Weert - Heijnen Family
Updated: 2010-02-25 02:31:08 UTC (Thu)
Weert-Werkman family:
Egbert Werkman b.1894 married Martje Bos b.1896
Pieter Visser b.1894 married Geertruida Grootoonk b.1900
Hagenouw-Weert family:
Kornelis Hagenouw b.1887 married Annechien Hendriks b.1889
Jelle Prins b.1890 married Geertje Agina Sipsma b.1896
Weert-Lyon family:
Thomas Lyon b.1888 married Elsie Dorothy Munn b.1898
Carol Chandler Wells b.1889 married Caroline Montgomery Cuthbertson b.1892
Lyon-Wells Database Search Page
Leonardus Spreuwers was involved with the Bokkerijders, arrested, questioned, tortured and confessed, sentenced to execution but pardoned in 1790, and shortly thereafter left Bree, Belgium for Dokkum, Nederland; which is about as far as one can travel heading due north from Bree.
Hendrik was the master builder of the canal of Apeldoorn to Hattem. Wikipedia.
His wife was descended from a long line of Dutch nobility.
Count Gerolf of Holland (around 850 - around 896) was Count of Frisia. Gerolf is regarded as the founder of the House of Holland. Wikipedia (its English translation)
This page has been set up to show some of the ancestors of Geertruida Grootoonk that go back further to Karel de Groote, also known as Charlemagne, born abt.0748.