Hello everyone. I hope I am doing this correctly. While I can read Dutch fairly well, I am not very good at writing and speaking it. My name is Marianne Marijke Plenn Pottger. (In the U.S.A. I don't use “Pottger”.) My parents and I came to the U.S. in 1957. My parents are Albert Franz Pottger and Bianca Wilhelmina Pottger - Dandrieu. My father's father (my grandfather) was Frans Nicolaas Pottger. Frans was spelled with an “s” at the end. My father was always very upset that his name was not spelled with an “s” like his father's name. My grandfather and his third wife, my grandmother whose name was Dorothea Albertina Hermina Carp, had two other children beside my father, Ernestine Pottger and Ferdinand “Kees” Pottger. Tante Ernestine married and has one daughter living in the U.K. and one granddaughter also in the U.K. Oom Kees never married as far as I know and has no children. I correspond with my family in the U.K. regularly.
My grandfather, Frans Nicolaas, was married to Wilhelmina Magdalena Anna Charlotta Pottkamp on July 26, 1888 in Batavia, Java, DEI. They had three children: Paulina Charlotte Pottger (1891 - 1980), “Nieko” Pottger, and Frans Nicolaas Pottger, Jr. (May 15, 1893 - ???). Paulina married Willem Henri Eduard Scheuer on July 31, 1931 in ‘sGravenhage. They had several children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. I have names but don’t know which ones are their children or grandchildren. I don't know anything about “Nieko”. Frans Nicolaas Jr. married Hetty Matilde Nolthenjius de Man on October 26, 1918 or November 9, 1918. They were divorced in 1928. They had two children: Henk Pottger and a daughter (no name).
I don't know if my grandfather and his wife #1, Wilhelmina Pottkamp, were divorced or if she died. It was said in my family that my grandfather married a second time before he met and married Dorothea Albertina Carp (my grandmother).
My grandfather was the son of Christiaan Diederik Pottger, Jr. born 1832 and Johanna Maria van Driessel.
Christiaan Diederik Pottger (born 1832) was the son of Christiaan Diederik Pottger born 1806.
Christiaan Diederik Pottger (born 1806) was the son of Ernst Lodewijk Pottger.
To return briefly to my family. My father, Albert Franz Pottger, was born in Jakarta, Java, DEI on July 8, 1920 and died September 29, 1995 in Sylmar, California, U.S.A.. My mother was born August 30, 1921 in Soerabaja, Java, DEI. and died April 8, 1993 in Huntington Beach, California, U.S.A. They were divorced in 1970. My mother never remarried. My father married Anne Rosine Wilhelmine Pottger (yes, that was her birth name) on August 18, 1972 in Burbank, California. Anne Pottger was part of the Pottger family, a distant cousin. My father and Anne had no children.
I was born in 1947 in Bandung, Java, DEI. I have no brothers and sisters. I am married and have one daughter who is married. She and her husband adopted two boys.
This is long enough for now. If anyone has any questions or would like more information, please let me know. I will be happy to answer as best I can. For private questions, please email me at mmplenn@gmail.com.