When Cornelia Elisabeth Kikkert was born on 18 September 1895, in Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands, her father, Hendrik Kikkert, was 33 and her mother, Filemina Jacoba Maria Masthof, was 30. She married Pieter Willem Peereboom on 12 August 1919, in Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She died on 9 January 1981, in Bloemendaal, North Holland, Netherlands, at the age of 85.
From the Latin feminine form of the old Roman family name Cornelius . It was borne in the 2nd century bc by the mother of the revolutionary reformers Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus . Its use in England dates from the 17th century, when it was probably brought in by Dutch immigrants.
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