Mensiena was born 14 Jan 1887 in Nieuwe Pekela, first child of Wildrik (Uildrik) J. Beumee and Grietje Starke (dutch link). She is my first cousin twice removed, her mother a sister of my great-grandmother. Economic conditions must have been bad, only one (the eldest, my great-grandmother) of Grietje’s siblings stayed …
In 1847 Johan and Thomas ten Bruggencate went from Holland to the US (see a previous post) on the fregat ‘Doggersbank.’ A few years ago, I had located the ship’s journal in the online catalogue Maritiem Digitaal, and found that it is located in the Amsterdam Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaart Museum), but …
Just read a post about the life as an expat, and some of it rang a bell for me. I came to the US for my husband’s education, so we were expats then. By the time the kids came along, we were immigrants, so would that make me a lifer …
On 28 May 1791 Gerrit ten Bruggencate (dutch link) and his wife Johanna Boom, appear before the court in Almelo to ask permission to postpone the decision of what to do with the inheritance of their son Jan. They state: That they had just received a letter from Demararij, written …
In 1918 my grandparents Ulpen (dutch link) and Afina de Haan had moved from Groningen to Limburg, a very long distance in those days. I’m sure they missed their family, but Ulpen’s job required it. Two letters from Afina’s parents to the young couple have survived. Here is the first one. …
My Almelo database is a fairly big project, I have 28503 people in that project. Many people from Almelo went to Amsterdam …
My husband’s grandfather Mar Broekman (dutch link) worked from around 1905 in the Dutch East Indies on the island of Java. He and …
