Last week we described the first part of Jack Snoeren’s life story. As a young boy, he moved with his parents from the Netherlands to Belgium. There he met Mary, whom he married in 1907. They lived in Antwerp and London. The two had bigger plans, they wanted to go further to the west… the Read more…
October is history month. Some countries – like the United Kingdom – focus on black history, other countries – like Canada – on women’s history. In the Netherlands, we celebrate history month each year with a different theme. The 2020 theme is: east-west. Multiple interpretations of this theme are possible, and that is exactly the Read more…
Last we week we wrote about Brandina Hendriks, who went to court in 1901 to divorce her husband Cornelis Wouterus Schimmel. According to her story he had left her in 1894. One of our reads wondered if more information is available in the population registers of Ede and / or Barneveld. So we looked for Read more…