settled in Fairfield County, CT. The family stays in Fairfield for about a century, when great-grandson Mordecai moves to Butternuts, Otsego County, NY before the 1810 census. His brother Isaac follows sometime after the …
In Friesland many kids and also the adults wore clogs, especially in the winter. I liked walking in clogs, no wet feet, in the snow we made long sliding paths, which was much easier with clogs than with shoes. Sometimes a thick layer of snow would stick under the clogs, …
My sister had given our mother a notebook, with the suggestion she writes down some of her memories. While she was originally reluctant to do so, she did in the end fill almost the entire book. I will occasionally reproduce some of her memories here. The Kerosene Lamp We had …
My Almelo database is a fairly big project, I have 28503 people in that project. Many people from Almelo went to Amsterdam for a variety of reasons. Girls went to go in domestic service (even middle class girls), boys to learn a trade or for commerce. And this was not …
Johan (dutch link) and Thomas (dutch link) were the first ten Bruggencates to come to the US. They came in 1847, on the barque …
Trees in the backyard In the back of the yard of one of our houses in Zwolle were three horse chestnuts. They …
The Broekman family in Indonesia. Seated in Front of the Indian Regent’s house, where they were temporarily living in 1916. Left to …
A while ago I received a question about Gerhardus Warnerus ten Bruggencate (dutch link), because the questioner had a postcard, that GWtB had …
Most ten Bruggenkates in England descend from two sons of Albertus ten Bruggenkate (dutch link) and Willemina Weijdeman (In the Amsterdam and English …
