A family grave of an apparently well to do family on the cemetery of Lage Vuursche. The (translated) inscription: Jan Anthonie Staal, born 28 June 1798, died 20 October 1884. And his spouse Jacoba Tannetje van Steenbergen, born 14 September 1807, died 15 July 1890....
Today’s tombstone is cracked, making some of the dates at the bottom hard to read. But I think the correct translation is: “Here rests our dear husband and father Thomas Joannes van Bemmel born 29 December 1856 died 6 June 1931. And our dearly beloved...
A family grave with a flat stone with just names, no dates: Johannes Philippus Schaeffer Jr, Johanna Schaeffer and J.J.K. Schaeffer-de Roo. Despite the fact that there are no dates on the stone it was not too hard to identify the people buried here: Johannes Philippus...
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...
