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"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Friday 9 March 2012

More of Kuyper's children


 Jan Frederik Hendrik Kuyper 1866-1933
Fredrick moved to Michigan and attended Hope College. He became a dentist and practiced dentistry in the Badung and Padang in the East indies.






 
Abraham Kuyper Jr. b. 1872
Married Miss H. Van Oort in March 1899. He was a Reformed Church pastor in Makkum (1899-1906), Vlissingen (1906-1910) and Rotterdam (1910-1939).
He wrote a book on Johannes Maccovius (Leyden: D. Donner, 1899), a Polish reformed theologian.






 Hendrika Johanna Kuyper (1875-1948)
Became a nurse.


Catharina Maria Eunice Kuyper (1876-1955)
A nurse and became director of nursing at the Vrije Universiteit (1927-1932).
She wrote a short piece on her father Abraham Kuper’s  early years.









Guillaume Kuyper (1878 -1941)
Guillaume was named after Guillaume Groen Van Prinsterer. He married Henrietta van Leeuwen Storm. They had three daughters. The second daughter was named Johanna (b. 29 Dec 1909).
Guillaume became a major in the Dutch army (1902-1932) and then became mayor of Stedum (1932-1941).






Wilhelm (1883-1892)
Willy died aged 9. According to Praamsma he was named after Levinus Wilhelminus Keuchenius.


See also H. H. Kuyper
and  Henrietta Kuyper

For a diagram of the Kuyper family tree.

The three sisters:


Kuyper's family

Kuyper’s seventieth birthday photograph

Sitting from left to right: Henriëtte S. S. Kuyper, C. M. J. Kuyper-Heyblom (wife of H. H. Kuyper), C. M. E. (Cato) Kuyper. Standing from left to right: J. H. (Jo) Kuyper, Abraham Kuyper (son of H. H. Kuyper), Adriana Kuyper (daughter of A. Kuyper Jr.), Guillaume Kuyper, Abraham Kuyper, Willem Kuyper (son of H. H. Kuyper), H. H. Kuyper, Abraham Kuyper Jr., and his wife, the writer H. Kuyper-van Oordt.






1 comment:

INFILTRATED MESSENGER said...

What was the reason for Willy's death?