Alberto Zoppi (1856-1937) in Tilburg

Alberto Zoppi was born on 13 March 1856 in Broglio, Ticino, Switserland. His father, Giacomo Zoppi, had deserted his wife Marianna Tonini in 1867. He left for the USA, and they haven't heard from him since. In The Netherlands Alberto worked as a worked as a chimney sweep.

Alberto Zappi was born in Broglio in Switserland

At the age of 25, on 16 June 1881 in Zwolle, The Netherlands, Alberto Zoppi married 22-year-old Cornelia Vredeveld. She was born on on 1 April 1859 in Zwolle, The Netherlands. Her parents are carpenter Johannes Vredeveld an his wife Alberdiena Rientjes. At the time of her marriage, Cornelia’s mother was being nursed in an asylum for the insane in nearby Deventer.

Alberto's mother-in-law Alberdiena Rientjes was locked up in a mental institution

Alberto and Cornelia are the parents of 7 children:

1. Maria Josephina Alberdina was born on 25 October 1881 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. On 23 January 1906 she married Gerardus Josephus van Berkel. He was born on 5 August 1882 and died on 24 Septeber 1955, both in Tilburg. His parents are Josephus Cornelis van Berkel and Elisabeth Chabot (1859-1887). The widowed Maria Josephina Alberdina died, at the age of 80, on 14 December 1961 in Tilburg. She had several children.
2. Joannes Joseph Jacobus was born on 20 January 1883 in Tilburg, and died there on 29 February 1884.
3. Alberdina Josephina Joanna was born on 25 October 1884 in Tilburg. At the age of 23, she was married there on 19 May 1908 to Sijmen Christiaan Oosterling. He was born 17 January 1879 in Utrecht, and die don 30 July 1932 in Tilburg, His parents are Sijmen Gerrit Oosterling and Catharina Maria de Champs. His widow died on 9 August 1966 in Dordrecht, aged 81. She had several children.
4. Johannes Bernardus Maria was born on 3 April 1886 in Tilburg. He worked as a silversmith when he married his first wife Gijsberta Johanna Hendrika de Lucht on 6 November 1912 in Arnhem. She was born on 1 February 1884 in Arnhem as daughter of baker Andries de Lucht and his wife Wilhelmina Peer. With her Johannes had a daughter named Cornelia Elisabeth Anthonia Zoppi, born on 6 July 1913 in The Hague. Gijsberta de Lucht died - “after a long, patiently borne suffering” - on 12 December 1941, at the age of 57. Johannes was still living in The Hague, when he married 51-year-old Wilhelmina Kapsenberg in Rotterdam on 14 October 1942. Johannes Bernardus Maria died in Rotterdam on 1 April 1964, aged 77. On 30 January 1965 in The Hague, his widow Wilhelmina Kapsenberg died at the age of 73. She was born on 22 March 1891 in Rotterdam. Her parents are Pieter Cornelis Kapsenberg and Catharina Maria van Eijk.
5. Severina Antonia Maria was born on 15 February 1888 in Tilburg. On 31 July 1918 in Princenhage, Brabant, The Netherlands, she married 30-year-old Ewald Joseph Dinslage. He was born on 21 March 1888 in Burscheid in Germany as son of Joseph Dinslage and Catharina Schmicht. He died, aged 71, on 30 August 1859 in Tilburg. Severina died there on 2 October 1973 at the age of 85. They had a son Alberto Joseph Ewaldus Dinslage (1920-1968).
6. Albertus Johannes Maria was born on 6 November 1889 in Tilburg. He had was 1.60 m. tall, had brown eyes and a small nose when, at the age of 15, he was sentenced to 7 days in jail for theft. He was working as a shopkeeper when he married 41-year-old Maria Susanna Klein on 4 October 1923 in Amsterdam. She was the divorced wife of Josef Clemens since 10 November 1922. Albertus J.M. Zoppi died in 1969 in Amsterdam.
7. Regina Antonia Joanna was born on 30 January 1894 in Tilburg. She was married there on 8 September 1919 to Franciscus Henricus Maria van der Wegen, son of Petrus Adrianus Josephus van der Wegen and Catharina Maria Bierens. Regina Antonia Joanna died with Christmas 1957, aged 63.

Albertus Johannes Maria Zoppi was sentenced to 7 days in jail for theft

Alberto Zoppi died from an apoplexy in Tilburg on 30 November 1937, at the age of 81. His widow Cornelia Vredeveld died, aged 86, on 31 January 1946 in Tilburg.

Sources: RegionaalArchiefTilburg.nl, WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl.