Family Keuris.

Generation I.

Arie Keuris. Born 20-11-1874 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Dies on 17-8-1952 in Amersfoort (Ut). Married: 

1. 26-7-1896 in Wieringerwaard (NH) with Guurtje Slikker. Born 19-10-1870 in Zijpe (NH). Died 3-1-1941 in Kolhorn (NH).
2. 194 3 in Kolhorn (NH) with Aaltje Kingma-Schaafsma.

Arie Keuris had several professions before during the early years of his marriage. He has been a farmerenslave among other things and he has also worked “freelance”. He was known for his outstanding quality of knitting fishnets and eelbownets. On later age he also repaired clocks, watches, barometers and such instruments. In a little shop in Kolhorn, bells, watches, alarmclocks and barometers were sold and repaired. The frontdoor was placed in the middle of the front, at the right of the door was the shop and at the right was the room where the grandsons looked speechlessly like little boys how grandfather knitted the nets. His hands moved so fast that they could hardly follow. Later he also was a postman in Kolhorn.

As so many Keuris-familymembers also Arie had a large love for water and everything concerning water. He had a small boat in the canal and regulary took his grandsons out fishing. Omly Arie could not stand the fact that sometimes his grandsons caught more fish than he did. He would be grumping all day. During SantaClaus holidaus, Maartje van Zonen had dressed a fish as a surprise for Arie. However, he could not appreciate it and he walked out angry. For him it was a type of sacrilege do this with a fish.

He spent his last years at his daughter Elisabeth in Amersfoort where he worked in the garden. He died in 1952, age 72 and has been buried on “Rusthof”in Amersfoort . Arie was the son of Gerrit Keuris and Elizabeth Boerman. He came from a family of 6 children ( 4 brothers and 1 sister).

 Children from the marriage with Guurtje Slikker:

i.                     Jannetje Keuris. Born 5-5-1894 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died 12-4-1964 in Alkmaar (NH). Married 1911 in Alkmaar (NH) with Cornelis Mazereeuw. Born 7-3-1892 in Schagen (NH) and died 12-8-1960 in Alkmaar (NH).

ii.                   Gerrit Keuris. Born 26-9-1896 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died in 1940 in Alkmaar (NH). Married 1921 in Den Helder (NH) with Gezina Hoogendoorn. Born 20-3-1898 and died oktober 1991 in Den Helder (NH). Gerrit found Zijpe just like his brothers and sisters too small and took service at the marinecorps where he was quartered in Indonesia for 6 years. After his marriage with Gesina he has lived in Kolhorn. His son Arie was born in “de Nieuwe Streek”in a house next to the shop where Klaas Keuris has lived.

iii.                  Jan Keuris. Born 19-10-1898 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died 23-2-1988 in Den Haag (ZH). Married 27-7-1923 in Den Haag (ZH) with Cornelia de Bloois. Born 13-4-1891 in Den Haag (ZH) and died 17-7-1864 in Den Haag (ZH). Jan was a painter / tradesman. As a single man Jan went to den Haag where he met his wife Cornelia. At first he has worked as a painter for his boss, but later Jan opened his own paintcompany. That worked out for years but eventually he went bankrupt. His brother Klaas has helpd him to open a paintingshop on the Kaapse Plein in Den Haag (ZH) after the war. This shop became a success.

iv.                 Dirk Keuris. Born 30-5-1900 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died 28-7-1967 in Den Haag (ZH). Married
1. 25-7-1923 in Den Haag (ZH) with Trientje Alkema.  Born 5-7-1894 in Dantumadeel (Fr). Died 18-9-1994 in Amersfoort (Ut).
2. 19-2-1936 in Den Haag (ZH) with Alida Lepelaar. Born 28-12-1901 in Leiden (NH). Died 2-2-1972 in Den Haag  (NH).

Dick, as Dirk was called, went like his predecessors to Den Haag. He worked in a groceryshop and later he opened his own shop in the Bullstraat corner Isingstraat. Dick rented a house at the Abeelstraat and had more then enough space. For this reason he invited his brother and sisters to come to den Haag. They gladly took his invitation. Dick’s sister Elizabeth was a housewife and the others workes in the city. Dick remained in the Bullstraat after the second worldwar. The he heard that his brother Klaas wanted to emigrate to Australia . What his younger brother could, Dick could do too. So he left Holland with his wife, daughter and a prefabricated house in 1952 on a steamship called SS Johan van Oldebarneveld  direction Australia .

There he wanted to become a carpenter but that turned out disappoining, he was 50 years old and the circumstances in Australia were very different than in the Netherlands . Evantually Dick returned in August 1953 to his old house, after he had firstly run down his house ( in Australia ). He opened a cigarshop “Zuid” in den Haag in the Driebergenstraat. Till his dead he has lived in den Haag.

v.                   Cornelia Keuris. Born 19-6-1902 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died 11-1-1987 in den Haag (ZH). Married 9-12-1931 in Den Haag with Arie Jan van de Zande. Born 7-7-1904 in den Haag (ZH). Died 24-12-1989 in den Haag (NH). Cornelia was a nanny.

vi.                 Elisabeth Keuris. Born 27-7-1903 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died 13-6-1990 in Amersfoort (Ut). Married
1. 27-7-1923 in Barsingerhorn (NH) with Dirk de Leeuw. Born 28-3-1900 in Gouda (ZH). Died 5-5-1950 in Brooklyn (New York- USA).
2. 1-11-1929 in Barsingerhorn (NH) with Evert van de Hoek. Born 29-3-1901 in Barneveld (Ut). Died 17-10-1956 in Amersfoort (Ut).

