Elisabeth Johanna Maria van Raaphorst (1881-1981)
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Elisabeth van Raaphorst
Individual Facts
- Name: Elisabeth Johanna Maria van Raaphorst
- Sex: Female
- Also Known As: Bets
- Birth: 08 Jan 1881, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Migration (Foreign): Abt. 1914, Amsterdam, Netherlands to Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
- Death: 15 May 1981, Port Huron, St Clair, Michigan, USA
- Burial: Port Huron, Michigan, USA, Lakeside Cemetery
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bets's birthplace
Story: "Materfamilias of the van Raaphorst clan"
(By Bets's niece, Anna)
Tante Bets's three youngest brothers
If you were a 15-year-old girl who had already raised five younger brothers, and your mother told you that yet another baby boy had joined the family, and “why don’t you come and take a look?” — what would you say?
My tante Bets absolutely refused to look and gave (in Dutch) as her reason, “I don’t even want to see him; he’ll just grow up to be another struikrover [hooligan, mischief-maker, mugger, bush-robber] like all the others!”
There was certainly no shortage of struikrovers in the van Raaphorst family!
But in spite of her lack of enthusiasm as a teenager, Tante Bets continued to be devoted materfamilias to the whole gang, and was especially fond of her littlest broer, as you can see in the picture below, taken when she was almost 100. (It was the last time they saw each other.)
Tante Bets and her youngest brother, Johan
Relationships
- Father: Christiaan Frederik van Raaphorst (1852-1941)
- Mother: Elisabeth Johanna Maria Metsch (1854-1939)
- Spouse: Bernardus Johannes Immig (1876-1936)
- Child: Elisabeth Johanna Maria Immig (1903-1998)
- Child: Henderika Johanna Immig (1905-1938)
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