Great-Great GrandFather
Dirk van Velsen
Laborer
Great-Great GrandMother
Annetje Andriessen
Spinster
had a daughter

Great-grandmother
Barbara Van Velsen - Prinssen
Born October 21, 1861
Married August 15, 1883
Died January 20, 1913
shown below here

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Grandpa Bernardus Goedemans was a maintenance worker. He worked for a dry cleaning firm were he took care of the machinery that washed and iron clothes.
His inlaws, Great Grandfather Jan Prinssen - Great Grandmother Barbara Velsen - Prinssen
were a financially well to do family however when Grandpa Goedemans decided to marry Grandma Theodora Johanna Prinssen against their wishes the Prinssen family  disassociated themselves from their daughter and her family. They did not want to help them in any way, shape or form.  They did not even helped when Grandpa Goedemans became deathly ill while living in the attic. It was there where he died on November 5th 1918.

Our Grandma Prinssen-Goedemans was left  alone with seven children - Jacob, Henk, Jan, Arie, Barbara (my Mom), Marie, and Annie.

 Our Grandma Prinssen-Goedemans never re-married and died of stomach cancer on October 5th, 1939 at the age of 55 in Hilversum, Holland

Grandma Goedemans was
Theodora Johanna Prinssen born on
June 21 1884 at Hilversum Holland
Died on October 5, 1939

Married - November 21, 1908 to

Grandpa Bernardus Goedemans born on March 12, 1881
Died on November 5, 1918

They had seven kids until Grandpa Goedemans died during the worldwide sickness called the Black Plague - or Spanish Flu, he was only 37 years old.

After the death of Grandpa Goedemans our Grandma was alone and had to take care of seven children. She worked long, hard hours to feed and cloth them all.  There was no indication in her history that the Bernardus Goedemans family received any family assistance or help except 10 guilders a month from the Catholic church.

Grandma Goedemans did not like Great Grandma Prinssen to much, so the Prinssen family left Grandma Prinssen-Goedemans strictly alone to take care of her self and her seven children. Somehow in their past they had became bitter enemies.

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Great-Great Grandfather
Pieter Prinssen
Great-Great Grandmother
Derkje Andriessen

had a Son
Great-Grandfather
Jan Prinssen
shown above
Born Feb, 13, 1857
Married August 15, 1883
Died December 8,  1933
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