The Jongbloed Family

This fascinating photo was taken in 1899 at the 50th wedding anniversary of Antje Houwink and Hendrik Jongbloed. This picture shows them, their six children and spouses, and ten grandchildren. My grandmother, who was born in 1897, is the young girl (3) in the upper left.

The Jongbloed Family in 1899

Here are the people in the photo, as numbered. A brief family tree is shown below.

Sipkje Jongbloed - mother of Peep and Abs van Zeÿl (not shown)
Sine Jongbloed - eldest daughter
Anna Maria Everdina (Marie) Trip - daughter of Jacoba (5)
Alie van Mens - daughter of Bartha (21)
Jacoba Francisca (Coos) Jongbloed - wife of Hendrik Jan (7)
Anna van Mens - daughter of Bartha (21). Married H. Baljet
Hendrik Jan Trip - husband of Jacoba (5)
Anneke Jongbloed - daughter of Geert (19)
Antje Houwink - wife of Hendrik Jongbloed (15)
Anneke Trip - daughter of Jacoba (5)
Cornelia van Mens - daughter of Bartha (21)
Riek van der Feer - daughter of Nienke (13)
Nienke Jongbloed - married Joost van der Feer (14)
Joost van der Feer - husband of Nienke (13)
Hendrik Jongbloed
Hendrik Jan Jongbloed - son of Geert (19)
Jaap Feenstra - nephew
Christien Jongbloed - daughter of Geert (19)
Geert Jongbloed - the only boy of the six, married Froukje Schutter (20)
Froukje Schutter - wife of Geert (19)
Bartha Jongbloed - married Nicolaus van Mens (22)
Nico van Mens - husband of Bartha (21)
Nico van Mens - son of Bartha (21)

Hendrik Jongbloed
1825-1910

Antje Houwink
1824-1916

Hendrikus (Hendrik) Jongbloed (15) (1825-1910) was born in Doniawerstal to Jacobus Frankes Jongbloed and Sipkje Reinders Ruardi (married 1816). He died in 1910 in Arnhem. Antje Houwink (9) (1824-1916) was born in Sneek in 1824 to Geert Houwink and Sietske van Gorkum. She died in 1916 in Arnhem. They were married in Sneek in 1849. They were the parents of this large brood, and they were also my grandmother's grandparents. They had seven children, each described in their own sections below:

Sietske Jongbloed (not shown)
Geert Jongbloed (19)
Sine Jongbloed (2)
Bartha Jongbloed (21)
Jacoba Fracisca Jongbloed (5)
Sipkje Jongbloed (1)
Nienke Jongbloed (13)

The family lived in Sneek, in the province of Friesland. In those days in Holland, it was unusual for a girl to learn a trade, but the three daughters Sine (2), Bartha (21) and Jacoba (5) were rather emancipated and they were interested in science. All three became pharmacy assistants. Sine, who never married, later became one of the first women in Holland to go to the University and she became a pharmacist.

Documents
	Antje Houwink: Birth p1 • Birth p2 • Marriage p1 • Marriage p2 • Parents' Marriage

The Prior Generation

The photos below are of paintings of the parents of Hendrik Jongbloed (Jacobus Jongbloed and Sipkje Ruardi) and Antje Houwink (Geert Houwink and Sytske van Gorkum), who all lived near Sneek. I assume that they were all painted at the same time after the marriage of Hendrik Jongbloed and Antje Houwink, in about 1850. Jacobus Jongbloed died in 1826, so his portrait was produced posthumously.

Jacobus Frankes Jongbloed

Sipkje Reinders Ruardi

Geert Houwink

Sytske van Gorkum

These photos were acquired by Siepko Trip from Wim Baljet (81 years old), the owner of the paintings, who is a son of Anna van Mens (6) and grandson of Bartha Jongbloed (21).

Jacobus Jongbloed was a notary in the village of Langweer (in Friesland). In a registry of Friesland notaries, Siepko discovered that Jacobus Jongbloed was appointed notary twice: 10 August 1802, and 13 May 1816. The first date was when he was appointed as a notary in Holland under French government, and the second was when he was re-appointed after the Battle of Waterloo and the start of the Kingdom of Holland.

