Everything tagged: Netherlands

https://gwulo.com/node/21923 1926 - St. Johns Cathedral - Baptism, Marriage and Burials

https://gwulo.com/node/8740 Inscriptions for cemetery sections 10-16

hier rust / onze innig geliffde zoon en broeder / Cornelius Koster / geboren te Dordrecht [Holland] 25 April 1900 / overleden te Hong Kong 22 September 1926 / rust zacht liefste / je nagedachtenis zalsteeds / in hooge eere in myn herinnering Blyven Voortleven / je diepbedroefde en opnig liefhebbende verloofde

Mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List:

Interned in Stanley Camp during WW2. 

[Update 2020: Antony Bosje's grand-daughter has been in touch in the comments below and says that the man in the photo below isn't Antony, and that Antony never worked in Hong Kong. So the original owner of the album, and the identity of the man in the photo, are mysteries.]

He was the original owner of a small photo album I bought a few years ago. The seller included this note:

Guillaumine E. P. Le Cocq d'Armandville married Jacobus van der Laan on December 10, 1927 in Palembang, Sumatra.

During the first 18 months of the Japanese occupation she lived with him at the Sun Wah Hotel. The couple were sent to Stanley in July 1943.

She died in the Hague aged 97.

Source:

http://gw.geneanet.org/evanderlaan?lang=en;pz=esther;nz=van+der+laan;ocz=0;p=guillaumine+e.p.;n=le+cocq+d+armandville

Jacobus van der Laan was the manager of a bank the Netherlands Trading Society when war broke out.

After the surrender he was one of the bankers kept out of internment to liquidate the assets of their instutions. He and his wife lived at the Sun Wah Hotel until being sent to Stanley in July 1943 on the completion of their work.

Sources:

David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 313

Dutch born Bosman, arrived in Hong Kong about 1859 where, at the age of 20 he was working for the Dutch coolie trader,  Cornelius Koopmanschap.

He met a Ms. Sze and the first of their five children was born when he was 22 years old and she was 20.

In 1862, aged 24, the company name was changed to Bosman & Co. in Hong Kong, and Koopmanschap & Co in San Francisco.