The Beijen/Beyen Family Site
by Laurens Beijen

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The Johan Franco branch of the IJsselstein family Piet Beijen from the Dutch East Indies

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As far as we know, Piet Beijen (12.3) was the first child of Hendrik Rudolph. He was the son of the above mentioned Anna Stops and was born in 1870 on the island of Ceram.
Piet Beijen was the administrator of a coffee and quinine company near Sumedang on Western Java. In 1898 he married Jacoba Helena van Wijhe, who was a school teacher. They had no children together. Piet died in 1930 in Sukabumi.

Before he was married Piet acknowledged two children of a native woman: Hendrik and Paulina. They lived with Piet and his wife.

Hendrik Beijen (13.1), the son of Piet, was born in 1895 in Krawang on Western Java. At first he worked as a ship's engineer at the Navy and later he was a sergeant of the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL). In 1920 he married Gertrude Hendrika Sophia Paulus. They had three children and lived in Cirebon (formerly called Cheribon) on Western Java. For some years he was there a member of the municipal council as a representative of an association of people of Indo-Dutch descent.
Hendrik died in 1945 in Pakanbaru on the island of Sumatra due to hardships in the war. More information about his imprisonment in the war is given on the page Victims of the Japanese occupation. After 1945 some of his descendants settled in the Netherlands.

Paulina Beijen (13.2) married Andries Sissingh in 1916. They had three children as well. Paulina died in 1946 in Batavia.


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