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Antonia Agatha Pistoor (usual name Tonny) born 10-09-1954 in Amsterdam, parents: Leendert Pistoor and Dirkje Sneijder, marriage 26 September 1977 with
Godefridus Aloysius Johannes Strik see family Strik
Children:
1. Nathan Godefridus Antonia born 09-08-1978 in Amsterdam
2. Mira Antonia Maria born 13-05-1980 in Amsterdam
She has been working in diverend occupations; saleswoman, freelance journalist and cleanroom mecanicien. A few of her hobby's are: familyresearch, handcrafts, reading, cooking, cactuses and dollhouses.

Tonny re-married 21-03-2002 with Sjaak Bouwman see family Bouwman.

Tonny has been working in diverend occupationsis:salesgirl, freelance reporter and cleanroom mechanic

Her hobby's are pedigree investigation, needlework, reading, cooking, cactuses and dollhouses

Generation 2

* Updated Leendert Pistoor (usual name Leen) born 17-01-1912 in Amsterdam,death 02-11-1981 in Kollummerzwaag, parents: Johannes Franciscus Pistoor and Antje Bredijk, marriage 28-06-1944 in Amsterdam with
Dirkje Sneijder (usual name Door) born 10-12-1921 in Amsterdam , death 11-06-1999 in Kollummerzwaag, parents: Cornelis Willibrordus Johannes Sneijder and Catharina Hendrika de Groot
Children:
1. Leonardus Johannes Maria born 11-01-1945 in Amsterdam
2. Cornelis Willibrordus Johannes born 19-05-1946 in Amsterdam, death 14-03-1947 in Amsterdam
3. Dirkje born 17-09-1947 in Amsterdam
4. Albert Johannes Franciscus born 28-12-1948 in Amsterdam * Updated
5. Hendrika Antonia born 31-03-1950 in Amsterdam
6. Franciscus Maria born 08-12-1951 in Amsterdam
7. Johannes Josef Maria born 09-05-1953 in Amsterdam * Updated
8. Antonia Agatha born 10-09-1954 in Amsterdam
9. Francisca Maria born 12-03-1956 in Amsterdam
10. Catharina Maria born 23-11-1959 in Amsterdam
11. Christina Maria born 21-06-1961 in Amsterdam
12. Ronald Joseph born 29-04-1964 in Amsterdam

On 23 februari 1932 Leendert joined the Navy, on the ship Willem Barend he sailed from Den Helder to Netherlands Indië. The first time he was away till 22 oktober 1932. After that he was on leave till 4 may 1936, in the mean time he was Decoratieschilder.

Leendert marriage 9 oktober 1935 with his first wife, on 4 may 1936 he went banck to his ship and stayed there untill 7 juni 1936. When he was back with his family there first child was born 28 augustus, in the time before Leendert was summoned for the Mobilisatie two more children were born.

On 29 augustus 1939 Leendert was called back to his ship in Den Helder dat in paraatheid gebracht during the Mobilisatie. after the capitulatie of the Netherlands Leendert went back to his family in Amsterdam on 16 juli 1940.

Leendert then start working as coachman for a brewer , in 1944 he became unemployed because the brewer went bankrupt. He then joined the resistance in Gilze-Rijen, untill the war ended he stayed joined. After the war as member of the B.S. he became a guard of the prisonercamp in Weesp. The prisoners were woman who had collaboratedwith the Germans. he worked here till 1948.

In 1944 Leendert was living with his second wife Dirkje, first on op Rapenburg, then in the Van Heemskerckstraat 19 and from there they moved to the Cornelis Outshoornstraat 69 in Geuzenveld. From Geuzenveld they went to Landsmeer and finally they moved to Kollummerzwaag in Friesland.

He has been working in diverend occupations: stucadoor, housepainter, and he painted the letters that in former years where on the shop windows, his last occupation was making grenades.

Some of his hobby's where: model construction of schips, repairing clocks and he liked to go fishing.

In 1967 he sets up the club house "Molenkwartier". where he was a few years chairman of the board untill the family moved to Landsmeer.

