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Piet Lagarde |
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We start
this story with Piet Lagarde senior and his second wife Johanna (Hanneke)
van Lent. This family lived for a while at the Rooijsestraat,
Vluchtheuvelstraat and the Dorpstraat.
Piet and Hanneke became ten children. (He already had two children from his
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Piet Lagarde junior (óDreumel
14-11-22), the seventh child of this family.
October 12, 1949 he
married Margaretha Haver from Leeuwen(óWormerveer
30-06-1923).
They settled at the
Vluchtheuvelstraat and moved to Bato’s Erf number 2 in 1955, where Piet took over the farm of his parents.
In 1950 Peter is born, later on followed by Theo (1952) and Hubert
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L-R: Hubert and
Peter at Bato’s Erf |
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In 1960 Piet and his family decided to emigrate. |
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The family gave them a send off, when they embarked the ss ‘Willem Ruijs’ in
Rotterdam to leave for “down under”. |
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a photo of the family on the ss."Willem Ruijs" in Rotterdam |
A last good-bye to the family on the quay |
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After a long
voyage they arrived in the port of Sydney (Australia).
The document of
emigration mentions that Piet is a man-servant of a farm.
In 1962 their youngest daughter Margareth is born.
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ss. "Willem Ruijs" |
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In Australia he was milkman for many
years. Later on he had an own business in milk.
Piet died in 1990 at an age of 67 years in Sydney (31-03-1990). His
wife Gré is still living in Australia (Kiama) |
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L-R: Theo, Piet, Peter, Margareth, Gré and Hubert |
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Once, in
1976, Piet and his wife visited the Netherlands together. His wife Gré has
been here more frequently, last in 2002. Also the children Peter, Hubert
and Margareth visited Dreumel. In 2004 a grand-daughter of Piet paid a visit
to Dreumel. |
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L-R: Nathalie and Dean in front of the former house of Piet and Gré |
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