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Maria Adriana Geertruida Johanna Hurkens

P0184 1915–1960 45 yrs Known as: Miep

Life events

1915 Born 10 februari 1915 in Amsterdam

1935 Married with Peter Persoon

1937 Child born Heinrich Peerson

1960 Died 17 augustus 1960 in Sydney · aged 45

Generation: 10
Occupation: pianolerares en lampenkappennaaister
Name variants: Persoon-Hurkens

Notes

Nicknamed 'Miep'; Roman Catholic; by profession a piano teacher and lampshade seamstress. Daughter of Cornelis Hurkens (1873-1955) and Maria Francisca Antonia Wijsbek (1875-1943). On 7 August 1935 she married, in Amsterdam, Heinrich Peter ('Henk') Persoon (P0137) — one of the Persoon brothers who left for Australia — and emigrated with him to Australia, where she died in 1960.