Hi - bear with me, it's a long one!
My g-granddad was Dutch. I know from my late granddad's family bible that his name was Johannes Hendricus Jacobs, he was born 14th Aug 1837 in Rotterdam.
He came over to England and married an English girl in St Annes Soho in 1872. The marriage cert obviously had his fathers name on it so I knew it was Johannes Frederick Jacobs. After some advice from a lovely man on the Ancestry Dutch/Emmigration boards, I went on the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam site
Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
There I found the marriage of my g-g-grandparents -
Johannes Frederick Johannes Jacobs b1810 Gorinchem, Netherlands
married Maria Johanna Godfroij on 17th Feb 1836 in Rotterdam.
The page also gave their parents names, all for free -
Johannes Hendricus Jacobs & Joanna Geenhuijsen
and
Johannis Godfroij & Hendrika Wijmans
Then I reached a full stop, so for 4 years I haven't done a thing with this family until last week when I decided to try to pick up where I left off. Only the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam site has completely changed, and I can't find the baptisms or marriages online anymore. - I used Google to translate the pages.
Yesterday I was googling their names in the hope that someone has them on their tree, and I may be able to find a long lost Dutch cousin.
I hit gold and found all my names on this tree -
I36755 : Joannes Joannes JACOBS
I would love to contact the owner of the tree, but it is huge it has 41,168 people on it!! I can't find any contact info either.
Does anybody know where... or what site the online marriage's and baptisms of Rotterdam are (I could kick myself, as you could order the actual certs online on the site, but I didn't get round to doing it) and if someone could have a look at the above tree and find the owners contact details for me, there probably on there somewhere, just that I can't see them.
Whoever did the tree couldn't have known that Johannes came to England (and anglised his name to Henry) as they have his older sister born 26th Nov 1836, missed him out, then have the next child born 10th May 1840. It is my family, as it definitely has the same parents and grandparents.
My granddad (Albert Henry Jacobs, born 1883 in Marylebone, London) must have gone over a few times to see his rellies as I have a wonderful photo of him taken in Rotterdam. The photo is on really thick card, almost like plastic, and my g-grandmother wrote his name and date on the back. I'm so proud of the photo, I'm going to put it on here.
Sandra
My g-granddad was Dutch. I know from my late granddad's family bible that his name was Johannes Hendricus Jacobs, he was born 14th Aug 1837 in Rotterdam.
He came over to England and married an English girl in St Annes Soho in 1872. The marriage cert obviously had his fathers name on it so I knew it was Johannes Frederick Jacobs. After some advice from a lovely man on the Ancestry Dutch/Emmigration boards, I went on the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam site
Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
There I found the marriage of my g-g-grandparents -
Johannes Frederick Johannes Jacobs b1810 Gorinchem, Netherlands
married Maria Johanna Godfroij on 17th Feb 1836 in Rotterdam.
The page also gave their parents names, all for free -
Johannes Hendricus Jacobs & Joanna Geenhuijsen
and
Johannis Godfroij & Hendrika Wijmans
Then I reached a full stop, so for 4 years I haven't done a thing with this family until last week when I decided to try to pick up where I left off. Only the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam site has completely changed, and I can't find the baptisms or marriages online anymore. - I used Google to translate the pages.
Yesterday I was googling their names in the hope that someone has them on their tree, and I may be able to find a long lost Dutch cousin.
I hit gold and found all my names on this tree -
I36755 : Joannes Joannes JACOBS
I would love to contact the owner of the tree, but it is huge it has 41,168 people on it!! I can't find any contact info either.
Does anybody know where... or what site the online marriage's and baptisms of Rotterdam are (I could kick myself, as you could order the actual certs online on the site, but I didn't get round to doing it) and if someone could have a look at the above tree and find the owners contact details for me, there probably on there somewhere, just that I can't see them.
Whoever did the tree couldn't have known that Johannes came to England (and anglised his name to Henry) as they have his older sister born 26th Nov 1836, missed him out, then have the next child born 10th May 1840. It is my family, as it definitely has the same parents and grandparents.
My granddad (Albert Henry Jacobs, born 1883 in Marylebone, London) must have gone over a few times to see his rellies as I have a wonderful photo of him taken in Rotterdam. The photo is on really thick card, almost like plastic, and my g-grandmother wrote his name and date on the back. I'm so proud of the photo, I'm going to put it on here.
Sandra
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