This is the family of my grandfather as he was growing up. He is second from the left in the back row. Jacobus (Koos) Hooijmaaijers. I love the beautiful flowers everywhere in this photo and wonder if the building in the background was their home. Several photos of this family contain lots of flowers so I suspect my great grandmother Daatje had a great love of flowers.
Created with the My Heritage Digital Scrapbook Kit available in my Etsy store.
I love this early photo of my grandparents. They look so happy in this photo and I know they must have had a difficult life considering my Oma suffered a lot from mental illness.
Journalling: Catharina van Weert (1913-1989) and Cornelius Bartholomeus Adrianus van de Ven (1913-2001) were my maternal grandparents who had 7 children. My Oma suffered from chronic depression and mental illness throughout her life and at various times was hospitalised.
My mother was as the eldest girl at age 14 left to take care of the household because my Oma was unable to do it, until she married my father and they migrated to Australia. My Opa drove trucks and later operated a steam press to support the family.
Created with my Vintage Spring Digital Scrapbook Kit
I hosted the speed scrap yesterday and I thought I might do a humorous layout of this photo of my hubby and kids poking their tongues at me when I was trying to take a cute photo. Created with my Altered Not Aged Digital Scrapbook Kit available in my Etsy Store or Clikchic Designs Store.
I have scrapped a layout of my Mum’s family when she was young. She is the girl standing in between the two boys in the back row. This layout was created with my Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit.
I have scrapped a layout for an Inheritance Challenge featuring my Great Grandmother, Opa, Dad and Brother. I created this layout Created with my Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit and Stamp Cluster Frames.
I find it so interesting to see how the facial features of my Great Grandmother have been handed down from generation to generation and they are very prolific throughout my Dad’s family. It does look like they are softening somewhat down the generations perhaps by the influence of the mothers of each person. This is the earliest photo I have of someone with these family traits, there must surely be someone before my Great Grandmother, but as yet I do not have a photo. I hope to some day be able to take it back further.
I have scrapped a layout for the a Family History Telling The Story Challenge featuring my parents. I created this layout Created with my Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit.
Journalling: My parents married on the 31st of May 1968. They met at a dance and my Mum at first couldn’t believe the stories my father told her about his days as a marine. Nevertheless they fell in love and after getting married migrated to Australia. They left Holland on the 3rd of January 1969 and arrived in Australia via boat on the 4th of February 1969. They arrived in Australia with very little and went to classes to learn English and found jobs in factories so that they could make a life in their new country.
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