_LIVING________________________+
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_LIVING______________|
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| |_LIVING________________________+
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|--LIVING
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| _Gerrit Jan (John) HOLTVLÜWER _+
| | (1924 - 1997) m 1954
|_LIVING______________|
|
|_Sylvia ANDRINGA ______________+
(1930 - 1995) m 1954
_LIVING______________+
|
_LIVING______________|
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| |_LIVING______________+
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|--LIVING
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| _____________________
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|_LIVING______________|
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|_____________________
_Hendrik Jan STAD _________+
| (1797 - 1846) m 1823
_Henry KLEIMAN JR ___|
| (1870 - ....) m 1908|
| |_Trijntje Jans BOUWKNECHT _+
| (1801 - ....) m 1823
|
|--LIVING
|
| ___________________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|___________________________
_Klaas (Clarence) STAD _
| (1931 - 1997)
_LIVING______________|
| |
| |_LIVING_________________
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|
|--LIVING
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| ________________________
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|_LIVING______________|
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|________________________
_Thijs STAD _________+
| (1890 - 1974)
_LIVING______________|
| |
| |_LIVING______________
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|--LIVING
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| _Herman ANDRINGA ____
| |
|_LIVING______________|
|
|_Joyce BOS? _________
_____________________________
|
_Liewe Jansz BOONSTRA _|
| (1858 - 1905) |
| |_Trijntje Fokkes FOKKEMA ____
|
|
|--Antje Helena (Anne) BOONSTRA
| (1902 - 1984)
| _Jan Godfried VOORBURG ______
| | m 1851
|_Willemina VOORBURG ___|
(1865 - 1913) |
|_Vrouwina Margrietha HAJEMA _+
(1832 - 1895) m 1851
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|
_Berend EBBINK ______|
| |
| |__
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|
|--Berend EBBINK
| (.... - 1958)
| __
| |
|_Johanna ALTINK _____|
|
|__
_Herman HIETKAMP ____+
| (1833 - ....) m 1862
_Gerrit HIETKAMP ____|
| (1866 - 1954) m 1888|
| |_Jantjen BOSCHLOO ___
| m 1862
|
|--Willem HIETKAMP
| (1894 - 1941)
| _Gerrit BOSCHLOO ____
| | (1830 - ....)
|_Johanna BOSCHLOO ___|
(1866 - 1940) m 1888|
|_Antonia MENKVELD ___
(1830 - ....)
_Albert SEINEN ______
| (1879 - 1964)
_Roelof SEINEN ______|
| (1900 - 1981) m 1924|
| |_Jennie OOSTERVEEN __
| (1882 - 1900)
|
|--Willem SEINEN
| (1926 - 1948)
| _Willem STAD ________+
| | (1854 - 1937)
|_Johanna STAD _______|
(1893 - 1968) m 1924|
|_Luchiena VAN GOOR __+
(1858 - 1929)
_Thijs Jans STAD ____________+
| (1809 - 1896) m 1835
_Willem STAD ________|
| (1854 - 1937) |
| |_Grietje ALBERTS VAN BASTEN _+
| (1812 - 1894) m 1835
|
|--Jan (John) STAD(T)
| (1896 - 1984)
| _Klaas Jans VAN GOOR ________+
| | (1816 - 1882)
|_Luchiena VAN GOOR __|
(1858 - 1929) |
|_Grietje LOBERTS ____________+
(1818 - 1842)
[1]
BIOGRAPHY: John was born a shopkeeper's son in a backwater town in the Netherlands.
His ancestors were peat farmers, so John was far from belonging to
the upper classes. In essence John educated himself since his family
couldn't afford to send him to school. He studied under the local
principal and got his teacher's certificate. When his fiance Hermina
died, John needed a change. He went to Indonesia and rehabilitated
several Christian schools as principal and teacher. In Indonesia John
met and married Anne Boonstra, another teacher, and all four of their
children were born there. Their firstborn were twin girls. There was
a problem in the pregnancy that one of the babies, named after former
fiance Hermina, didn't get enough nourishment in the womb. As a
result, Hermina was weak both mentally and physically, and lived with
her parents until their death. Europeans in Indonesia needed to take
six months off to recover their health after working a number of years
in Indonesia's oppressive climate. When John, Anne and family were due
for their second sabbatical, they couldn't go back to the Netherlands.
