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Kant_en_Piet.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925

On the back of this photo (which was sent back home to family in the Netherlands by my grandparents) my grandmother had written the following (in Dutch): "Family De Kant and Piet on the balustrade of the bridge over the big water reservoir Tai-Tam-Tuk. Hongkong, November 1925". Piet is my grandfather Pieter Marks, and the De Kant family are Pieter Julius de Kant, employed by the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank like my grandfather, and his wife Kitty Rachel De Kant - Ricardo.

opaomaendekant.jpg

The note on the back of the photo (one of the many sent home to the Netherlands by my grandparents) reads (in Dutch): "On de raod around the island. De Kant and we. Honkkong, November 1925". The "we" are my grandparents, Pieter Marks and Margaretha Geertruida Groot. "De Kant" is Pieter Julius de Kant, born 23 December 1897 in Enschede, the Netherlands, and in 1921 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, married to Kitty Rachel Ricardo, born 19 November 1901 in London, UK.

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