In the last few months we have received requests from clients in Australia, Canada and the United States who were looking for more information about their Dutch grandparents. Each of them had a very specific reason why they did not know much (or even anything) about their ‘oma’ or ‘opa’. Let us take a look Read more…
Tag: divorce
Brandina’s divorce (part 2)
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…
Married, divorced, married
In previous posts we gave examples of marriages. Some of these marriages took place prior to 1811 and were recorded in church books or parish registers. Other marriages took place in the 19th or 20th century and were recorded in the civil registers. Unfortunately not all of these couples lived happily ever after… some even Read more…