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They had issue : a. Alan, Born Batavia, Java, 29 December 1911, died Pakanbaru Railroad, . Sumatra, D.E.I. (P.O.W. camp) 14 September 1944. Unmarried. Employed by the Kina and Tea plantation "Pasir Malang" near Penggalenggan, West-Java. b. Emile, who follows 7 c. Marie Caroline, Born Batavia, Java, 29 July 1920, Married Deventer, (Overijssel) 15 April 1950, Reurt, son of Reurt Cornelis Venema and Elizabeth Wilhelmina van Doorn, born Haarlem ,. (North-Holland) 9 September 1907, died , (South-Holland) 22 February 1966. Practical engineer of composition of apparatus. Proxy of Stokvis.

7. Emile Douglas. Born Paramaribo, Dutch Guyana 14 August 1918,

Education : 1925-1932 Primary school at Heemstede, Amsterdam and Deventer (Overijssel) . 1932-1938 HBS-B at Deventer. 1938-1940 Middelbare Koloniale Landbouwschool (Secondary Colonial school for Agriculture) and Tropical Cultures at Deventer. Member of the Agricultural Corps Nji Sri. Lived : 1927-1928 Heemstede, Spaarnzic~tlaan 4. 1928-1931 with his uncle Donald MacGillavry, surgeon. at J.W. Brouwersplein 9, Amsterdam. 1931-1938 Borgelo 149, and Boxbergerweg 26b Diepenveen. 1942-1943 with his aunt and uncle Rev. Johan Visser and Marie Jeane Caroline Douglas (see 5c) at Geertruidenberg, 1943-May-1944 Brandestraat, Geertruidenberg. (North-Brabant). 1944-1946 Diepenveen. 1946-1950 in the D.E.I. and Indonesia: Batavia, Buitenzorg and Penggalengan, all on the island of Java. 1951-1981 Thorbeckestraat 20, . 1981, 7/15 August, Beuginkstraat 12, Bathmen (Overijssel). Career: (6) 1939, September, mobilized and exempted after 1 month. 1940, May, serving at . demobilized at Engineers Depot at Schoonhoven, (South-Holland). 1941 Employed at Commercial-nursery Quatre Bras at Eefde (Overijssel). 1942, January- 1944, May, employed at Schade- en Enquete-Commissie (Commision on investigation of damage) in West-North Brabant, of the Ministry of War. 1944, May- 1946, February, employed as forester. for Deventer-Diepenveen 1946, February, non commissioned Sergeant for the D.E.I. Rubber Institute employed at Batavia. The voyage was made per "Sumatra" of the Stoomvaart Mij. "Nederland". from Amsterdam via Southampton, Bizerta (Tunisia), Port Said-Suez, Singapore and Saigon (Indo-China) to Tandjung Priok, Batavia. 1946, April, employed by the Register of Population at Buitenzorg (now Bogor) at Java, D.E.I. 1946, September-1947, October employed as Hortulanus at's Lands Plantentuin (Kebun Raya, see 13). Made an inventory on the existing plants and trees. 1947, October, employed by the Tea and Kina plantation "Pasir Malang" at Penggalengang at Java, D.E.I. repairing the war damage on factory and plantation. 1950, July, Repatriation to the on a 6 months leave from which he did not return while he was from 1951, January-October, employed as botanical-analist and record-officer by TNO, Wood department, Lange Kleiweg at Rijswijk (South-Holland). 1951, November-August 1981 employed as Meester-Brander (Master Brander) by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Gist en Spiritus fabriek now Gist Brocades at Delft. (Royal Dutch Yeast and Spirits Factory). "Old trees in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens" a Publication of Dec. 1947 in the Contributiones Historica Horti Bogoriensis, Series III, Vol. XVII,

