My mother recently found a large stash of photographs in a box owned by my father's grandmother, Orpha (Vandermade) Thompson. The pictures below are mostly of "Grandmother Vandermade" - Orpha's grandmother - but her husband is in one of them too. Her name was Aaltje Kuiper (09 Feb 1837 - 27 Mar 1923) which Americanized to Orpha Cooper. She was born in Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands and died in Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan. Her husband was William Vandermade, Sr. (21 Jan 1834 - 01 Nov 1903). He was born in Goedereede, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands and died in Mooreland Township, Muskegon, Michigan.
Unfortunately all of the pictures are undated, but the picture of the two of them probably dates to at least the 1880s.
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| Aaltje Kuijper (undated) |
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Aaltje Kuijper, daughter Matilda (Mattie) Vandermade,
and grandson Cash Verner Slaghuis (undated) |
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| Aaltje Kuijper (undated) |
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| William Vandermade, Sr. and Aaltje Kuijper (undated) |
thank you for sharing the pictures from aaltje kuijper
ReplyDeleteI am looking at a House once owned by Cash Slaghuis (and supposedly his father Abraham) transferred in 1962
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