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| DECEMBER, 2009
| Name:
| Ginger Vermooten
| Entry:
| Greetings and Happy New Year to all Vermootens (and hangers-on!)
I am a Vermooten by marriage. My husband, Vincent Henry Vermooten (known as Bill) was born in J-burg in 1938. His father was Dr Vincent [Davis] Vermooten, son of James Fokkens (aka Jakobus) and Susan Bridget Davis Vermooten. Dr V's siblings were Ian, Justine and Edith. Dr Vincent Vermooten received his MD at Johns Hopkins in America, and married Esther deBerdt Robins there. They lived in South Africa during the 30s; then returned to USA at the beginning of WWII, and stayed.
Bill says that the only one of Jakobus's sibllings that he knows of was Octavius Septimus (so named because he was born on 8 September.)
Bill and I have two children: Jessica Vermooten Kelley, and David Gerrit Vermooten. David is the proud possessor of a small brass box, engraved Gerrit Vermooten on the top, and Haarlem on the bottom. Dr Vermooten bought it in the Netherlands, sometime in the fifties or sixties, I think.
It is most intriguing to hear from other Vermootens. For a long time, we thought that we were the only ones in the USA, although we now know that there are a few others.
Please feel free to contact me at gvermoote@gmail.com if you wish. Bill is retired, and we live in Lawrence, Kansas, where Kansas University is located.
Very best wished to all for 2010.
| Country:
| United States
| Date:
| December 31, 2009 6:13 PM
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