The youngest of the weaver's children; she sewed in Ghent, married Georges Van Nemo in Sluis in 1907 and sailed with him to America five years later. In Detroit she kept a boarding house for brewery workers and wrote a letter to Sluis every week; the letters after 1940 survive, the family book says.
Anneke Dolorsit
daughter of Willem Dolorsit and Henrietta Consectetur
1886–1976
- Born
- 27 November 1886 in Gent
- Died
- 30 May 1976 in Detroit (Michigan)
- Married
- Georges Van Nemo, 3 April 1907 in Sluis
- Occupation
- naaister
- Places lived
- Gent (1886-1907); Sluis (1907-1912); Detroit (Michigan) (1912-1976)
In the newspapers
- 20 April 1912
Sluis says goodbye: the young brewery worker Georges Van Nemo and his wife Anneke Dolorsit leave on Thursday by steamship from Antwerp for America. "We will carry on brewing in Detroit where we stopped in Sluis," the departing brewery worker was quoted.
Sluisse Courant (fictief)
Family
Siblings
Ancestors
Sources
- Civil registers of Gent (fictional), geboorteakte 1886, nr. 156
- Van Aliquam family book, 1972 edition with later additions (fictional), pp. 20, 21