Death certificate of Johanna Jansen, my 3rd great-grandmother: Here [in Maastricht], [the day] before yesterday [7 December 1867] around eleven in the morning, passed away Johanna Jansen, no occupation, 49, born in Hees province Gelderland, widow of Johannes Fopper [sic] and spouse in second marriage of Martinus Verheugt, shoemaker, daughter of Hendrik Jansen, no occupation, resident of Nijmegen, and Anna Maria Gisbers, deceased. So Johanna was survived by her father, Hendrik Jansen, who died in 1868, and by her second husband. And by her...
read moreDeath certificate of Petronella Catharina Wilhelmina Oosthout, my 3rd great-grandmother: On the day of yesterday [7 April 1863] in the afternoon at three o’clock, in a house standing in this [municipality Texel] in Oudeschild, passed away at the age of 61 years, Pieternella Catharina Wilhelmina Oosthout, no occupation, born in Vlaardingen, resident here [in Texel], spouse of [Cornelis Koopman], daughter of Johan Willem Oosthout and Jacoba Soek, both deceased. The death was registered (and the death certificate signed) by...
read moreDeath certificate of Cornelis Teunisz Koopman, my 3rd great-grandfather: On the day of yesterday [22 June 1888], in the morning at 6:30, in a house standing in this municipality [Texel] in Oudeschild, passed away at the age of 84, Cornelis Koopman, carpenter, born in Texel and resident [of Texel], widower of Petronella Catharina Wilhelmina Oosthout, son of Teunis Koopman and Cornelisje Geus, both deceased. The death was registered by Cornelis’ son Adrianus Arnoldus Koopman and son-in-law Koendert Hoogerheide (husband of Maria Antonia...
read moreDeath certificate of Neeltje Vermeij, my 3rd great-grandmother: On the eighteenth of February of this year [1887], at one o’clock in the night, in this municipality [Leiderdorp] in subdivision K number 88, passed away Neeltje Vermeij, widow of Hendrik van der Hoogt, daughter of Albert Vermeij and Sophia de Ruijter, both deceased, at the age of 76, no occupation, born in Polsbroek and resident here [in...
read moreThis post is in memory of my maternal grandfather, Theodorus Joannes Gerardus Adrianus Pardoen (1914-1978), who was born a hundred years ago...
read moreDeath certificate of Hendrik van der Hoogt, my 3rd great-grandfather: On the seventeenth of September of this year [1875], in the afternoon at five o’clock, passed away in this municipality, Hendrik van der Hoogt, spouse of Neeltje Vermey, before widower of Trijntje de Jong, son of Maarten van der Hoogt, name of the mother unknown, laborer, 71, born in Leiderdorp and residing [in Leiderdorp]. One of the people who came to the registrar to register Hendrik’s death was his son (from his first marriage) Klaas, who was 41 years old...
read moreDeath certificate of Sara Catharina Springvelt, my 3rd great-grandmother: Sara Catharina Springvelt, no occupation, resident [of Den Haag], passed away on the twentieth of this [month January 1893] in the afternoon at two o’clock, at the age of sixty four, born in Leiden, widow of Theodorus Pardoen, daughter of Joannes Springvelt and Jannetje van der Waals, both...
read moreDeath certificate of Theodorus Pardoen, my 3rd great-grandfather: Theodorus Pardoen, dyer, who lived here [in Den Haag], passed away on the thirtieth of this month [August 1872], in the afternoon at five o’clock, at the age of forty five, born here [in Den Haag], married to Sara Catharina Springvelt, son of Adrianus Pardoen and Hendrica van Oeveren, both deceased. Theodorus’ mother was actually Margrita Frederika van Oeveren, and still alive at the time: She died in 1881. His occupation was Verwer, painter or dyer, probably a...
read moreDeath certificate of Gijsbertje Kloppenburg, my 3rd great-grandmother: On last sixteenth of May [1879], in the morning at twelve, in the house at the Loosdrechtsche Eind, passed away at the age of fifty six, Gijsbertje Kloppenburg, no occupation, born and living in [Hilversum], last widow of Willem van Laren, before of Jan Weduwer, daughter of Jan Kloppenburg and Tijmetje van der Linden, both deceased. In 1883, there was an addition written in the margin: Before [widow] of Antonius Ramselaar and first of Jan Bollebakker. Indeed, Gijsbertje...
read moreDeath certificate of Jan Bollebakker, my 3rd great-grandfather: On the second of October of this year [1861], in the afternoon at three o’clock, in the house known as number three hundred sixty, passed away, at the age of forty four years, Jan Bollebakker, weaver, born and residing in [Hilversum], son of Cornelis Bollebakker, without occupation and living in Hilversum, and Aaltje de Berk, deceased. Jan was married to Gijsbertje Kloppenburg, my 3rd great-grandmother, though the registrar seems to have overlooked that. Jan was survived by...
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