Married Geertruidenberg, (North-Brabant), °12 April 1943, Hubertine, daughter of Huibert Cornelis Nederlof and Jenneke Meesje Smits, born (South-Holland) 5 January 1915. They have issue : a. Ellen Charlotte Marlien, Born Geertruidenberg (Nort h-Br abarrt ) 23 February 1944. Leading-teacher for small chidren. Married Delft, (South-Holland) 14 May 1971, Dr.lr.Alexander John, son of Mr. John Nicolaas Dirk Udink ten Cate and Martina Susanna Houtman, born Enschede, (Overijssel), 25 November 1947. Educated Technical High School later University of Delft (). Engineer 1972. 1983, 7 January, promoted Wageningen on the thesis "Modelling and (adoptive) control of greenhouse climates". Extraordinary Professor of Systemathology at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, (Guelders). 1987, 11 July Manager of the Nederlandse Middenstandsbank, Facilitar business division for Informatica. b. Geertruida Jenneke Meesje, Born Buitenzorg, West Java, 14 October 1946, Creative artist. Has a shop called "the Aquadraat". Married Amersfoort, (Guelders), 2 May 1975, Johannes Antonius Jozeph, son of Cornelis van den Eeden and Johanna Adriana van der Weyden, born Breda, (North-Brabant), 7 March 1947. Social paedagogue of the lay University of West-Brabant at Breda. c. Emile Alan Wiert, who follows 8

8. Emile Alan Wiert Douglas. Born Pengalengan, West-Java, D.E.I. 10 July 1948, Graphic designer. 1979 employed by Timotheus, Publishing House at Eindhoven. Lived : 1980 Oisterwijck, 1981 Balkbrug, 1982 Dedemsvaart, 1986 Balkbrug.

Married Eenrum, (Groningen), 10 September 1976, Heather Aldora, daughter of Clement Arthur CaddIe and Johanna Arendina Rot, born Capetown, 16 April 1949. Obtained a certificate of the Academy of Designing Arts at Amersfoort, (Utrecht) . They have issue : a. Jozua, born Eenrum, (Groningen), 8 June 1977, b. Suzanne Eliza, born Eenrum, 8 October 1979, c. David, born Dedemsvaart (Overijssel), 17 April 1983, d. Daniel, born Dedemsvaart, (idem) 5 September 1984, 9. Cornelius Marinus Agnietus Douglas. Born Assen, (Drenthe), 17 January 1854, died Bloemendaal, (North-Holland), 13 December 1941.

Career: (7) 1870, 19 October, engaged as soldier for 10 years by the Instruction Batallion of the Infantry. 1871, 1 March, Corporal titular. 1871 + 1873 certificates as "Master· on the sword", 2 types 1871, 4 July, transferred to 8th Regiment Infantry. 1871, 5 July Corporal. 1872, 16 April, Sergeant titular. 1873, 18 May ,Sergeant. 1876, 10 July 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Regiment Infantry by Royal Degree nr. 24. 1878, 19 July. transferred to 5th Regiment Infantry by disposition of the Ministry of War, 3rd Department, no; 66. 1881, 31 March, 1st Lieutenant Infantry at Arnhem. engaged with the supplies of the 3rd Military department. 1884 with the 1st Division, 1885 with the department of Supplies. 1887, 14 June, Captain of Supplies of 2nd Division Infantry. 1890 with the 3rd Military department. 1897, 27 April, Major of Supplies, Mi~itary Administration. 1901, 21 February, Lieutenant-colonel Military Administration 2nd Division Infantry. 1905 in the bastion of Amsterdam. 1907 with the 4th Division Infantry. 1909 on non active basis. 1909 Lieutenant-Colonel, Provincial Adjudant of Friesland. 1910 Lieutenant-Colonel, Provincial Adjudant of Limburg. 1911, 1 J41y, retired.

