Joan's Ancestral World

Recently I received a little "treasure chest" from my uncle Cees de Jong. Among many other papers pertaining my grandparents, it c...

Pieter Huigensz Droogendijck married his wife Maria Jans in February 1666 in Simonshaven in Holland:   Pieter Huijge Droogendijck marrie...

Henry Jan Beltman was struck by lightning on July 18, 1893, around 4 p.m. when he was busy driving his employer's horses into the stable...

Born in London, Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was an English architect, landscape and architectural watercolour painter, and etcher. He stud...