Dirkje had a short relation with soldier Sneider who was based in Amsterdam during the mobilization of 1939
Child from this relation:
1. Agatha born 14-06-1940 in Amsterdam

When soldaat Sneijder went home after the moblization Dirkje stayed behind alone and pregnant, because an unmarried mother was considered as a disgrace for the family in those days Dirkje went to Huize Sint Hubertus at the Plantage Middenlaan 23 in Amsterdam.
Her daughter Agatha was born in Huize Sint Hubertus, and Dirkje lived here with Agatha untill 1944 then they moved in with Leendert. This relation was not favourably received by her family because a relation with a divorsed man was an even greater disgrace than to be an unmarried mother. What Dirkje especially kept as memory's from this time was that Huize Sint Hubertus lay compared with the Hollandse Schouwburg of from which the Jews in the war were deported, frequently she could hear them screaming. Here she has seen also the fire of the population register in 1941. In the home Dirkje had a good relationship with nurse Agatha and that is why she named here daughter Agatha after this nurse.

Leendert marriage 09-10-1935 in Amsterdam with Aaltje Penning
Children:
1. Leendert born 28-08-1936 in Amsterdam
2. Johannes born 28-05-1939 in Amsterdam
3. Aaltje born 11-06-1939 in Amsterdam

Generation 3

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Albert Johannes Franciscus Pistoor born 23-11-1875 in Amsterdam, occupation stonecutter and welder, death 23-11-1943 in Amsterdam, parents: Albert Pistoor and Maria Adriana Simonis, marriage 26-09-1906 in Amsterdam with
Antje Bredijk born 27-10-1879 in Amsterdam, death 14-01-1955 in Amsterdam, mother: Helena Bredijk
Children:
1. Maria Adriana born 25-10-1906 in Duisburg
2. Albert Johannes Franciscus born 25-06 1908 in Kirchellen, death 27-08-1908 in Kirchelllen
3. Anna born 28-09-1909 in Kirchellen
4. Leendert born 17-01-1912 in Amsterdam
5. Huibertus Johannes born 06-01-1914 in Amsterdam, death 13-07-1918 in Amsterdam
6. Francisca born 26-03-1916 in Amsterdam
7. Albert born 25-09-1918 in Amsterdam, death 26-12-1992 in Bennebroek
8. Franciscus born 27-11-1921 in Amsterdam
9. Cornelia born 26-071923 in Amsterdam

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Cornelis Willibrordus Johannes Sneijder born 15-02-1892 in Amsterdam, occupation wagoncleaner and tramconductor, death 23-02-1963 in Amsterdam, parents: Cornelis Willibrordus Sneijder and Maria Johanna Helena Schotte, marriage 04-06-1919 in Amsterdam with
Catharina Hendrika de Groot born 17-10-1898 in Naarden, death 17-01-1925 in Amsterdam, parents: Ruurd de Groot and Dirkje Fokkens
Children:
1. Maria Catharina born 26-08-1919 in Amsterdam
2. Dirkje born 10-12-1921 in Amsterdam
3. Cornelis Willibrordus Johannes born 21-02-1924 in Amsterdam, death 28-01-1925 in Amsterdam

Cornelis re-married 03-06-1925 with Antonia Agatha Tillemans, death 27-01-1988 in Amsterdam
Children:
1. Hendrika Antonia born 20-03-1926 in Amsterdam
2. Cornelis Willibrordus Johannes born 27-09-1927 in Amsterdam

Cornelis worked on they open carriage trolley nr 10, in the van Hallstraat his children each on at a time where allowed to make a trip with their father. In the winter of starvation in 1944 the trolley conductors could not work because the electricity was disconnect, they konden de tramconducteuren niet meer werken omdat de elektriciteit, they then distribute the food in the soup-kitchen in Amsterdam.

Cornelis and his family lived on the Palmgracht, the Jan van Galenstraat 307 and the Cabralstraat 22 hs.

Generation 4

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Albert Pistoor born 11-07-1840 in Zwartsluis, occupation upholsterer, death 07-09-1902 in Amsterdam, parents: Cornelis Johannes Pieter Coenraad Pistoor and Femmigje Blijdenstein, marriage 12-08-1863 in 's Gravenhage with
Maria Adriana Simonis born 08-12-1842 in Amsterdam, death 02-08-1930 in Amsterdam, parents: Franciscus Antonius Simonis and Catharina Jansen
Children:
1. Femmina born 28-10-1863 in 's Gravenhage
2. Franciscus Antonius born 13-10-1864 in 's Gravenhage
3. Catharina born 14-09-1869 in 's Gravenhage
4. Maria Adriana born 30-05-1872 in 's Gravenhage
5. Alberdina born 17-01-1874 in 's Gravenhage
6. Albert Johannes Franciscus born 23-11-1875 in 's Gravenhage
7. Pierre born 03-12-1878 in 's Gravenhage
8. Cornelis Johannes Pieter Coenraad born 16-11-1880 in 's Gravenhage
9. Christiaan Thomas born 20-02-1883 in 's Gravenhage, death 26-?-1884 in 's Gravenhage
10. Karel Christiaan born 30-05-1885 in 's Gravenhage
11. Hendrikus born 13-10-1886 in Amsterdam, death 05-06-1887 in Amsterdam

Albert died in the Borgerstraat 16 in Amsterdam, his family lived on diverend adresses after his death, below are photo's of some of the streets they lived.