Published : 1. "Tactische BESCHOUWINGEN omtrent den Turksch-Russischen oorlog in 1877 uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald en bewerkt, wed. J. Loretz, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1878. 2. "Handleiding voor COMMANDANTEN VAN DETACHEMENTEN in het bizonder voor die der Detachementen HULP-MARECHAUSSEE", C.M.Teulings, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1878. 3. "Handleiding tot den PIONIER ARBEID voor de leerlingen der Militaire Scholen en de onderofficieren en korporaals der infanterie", wed. J. Loretz, 's-Hertgenbosch, 1879. 4. "Palestina, oudheid-, land- en volkenkundige beschrijving van het Heilige Land", translated, Assen, Gebrs. Born, 1881. 5. "Rapporten nopens eene studie van den verplegingsdienst bij manoevres in het buitenland", Breda, January and March 1896. 6. "Beknopt verslag aan Zijne Excellentie den Minister van Oorlog nopens den verplegingsdienst bij de grote manoevres van het Belgische Leger in 1896".Breda, 17 November 1896. 7. "Eenige hoofdpunten met toelichtingen voor een PROGRAMMA VAN LEGERVORMING en BEZUINIGING", Stoom-Snelpersdrukkerij C.N. Teulings, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1908.

Married firstly, Assen (Drenthe) 19 September 1878, divorced Amersfoort, (Utrecht), 31 January, registered 19 March 1908, wilhelmina Catharina Johanna, daughter of Hilarius Augustus Mijnhardus Brumsteede and Marti ~ Everhardina Servatius, born Tjoemboeloeit near Bandoeng, West Java, D.E.:. 25 October 1854, died 's-Gravenhage. (South-Holland) 27 January 1942.

They had issue : a. Anton Karel Frederik Hendrik Everhardinus, follows 10 b. Henri Frederik Karel, who follows 12 c. Dorothea Magdalena, who follows 19

Married secondly, Bloemendaal, (North-Holland), 1 May 1908, Elisabeth, daughter of Jan Wafelbakker and Alida Margaretha van Schagen, born Utrecht, 30 April 1880, died Voorburg, (South-Holland), 6 November 197 . Divorced. 10. Anton Karel Frederik Hendrik Everhardinus Douglas. Born 's-Hertogenbosch, 9 December 1879, died Padang Sidempoean, West-Sumatra, D.E.I. 25 April 1910 of typhoid after drinking river water. * He got lost when he tried to mark the boundaries of his plantation.

1897-1899 Educated School for Agriculture at Wageningen (Guelders). 1899 Employed by the plantation "Tjileboet" at Buitenzorg (Bogor) on Java. (8) 1904-1910 Owner and manager of the plantation "Loeboe Raya" at Padang Sidempoean, Sumatra.

Married Madjalengka, Cheribon, West-Java, 25 November 1903, Leonore, daughter of Matthias de Clercq and Henrietta Maria Klerk de Reus, born 's- Gravenhage, 4 June 1880, died Dieren, (Guelders), 10 July 1952. 1910-12 teacher at Fort de Coci, Sumatra and 1912-17 at Meester Cornelis. (Batavia now Djatinegara, Djakarta), Java, D.E.I. They had issue : a. Wilhelmina, Born Padang Pandjang, West-Sumatra, D.E.I. 6 December 1904, died Soest, (Utrecht), 5 December 1988. vocational school for Fashion. Teacher's certificate for needlework. Had a nursery of orchids. Married Banjoewangi, East-Java, 8 December 1938, Dirk Johannes, son of Dirk Johannes van der Linden and Johanna Petronella van Gorcum, born Buitenzorg, now Bogor, West-Java 10 April 1875, died concentrationcamp "Bangkok", Semarang, Java, D.E.I. 2 December 1944. Manager Plantation "Karang Tambah". Widower of Pieternella Johanna Dirkje Hage. . Lived Duinweg 7 and Acacialaan 17 at Soest-Zuid (Utrechi)~ b. Leonora, Born Padang Sidempoean. West-Sumatra, D.E.I. 16 October 1906, died Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 10 July 1974. Weaver, Lived Stationsweg, Ede (Guelders), 1953 active in the National Institute for the Blind and in hospitals at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Married Modjokerto, East-Java, D.E.I. 19 May 1923, divorced 's-Gravenhage, 16 September 1936, Bernard Antonie, son of Jan Hendrik Mather and Gezina Tukkers, born Oldenzaal, (Overijssel), 5 January 1892, died Deventer 10 February 1985. Teacher at Modjokerto. Java and Voorst, (Guelders). He married secondly Apeldoorn, (Guelders), 18 January 1940, Jacqueline Antoinetta Martha Kooi. c. Anton, who follows 11

11. Anton Douglas. Born Padang, West-Sumatra, D.E.I., 21 June 1910, died Richmond, B.C., Canada, 27 August 1996. Buried Richmond in the chapel where he had married Miss Earl.

