Johannes Jacobus Boomsma

Brief Life History of Johannes Jacobus

When Johannes Jacobus Boomsma was born on 21 July 1914, in Sondel, Friesland, Netherlands, his father, Pieter Boomsma, was 31 and his mother, Helena van der Werff, was 32. He married Pietertje Klootwijk in September 1939. He died on 27 November 1988, in Joure, Friesland, Netherlands, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sondel, Friesland, Netherlands.

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Johannes Jacobus Boomsma
1914–1988
Pietertje Klootwijk
1920–1974
Marriage: September 1939

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    World Events (7)

    1917

    WWI. Despite Dutch neutrality in World War I (1914-18), the Netherlands suffers from severe food shortages, triggering street riots.

    1922

    Dutch women get the vote.

    1934 · Jordanians Revolt in Amsterdam

    July 4, 1934, Jordanians in Amsterdam revolted because of reduction in employment.

    Name Meaning

    West Frisian and Dutch: habitational name for someone from a place called Boom ‘tree’, composed with the Frisian suffix -ma, which originally denoted ‘(one of the) men of’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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