Jan Hendrik Nijman

Jan Hendrik Nijman was born on Tuesday 28 August 1821 at ’t Oude Loo farm in IJzerlo, the son of Evert Nijman and Berendine Bulsink. Like his father, he became a tailor. On 4 July 1844 he married Arnolda Antonetta Vaags. The young couple went to live with her parents at Oosterbosch farm in De Heurne, Aalten.

Their happiness was short-lived: Arnolda died in 1852 at only 29 years of age. Eleven months later, on 5 February 1853, Jan Hendrik remarried, to Antonetta Margaretha Rensink. They shared 36 years together until Antonetta died in 1889.

Almost a year later, on Saturday 25 January 1890, Jan Hendrik also died. He was 68 years old.