Adriaan's Birth Extract
From: J.J.v.d.Sande
To: Scott
Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 5:34 AM
Here is the text and its translation:
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Arrondissement BredaDistrict Breda (Breda is the name of a city)
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Gemeente TholenMunicipal Tholen
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Uit het register van geboorten van vermelde gemeente blijkt,The register of birth of the mentioned municipal shows, (I'm not sure if
it says "vermelde". It looks more like "voormelde" but what wouldn't be
correct Dutch?!)
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dat aldaar op vierentwintig Juni achttienhonderd acht en zestig is geboren:that in that place at the twentyfourth of june, eightteenhunderd sixtyeight
was born:
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Adriaan, zoon van Johannis van der Sande en van Willemina Vermaas,Adriaan, son of Johannis van der Sande and of Willemina Vermaas (very old
spelling, because nowadays we write "Johannes" and "Wilhelmina")
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zijne huisvrouw, enz.his housewife, etc. (apparently they weren't very emancipated in those days!)
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Voor gelijkluidend uittreksel,(Very formal language. Difficult to translate. The direct translation is:
voor=for, gelijkluidend=identical, uittreksel=extract/certificat. So I
think what they mean is:) All facts mentioned herein are truthful,
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Afgegeven, 18 februari 1938,handed over at, 18 february 1938,
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door mij Ambtenaar den Burgerlijke Stand in de gemeente Tholen,by me, civil servant of the registry office in the municipal Tholen, (old
fashioned to capitalize "Ambtenaar den Burgerlijke Stand" but in those days
you were very important if you were a civil servant so they wrote it
capitalized)
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<signature>I can't figure out the name...
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Zegel f 1,-stamp/seal 1 guilder
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Leges f 1,-fees 1 guilder
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Burgerlijke stand Tholenregistry office Tholen
It was funny to see this old document. I hope this helps. Enjoy your holidays!
Joris van der Sande
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