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Death certificate of Neeltje Vermeij

Death certificate of Neeltje Vermeij

Death 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...
Death certificate of Hendrik van der Hoogt

Death certificate of Hendrik van der Hoogt

Death 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...
Extract of a birth certificate

Extract of a birth certificate

This 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,...
Tombstone Tuesday: Hendrik van der Hoogt

Tombstone Tuesday: Hendrik van der Hoogt

When I was in Hillegom cemetery, I saw the name Hendrik van der Hoogt (1877-1947) on a tombstone. That is the name of my 3rd great-grandfather, but he died many years before 1947, in a different town (Leiderdorp). But the name Van der Hoogt is not that common, and...