Assumed the name Anthony Friarshaw Douglas.

1910- educated by family of his mother in Baarn and Castricum (North-Holland) . 1937 returned from Japan. 1937 employed by Trade Corporation Guntzel & Schumacher at Soerabaja, on the Island of Java, D.E.I. 1938 at Batavia, Java, D.E.I. chief of import department 1939 appointed as proxy at Padang, Sumatra, but agent at Semarang, Mid-Java. D.E.I. 1940 employed by Oei Tiong Ham Concern at Semarang as agent for D.E.I. and management advisor for import matters. 1941-43 serving as sergeant, company 270, prisoner of War at Bandoeng, West Java, as interpreter for English and assistant of the Military Medical Service. 1943-45 Prisoner of War at Nagasaki, Japan, working in the coalmines. 1945, 25 November at Manila, Philipines.

Emigrated in 1946 to Australia. Active in the sheeptrade. Emigrated in· .... to Vancouver, B.C., Canada. .... -1975, Lumber Company of B.C. Freemason.

Married firstly, Medan, East-Sumatra, 21 January 1933, Geertrui H. Roffel. Divorced They lived in Vancouver B.C., Canada. Moved about 1976 to Richmond, B.C. They had issue : a. a child, stillborn, 1937. b. a child, Born and died on the same day in 1939. c. Archibald. Born Batavia D.E.I ... September 1940, Disappeared by taking another name, lives in the USA.

Married secondly, .... , Miss West. Divorced. Married thirdly, Richmond, Miss Earl.

12. Henri Frederik Karel Douglas. Born 's-Hertogenbosch, (North-Brabant), 12 December 1880, died Rijswijk (South-Holland), 23 December 1968. Buried Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery, 's-Gravenhage (South-Holland).

1897-1899 School for Agriculture at Wageningen (Guelders). 1899 employed by the Coffee plantation "Bodjong Gedeh" at Buitenzorg. Involved in building a bridge there over the river Tjiliwung. (8) 1900 Important social contact with Sir Henri W. A. Deterding, Agent of the Nederlandse Handelsmy. in the D.E.I. and in 1906 Managing Director of the Koninklijke Shell. (Royal Dutch Shell) 1903-1905 employed by Sugar plantation "Pagottan", Madioen. Mid Java. 1905-1909 employed as chemist by Managing Director L.C. Dinger (father of his friend Jan) of the Sugar plantation "Modjo Panggoeng" , Residence Kediri, department Toeloengagoeng, district Kalangbret, owned by Culture Mij. Modjo Panggoeng at Wijnhaven 69, Rotterdam.

Career with the "Gending plantation" (9) 1909, 1 September, employed by the Cultuur Maatschappij "Gending" at Amsterdam for the Sugar plantation in the Residence Pasoeroean near Probolinggo, East Java for whom the Koloniale Bank at Soerabaja later Escompto Bank and Cultuur Bank acted as Principal Agent. NB. In 1938, "Gending" existing 50 years, published a Jubileum book. 1911-1912, proxy managing director of "Gending" for the periods of 1 March-1 June and 15 November 1911 until 1 September 1912. 1912, 5 September, succeeding Mr. L. Nieuwdorp as managing director of the Sugar plantation "Gending", (bundle 1228) . 1913, 22 July, Letter at Soerabaja to "Gending" at Amsterdam concerning his European leave from September 1914 until April 1915. (B. 1225) 1914, 1 September, Left per ss "Insulinde" for Europe.

