leferink family history photo gallery Photo Gallery by Bernard Bosmans at pbase.com

leferink family history photo gallery

My mother's ancestors came from the east of The Netherlands, an area called Twente, close to the German border. They were farmers, shopkeepers and tradesmen and came from the surroundings of Haaksbergen, a small village close to the city of Enschede. The Leferink's were 'honkvast' stayed at home, contrary to the wandering Bosmans clan.
I'm very grateful to my relatives and in particular the late Wim Wissink, for the enormous support and findings I was able to collect for my family tree.

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Tobacconist shop 'Cuba' in Enschede	The disastrous fire that destroyed Enschede on 7 May 1862	As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing	Blankenburg- Haaksbergen late 1800's
Gradus Leferink alias Poeten Graads	Bernard J Leferink and his wife Wilhelmina Reijerink	B.J.Leferink early portrait	Some hocus-pocus going on here, for sure there were no mirror quintuplets in the family
Grandparents and great grandparents signatures 1899	Railway station Enschede early 1900	A motherless trio, Marie 4 Truus 2 and Bernard 6	Bernard Leferink in white shirt at Primary School - second row second from left
Bernard Leferink in front at left	Bernard Leferink and Elisabeth Keuckenbrink	Birthday greetings from cousin Truus van de Pavert in Arnhem 1908	Marie, Bernard and Truus having a new brother Jan
Bernard Leferink bought and built his new shop and residence	Excitement in Enschede and our mum Marie remembers the day	Baby Antoon Leferink in the hands of his mother Elisabeth	The fire of Enschede commemorated with this book in 1912
Two more brothers for Marie(tje) Leferink and a story	Automobile on Gronause street near Kneed road in Enschede 1911	Johannes Roelof Leferink (left) in class	Johannes Roelof Leferink standing right side of picture
Antoon Leferink on the day of his 1st Communion	The end of a school year and everyone had a neat hair cut	LBJ at his tobacco shop 47a Lipperkerkstreet	Bernard J. Leferink wins third prize with his tobacconist shop window display in Enschede
A day in Volendam and being one of them	Bernard brother of Marie	Gertrude Veldkamp our Leferink branch in USA	Gertrude testing the water all
Veldkamp family (1905) somewhere in USA	Back of photo it says Johan Veldkamp, wife and children.	Marie Veldkamp enjoying the winter sun	On the steps of an unknown place
Step adornment	Gertrude kids Sere 5 and Harry 1	Marie Veldkamp and her dog in 1918	Mrs. Veldkamp and her daughter and sons
Marie in dark outfit and her friends in the forest around Ootmarsum	Who is writing shorthand these days, Mum did in 1920	Enschede Lange straat	Marie and Truus on their ladies bikes through the streets of Enschede
The ten(odd) commandments of the hospital	A monumental facade on Haaksbergerstraat in Enschede	Pastor Geertman celebrates his 40th year as a priest	Truus Leferink at boarding school
Marie is standing tall again after her bad fall	The hidden Baptist church in Enschede early 1900	Jan Leferink leaving some footsteps in the snow.	Celebration time for chaplain Th van Wee, with Jan Leferink front row second from left
Marie Leferink in the early twenties	Roadside chatter	Frans is sticking to his black long stockings	At the beach in Zandvoort and not a bikini in sight
Handsome Jan Leferink	Just irresistible ... on a hot summer's day	Truus Leferink and her friend Lida Temmink	Oh that Bozo he was a handful
Rowing on the 'Waarbeek'	On the balcony, above the quicklime of plasterer Bernard Leferink	Marie Leferink 's passport , now she's able to cross the border	Queen's birthday and the boys are celebrating in Enschede
Twenty-five guilders banknote in 1927, that was big money	Marie and friend picking a wet day for shopping	Antoon and Marie engaged and he made a promise	A tin of La Paz small cigars, that opened the door and a heart
Which way shall we go?	Jan Leferink	My friend has a car and the girls are not far away	High and dry on a roof job
Truus Leferink on a day out in Denekamp	Teacher frolics	Patmos Boys	Marie Leferink and Antoon Bosmans
Leferink brothers stepping out	Antoon Leferink's application for immigration to America	Antoon Leferink's application says he was not an idiot	Antoon Leferink receives the bad news
