When Elizabeth Maarsman was born on 22 August 1851, in Kortgene, Zeeland, Netherlands, her father, Frans Maarsman, was 35 and her mother, Levina de Loof, was 31. She married Jan Eversdijk on 2 May 1879, in Kortgene, Zeeland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 18 May 1929, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Berend.
Dutch:
topographic name for a dweller in marshland, from Middle Dutch marsch, mersch ‘marsh, alluvial land by a watercourse’ + man ‘man’.
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