When Marinus Engelbertus Jonker was born on 15 August 1904, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Zeger Jan Hendrik Jonker, was 33 and his mother, Carolina Claudine van Essen, was 25. He married Anna Margaretha Lepoutre on 30 January 1930, in Bussum, North Holland, Netherlands. He registered for military service in 1924. He died on 8 March 1945, in Indersdorf Kloster, Markt Indersdorf, Dachau, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 40, and was buried in Loenen, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina provoking World War I.
During WWI, the Netherlands declared that they were neutral and stayed so during the war.
Armistice ending World War I.
Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Bartel, Berend, Henk, Martien, Nelvie, Willem.
Dutch and North German: from Middle Dutch jonghheer ‘young nobleman’ (a compound of jong(h) ‘young’ + herr ‘master, lord’). The term was used in the Middle Ages to denote a member of the nobility who had not yet assumed knighthood. This surname is also established in South Africa.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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