Leentje Verwolf was born in November 1882 in the country village of Ameide, located on the south bank of the River Lek, one of the arms of the River Rhine, in the extreme southeastern part of the Dutch southwestern province Zuid-Holland, the second of ten children of Arie Verwolf and Teuntje van den Wijngaard. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Leentje van Es.
On May 15, 1903 Leentje Verwolf married in her birth place Ameide at the age of 20 years the four years older Govert Kooijman.
They had the following children:
* Govert, February 7, 1905, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1906, Vianen, died July 6, 1906, Vianen;
* Margaretha Cornelia, May 28, 1907, Vianen, died March 3, 1913, Arnhem;
* Teuntje, May 5, 1913, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1914, Arnhem;
* Joris, August 1, 1918 Arnhem.
The city of Arnhem is the capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. It became wellknown for the movie "A Brigde too Far", about the failed operation in WW II by the Allied Forces to capture the bridge across the Rhine River.
Her husband Goof was in March 1913 a bench worker (bankwerker). He became in Arnhem a driver of horse-drawn and, later on, electric trams. For extra income they had boarders and Leen cleaned houses of well-to-do people in Arnhem with a leased, modern vacuum cleaner.
On 18 April 1944 her husband Govert Kooijman died at the age of 65 years and without occupation in Arnhem, capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. Widow Leentje Verwolf died in Arnhem too, in May 1971, at the age of 88 years. They were both buried in Moskowa Cemetery at Arnhem. Source of Leentje's death data: granddaughter S. Hoogerbrugge–Kooijman, e-mail December 2016.
On May 15, 1903 Leentje Verwolf married in her birth place Ameide at the age of 20 years the four years older Govert Kooijman.
They had the following children:
* Govert, February 7, 1905, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1906, Vianen, died July 6, 1906, Vianen;
* Margaretha Cornelia, May 28, 1907, Vianen, died March 3, 1913, Arnhem;
* Teuntje, May 5, 1913, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1914, Arnhem;
* Joris, August 1, 1918 Arnhem.
The city of Arnhem is the capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. It became wellknown for the movie "A Brigde too Far", about the failed operation in WW II by the Allied Forces to capture the bridge across the Rhine River.
Her husband Goof was in March 1913 a bench worker (bankwerker). He became in Arnhem a driver of horse-drawn and, later on, electric trams. For extra income they had boarders and Leen cleaned houses of well-to-do people in Arnhem with a leased, modern vacuum cleaner.
On 18 April 1944 her husband Govert Kooijman died at the age of 65 years and without occupation in Arnhem, capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. Widow Leentje Verwolf died in Arnhem too, in May 1971, at the age of 88 years. They were both buried in Moskowa Cemetery at Arnhem. Source of Leentje's death data: granddaughter S. Hoogerbrugge–Kooijman, e-mail December 2016.
Leentje Verwolf was born in November 1882 in the country village of Ameide, located on the south bank of the River Lek, one of the arms of the River Rhine, in the extreme southeastern part of the Dutch southwestern province Zuid-Holland, the second of ten children of Arie Verwolf and Teuntje van den Wijngaard. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Leentje van Es.
On May 15, 1903 Leentje Verwolf married in her birth place Ameide at the age of 20 years the four years older Govert Kooijman.
They had the following children:
* Govert, February 7, 1905, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1906, Vianen, died July 6, 1906, Vianen;
* Margaretha Cornelia, May 28, 1907, Vianen, died March 3, 1913, Arnhem;
* Teuntje, May 5, 1913, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1914, Arnhem;
* Joris, August 1, 1918 Arnhem.
The city of Arnhem is the capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. It became wellknown for the movie "A Brigde too Far", about the failed operation in WW II by the Allied Forces to capture the bridge across the Rhine River.
Her husband Goof was in March 1913 a bench worker (bankwerker). He became in Arnhem a driver of horse-drawn and, later on, electric trams. For extra income they had boarders and Leen cleaned houses of well-to-do people in Arnhem with a leased, modern vacuum cleaner.
On 18 April 1944 her husband Govert Kooijman died at the age of 65 years and without occupation in Arnhem, capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. Widow Leentje Verwolf died in Arnhem too, in May 1971, at the age of 88 years. They were both buried in Moskowa Cemetery at Arnhem. Source of Leentje's death data: granddaughter S. Hoogerbrugge–Kooijman, e-mail December 2016.
On May 15, 1903 Leentje Verwolf married in her birth place Ameide at the age of 20 years the four years older Govert Kooijman.
They had the following children:
* Govert, February 7, 1905, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1906, Vianen, died July 6, 1906, Vianen;
* Margaretha Cornelia, May 28, 1907, Vianen, died March 3, 1913, Arnhem;
* Teuntje, May 5, 1913, Vianen;
* Arie, February 2, 1914, Arnhem;
* Joris, August 1, 1918 Arnhem.
The city of Arnhem is the capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. It became wellknown for the movie "A Brigde too Far", about the failed operation in WW II by the Allied Forces to capture the bridge across the Rhine River.
Her husband Goof was in March 1913 a bench worker (bankwerker). He became in Arnhem a driver of horse-drawn and, later on, electric trams. For extra income they had boarders and Leen cleaned houses of well-to-do people in Arnhem with a leased, modern vacuum cleaner.
On 18 April 1944 her husband Govert Kooijman died at the age of 65 years and without occupation in Arnhem, capital of the province Gelderland, located in the extreme eastern part of the Netherlands, close to Germany. Widow Leentje Verwolf died in Arnhem too, in May 1971, at the age of 88 years. They were both buried in Moskowa Cemetery at Arnhem. Source of Leentje's death data: granddaughter S. Hoogerbrugge–Kooijman, e-mail December 2016.
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