Category: MELESSEN Alida 1917-2007
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The age of my grandparents
My grandparents were roughly the same age, there was less than five years between the eldest and the youngest. The eldest was my paternal grandfather, Henk (Hendrik, officially) van Kampen. As the eldest son of the eldest son, I was named after him. Opa Henk, as we, the grandchildren, called him, was born on 9 […]
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Tombstone Tuesday: Van Kampen
I shared many graves from the Bosdrift cemetery in Hilversum on this blog. Today’s grave is special, at least to me: Twice I helped carry a coffin to this grave, in 1997 and in 2007. Buried here are two people that I have known well: My grandparents, Hendrik van Kampen Jr. and Alida Melessen. They […]
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Gathering dust: A photo
On Saturdays I rummage through my old cabinet, pull out and dust off an item, and present it here on Roots. Today: A photo. A formal portrait of my grandparents, Hendrik van Kampen and Alida Melessen. I have no further information on this photo. Possibly an engagement portrait from 1938.
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Gathering dust: The engagement of Henk van Kampen and Lida Melessen
On Saturdays I rummage through my old cabinet, pull out and dust off an item, and present it here on Roots. Today: An engagement announcement. This is the engagement announcement of my grandparents, Hendrik (Henk) van Kampen and Alida (Lida) Melessen. It mentions a change (wijziging), so possibly there was an earlier communication. Unfortunately the […]
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Family grave
Tombstone on the grave of my grandparents, Hendrik van Kampen and Alida Melessen, and my great-grandparents, Hendrik van Kampen and Geertje Wiesenekker. The grave is full now, so other family members will be buried elsewhere, when their time comes. The tombstone is from 1997, when my grandfather was buried here. As most Dutch graves, this […]
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Sunday Morning Genealogy Fun: Meeting ancestors
Because of the time difference, Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is actually Sunday Morning fun for me. This week’s assignment: 1) Write down which of your ancestors that you have met in person (yes, even if you were too young to remember them). 2) Tell us their names, where they lived, and their relationship to […]
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My research
My main focus is my ascendancy chart (kwartierstaat in Dutch, Ahnentafel in German), an overview of as many ancestors as I can find, in as many lines as possible. On my website, I have cut my kwartierstaat in several parts. When I started my website, four of my ancestors were still alive (my parents and […]
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Your Paternal Grandmother’s Patrilineal Line
Randy Seaver asked in his weekly Saturday Night Fun about the patrilineal line of our paternal grandmothers: What was your father’s mother’s maiden name? Melessen. My grandmother was Alida Melessen, born 9 April 1917 in Amsterdam, died 10 January 2007 in Hilversum. What was your father’s mother’s father’s name? Albert Melessen (1886-1965). The photo above […]