Name: Aaltje Sophia van der Hoogt
Date of birth: 24 June 1848 in Leiderdorp
Date of death: 16 January 1887 in Hillegom
Parents: Hendrik van der Hoogt, Neeltje Vermey
Spouse: Theodorus Joannes Gerardus Pardoen (marriage: 9 May 1877 in Den Haag)
Children: Theodorus Joannes Adrianus (1878), Neeltje Theodora (1879), Theodorus Johannes Adrianus (1881), Sara Catharina (1882), Hendrika (1886).
Theodorus Pardoen, son of Adrianus Pardoen and Margrita Frederika van Oeveren, was born 28 August 1827 in The Hague (or Den Haag, as it is known in Dutch). He died on 30 August 1872 in The Hague. Theodorus married Sara Catharina Springvelt, daughter of Joannes Springveld and Jannetje van der Waals, on 22 September 1852 in The Hague. Sara Catharina was born on 19 December 1828 in Leiden, and died on 20 January 1893 in The Hague. Theodorus Pardoen and Sara Catharina Springvelt are my 3rd great-grandparents. The couple had eight children, three...
read moreThis is an extract of the birth certificate of Aaltje Sophia van der Hoogt, my 2nd great-grandmother. She had to present that for her wedding in Den Haag (The Hague) in 1877. It was kept by the county court, together with her marriage certificate and other documents, and later archived in the archives in The Hague. We can read here that Aaltje Sophia was born in Leiderdorp, on 24 June 1848. Her parents were Hendrik van der Hoogt and Neeltje Vermey. The date on the document is 18 April 1877, about two months before her...
read moreLast week we looked at the birth certificate of Theodorus Johannes Adrianus Pardoen, and today we continue with his death certificate. On 22 July 1930 appeared for the registrar of Groesbeek: Dirk Marinus van Oort, sexton, 63, and Joost Roza, no occupation, 67, both from Groesbeek. They declared that on 21 July at 10:30 pm, in Groesbeek section A number 145, passed away Theodorus Johannes Adrianus Pardoen, 49, no occupation, born in Soest, spouse of Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman, son of Theodorus Johannes Gerardus Pardoen and Aaltje Sophia...
read moreI found the birth certificate of my great-grandfather Theodorus Johannes Adrianus Pardoen (ahnentafel number 12) on FamilySearch.org. A summary: On 22 January 1881, Theodorus Joannes Gerardus Pardoen, constable, from Soest, appeared for the registrar of Soest and declared that his wife Aaltje Sophia van der Hoogt gave birth to a baby boy, on 22 January at 4 am, to whom he gave the names Theodorus Johannes Adrianus. The witnesses were officials who worked at the town hall, and (probably) not related. Constable Pardoen lived in Soest for only a...
read moreTime for a bit of genealogy fun. I haven’t played Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for a while, but let’s play now. His game this week is an Ancestral Name List Roulette: How old is one of your grandfathers now, or how old would he be if he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.” Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an...
read moreThe challenge for Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to list 16 great-great-grandparents: List your 16 great-great-grandparents in pedigree chart order. List their birth and death years and places. Figure out the dominant ethnicity or nationality of each of them. Calculate your ancestral ethnicity or nationality by adding them up for the 16 – 6.25% for each (obviously, this is approximate). If you don’t know all 16 of your great-great-grandparents, then do it for the last full generation you have. Write your own blog...
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