World War Two had begun and the Nazis had occupied their homeland, so
John took his family to Houston BC Canada where his brother had
immigrated. The ship they sailed in had to be blacked out when it left
Indonesia because the Japanese navy was nearby. It wasn't too long
before Indonesia was overrun by the Japanese, so we thank God that
John's family didn't spend the war in a concentration camp.
BIOGRAPHY: Life in northern BC was hard at first. In Indonesia, with cheap labour
and oppressive heat, all westerners had servants. John had a gardener,
cook, and a butler who took the children to school on his bicycle.
In Houston the weather was cold, there were no servants so Anne had
to learn how to cook, and they lived in a log cabin so tiny that John
and Anne had to sleep in a tent until another room could be added.
One night, Anne woke up and saw a huge head poking through the flap
of the tent. She screamed "John, a bear!" It turned out to be a
curious cow. John served as elder in the local Christian Reformed
church. He taught catechism and read sermons when a minister wasn't
available. John would sometimes write his own sermons, though he
didn't have the seminary degree to permit this. Once when he had lit
the woodstove to warm up the church for catechism class, the church
burned down. It wasn't feasible to build another church, so from
then on the family rode to church in the next town on the back of a
flatbed truck. The family moved to several different communities
while John tried his hand at a number of occupations including
chicken farming.
BIOGRAPHY: You may have noticed that in this genealogy, John and Anne's family
have their name spelled "Stad(t)". This is because before the family
got Canadian citizenship in 1953, the name was "Stad". John added
the "T" to make it "Stadt". Therefore this branch spells its name
differently from the others which stayed with "Stad". Why did John
change the name? There is another dutch clan which uses the "Stadt"
and they seem to have their origins in Groningen. John thought that
the two clans were related. Unfortunately, this genealogy hasn't
found any evidence for this assumption. But there is a benefit to
the change, it more closely maintains the correct pronunciation of
this dutch name in english. In dutch, the name is pronounced "stutt",
so "Stadt" probably works better in english than the original "Stad"
does. "Stad" in dutch means "city", and the old spelling was "Stadt".
The germans still use this spelling. So it is quite appropriate for
this option to have been taken, even if it may have been for the wrong
reasons. And it naturally makes things a bit confusing for genealogists!
BIOGRAPHY: One year in southern Alberta was a disaster. The climate was too
hard on John and he caught pneumonia. The children had more than
their share of bad health too. The Doctor advised John to move to
the coast, so the family moved to southwestern BC. Word got around
that a Christian principal was here, so John was invited to start a
Christian school in Vancouver. In the next decade, he also started
schools in New Westminster and Victoria. His students remember
his gripping Bible lessons.
BIOGRAPHY: John retired in 1965, but remained an active member of the church
and school community. His hearing was failing and he had a heart
valve replaced. Having an artificial heart valve meant that for the
rest of life he had to take blood-thinning medication.
It is a delicate balance to keep the blood thin enough so that it
won't clot on the valve, but not too thin. In 1980 the blood was out
of balance and John had a series of strokes. These left him unable
to speak and impaired him mentally. He spent his last few years in a
nursing home and died in December 1984. He was predeceased by Ann,
whose heart gave out in March 1984. She had suffered from angina
for many years.
BIOGRAPHY: John and Ann were pillars of their community and
were well known in the Christian school movement
and Christian Reformed churches in BC.
_Willem ZIJP ________+
| (1733 - 1810) m 1757
_Jacob WILLEMSZ ZIJP _|
| (1760 - 1821) m 1784 |
| |_Antje HOEK _________+
| (1737 - 1806) m 1757
|
|--Lambert ZIJP
| (1800 - 1877)
| _Jan MOL ____________
| |
|_Aagje MOL ___________|
(1761 - 1827) m 1784 |
|_Trijntje KRAGTIG ___