Sietske Jongbloed
1853-1883

There was an older sister, Sietske, who died before this picture was taken. Sietske Jongbloed was born on 5 February 1853, and passed away 13 August 1883 at age 30. She married Rudolphus Feenstra, who was born on 10 December 1853 and died 18 November 1893 at age 39. They were married on 10 July 1878. Jaap Feenstra (17) is their son. My source for this entry shows their son as Jacob Rudolphus Feenstra, born in Sneek, 19 July 1879, who became a gold and silver blacksmith. This would make him about 20 in this picture.

Geert Jongbloed
1857-?

Geert (19) was the only boy of the six Jongbloed children. He was born in 1857 in Sneek. He married Froukje Schutter (20) in 1888 in Groningen. She was 33 years old. They had three children:

Christien, a daughter (18).
Anneke, a daughter (8). Married to A. Schwyter, a forester, in Switzerland.
Hendrik Jan, a son (16). Married A. van Tongeren.

Gezina (Sine) Jongbloed (1859-1945)

Tante Sine (2) was the older sister of Oma Trip (5). Sine, who never married, became one of the first women in Holland to go to the University where she became a pharmacist.

Gezina later worked as senior pharmacist in the community hospital in Arnhem. At the Battle of Arhem (A Bridge Too Far) she was evacuated to Utrecht where she died just after the end of the war, supervised by Mrs. Bazuine-Hendriks who looked after Jacoba Francisca Trip-Jongbloed as well and whose husband provided the tiles with the Trip family crest.

Bartha Jongbloed
1861-1945

Bartha (21) was the third Jongbloed daughter. She married Nicolaus (Nico) van Mens (22) in 1886 in Sneek. She died in 1945 in Apeldoorn at the age of 83. They had four children:

Cornelia, a daughter (11).
Nico, a son (23).
Anna, a daughter (6) (1889 - ?).
Alie, a daughter (4).

Documents
	Wedding menu (front) • Wedding menu (back)

Jacoba Francisca Jongbloed
(1863-1938)

Jacoba Francisca (Coos) Jongbloed (1863-1938) (5) was married in 1896 to Hendrik Jan Trip (1863-1933) (7), geography and history teacher at H.B.S in Almelo. Jacoba was a "femme savante," who had no interest in the usual female obligations of a homemaker.

Jacoba Jongbloed and Hendrik Jan Trip

They had three children:

Anna Maria Everdina (Marie) Trip (1897-1971) (3), pediatrician. Married in 1923 to Ferdinand Jan Beernink (1891-1975), ophthalmologist at The Hague, son of Herman Harm Beernink and Tunetta Hendrika Locke Giesen.
F.J. Beernink and family
Anneke Trip (1899-1988) (10), English teacher. Married in 1933 to Johannes Friedrich Hoffmann, German teacher, born at Hagen, Germany. They had three children, and seven grandchildren who all live in Germany.
Scato Hendrik (Scaat) Trip (1907-1997) (not shown) notary at Hengelo. Married in 1939 to Maria Roeloffina (Mies) Runeman (1917- ) daughter of Jan Siepko Runeman and Hanke Wilhelmina Bathoorn. They had six children.

Documents
	Jacoba Jongbloed: Birth

Sipkje Jongbloed
1868-1920

Sipkje Jongbloed (1) was the second daughter in the family. She married Gerrit Hendrik Hubertus van Zeijl (not shown), who was born in 1874, in 1902. She died in Arnem in 1920 at the age of 52. He died in Arnhem in 1941 after remarrying. They had two children:

Abs, a son (not shown). In Canada, married Helen.
Peep, a son (not shown). (M.F.S. van Zeijl) is married to M. Van Zeijl (Puck) born in Harskamp

Trijntje (Nienke) Jongbloed (1865-?)

Trijntje, known as Nienke, was born on May 4, 1865 in Sneek. She married Joost van der Feer on 9 Sep 1891. They had two children:

Henderika Frederica (Riek), a daughter, born in 1898 in Sneek. Married Joh de Ruiter.
Anneke, a daughter.

Thanks

Thanks to Hanke Trip Hoogendoorn and Maria (Mies) Runeman Trip for their help in identifying the people in this photo. Mies is probably the only person alive who could have accomplished this task. Her son Siepko has also helped with many details.