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Son of Olga Emily Boissevain and Bram van Stockum. Younger brother of Hilda van Stockum Marlin. Trinity College, Dublin. Ph.D., University of Edinburgh. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, spring 1939. Taught at Univ of Maryland until WWII. Time Travel Pioneer. Pilot of RAF Halifax bomber, shot down over Laval, France, on his sixth mission, D-Day fortnight, June 10, 1944.
Writer and artist, grand-daughter of Charles Boissevain, daughter of Olga Boissevain and Bram van Stockum, wife of E. R. Marlin. Author of The Winged Watchman, The Borrowd House, and twenty other stories for children. Mother of six, including Olga Emily Marlin, Brigid Marlin, Randal Marlin, John Tepper Marlin.
American suffragist, wife of Eugen Boissevain (son of Charles Handelsblad Boissevain). Her painting at the Belmont-Paul House in Washington, DC was restored by the Boissevain and Milholland families in 2011. Blog—inezmb.blogpost.com
Father of Inez Milholland Boissevain. Father-in-law of Eugen Boissevain. Took on Platt Machine, won in 1894-95. Editor, Labor Manager, NY Tribune. CEO of Batchellor Pneumatic Tube Company. First Treasurer of the NAACP. Last of the Lincoln Republicans.
Editor, Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam). He was a major force for the creation of the Concertgebouw. His descendants are known as the Charlesjes. We assembled at the Boissevain Family Reunion, Amsterdam, 2011
Dutch Resistance leader. Son of Petronella Boissevain, who was a Jantje, i.e., a daughter of Jan Boissevain the banker. Walraven van Hall and his brother Gijs robbed the Nazi-controlled Nederlandsche Bankof $600 million in today's U.S. dollars, the biggest fully documented heist ever
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This is the ship, the SS Ophir, that took Olga, Bram and Baby Hilda (2 months old) to what was then Dutch "India", now Indonesia. Bram was a sea captain and his job was to transport soldiers and practice artillery.
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Eugen Boissevain
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Willem van Stockum
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