The Postma Family
Everything you want to know about the history of the Postma Family

Geert Teensma
Parents
Teen Jeppes Teensma
Riemada Hoeksma

Foster parents

Djurre Gosses Postma
Bortha Anna Talma
Geert Teensma
Guurtje van Sante
Children
-
1878
Birth
30 Aug 1878
Schiermonnikoog
1894
Death
10 Feb 1894
Father of Geert
Teen Jeppes Teensma
  • Born 30 Oct 1848 Schiermmonnikoog
  • Died 10 Feb 1894 in Amsterdam
T.J. Teensma was married with Rimada Hoeksma and lived at that time in Zaandam.
Father Jeppe Teens Teensma
Mother Janke Eltjes Vil

Djurre Gosse Postma
had 2 biological sons George Cornelis & Doederus Boëtius Witsius and a foster son Geert Teensma. Djurre Gosse Postma was hired as a minister in Zaandam early 1893.
At that time the Teensma family also lived in Zaandam.
Geert was 15 years old when is father died. The wish of his dying father was that he would become a minister.
D.G. Postma has probably helped and guided Geert from that time on.
1905
Marriage
23 Feb 1905
Zaandam
Married with Guurtje van Sante, born 03 Dec 1882 in Leiden, in Zaandam



1932-1944
Urmond



Geert Teensma in Urmond


1950

Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
17 Feb 1950

1953
Death
22 Apr 1953
Urmond

Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
24 Apr 1953

Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
24 Apr 1953
1953
In Memoriam
by G.C. Postma

25 Jul 1953

1965

Death
G. van Sante
6 Feb 1965
Limburgsch dagblad
9 Feb 1965

Guurtje Teensma-van Sante and
Martha Hendrix in front of the rectory in the Grotestraat, Urmond.
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