Goldchen Lewertoff left for Hamburg

Goldchen Lewertoff was born on 18 April 1854 in Lübeck in Germany. She married merchant Hartog Stoppelman in May 1896 in Delfzijl near Groningen in The Netherlands. Hartog was born on 1 April 1863 in nearby Nieuwe Pekela. His parents were merchant Arond Stopplman (1827-1891) and his wife Hendrijetta Meiberg (1828-1905).

In the spring of 1908 Hartog and Goldchen left Lübeck for Rotterdam in Holland. Early 1909, however, Goldchen left for Hamburg in Germany. Soon thereafter Hartog left for Sneek in the North of The Netherlands. On May 19th, he was sentenced to 14 days of imprisonment. By August Hartog was back in Rotterdam.
Hartog's sister Hendeltje Stoppelman (1844-1914) had married Israël van Coeverden. Their daughter Roosje was born on 6 April 1876 in Coevorden and gave birth in Rotterdam on 15 June 1899 to an illegitimate daughter named Heintje. Heintje lived for a while with her great-uncle Hartog in Rotterdam.

With his wife staying in Germany, Hartog Stoppelman decided to file for a divorce. It was approved by the court in Rotterdam on 15 October 1917. The divorce was registered on 22 March 1918 in The Hague.

Nederlandsche Staatscourant, 12-9-1918

On 12 July 1922 in Rotterdam Hertog Stoppelman, aged 59, finally remarried. His bride was 43-year-old Hester van Blankestein. She was born on 31 October 1862 in IJsselmonde, south of Rotterdam. Her parents are Barend van Blankestein (1831-1893) and Chonetta van de Waal (1837-1906).
At the age of 42, on 8 November 1911 in Rotterdam, Hester had married 52-year-old Jacob Schustirowitz. Jacob was widower of Rosa Galoen (1863-1910) whom he had married in 1884 in Groningen. He was born on 9 July 1859 in Sebastopol in Russia as son of Izaak Schustirowitz and Anna Macen. Jacob had died on 5 June 1918 in Rotterdam, aged 58.

At the age of 72, Hertog Stoppelman died in Rotterdam on 27 June 1935. His widow, Hester van Blankenstein, died around 15 October 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Her death was finally registered in Rotterdam in 1951.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, StadsArchief.Rotterdam.nl, Delpher.nl, en.Wikipedia.org.

Longevity ~ Sija (90) & Helena Josina (93) Bax

In Dordrecht, Holland, on 26 May 1820, Jacoba van Efferen (1798-1863) gave birth to a son whom she named Gerrit. Jacoba is a daughter of Gerrit van Efferen and Jacoba van Dalen, so she named her son after her father. Earlier, on 29 January 1819, Jacoba had given birth to a girl named Martina. She was named after Martijntje Vijfwijk, wife of Bernardus Stam, and mother of Jacob Bernardus Stam.
Jacob Bernardus Stam married Jacoba van Efferen on 13 September 1820 in Dordrecht, and the children Martijntje and Gerrit were legitimized. 

At the age of 23, Gerrit Stam married 24-year-old Sija Bax in Dordrecht on 31 May 1843. Sija was born on 31 October 1818 in Dordrecht. Her parents are Johannes Bax (1794-1833) and Elisabeth Littig (†1866). Sija was named after her grandmonther Sijgje van Wingerden (†1801), wife of Andries Littig (also Lieddig) who was born in Knopshof in Germany

Among other siblings, Sija Bax had 2 younger sisters: Helena Jozina, born on 22 January 1824 in Dordrecht, and Elisabeth Johanna, born there on 8 July 1827. On 31 May 1843 in Dordrecht those 2 sisters were married to 2 brothers, Adrianus and Jan Willem 't Hart.
At the age of 26, Jan Willem 't Hart (1832-1895) married Elisabeth Johanna 't Hart, aged 31, and they had 3 children. Elisabeth Johanna died there on 12 March 1907, aged 79.

Family Card featuring Adrianus 't Hart and Helena Jozina Bax

Adrianus 't Hart was born on 13 June 1836 in Gorinchem, Holland. At the age of 22, he married 34-year-old Helena Jozina Bax. They had a son, who died at the age of 3, and a surving daughter Cornelia Elizabeth, named after her two grandmothers. In Dordrecht Adrianus worked as sigarmaker. Later, the couple moved to Nieuw-Lekkerland, Holland. At the age of 29, their only daughter married Jacob Breedveld. They had surving children named Soetje Helena Jozina and Pieter Adrianus Breedveld.

The marriage of Sija Bax and Gerrit Stam seems to have remained childless. Gerrit died on 6 June 1873 in Dordrecht, aged 53. Sija died there on 22 April 1909, aged 90.

Adrianus 't Hart died on 12 December 1892 in Nieuw-Lekkerland. Helena Jozina died there on 29 January 1917, aged 93.

De Standaard, 30-12-1892

Sources: RegionaalArchiefDordrecht.nl, WieWaswie.nl.

Teunis Klootwyk (1865-1938) and his wives

Teunis (“Tunis”) Klootwyk was born on 11 August 1865 in Pella, Iowa. He is one of two sons of Johannes Klootwijk and his first wife Gezenna Maria Mathilda Krijnders. Johannes Klootwijk was born on 10 December 1836 in Kedichem in The Netherlands, as a son of an earlier Teunis Klootwijk whose 18th-century ancestors were living in Dussen in The Netherlands.
In the USA Johannes was known as "John". He married his second wife in Pella on 20 March 1879, when his eldest son Teunis was 13 years old. John Klootwijk lived to the old age of 80, and died on 16 November 1917 in Pella.

Pella, Iowa

Teunis Klootwyk married his first wife Mary de Bond on 18 December 1888. They had 7 sons in the period 1889-1902^*. Mary died, aged 34, on 13 May 1870 in Pella.

De Grondwet (newspaper), 1-11-1904

Teunis married his second wife Neeltje (“Nellie”) Toll on 29 Noember 1906 in Pella. Nellie was born on 13 july 1880 in Barendrecht, Holland. Her parents are Arie Tol (1834-19150 and his fourth wife Arendje Zevenbergen (1849-1919). Nellie arrived in the USA with her parents at the age of seventien. Her first husband was Everett van Engelenhoven (1872-1904).
In Washington Township, Iowa, Nellie and Teunis had two sons - Ira Nelson (1908-2000) and Nelson Tunis (1911-1991) - and a baby who lived for just four weeks. Nellie died on 7 September 1911, nine weeks after the birth of her youngest child.

In 1916 Teunis married his fourth wife Minnie or Jennie van Steenis. She was born on 19 February 1879 in Pella and died on 14 October 1920 in Melcher-Dallas, Iowa. She had earlier been married in 1889 to Philip Schmidt (1851-1915).