Death certificate of Johannes Petrus de Bresser, my 3rd great-grandfather: On the twenty fifth of this [month, February 1875], in the morning at eleven, in a house at the [street] Blindemanswater [in Rotterdam], passed away Johannes Petrus de Bresser, 61, born in Tilburg, resident [of Rotterdam], carpenter, widower of Antonette Teeuwen, names of parents unknown.