Today, we are looking at the marriage record of Maria van Hoof (1944). When she married Simon Rommens it was still war time. Later they got five children. They followed a traditional naming pattern. [more]
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Stillborn son of Teunis Nijkamp
Today, we are looking at the death record of a stillborn son of Teunis Nijkamp (1857). Dutch law said for a long time that a child that died before the registration of its birth, could only be mentioned in a death record. This means that stillborn children and children that were declared lifeless are found in death records but not in birth records. [more]
Marriage record of Marie Haverbeke
Today, we are looking at the marriage record of Marie Haverbeke (1910). This is a typical two-page marriage record. Records like this provide a lot of information. We get personal details of the two spouses (age, place of birth, profession, place of residence), but also of their parents (profession, place of residence). [more]