My search in the past










Bruinisse 2003






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In the seventies(in 1973) I had the challange to search for my roots in the past.

On my way to the descent of my ancestors, with the name "Van Popering", I visited the town Bruinisse in Zeeland (Holland)
The information I received from the local authorities was too much to make a quick result !
All the bits and pieces ( the old documents) were written in an old-dutch style.
That was not easy, I needed a training course in old dutch writing !!




               

All kinds of the authority-registers were available and had also a linking to the old maps of the town with the streets and the houses belong.
There was a cross-index to the registers with those little houses of that time.

Within 10 minutes walk from the townhall I was able to see the home-locations in Bruinisse, unfortunately some of the houses were modified and unrecognizable for me..sometimes a building-site...and some houses were hit in a bombardment of the 2nd W.W.

I found the birth home of my father (Cornelis Wouter Sr.) in the Millstreet (Molenstraat). His father (Wouter van Popering) was the local tailor/ hairdresser.



The birth home is the house next from left side of the millstreet (molenstraat)

impressions from 1900 up to 1980 in the Molenstraat in Bruinisse





Presentation:
The collected information , well-ordered and presentable, were offered to my parents on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of their marriage day. My 3 brothers and 8 sisters were surprized too.
After that time there was a great radio silence about this subject....now , 25 years later I put the documentation direct on the internet...a new challenge....via my own website !!!

It's an excellent tool to improve my family tree with new family members and maybe a new linking with family members from all over the world !!


Some special topics of my search:

The struggle for live:
The old professions, illiteracy, the living conditions and the poverty in that time (hundreds of years ago) How people manufacture their products in the province of Zeeland (of the Netherlands)









                   
My (grand)mothers of 'my' branche of the tree:
Grada Bruynius ..........1910
Johanna Donker...........1860
Lena de Jonge.............1832
Jacoba Haak...............1806
Pieternella v.d. Berge...1770
Elisabeth Brouwer.......1730
Neeltje Jagt.................1703
Sarah Noorthoek........1690
Marija Cornelisse........1670
Urselina Dekkers........1640
Eva Gouberge.............1610


There are, of course, more branches of the familytree available..... maybe yours?
Ask for it and I help you a.s.a.p.





People spread all over the world:
A part of the family van Popering did depart to the New World (U.S.A) I would like to have contact with this 'family members'. With some of them I have already contact
By the way.. I also invite the family members in France/ Australia/ New Sealand and South of Africa.










If you can speake / write some Dutch       go to the Dutch version of this website        (via the yellow home page button below)         click on the Dutch flag             and take a peek in our family in Holland......   
































   



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I provide you with as many family tree -details as I can. For more information you can mail me:
cees@vanpopering.com