Five years ago I shared a vintage postcard of an old tower in the village Oud-Leusden (see below). Last week I was hiking in the area and decided to have a look. The 13th century tower, once part of a church that was demolished in 1827, is still there. It is obviously...
The tombstone of B. ten Cate and A. ten Cate-ten Cate. Berend ten Cate, son of Sjoerd Hobbes ten Cate and Rigtje Napjes, was born on 11 July 1841 in Sneek and died on 16 August 1916 in Zeist. He married Aafjen ten Cate, daughter of Gerrit ten Cate and Frouwkjen...
Another tombstone from the Moravian Cemetery of Zeist. The inscription is in German (not Dutch), translation: No. CLXXVIII (178), Ludwig Christoph Dehne, born in Werningerode on 9 December 1713, passed away on 6 February 1769 Werningerode is likely either the former...
Sietske Abrahamsz, daughter of Cornelis Abrahamsz and Catherine Douwes Dekker, was born on 14 January 1842, and died on 1 December 1912 in Zeist. She married Georg Julius Wienecke, son of Karl Wilhelm Wienecke and Dorothea Maria Antoinette Laukerbach, a physician, who...
