Oep Mangel was born in Velsen on 16 August 1912, the son of Arie Mangel and Antje Vliegop. His father worked as an engineer and stoker. Oep later chose a life at sea and worked as a crew member in Read more
Jan Volker was born on 2 August 1923 in Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, North Holland. He was the son of engineer and company director Johan Hendrik Volker and Marianne Euphemia Catharina Kruiver. His mother died in 1929, when Jan was only Read more
Information checked on 9 October 2026. For Dutch migrants in Australia, becoming an Australian citizen can raise a difficult question: will they retain their Dutch nationality? Australia permits dual citizenship, but Dutch law generally provides for automatic loss of Dutch Read more
Teunis Cornelis Paans, generally known as Toon, was born in Nijmegen on 20 January 1918 aboard his parents’ vessel. His father, Cornelis Adrianus Paans, was a skipper and engineer, and Toon grew up within the Dutch inland-shipping community. He later Read more
Did your family migrate to Australia from the Alblasserwaard region of South Holland? Alblasserwaard Genealogy can help you explore the family history they left behind in the Netherlands. Its database contains more than 652,000 people, 20,000 historical photographs and 134,000 Read more
Hermanus Wouter Paans, generally known as Manus, was born at Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe on 28 November 1908. He later lived in Werkendam and worked as a ship’s captain. On 30 October 1931, he married Margaretha Martina Ippel, who had Read more
Hendrik and Johannis Boele grew up in a Sliedrecht family whose life was closely connected with shipping and the river. Their father, Klaas Boele, was a skipper who operated his own vessel, the Cornelia, built at the Nederlof shipyard in Read more
The history of Korevaar Marine Group in Australia began with the organised migration of Dutch dredging workers and their families from Sliedrecht in 1950. Among those families were Teunis Korevaar, his wife Annigje Visser and three of their sons. Their Read more
Gerrit Goedknegt was born in Vlaardingen on 17 January 1907, the son of Teunis Goedknegt and Gerritje Bal. His childhood was marked by tragedy when his father drowned at sea in 1918, leaving Gerrit fatherless at the age of eleven. Read more
A pioneering Netherlands East Indies airline The Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij, commonly known as KNILM, was the principal civil airline of the Netherlands East Indies. It was established on 16 July 1928, initially as the Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij. The company Read more