Category: Memoirs
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1908-01-12 Ena Berrelkamp to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-01-12 Ena Berrelkamp to H. BeekhuisSunday, 1908-01-12? from E. Berrelkamp to H. Beekhuis Woldendorp, January 12. Dear cousins [‘cousin’ is multi-generational in Dutch], We hereby inform you that Leena delivered a son. And all is well. Your mother [Tietje] assisted her without the doctor. He is a very heavy Jan. It is now the third day. I wasn’t able to…
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Notes
Read More: NotesNoted by Stiny van der Laan de Jong Rientje Stuit, born Feb, 27, 1891, seventh child of Albert Stuit (b. Oct, 24, 1851) and Tietje Berrelkamp (b. Jan.25, 1860) who married at age 27 and 18 resp. on November 8, 1878. They had 13 children: 1) Stientje, b, Dec, 12, 1878, married May 16, 1900…
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1907 Rientje Stuit to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1907 Rientje Stuit to H. Beekhuis1907 or 1908 from Rientje Stuit [1891-1908] to H. Beekhuis, Finsterwolderpolder. Sunday. Which date it is I don’t know and now I can’t put that up there, but that’s what it is just about… Dear brother and sister, I had promised you that I would write too sometimes. It is now certainly three weeks ago…
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Elizabeth Stuit Letters
Read More: Elizabeth Stuit Letters1908 – 1912 Elizabeth Stuit is my great-great-aunt — an aunt of my grandmother Dina van der Laan. Her untimely death at the age of 23, some 113 years ago, is in the distant past. That, and, being among so many in that generation of my ancestors, should relegate her to the fringes of who…
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Settling In
Read More: Settling InAnd so, our marriage started, very simple and peaceful. Harm was busy in the fields and in the stables. We had seven cows and two horses, a few hundred chickens and a stable full of pigs. First, I had many things to do in the house, like painting and wallpapering. The house had become somewhat…
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Harm van der Laan
Read More: Harm van der LaanThese detailed memoirs of Harm van der Laan served as the basis for a book about the family’s history till 1955.
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My Father
Read More: My FatherTimes were different then. Workers at farms and factories did not earn much and there were few social services. In the depression era, farmers could barely keep their heads above water.
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Sinking of the S.S.Friesland
Read More: Sinking of the S.S.FrieslandOn 27 October, squally weather, choppy sea, wind North 5, visibility 8 to 10 miles. At about 11 a.m. an aircraft was observed coming from an easterly direction at about 100 metres altitude.
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Adventures on the Gaasterland
Read More: Adventures on the GaasterlandIn 1922, I commanded the S.S. Gaasterland (S.S.M) . It was winter, but I don’t remember the exact date. We were on our way from New Castle to Amsterdam with a cargo of coal.
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Experiences of Pieter de Jong
Read More: Experiences of Pieter de JongFrom 1904 to 1907 I went on J. Roos’ barge. Then my career in merchant shipping began. On 28 April 1907, I embarked as messenger boy on the S.S. “Danae” of the KNSM.