When Maria Catharina Moerman was born in 1922, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, her father, Matthijs Moerman, was 32 and her mother, Anna Gerritdina Maria Bosch, was 28. She married Petrus Johannes Joosten on 13 December 1945, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She died on 16 August 2003, in her hometown, at the age of 81.
Dutch and Flemish:
topographic name for someone who lived in the vicinity of peatland, Dutch moer ‘peatland’, or a habitational name for someone from Moere in West Flanders, named with this word.
occupational name for someone who dug and sold peat.
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