Frans Leferink exam result for drawing	Diningroom at St. Louis Teacher's College in Oudenbosch	A sword above the dining table, not for cutting the meat	Waiting for the train, on the way home after a year at college
Bernard Leferink with Ben his first son	Francisca Milani in her best dress around 1900	Francisca Milani at her 1st Communion	Francisca Milani at her 18th birthday
Memorabalia	In memoriam Bernard J. Leferink, portrait drawn by his son Frans	Our grandfather Bernard Leferink, rest in peace	Interior of the new St Jacobus de Meerdere church in 1931
Grave of Bernard Leferink in Enschede	Bernard Leferink and Francisca Milani and their children	Catholic Women Association	Antoon Leferink crossing the border into nazi Germany
Munster--Principalmarkt	A visit to Enschede	Truus Leferink and Stef Willard alight from their carriage	Wedding bells for the happy couple
Stef Willard called up for militairy service	After their vows, the official photograph	On the day that our mother said yes to our new dad	Stef Willard and his daughter Willemien
Mum's identity card during the war	Fingerprinted and compelled to carry the card at all times	Wedding Jan Leferink and Froukje Weijer	Wedding announcement of Antoon Leferink and Margaretha Andringa
The bride leaving her place in Amsterdam	A solemn nuptial Mass for Antoon and Gre	The bride's parents are on the outer	Our parents at the wedding of Antoon Leferink and Gre Andringa
The Willard's at the wedding of Antoon Leferink and Gre Andringa	Bernard Leferink was a engine driver for many years	Seven cousins from The Hague	At the bottom of a slippery "Lange Jan" in Arnhem 1940
Jan Leferink and wife Jetty on the pier in Arnhem	The swollen Rhine and the destroyed pier near 'Rijnpaviljoen' Arnhem	Picturesque Onderlangs along the banks of the swollen river Rhine	Sint Jansstraat in Laren NH
Stef Willard in memoriam	The young Willard's, Willemien, Elly and Jan	Elisabeth Leferink- Keuckenbrink and her son Jan Leferink on her son Frans wedding day	Wedding of Frans Leferink and Riet van Driel
Air letter from Jan Leferink to his wife Jetty from Australia to Holland	..."I've got a feeling that Hansje will learn English very quickly"...	Jan, Leo, Elisabeth, Anneke Jetty and Hans Leferink before departure to Australia	Liesbeth, Leo, Hans in school uniform, while Anneke goes down in her billycart
Jan Leferink in raincoat on his last sightseeing tour in Holland before leaving for Australia	Bernard Bosmans arrival in Oz in 1954 under the Hills clothes line with the Leferink family	Birthday party where Antoon Leferink is the joker of the pack	Riet with the latest addition in the pram
Home of the Leferink family in Dorp street Gendt	The young Leferink boys absorbed in reading	Baby Jacqueline adored by her sister and brothers	Wim Wissink near St Isodorushoeve the Leferink's ancestry
Leferink farm in Haaksbergen, they have been there for hundreds of years	On the estate of the Leferink's in Haaksbergen	Winter merriment on the dyke in Gendt	'Palmpasen' the Sunday before Easter celebrated in Gendt
Who 's the driver and which way are we going?	Can I hold him Daddy, but Dad says no, little Patrick is not well	A family takes their little son and brother Patrick to the funeral Mass	They are the friends you're born with, I heard someone saying
Elaborate birth notice created by Frans Leferink for his son Jan	40th Wedding anniversary of Frans Leferink and Riet van Driel with their offspring	Frodo: 'I'm a decent dog", but still that biscuit of Marck is very tempting.	Little visitors from Tiel and Zelhem in Frans Leferink and Riet van Driel's place in Gendt
Marieke Leferink and Ton van Zutphen on their wedding day	Outside the St Jacobus de Meerdere church in Enschede	Jacqueline Leferink with her smile and plaits (1973)	Frans the "sprauwejager" waving his rattle
Antoon Leferink enjoying his offspring	Richard Trebilcock and Mary Leferink congratulated by Bernard Bosmans on their wedding day	The last night watchman in Haaksbergen	Gradus Leferink on a pedestal
The night is upon the watchman	Poeten Graads as a bell tower ringer	Den fleurigen en eerlijken mensch	Poeten Graads
Cousin Willy with Aurora	Willy Tengnagel and portrait of our grandmother Wilhelmina	Streng of hair from Wilhelmina Leferink-Reyerink

