Special Thanks
Apart from close family, several more distant relatives have helped with the compilation of this tree - very special thanks are due to:
- John Smailes (Mathilde's fourth cousin twice removed), who has provided new information on the Smales/Smailes branch
- Paul Dold (Mathilde's seventh cousin three times removed), who has been a gold mine of information about the ancestors of Adelheid Pfaff in particular
- Brian Bailey (Mathilde's third cousin twice removed), who has helped flesh out some of Oswald Pfaff's descendants via Adelheid's sister Augusta
- Colin Whitfield, who has helped with the several members of the Gowland branch of the family
- Janet Morley, who helped enormously with the Cleaver and Wilson branches. It's been great fun to work with her on this part of our shared family.
- The Wierda Family in Birdaard for the information about Pieter Wijbes Hoekstra.
- Alan Cleaver, for sharing his research on the Cleaver family.
- Wilma Heeres for help with tracing Geert Albert Bos and Trijnte Willems.
- Coby Hoorweg for sharing her research on the van den Broek family.
- Henny Savenije for help with the Star family.
- Gerry Thompson for collaborating on Whitney and Longland research
- Joyce Visser who helped with the Vroegindeweij family and more generally with pointing me towards some great Dutch genealogical sources.
- Gilbert Wilson, a cousin on the Wilson side who kindly shared his research.
- Dirk Feitsma for help with the Froentjes family.
- Karen Gaitskell for help with the Shelton family.
- Pam Hillier for help with researching Australian records.
- David Snowden for help with some tricky Tofts.
- Bert Heidmeijer for links to the Star family.
- Fran Dinsdale for help with the Plews family and the handwriting in David Plews' inquest papers
- Ken Smales for lots of interesting Smales documents
I would also like to thank Richard Toft for providing me with a scanner and Valerie Brooks for originally organising the hosting of this site.
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