Grietje Tjakkes (Dutch link) was born 2 Dec 1783, 234 years ago, in Nieuwe Pekela. She is the sister of my third-great-grandfather on my mother’s side, who at some point adopted the surname Kleinhuis. She married Hendrik Oldenburger in 1820, as his second wife. Hendrik is also distantly related to …
Abigail Sackett was born 1 Dec 1663, 354 years ago, in Massachussetts. She is the wife of my son-in-law’s 7th great-granduncle. Her parents John Sackett and Abigail Hannum were already in Springfield, MA in 1661, as John had to appear in the Springfield Court on 24 Sep 1661, to answer …
Gudel (Augusta/Goutel) Moyses was born 30 Nov 1788, 229 years ago in Bonfeld, Wurttemberg, Germany. She is my husband’s 3rd great-grandmother on his mother’s side. Gudel was jewish, and I found her birth certificate in the WWII file on my mother-in-law (but that is another story) She married her husband …
Aurelia Maria was born 177 years ago on 29 Nov 1840. She was the first daughter of Jan ten Bruggencate (dutch link) and Anna van Bolhuis, and my 4th cousin 3x removed (among other relationships). Unfortunately she was not long for this world, she died 17 May 1841, barely 6 …
In 1883 there are in Amsterdam two death certificates for a Gesina ten Bruggencate. Neither lists the parents, both are listed as widow of Christoffel Ubbink or Upp. The birth dates are different, one was 70 yrs old (whch would make her birth year around 1812-1813), the other 59 yrs …
My great-great-grandmother Aafien Meijering (for whom my grandmother was named, and so for whom I am named) was born the day after …
Cora was born in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York on 4 March 1877 and died in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New …
Caecilia Mayer (dutch link) was the seventh of ten children, four boys and six girls. She was born in 1880 in Schifferstadt, Germany, …
I never knew my paternal grandmother Hendrika Johanna, Dieks for short (dutch link), she died several years before I was born. Although …
In the 1901 British Census Frances E. tenBruggenkate (dutch link) is enumerated at Peckham House, in Camberwell, County Surrey. She was listed as …