Helena Bredijk born 09-09-1861 in Nieuwer Amstel, occupation maid, parents: Cornelis Bredijk and Marijtje Taal
Children:
1. Maria born 10-06-1877 in Amsterdam
2. Antje born 27-10-1879 in Amsterdam
3. Leendert born 11-04-1882 in Amsterdam, death 23-11-1884 in Amsterdam
4. Neeltje born 10-09-1884 in Amsterdam
5. Helena born 09-10-1886 in Amsterdam

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Cornelis Willibrordus Sneijder born 12-04-1863 in 's Gravenhage, occupation tailor, death 28-12-1947 in Amsterdam, parents: Adam Sneijder and Ida Klijndijk, marriage 09-09-1891 in Amsterdam with
Maria Johanna Helena Schotte born 06-12-1866 in Amsterdam, death 07-11-1941 in Amsterdam, parents: Johannes Jacobus Schotte and Helena Jansen
Children:
1. Cornelis Willibrordus Johannes born 15-02-1892 in Amsterdam
2. Helena Maria Brigitta born 15-07-1893 in Amsterdam
3. Marinus Leonardus born 18-06-1894 in Amsterdam
4. Johannes Gerardus born 22-01-1898 in Amsterdam
5. Jan born 08-10-1899 in Amsterdam, death 29-12-1899 in Amsterdam
6. Ida Maria born 27-12-1900 in Amsterdam
7. Willem Gerardus born 13-09-1902 in Amsterdam
8. Johannes Antonius born 14-09-1903 in Amsterdam
9. Leo Antonius born 18-09-1904 in Amsterdam
10. Johanna Wilhelmina born 24-05-1906 in Amsterdam
11. Gerard born 15-03-1908 in Amsterdam, death 19-09-1908 in Amsterdam.......Twins
12. Hendrik born 15-03-1908 in Amsterdam, death 23-05-1908 in Amsterdam.......Twins
13. Hendrik Albertus born 31-04-1911 in Amsterdam

Cornelis and his family lived on diverend adresses in Amsterdam, below a couple of pictures of streets where they lived

From 1927 until 1929 Cornelis and his family lived in Asterdorp

In the search of your Pedigree you also find many pieces of history, and can you discover how the world looked at the time your ancesters lived. For grandparents it is not to difficult because there is a great chance that you know them and can listen to there stories about the way they lived. From your greatgrantparents your own parents can tell you stories, these stories not always give a total picture of the live your ancesters lived, that is something I find out when I was searching for the pictures of houses that Cornelis and his family lived in.

Cornelis was the grantfather of my mother Dirkje Sneijder, so he was my greatgrantfather. My mother has know him and his wife Maria, Cornelis was, as my mother told me,"a distinguished man" and his wife Maria was a firm lady and she was blind at one eye. She also told me that she liked to go visit them and then enjoyed walking in the tailors studio that was situated at his house. My mother always wanted to go to the vocational school for fashion but do circumstances this was never possible.

From the things my mother told my I had a picture in my head of a greatgrandfather how was a tailor with his own studio in Amsterdam. And when I find his population register card I start searching for the houses they lived in.

They mainly lived in the old center of Amsterdam so I was very surprised when I searched for Asterdorp that I found a picture from new square-shaped houses. Further investigation learned that Asterdorp was not just an adress in the story below I try to give a impression of the information of Asterdorp that I found.

