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The "Amsterdam" Line
The Amsterdam line follows on as a branch
of the 'Junior'
main branch. From this line, Albertus Gerardus (1918) emigrated
to Australia in 1960 where his children continue to live.
Arij Senior (1740) was married in Schiedam
in 1767 to Trintje van Bree. He died at 31 years of age. They
had three children - a son and two daughters. Because his
children were still so young, Arij's younger brother Cornelis
(1748) became their guardian.
The oldest daughter of Arij Senior, Johanna
Geertrui, married Cornelis Oppens in 1793.
Gerrit (1845)
Gerrit (1845) was in the military and
thought to have been stationed in Grave. He was married at
age 29 to Geertruida Alberdina Lijsenaar there in 1874. His
first son Jacobus Adrianus was born in Delft.
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His youngest son, Albertus (1882), pictured
left in 1910, was born in Den Haag.
He received military training in Kampen and in 1900
as a sargeant, went to serve in the Netherlands Indonesia
where he fought in Aceh for seven years.
There he married Louise Henriette Stoltsz, pictured
right, daughter of a German father and Indonesian mother.
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Louise Henriette Stoltsz |
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Albertus and Louise had
three children Pieter (1915), Geertruida (1917), Albertus
Gerardus (1918).
From left: Pieter, Albertus, Geertruida
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In 1923, after 23 years in Indonesia Albertus returned to
the Netherlands for 6 months with his family on vacation.
He decided to return to the Netherlands permanently. His wife
decided to remain in Indonesia.
When Albertus returned
to the Netherlands with his 3 children he went to live
in Amsterdam with his sister Helena (1879), pictured
right.
This is where he met Pieternella Roest, a neighbour.
Albertus and Pieternella had twin sons Jan and Ed in
1931 using the name Roest. |
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Helena |
The eldest son, Pieter (1915) became an artist living in
Arhem but died at a young age 51 in 1966. The daughter, Geertruida
(1917) married Franz W Pokorny and had one son, Franz. She
passed away in Oct 2006 in Rotterdam, aged 89.
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youngest son, Albertus Gerardus (1918), pictured left at age
18, joined the Marines in 1937 and went back to Indonesia.
He spent a number of years as a Japanese POW on the Burma
Railway.
After the war, he returned to the Netherlands via Australia.
In 1956 he decided to emigrate to Australia. He married a
Dutch woman in Australia in 1960 and had two children.
Albertus died suddenly in Oct 2000 of heart failure, aged
82.
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