Maria Catharina Moerman

Female1922–16 August 2003

Brief Life History of Maria Catharina

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.

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Petrus Johannes Joosten
Maria Catharina Moerman
1922–2003
Marriage: 13 December 1945

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  • Marriage
    13 December 1945Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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    World Events (8)

    1922

    Age 0

    Dutch women get the vote.

    1927 · Natural History Museum Rotterdam opens

    Age 5

    Opened in 1927, the first site of the museum was in the attic above an all-girls school. It quickly outgrew the space and was moved to a site across the street from another museum in Mathenesserlaan. The museum was forced to move again in 1959, and 1987. In 1993, the museum was given a new pavilion. It finally finds its permanent home in the early 2000s, where it is today.

    1945

    Age 23

    The Netherlands becomes a charter member of the United Nations.

    Name Meaning

    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.

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

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