Rise and downfall of Asterdorp

The industrialization and urbanization of the Dutch society went accompanied by house need and poverty. This led to piteous situations, especially in the larger cities of the country. In 1902, the house law becomes effective, which must make an end to the most terrible atrocity in residential area. Building cooperatives get as of now subsidy of the government to build houses specialy for manual workers. The law gives also the competence to municipal authorities to declare the slum dwellings uninhabitable and to have them evacuated. As long as they lived in the slum dwellings, one did not make oneself very concerning the renters. But now they arrive as a result of the evacuations in new houses, their behaviour is no longer tolerated. It is this group people who are called `the antisocial'

In 1914, Amsterdam started to reorganise the dilapidation downtown and build 3500 normal low-cost housing. The new house seekers became to distinguish in 'neat' families for the normal low-cost houses and 'unacceptable' families which could not be placed in 'normal' neighborhoods. 'Unacceptable' were families which neglected their house, hiring debts and their misbehaviour caused trouble at neighbours. Especially the low skilled renters were considered as 'unacceptable', 'intolerable' and 'antisocial' , terms then used frequently.

Town renewal projects were implemented to make the dilapidation districts livable and thereby to returned to 'civilised' society. Beside urban renewal there was another aspect that was part of the treatment of the problems, namely the re-education of the 'antisocials' for that the re-education schools arise.

Ir A. Keppler, director of the municipal house service in Amsterdam, reached the conclusion in 1915, that special residential areas were necessary in which the families under supervision could learn acceptable living behavior. To learn 'antisocials' to live properly in the years twenty of the 20th century in the Netherlands much homes and re-education schools were set up. It was the intention that the 'unacceptable' in these 'education schools' unlearned their undesirable living behaviour. The idea was when they lived in a more beautiful house in better surrounding, behave itself automatically better. The 'education schools' stood frequently separate of the ordinary districts.

In the 'education schools', which had frequently turned to within, the 'unacceptable' got accompaniment in the field of the household, budget, personal hygiene and (for the male) abandoning alcohol. In the middle of the neighbourhood stood a community centre, the actual woonschool, and a bathhouse. It was the beginning of a new approaches of social problems which got imitation in the complete country. Many municipalities stalks on the basis of several criteria permanently how much 'asocialen' they accommodated within their limits.

Frequently lists were established of 'questionable' familys. Then people who had profession-half concerning with these familie were inquireds about them. The families were assessed by means of a number of criteria, among others the work history of the man, the state of the house, the implementation of the religion duties but also the sexual behaviour of the family members. The concerned knew of nothing.

The list with complaints concerning the behaviour of the 'unacceptable' was long. They are unemployed, workshy, frequently alcohol-addicted. They are adulterous, live unmarried together or prostitute himself. Moreover is there in a number of families (some) talk of maltreatment and sexual violence

' In all cases the picture is the same: household effects is lacking or missing, the sleeping place is highest insufficient, cover exists from rags. There are no books, no bell or calendar or other things of rule and order. No attempt is done to educate the children. They have no manners: absolutely no idea of hygiene or neatness is imparted them. Nothing happens on put times: to stand up, eating, going to bed goes, occurs individually to everyone own contentment. The household of the woman seems at its worst. She cant cook food. She does everything halfly and is apathetic, she always looks slopp . there are no pets except perhaps scabby dogs or a come walking along cat. The decoration of the house exists from tastless fairing rubbish and tatter frocks

' The mother neglects herself, her family and drinks. Their is no room for the education of the children. The man has leaved his family and lives with a divorcée. The sanitary situation is bad. The toilet is broken and everything from it arrives in the cellar which already is half filled with water. Nobody fulfils its religious duties.

The chosen method was a part of poverty control and for the municipal house service a means to reduce the pauperization of urban districts. Although most of the municipal authorities limited to sheds, a single building. or a number of houses the larger projects rised in the cities Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht

In 1926, a beginning was made in Amsterdam with the construction of ' Zeeburgerdorp' and in 1927 with 'Asterdorp'. In 1923 the 'Zomerhof' was build in The Hague, in 1924 a beginning was been made in Utrecht with the construction of the complex ' Houtplein'. The house services of the three municipalities stayed in contact with each other concerning construction, composition and the management of the 'education schools'. With exception of the "Houtplein" the complexes were moored along the edges of the city. In Utrecht one chose for a more natural barrier by slightly connecting on the building area of the city. The bulwark of the 'Zomerhof' in The Hague was fund to far going and seen as a prison. The complexes in Amsterdam were build in a way that the houses surrounded them as by a wall. The isolation of the house groups was particularly necessary for the control. The 'unacceptable' could learn to live in all serenity so that they were not exposed to all kinds of seductions. The occupancy regulations were strict and supervision was kept by curators and foremen.

