boat, and civil records say that Geert had the same job. In addition to captaining a boat, other sources say that he also served as a soldier in the Dutch-recruited 33ème Régiment d'Infanterie Légère (33rd Light Infantry Regiment) in Napoleon's Grande Armée.

Marriages

Aged 29, on 4 March 1818, Boomgaard married Stijntje Bus (baptized 19 February 1797 - died 24 March 1830). Stijntje died aged 33, a month after the birth of their eighth child. A year

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