Cousin Charlie from Australia sent me this photo of his ancestors, Antonius Paulus Vittali and Gerarda Johanna Bakker. Interestingly, both of them are related to me, in different ways! Gerarda Johanna Bakker was a granddaughter of my 3rd great-grandparents Johannes...
Last week I wrote about my ancestor Pieter Wiesenekker, a German who settled in Holland. I hypothesized that his parents could be Johann Peter Wiesenecker and Anna Christina Laun. According to Dutch records, the names of both this ancestor and his father are Pieter...
My great-grandmother’s maiden name is Wiesenekker. An uncommon name, and more likely a German name than a Dutch name. And indeed, I traced the Wiesenekker line back to 1791, when Pieter (or Peter) Wiesenekker, from Saxony in Germany, married Gerretje Ravenswaij...
The tour of BMD records of my great-grandparents ends with the birth certificate of Johanna Petronella Moerman, number 15 in my ahnentafel: On 12 May 1875 appeared for the registrar: Cornelia Visser, 43, midwife. She declared that on the 11th of same month, at 6 am,...
Last week we looked at the birth certificate of Hendrikus Franciscus Coppens. Today we look at the marriage certificate of him and Johanna Petronella Moerman. Like the birth certificate, I found it on FamilySearch.org. Click to enlarge. A summary: On 28 October 1896...
