The Beijen/Beyen Family Site
by Laurens Beijen



The Johan Franco branch of the IJsselstein family Hendrik Rudolph Beijen Junior

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Hendrik Rudolph Beijen Junior (12.5) was born in 1881 (according to other sources in 1880 or 1882) on the island of Ternate. In those years his father, Hendrik Rudolph Senior, was the military commander of the island. His mother was a native woman called Dinah. Below are three pictures from various stages of his life.


Hendrik Rudolph Junior lived and worked in Garut and other towns in Western Java. As far as we know he was unmarried, but he acknowledged three children of native women.
In 1952, in the turbulent period after the Indonesian independence, when Hendrik Rudolph was the administrator of a rubber company, he was raided and murdered by robbers when he was en route with money for the payment of the wages.

As far as we know, Hendrik Rudolph Junior had one son and two daughters. The son, Jan Fortuin Beijen (or Beyen) (13.3), was one of the victims of the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies who are discussed on the next page.