Brief Life History of Maria Petronella
When Maria Petronella Korstjens was born on 6 November 1881, in North Holland, Netherlands, her father, Jacobus Simon Korstjens, was 32 and her mother, Martina Bergman, was 28. She died about 1970, in Netherlands, at the age of 90.
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Family Time Line
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- Legacy NFS Source: Maria Petronella /Korstjens/ - Individual or family possessions: death: about 1970; Netherlands
Parents and Siblings
1849–1900 Male
1853–1882 Female
Siblings (2)
1876–1876 Male
1881–about 1970 Female
World Events (8)
1890
Age 9
1890 · Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Separates from the Netherlands
Age 9
1914 · WWI and the Netherlands
Age 33
Name Meaning
A name derived from Mapia, one of the Greek forms of Miriam. Maria is found as a male name as well as a female name. Viscount Montague, of Cowdray, Sussex, who succeeded to the title as second viscount, was christened Anthony Maria Browne. In Camden's Remains (p. 44), referred to in Delicie Literarise, occurs Thomas Maria Wingfield; and there was also a Sir Edward Maria Wingfield. The name appears to have been adopted in the latter family from Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. Compare Notes and Queries 5th S. ii. 73, 316, 478. Marie is frequently found as a male name in France and in other parts of the Continent.
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