Name: Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman
Birth: 14 September 1886 in Utrecht
Death: 24 January 1965 in Utrecht
Parents: Pieter Johannes Koopman, Catharina Johanna Maria Foppen
Spouse: Theodorus Johannes Adrianus Pardoen (marriage: 27 February 1913 in Hillegom)
Children: stillborn twins (1913), Theodorus Joannes Gerardus Adrianus (1914), Catharina Johanna Maria (1917)
Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman (1886-1965)
The birth certificate of my great-grandmother Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman, number 13 in my ahnentafel. On 14 September 1886 appeared for the registrar of Utrecht: Pieter Johannes Koopman, sergeant-major, 42, who lives at Annastraat 33a in Utrecht. He declared that on the 14th of this month, at 9 am, his spouse Catharina Johanna Maria Foppen gave birth, in his house, to a baby girl that would have the names Catharina Johanna Maria. Witnesses were Egbertus Koerssen, sergeant major, 40, and Maarten Bijdevier, quartermaster-sergeant, 34. My...
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 moreOn Saturdays I rummage through my old cabinet, pull out and dust off an item, and present it here on Roots. Today: A postcard from Anna Foppen. Anna Foppen (1857-1928) was a sister of my second great-grandmother Catharina Johanna Maria Foppen, and an aunt of my great-grandmother, Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman. Anna was not married, and lived in a catholic institution in Nijkerk – I have yet to find out what kind of institution. The postcard is addressed to my great-grandfather, Theodorus Johannes Adrianus Pardoen. Anna announces her...
read moreOn Saturdays I rummage through my old cabinet, pull out and dust off an item, and present it here on Roots. Today: An extract of the birth certificate of Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman (1886-1965). This extract from the register of births of the city Utrecht proves that my great-grandmother Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman was born there on 14 September 1886. The number of her birth act is 2116 – useful to know if I want to consult the register in the Utrecht archive. At the bottom of this certificate we learn that this extract was made...
read moreExtract from a death certificate in the civil register of Groesbeek. This extract proves that Theodorus Johannes Adrianus Pardoen, spouse of Catharina Johanna Maria Koopman, died on 21 July 1930 in Groesbeek. His widow needed this extract to obtain her...
read moreTheodorus Johannes Adrianus (Theo) Pardoen, son of Theodorus Joannes Gerardus Pardoen and his first wife Aaltje Sophia van der Hoogt, was born on 22 January 1881 in Soest. Theo was the third child of this couple, and had the same name as his elder brother, who died as an infant. Theo’s father was police constable, and since his marriage in 1877 he had lived and worked in The Hague, Delft, Schiedam, Medemblik and Houten, and now the family lived in Soest – six towns and cities in less than four years. They did not stay long in...
read moreMy 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 both my grandmothers), and I did not want to publish anything about them on my website. So I split my kwartierstaat in four parts – one for each grandparent – and I replaced the names of my grandmothers with the names of their...
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