Antonie Boere
Vol.4a;Page.114
(1) Hij is getrouwd met Johanna Frederika Barbera van der Held.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 24 april 1844 te Rotterdam (zh) , hij was toen 23 jaar oud.Bron 3
(2) Hij is getrouwd met Mathilda van Straaten.
Zij zijn getrouwd.
He had arrived in Britain by 1860 with Matilda van Straaten — they were not married at this point. Their first child, another Anthony Boeree, was born in Bermondsey, South London in that year. I can’t find the family in the 1861 census, and records of the family have proved difficult to track, largely because the Boeree name is often written with different spellings by officials in Britain. They had at least 5 children, two of whom died young. In 1869 the four oldest children were all baptised at the same time at a church in Bermondsey. In that record, Antony Boeree senior was described as a Dyer, and that remains his occupation in subsequent censuses. The two children who died were buried in North London, in a cemetery that had a particular section for ‘Nonconformists’ — though the children were baptised in the Church of England. Eventually, the family moved to Essex, north of the Thames, where he remained a Dyer. A dyer of that name also appears in a Post Office Directory for Peckham in South London, and then for Ilford in Essex, almost certainly the same man. I wonder if it was the children’s graves that drew them to this different area.
When he and Matilda van Straaten eventually married many years later his father was named as Anthony George Boeree, the same name as Anna Maria’s brother. And he consistently gave details of his birth as Rotterdam in around 1820, while Matilda recorded her birthplace as Gouda. One online tree I have seen suggests that Anthony was previously married when younger and still living in Rotterdam. So they may have had to wait for his first wife to die before they married.
This Anthony Boeree definitely died in Essex, and there is a will listed in the probate records. This suggests that one of his surviving sons had become an inspector of schools by that time, and other records suggest that both sons had become teachers. Matilda died the year after Anthony, also in Essex.
To complicate matters further, Anthony and Matilda had a grandson also named Anthony Boeree, who died in 1935 in Hampshire, where he had been living, and again there is a probate record which shows that he was from this family, almost certainly the son of Anthony the teacher, whom predeceased — his father died in 1940. I will send some of the records I have found separately in case they are of interest.
bron/source: email van S. Holton
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