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Colonies
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 8: Between Separation and Survival
On 3 November 1835, after being in Ommerschans for three years, four months and twenty days, Grietje Alberts Kuiper (number…
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 7: Behind The Walls
Grietje Alberts Kuiper, her partner Christiaan Geerts Swaak and their son Marten ended up in the penal colony of Ommerschans….
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 5: A Family Without a Marriage Record
While tracing the lives of our ancestors, I came across a couple who, by the standards of their time, seemed…
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 4: The Second Asylum
Discovering documents of my maternal ancestors, learning they’d been in the penal colonies of the nineteenth century, and discovering an…
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 3: The Society of Benevolence
In 1818, General Johannes van den Bosch founded the Maatschappij van Weldadigheid (Society of Benevolence), an idea which came from…
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 1: Patronyms and the Birth of Surnames
Grietje Alberts was the daughter of Albert Martens and lived in the province of Groningen, Netherlands, from 10 January 1794…