Not only the occupancy regulations seemed similar to each other, the complexes had all small, one floor houses with living room-kitchen or separate kitchen and two, three or four bedrooms. At the set-up of the complexes the curators and foremen got a central place, the classification of house and district was set up this way so that an optimum control was possible The first 'education schools' of Amsterdam were realised in an Eastern recess of the city. The "Zeeburgerdorp" was situated at the Zeeburgerpad on a narrow peninsula between the Nieuwe Vaart and the Lozingskanaal.

The Asterdorp was situated between the Asterweg and the Distelweg in Amsterdam North among company areas. The Asterdorp had 131 houses and was accessible by a gateway building. All buildings had flat roofs. The houses existed from a single construction layer, the gateway building from two construction layers. To the edges houses had been situated to a ring road which, as well as the other houses had been lain to the side streets, directly to the street. The construction manner meant that the area was surrounded as by a wall. The tenant of the schools are supervised by house foremen. They collected hiring, but also checked weekly if the family behaves themself well. The supervision goes far, the foremen inspect not only if the houses was clean, but also if the children went to school each day and that they were well dressed. Those who did not adjust, gets a warning and can be removed. The acting of the foremen had a civil standard underpinned. Their position was experienced as a superior and one with power. For example they had the competence at each moment to enter the houses and to take away the parental authority from the parents. They decided to grant extra money and made the decisioning of moving the tenant to better residential neighbourhoods.

The initiatives to learn the 'anti social' a better living behaviour in re-education schools were especially in Amsterdam of brevity. Although many tenants initially were satisfied with their better house, rapidly the dissatisfaction came and the resistens. The districts was brought into disrepute and the tenants had enough of being discriminated everywhere because they were named 'antisocial' and 'unacceptable', and many families refuse to submit themselves to the strict regime. The complexes were experiencing depopulation and large exploitation shortages. In 1940 the original tenants left, mostly to Floradorp, and after a face-lift the Rotterdammers which during the bombardment had lost their house, were housed in Asterdorp. When these tenats returned after some years to Rotterdam, the German possesser confiscated Asterdorp to station 240 Jewish Amsterdammers, who were later deported to camp Westerbork. In 1943 Asterdorp partially was destroyed during a bombardment. Asterdorp was demolished in 1955, only the gateway building kept remained.

This type of events in the lives of our grantparents are usually not taken along in the family tales, probably because of a certain feeling of decency, for me the following questions have risen: ' what exactly happened in their live, why did they had to go to Asterdorp, did they belonged to the staff or to the tenants and if they belonged to the tenants which standard did they not live upto? ' In any way enough question for further research.

There is also a feeling of recognition when I read storys like this, anno 2008 people still get stucked with a label, a stigma that wil bring them much damage. And there are still people who think their standards and values are the only good one's and they wil force other people, sometimes with violence, to live the way that they do. And anno 2008 people still are removed from there houses, for example in Amsterdam in the 'Jordaan' this always was a very lively working-class quarter. The ordinary man systematicly has been banished since the government and the 'house project developer' put a stamp of ' toplocation' on the neighbourhoodl. Street singers do not belong there anymore and the popular entertainment is ruled out, the only thing you find there these days are tenants who only are interested in thereself and not in each other. And in spite of all beautiful tales " it is in the best interest of" the only reason has always been and always will be: 'the big money'.

After Asterdorp Cornelis and his family lived on two addresses in Amsterdam-Noord , after Cornelis died Maria moved to the Staringstraat and then to the Lijnbaanstraat

Cornelis died at the age of 84 in the RK Sint Jacobsgesticht for old man and women , situated at the Plantage Middenlaan 52 in Amsterdam, he lived there from 02-01-1947

Ruurd de Groot born 06-05-1858 in Franeker, beroep cannonman/laundrymaster, parents: Sietze Ruurds de Groot and Johantje Baukes Adema, marriage 04-01-1885 in Franeker with
Dirkje Fokkens born 09-09-1865 in Midlum, death 15-01-1945 in Amsterdam, parents: Jan Jans Fokkens and Trijntje Baukes Stienstra
Children:
1. Ruurd born 28-05-1884 in Franeker
2. Johanna born 14-11-1887 in Franeker
3. Sijtse born 18-05-1889 in Naarden
4. Jan born 11-12-1890 in Naarden
5. Dirk Martinus born 26-12-1893 in Naarden
6. Johan Hendrik born 28-02-1896 in Naarden
7. Johan Willem born 11-06-1897 in Naarden
8. Catharina Hendrika born 17-10-1898 in Naarden