When Grietje Meintes was born on 7 April 1841, in Akkrum, Friesland, Netherlands, her father, Meinte Annes Boersma, was 36 and her mother, Wypkjen Sijtzes van der Krieke, was 32. She died on 27 February 1862, in her hometown, at the age of 20.
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Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
North German:
patronymic from Mein .
habitational name from any of several places called Meins or Meinsen.
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