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Lieve Snellings		27-Jan-2011 04:36
very interesting Bernard to loose yourself for a while in a nostalgic mood and compose this wonderful photo document of your family... V

Guest		15-Dec-2010 14:39
ik kan me voorstellen dat je trots bent op je roots. Het is leuk om al die oude foto's te zien. Mijn grootouders waren al gestorven toen ik geboren werd (1939). Vorig jaar zag ik voor het eerst een foto van de vader en moeder van mijn vader. Wat een belevenis!

RLeferink		30-Jul-2010 20:59
My Leferink relatives came to the US and started a small airline that either was or became Wyoming Air... and that's about the extent of my knowledge. Since I don't know much about my own history I enjoyed looking through your collection and wondering if there's a connection there. Thanks.

Hettie van de Pavert		06-Dec-2009 21:48
I am so surprised to see so many of my grandmother's family in this series. She was Catharina Francisca Leferink and married Johannes Hendricus van de Pavert. Any one else related? H van de Pavert

Gervan		16-Oct-2009 20:19
Wat een mooie collectie oude foto's. Ook al ken je er niemand van is het een interessant familie album. Mooi gepresenteerd.

Astrid Leferink		02-Jan-2009 18:04
Thank you very much for doing all this work and making such a nice website of the family Leferink. I'm directly related to them and I never new about this website, before. My father doesn't have a computer but I will invite him to have a look at your site and to tell me all the stories he know about your stories and photo's.

Yvonne Belshof		24-Feb-2008 14:46
Nice site, I found it doing some research. My husbands mother is related to your mother, her great-grandfather is also Berend Jan Leferink, who is also the father of Bernard Leferink Sr. as told in your first picture.

olivier bruning		19-Nov-2007 09:13
love these precious documents!! ~V~

kristin bosmsns		01-May-2007 23:22
my last name is bosmans too that is so ward because i never seen history about my last name i also never people with my last name will my name is kristin bosmans.

Focus		19-Apr-2007 03:42
Beautiful and well preserved.............I love history, and families are forever history. Well done.

Guest		21-Mar-2007 04:38
I'm a stranger to the family, but just love history. very nice and outstanding "archives" of a family.

Guest		17-Jan-2007 12:06
Een pracht gallery, met veel genoegen bekeken en genoten, toch veel bekende namen , zowel in H'bergen als Enschede en de Hoeve.Denk dat je heel veel mensen hier blij meemaakt.Groetjes Enny.

marwil ter Horst		06-Jan-2007 12:24
Bernard, Wat goed dat je dit zo hebt bijghouden. Ik heb het met belangstelling gelezen en bekeken. Kwamen wel 'n paar bekende plekjes voorbij. succes.

Mary Bowles		19-Oct-2006 21:05
Well, Bernard, yo have achieved what we all think we shall do, one day. This is a wonderful record of your family through the years. I think you yearn for those days, as do we all.

wayne_n		13-Oct-2006 05:26
Wow Bernard - this is an incredible gallery! It is absolutely amazing what you have put together here!

1moremile		05-Oct-2006 23:16
Very nice gallery and history. Once again very interesting reading also.Voted.

Marisa Livet		23-Sep-2006 07:41
What a moving and interesting series, Bernard! I'll come back to see in detail every picture, some of them are so fascinating and intriguing already from the thumbnail. Thank you Marisa

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