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The Graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi
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Cemeteries and burial customs in The Netherlands, in particular the Utrecht and Het Gooi regions.
- Added on: Oct 23rd, 2008
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Author: hbvk
- Listed in: History Genealogy
- Tags: genealogy family history cemeteries dutch roots burial customs graveyard rabbit
Recent Posts
Graves to be removed
In The Netherlands (and many other places in Europe) graves are leased, and old graves can be removed after the lease has expired to make room for new ones (you can read more about this practice in the latest edition of the Trace your Dutch roots new...
Tombstone Tuesday: People of the past
In The Netherlands (and many other places in Europe) old graves are removed to make room for new ones. Old headstones and other grave decorations are generally destroyed, but in the cemetery of Oud-Zuilen the best ones are kept: Along the edge o...
Tombstone Tuesday: Sleep softly, Little Eddy
Photos by the author, RC Onze Lieve Vrouwe cemetery, Amersfoort, August 2009.This post is brought to you by Trace your Dutch roots, your Dutch genealogy guide. ...
Tombstone Tuesday: Pieter van Kampen and Geertje Relleke
Grave of Pieter van Kampen (1912-1992) and Geertje Relleke (1915-2002). Both Pieter and Geertje are my (distant) relatives: Geertje's mother Jannetje Wiesenekker is a sister of my great-grandmother Geertje Wiesenekker, while Pieter's great-gra...
Who is Private Riley? - part two
This post is a follow-up to last week's post Who is Private Riley?. You may want to read last week's post first, if you have not done so yet. After my publication of Who is Private Riley?, Andrew Gill, author of Burnley in the Great War, kindly adde...
Who is Private Riley?
When I visited the Amersfoort catholic cemetery, this war grave from the first world war was an unexpected find. Private J. Riley, from the East Lancashire Regiment, died in 1919 - after the war - and was buried in Amersfoort. There are many war g...
