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How Indonesian am I?
A question I have asked myself is, how Indonesian are we actually? Both in terms of appearance and genes as well as culturally. At first I thought that we had…
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The murder of of captain Johan Charles de Quant
In 1929 our relative Johan (Joop) Charles de Quant was murdered in Borneo. Combining several sources we can get an Idea of the circumstances surrounding his death. In march 1929…
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Connection to the Van Motman and Reijgers families in the Dutch East Indies.
During genealogical research, you sometimes come across interesting ancestors. One such family is, for example, the Van Motman family, who were influential in the Dutch East Indies and who’s family…
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Start of the Indonesian branch
Johannes de Quant was born 23 april 1841 in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, married to Christina Reijgers 21 april 1864. Died age 49 in Soekaboemi, Indonesia. He travelled to Java in…