My grandfather told me the following anecdote : During this leave he travelled with his family to Switserland in a sealed train where he was confronted with the German Military Officials who thought that he was a British spy. He reminded them that there was at that time a General Douglas in their own army ! 1917 Retiring as Managing Director. Founder of the Sugarschool on Java. 1918 Retiring, he made a world journey via Japan, Hawai and the U.S.A. (San Francisco and New York) while keeping lectures on Java Sugar. 1919-1949 Adviser to Dutch East-Indies agricultural institutions at 's-Gravenhage like Soemobito. Co-operating with Het Algemeen Financieel Dagblad. (a paper) . 1945-1968 Advisor on taxes. 1950-1960 Teacher of the Spanish language. Supporter of the first movement and the ideas of Robert Schumann for a United Europe. Studied Portuguese and Esperanto. 1955 In contact with Prime Minister David Ben Goerion of Israel about the lifting of the ex-communication of Baruch d'Espinoza, (Spinoza) , (1632-1677), whose works he had studied. As a result a black stone was placed by the Ambassador of the State of Israel behind the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in with the inscription, in Hebrew "your people".

Published : 1. Call to International Jewry to ask itself: "Was the sentence over on the 27th of July 1656, based on good arguments, and righteous?" 27 July 1958. 2. "Vanity Fair" over het onbevoegd dragen van hoge ordetekenen, b.v. van de versierselen van de hoge Orde van het Gulden Vlies, Rijswijk, Z.H. July 1964. 3. "Ik (Soekarno) ben de grote leider van de revolutie. Resultaat Hongersnood en Wanbeheer., Rijswijk, Z.H., 19 September 1966.

Married Madioen, Mid- Java, D.E.I. 15 November 1905, Henriette Ferdinande, daughter of Johannis van den Bos and Eleonora Henriette Charlotte van Ghert, born Ambarawa, Mid-Java 20 August 1884, died Voorburg, (South-Holland), 25 July 1944. Schoolteacher. They had issue : a. John, who follows 13 b. Ellen, Born Kediri, Mid-Java 29 May 1908, died 's-Gravenhage, 3 November 1953. Employed by British Petroleum My. at The Hague.

Married 's-Gravenhage, 23 December 1931, Jacobus Johannes, son of Johannes Jacobus de Lavieter and Elizabeth Johanna Hardenberg, born 's-Gravenhage, 11 September 1911, died 's-Gravenhage 3 August 1989. Principal-agent of Van Rijmenam association. He married secondly, The Hague, 24 August 1955, Gerrigj e, daughter of Evert Neervoort and Ada Elisabeth Hol, born Kampen (Overij ssel) 14 February 1918. c. Henry, who follows 16

13. John Douglas. Born Kediri, Middle-Java, Semampir Hospital, 1 September 1906,

died Bennekom/Ede 17 January 1986. v

1921-1926 Educated Secondary school, Stadhouderslaan at The Hague. Served during this period with the Kader Landstorm as Sergeant I of the regiment of Grenadiers and Jagers. 1926-1928 Educated Governmental Secondary school for Horticulture at Boskoop (South-Holland) of Ir. C.P.H. Moerlands while living Rozenlaan 23, Boskoop. 1928-1929 Employed by Bernard Joosse, Import and Export of flowers at Nice, France, learning how to cultivate roses. 1929, 23 September-November 1948 nursing roses and orchids at Aalsmeer, Oosteinderweg 230. (North-Holland). NB. until ca 1936 in cooperation with Herman Eickhoff Jr.

During this period he obtained the following Cerificates of Merit by the "Koninklijke Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde" in Amsterdam (Royal Dutch Society for Horticulture and Botany) 8 March 1938, for Orchid Odontoglossum Hybridum : "Mercutans" 12 May 1941, idem Odontoglossum "H.F.K. Douglas" 21 November 1946, idem Odontoglossum "Maud" 1st Class ,idem Dendrobium "Henriette" Gold Medal (small) for the group of Orchids.

1949, 21 January-1951 employed by the Governmental General Test Station for Agriculture at Bogar, Java, Indonesia, for the improvement of cocoa and the research of medicinal herbs. 1951, April-1956, 12 July, employed by the Royal Botanical Gardens at Bogar as Hortulanus and Superintendant. (see 7). 1953 delegate for the Republic of Indonesia to the 8th Pacific Science Congres at Manilla, Phillipines.