When Geertruida Wilhelmina Boot was born on 18 May 1906, in The Hague, Holland, Netherlands, her father, Otto Cornelis BOOT, was 33 and her mother, Jacoba van Toornburg, was 32. She married Marinus van Dijk on 9 December 1936, in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands. She died on 22 December 1985, in Holland, Netherlands, at the age of 79.
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During WWI, the Netherlands declared that they were neutral and stayed so during the war.
WWI. Despite Dutch neutrality in World War I (1914-18), the Netherlands suffers from severe food shortages, triggering street riots.
Amsterdam, Netherlands hosts Summer Olympic Games.
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, from Middle English, Old French bote (a word of unexplained etymology).
Dutch and German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Botho, related to the noun bode ‘envoy, messenger’ (see Bode ).
Dutch and German: metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Dutch and German boot ‘boat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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