Hij is getrouwd met Baukjen Rintjes Sietsma.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 mei 1785 te Tjerkgaast, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.
Formally assumed the family name HOLKEMA in 1811 in Tjerkgaast (Sloten fol. 27), Friesland.
At this time, thousands of people in the northern Netherlands who until then had not had surnames as such were forced to register formal family names as a result of new Napoleonic laws.
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