Category: Memoirs
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De Eerste Jaren: 1928-1931
Read More: De Eerste Jaren: 1928-1931Ik ben geboren op 9 april in het jaar 1928, op paasmaandagochtend. Bij de eerste zes was het leeftijdsverschil maar 15 of 16 maanden.
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Cornelis de Jong
Read More: Cornelis de Jong1928 – 2025 Preface by Henry de Jong Cornelis de Jong was a quiet, unassuming man, not easily drawn into arguments, but always ready with a story or two from his life experiences. Like my own father, my father-in-law had a checkered career that made him more worldly wise than most and cultivated his observant…
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Genealogy: 1500-1900
Read More: Genealogy: 1500-1900We can trace our family line back to the late 15th century. The first was Jan Huich zoon, occasionally spelled Huigzoon and later as Huygen. Most people didn’t have surnames, so they added their father’s name to tell them apart. Jan Huigzoon means, Jan, son of Huig. In the next generation a son Huig was…
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Bach, blessed, Canada, Christmas, church, Cornelis, Easter, family, God, Gouda, marriage, organ, Pieter, Rotterdam, school, Stolwijk, Toronto
The de Jong Line
Read More: The de Jong LineFamily History section written in 1986 Touch and turn images for a wide screen view Of my father’s relatives I know very little. I have never seen a picture of my grandparents, likely because one was never taken. I know nothing of how my grandfather looked except that he was crippled from birth with one…
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Bach, boat, Canada, church, college, Cornelis, family, Gouda, Groningen, marriage, organ, Pieter, Rotterdam, school, ship
The Slingerland Line
Read More: The Slingerland LineThe first Slingerland we know of is a certain Aart Slingerland who came to Berkenwoude and started farming in Westeinde 11, the farm where my mother was born. (Later another family history traced the line back to Teunis Slingerland, baptized November 16, 1653). We don’t know when he came but we know that he was…
