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"Within These Pages  Lies The Lines Of Family Ties...Written With The Hope That Those Who Stumble Upon It... Will Treasure It As A Memory...And Preserve It For Their Children!"

Berend Brugt Nicolaas Douwes and Sophia Wilhelmina Volborth 
June 29, 1916  Semarang, Indonesia

Douwes - Derks

Our Family History

On August 9, 1749 Brugt Douwes was born to Geesje Hinderiks and Douwe Brugts Douwes.   His birth was registered  in the  Doopsgezinde Kerk, Groningen, Holland.  Brugt Douwes married  Janneke Derks  on March 21, 1775.  They had  eleven children.  Their  youngest  son  Berend Brugts  Douwes  married  Margien Nicolaas Jacobs  and his second marriage was  to  Catorina Boomgaard.   In  the  year  1853 Berend Brugts Douwes,  his wife,  three sons  and  a daughter  who was  married  to Carl Albertus Thepass left Drenthe,  Holland  for  Sumatra,   in  the   Dutch  East Indies.   Years later our roots are firmly planted in the United States. 

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