Sons of Emile Jean Hubert Wolters in Uppsala and Bloomfield

Emile Jean Hubert Wolters was born in Venlo, The Netherlands, on 2 September 1864. His parents are Josephina Gertrudis Hubertina van Meijel (1841-1906) and Jean Louis Hubert Wolters (1836-1900). Emile's paternal grandparents are Jean Gerard Hubert Wolters (1810-1889) and Maria Gertrudis Custers (1808-1894). They are also ancestors of the Beltman family in Amersfoort.

The obituary advertisement for Emile's widow mentions descendants in the Southeastern part of The Netherlands, in Uppsala in Sweden, and also in Bloomfield in the U.S.A. Emile's eldest son, Jan Laurent Wolters, was born on 4 March 1896 in Venlo. He lived for a while in Heerlen. In 1920 he moved to Rotterdam where he earned a living as a soap merchant. For a while he lived in Cologne (Köln) in Germany. Early 1926 is the first time Jan Wolters and his wife Martha Böhm were mentioned in the U.S.A. They were then living in Amityville in Suffolk County.
Martha Böhm (1894-1991) had travelled from New York to Europe in 1915 with the ship "Noordam" I. On 1 March 1916 she left Rotterdam again for the U.S.A. with the same ship.

Nieuwe Venlosche Courant, 12-11-1936

Emile's second son, Paul Wolters, was born on 11 January 1901 in Venlo. In 1926 he was still unmarried and living in Venlo. In 1936, however, Paul Wolters was living in Uppsala in Sweden. He had married a Swedish woman, Marthe Linquist. They had daughters Madeleine and Iona Martha Maria. Ioana Martha Maria was born on 28 August 1934, and died on 17 March 2021. She had married Stephen A. Farkas with whom she had shared 59 years of marriage. Her father, Paul Wolters, had died on 12 February 1954 in Uppsala at the age of 53.

Dagblad voor Noord-Limburg, 15-2-1954

Sources: Delpher.nl, FindAGrave.com VerenigingDeLijn.nl, Maritiem-Historische Databank,TributeArchive.com.