That “blessing” soon turned out to be a real curse. In Holland, lots of people thought this revolution to be a blessing and invited the French rabble to come to Holland the House of Orange, who had done so much for the people of the Netherlands, had to leave the country to save their lives. A few years before his birth, the French Revolution had started and plunderings and murders were still going on. Those were poor times-times of war and famine. For it was at the suggestion (or stimulation) of our dear Diane that I recorded this event in the first month of the Lord’s year 1989.Ĭornelis Proper was the oldest of three boys born to Hendrik Proper and Willemina Brummel, who were farmers in the neighbourhood of Oene in the township of Epe. Nov if nobody likes this year’s story, which I have had to unearth out of the depths of my dim recollection and have rescued from oblivion for our posterity, then don’t blame me. The following was written and published in the 1989 Proper clan reunion newsletter. As told by Opa Johannes Proper, 1911-2005
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