vii.                Arie Keuris. Born 6-3-1905 in Wieringerwaard (NH). Died 11-1-1981 In Utrecht (Ut). Married
1. 20-9-1932 in Den Haag (ZH) with Catharina Elizabeth Alida Hooning. Born 3-1-1911 in Den Helder (NH). Died 24-2-1994 in Nieuwegein (Ut).
2. Gerda van der Belt

Arie was a truckdriver and served the military. Arie has made his body available to science. Arie started his job as a truckdriver with his brothers and sisters in the Abeelstraat in Den Haag. After his marriagewith Catharina he lived in the Capadosestraat and moved afterwards to the Jan Wapstraat. As a hobby in his sparetime Arie Built and sold radios. Also during the war , it had been prohibited to have a radio, he occupied hisselve with his hobby. Because he was frightened by the Germans to be caught,during searchings, he already hid his radio components in a large travellingbox in the house of his brother Klaas in Kolhorn. He did not realise there were more Germans on the country than in the city. The house in Kolhorn was searched three times. Everytime the Germans came Dick sat on top of the travellingbox to prevent that the Germans would look in it. After the war Arie took service in the Army and left some years to India from where he returned sick. In the hospital he met his secound wife Gerda. She was a nurse.

viii.              Klaas Keuris. Born 21-4-1907 in Anna Paulowna (NH). Died 4-7-1971 in Pascoe Vaale Sth. Victoria ( Australia ). Married 26-10-1928 in Kolhorn (NH) with Maartje van Zoonen. Born 17-8-1908 in Bovenkarspel (NH). Died 7-9-2002 in Pascoe Vaale Sth. Victoria ( Australia ).

Klaas had althopugh he came from a large family, as well as his brothers and sisters ambition to make more of his life. As a schoolboy he worked already as a doctor-aid. He brought medecines. His big dream was to become a doctor. But in those days earning mony was more important. After studying a number of years he became a skipper ( sailers enslave) in Kolhorn. Afterwards he went to his sisters and brothers in Den Haag. There Klaas could follow training to become a driver, fitter and welder.

After gaining his diplomas Klaas was contracted at the firm Van der Bos en de Vries. A company which was busy with the draining of the Wieringermeer. Also after Klaas married  with Maartje he workes ath the firm for a long time.

He had got offers for work in Canada and Portugal when the grocery ( which belongs to the father of Maartje) had problems during the depression. When Klaas his son was about 5 years old Klaas took over the shop from his father and moved houses. Grandfather “van Zonen”moved to the Oude Streek and Klaas his family moved into the house in the Nieuwe Streek. The family lived there for 18 years. After Klaas had taken over the grocery he follwed an apothecary course and started to sell lots of medicines. He also followed training for photograpy and filmmaking. The middel-class movies of 1936 ,1937, 1938 and 1939 were of his hands. The shoe-chamber in the house in de Nieuwe Streek was converted to a studio and in the attic a dark chamber was arranged. In the studio family-photographs were made and during the war passportphotos for the passports.

During the war a Lancaster-bomber crashed down above Kolhorn and for the memory on the cemetery a monument was erected. Because of the photograph Klaas made of the monument and the 7 gravestones of the fallen crewmembers, which Klaas by means of resistance had sent tot the Red Cross in the United Kingdom , he came in contact with the parents of the crewmembers of the Lancaster . A visit tot the grave of their son resluted in that Klaas started corresponding with the Family Wishart in Australia . By sponsoring from this family Wishart Klaas obtained a license tot come to Australia . Klaas and Maartje did not go like an emigrant to Australia . On March 19^th 1951 the family went by train to Genua in Italy . From there they left with the italian steamer “Toscana” of Lloyd Triestino to Australia . On Mai 2 1951 they arrived in Melbourne . Because it wasn’t permitted to bring along the money from the sold business to Australia , he bought a pre-fabricated house which was permitted. Klaas took some time off leave and while son Dick was making the money for the family, they could build the house in the weekends and by the next Christmas it was done. Maartje still lived there. Although the house was not yet ready it was a busy time. Klaas his brother, Dick, came to Australia in January 1952 and also needed help. Son Dick had a broken wrist so he couldn’t work. He helped both his uncle Dick with the advancement of his house and in the weekends his father with depicting their own house. In 1952, Klaas started working as a welder with the intention of earning sufficient funds to get his own camera and to start a photograpy business. This succeeded after some years. In the next couple of years he opened three stores in Melbourne and became one of the biggest self-made business men in Australia . In 1968 he gett ill. He suffered from emphasemism.

After advice from his son Klaas en Maartje they went on a holiday in the Netherlands in 1969. Afterwards he still has had some good years with Maartje. On July 4 1971 Klaas died.

ix             Pietertje Keuris. Born 27-2-1913 in Winkel (NH). Married:
1. in Den Haag (ZH) with Sebastiaan Heilbron. Born 24-6-1906 in Den Haag (ZH). Died 17-5-1973 in Den Haag (ZH).
2. in Schagen (NH) with Sjerp Kingma. Born 10-5-1919 ( as a child of Aaltje Kingma-Schaafsma. Aaltje later became the second wife of Arie Keuris, father of Pietertje. Pietertje and Sjerp have emigrated to Australia . 
Pietertje died in Ipswich ( Queensland Australia ) on 8-9-2004 .