Brief Life History of Jan Kornelis
When Jan Kornelis Hoving was born about 1791, in Lellens, Ten Boer, Groningen, Netherlands, his father, Cornelis Isebrands Hoving, was 44 and his mother, Grietje Tammes, was 37. He married Saartje Harts Dijkhuis on 30 June 1828, in Ten Boer, Groningen, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 6 October 1842, in Ten Boer, Groningen, Netherlands, at the age of 52.
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- Marriage Jan Kornelis Hoving
- Death Jan Kornelis Hoving in 1842 in Ten Boer (Netherlands) » Open Archives
- Jan Kornelis Hoving in entry for Grietje Hoving, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records, 1600-2000"
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1793
France declared war on Britain and the Netherlands.
1795
France and Napoleon conquered the Netherlands.
1813
The Dutch defeated the French.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Dirk, Gerrit, Willem. Scandinavian Hilmer, Thor.
Dutch: habitational name from a farmstead so named in the province of Drenthe, a variant of Ten Hove ‘at the farm, homestead’ or Van Hove .
Swedish: ornamental or habitational name apparently formed with the placename element hov- (with several different meanings, including ‘pagan temple’ and ‘hill’) + the suffix -ing ‘belonging to’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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