This story is about the family of Rien and Anneke Nederlof, their parents, grand parents and back as far as possible. Pedigrees are interesting, but up to a certain point. More interesting are the people, their careers, experiences, their artistic achievements in some cases and the historical events that are linked to the people described here. For our children and grand children, a number of memories and objects play a special role in recalling their youth. I have tried to include photographs, portraits, pictures of houses, bits of sound and music, poems, diaries, and some home-movies.
Family connections with the UK and the USA are the following:
The Henkes family (my mother is Aaltje Henkes), is interesting because of the jenever distillery in Delfshaven (now Rotterdam) started by "Old Henk", my great-great-grandfather. A South-American branch of the Henkes family started with the emigration of Hermanus Henkes with wife and daughter Aaltje around 1904 to Punto Arenas, Chile, creating a South-American branch of the family.
Most families have one or more remarkable persons in their pedigree. For instance in the Henkes family, the "The Hague School" painter Gerke Henkes has been given special attention. Over 60 works, oil paintings and gouaches have been assembled as photographs in a probably unique collection, as the majority of his paintings are only in private possession.Other artists in the family are André and Hetty Broedelet as well as several d'Arnaud Gerkens artists.
Another person of importance is Barent Moret (1851-1915), who founded the accountancy firm that eventually was "Moret, Ernst and Young", then for some years "Ernst and Young", as no Moret remains in the management. The descendents of Barend Moret organise family reunions from time to time
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The great-grandfather of Anneke was a milner and owned the windmill "De Kieviet" at Grijpskerk. De Kieviet is now a museum.
The grandfather of Anneke, Bernard Blomsma was a revered and impressive railway station chief who received a decoration after his long career.
His son, Ir. Otto Bernard worked with "Rijkswaterstaat" and was involved in the "Afsluitdijk" that in 1934 closed the Zuiderzee, so it became the Ijselmeer. He designed several bridges and the sluice doors in the Afsluitdijk. He later became adjunt directeur at Werkspoor, which constructed tram and railway carriages. Finally he became coördinator for the building of the Erasmus medical centre in Rotterdam.
The best pedigree information has been obtained for the Nederlof, Henkes, Blomsma, Moret, Kruisinga and Schierbeek and d'Arnaud-Gerkens families. The van Eck family, husband of "Boma" van Eck-Moret remains a mystery, but the van Eck family had shares in the van Dorp editor and printing business.
The first name "Lout" is a disadvantage in english-speaking countries. My brother Lout and his son changed it to "Larry"...
The family Moret is active by having a Stichting Moret and organizing family meetings from time to time. Another family, de Kruisinga's have recently updated their history with a new publication. There is a remarkable coincidence between the families of Anneke and Rien: We both have great-grandfathers from mothers side, who were windmill owners: below the two windmills: On the left the mill in Grijpskerk "De Kievit" which replaced the earlier windmill "De Leeuw". The latter belonged to Johannes Dirks Kruisinga.
and on the right "De Distilleerketel" at Delfshaven, owned by Hermanus Henkes.
Invoer: 02-03-2023