Today, we are looking at the funeral notice for Jozef Frans Boeren, who died in 1947. This kind of death announcement sometimes looks like a card, but often more like a letter. It is not only the announcement of the person’s death, but also an invitation to attend the funeral. Translation The text starts with Read more…
Today, we are looking at the death record of Auke Frieling (1960). Translation Today, twenty June nineteen hundred sixty, appeared before me, civil registrar of Rotterdam: Joris de Ruijter, 56 years old, undertaker, living in Rotterdam. Hey declared that on seventeen June nineteen hundred sixty, at 16.00h in the municipality of Rotterdam died: Auke Frielink, Read more…
Today, we are looking at the death record of a stillborn son of Teunis Nijkamp (1857). Translation On the 14th of May 1857 appeared before us, Willem Götte, civil registrar of the municipality of Markelo: Teunis Nijkamp, 40 years old, and Reint Willem Azeler, 35 years old, farmers, both living in Markelo, the first as Read more…