I hadn't realized until I posted yesterday and actually sat there and wrote out the dates, that my great grandfather's first wife, Gretchen King (which in Dutch is Grietje Koning), died immediately after marrying. I researched it some more because I thought perhaps the dates I had were incorrect. But it seems to be true. I have not been able to find any information about the cause of death, as newspapers were obviously not posted on line then! So I wonder..... Was she already dying of something and he married her for some reason? Was there some kind of accident? More sinister - did he kill her? But dying two days after marriage........that's a real mystery.
Also, in searching for more family members yesterday, I came across a facebook page for an Elisabeth Leeflang. That is the same name as my great grandmother (before marriage). I sent her a message - let's see if she responds! I have also discovered, that as rare as the name Tuniman is in the US, it is a very common name in the Netherlands!
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Although I already wrote one post today, I am so excited I had to write again! I was just fooling around on my computer googling the name R...
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Way back in August, I wrote about Anna Tuijnman Roomeijer who had a daughter "Beth". Anna was one of my grandfather's sisters...
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I had high hopes that Rosalinde would answer my email! Of course, the email address I had used to write to her was from a couple of years ...
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