Pieter Hamstra

Birth Name Pieter Hamstra
Gender male
Age at Death 81 years, 9 months, 22 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1898-03-17 Veenwouden, Friesland  
1a
Death 1980-01-08 Hamilton, Ontario  
 
Occupation     Meester bakker (Master baker)
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Jakob Hamstra
Mother Jantje Bottinga
         Pieter Hamstra

Families

    Family of Pieter Hamstra and Zwaantje Boskma
Married Wife Zwaantje Boskma
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage 1922-05-21    
Event Note

"Ik wyt noch dat wy mei de hynstetram nei Moarmwâld ta gienen dart jimme heit en mem doe trouden op it gemeenthûs en dernei gienen wy mei koetsen mei hynders der foar nei Driesum ta want der waard de brulloft hâlden by Tsjomme-Tsjits (en wy mochten sa folle iten as wy mar wy mar woenen. In hiel grut feest wier dat!"
- Adzer Hamstra, letter to Tjitske Westera, p7, June 20, 1995 (Frisian language).

English translation:
"I still remember that we went with a horse-drawn tram to Murmerwoude when your father and mother married at the municipal hall. Afterward we went with horse-drawn carriages to Driesum, because that is where the wedding feast was held at Tsjomme and Tsjits. (We could eat as much as we wanted.) It was a really big party!"

Notes:
Adzer Hamstra was a half brother of Pieter Hamstra (1898-1980).
Tjitske Westera (1924-2016) was the oldest child of Pieter Hamstra and Zwaantje Boskma.
Tsjomme-Tsjits refers to Tjomme Boskma and Tjitske Dijkstra, parents of Zwaantje Boskma.

 
  Children
  1. Jacob Hamstra

Media

Narrative

As a boy, Pieter worked in the bakery of his father, Jakob. Soon after their wedding, Pieter and Zwaantje bought a bakery in Wouterswoude. When Jakob became ill they sold it to Zwaantje's brother Jacob Boskma and bought the bakery in Veenwouden from Peter's father Jakob.

In May or June of 1948, Pieter and Zwaantje emigrated to Canada.

Pedigree

  1. Jakob Hamstra
    1. Jantje Bottinga
      1. Pieter Hamstra
        1. Zwaantje Boskma
          1. Jacob Hamstra

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Dantumadeel Geboorteregister
      • Page: 1898: A85