De Burgemeester voornoemd, VAN TIENHOVEN

Ely, Hans, Fred and Henk growing up in Amsterdam

A young family in Amsterdam.

Fred does have a recall of Opa Gerrit, his maternal grandfather who died when he was four years old.

This photo of Jan Gerrit de Haas hangs in our gallery up the stairs. A rather formidable looking man.

Fred has these fragile documents from the late 1890 lying among his papers.

They are brittle, torn along the folds and the paper has a beautiful sepia hue. The handwriting also talks to another place and another era.

There seems to be a discrepancy in the family about Jan Gerrit's birthdate. The military document gives it as 1871 and Fred's mother gave me 1869.

I looked up 'fornuis', the word highlighted in the second document, it means oven.

He was a fisherman, I wonder if he smoked fish.

A military registration document from 3 January 1890

A trading licence from Amsterdam dated 27 February 1898.