Family

The Website Founders

Jean and Bo (aka Richard) Crombet-Beolens meeting in the UK (2023) for the first time in over thirty years

They’ve hardly changed at all (below) in 67 years 🙂

Crombet-Beolens

The Crombet-Beolens’s c. 1956 Phyll, Rick, Jean & Eric

This website is about the small clan of Crombet-Beolens’s and their extended family… it is set out by generation with Generation 1 being that of my grandparents who were born in the nineteenth century and, in the case of my grandmother survived until the twenty-first century!

The Boelens Family Crest

It’s a semi-openbook project with additions being made by members of the family and the primary content added by Generation 3 – siblings Bo & Jean Crombet-Beolens. So, relationships and names are from our point of view… i.e. our grandparents, our grandchildren etc.

Under each entry there is a table showing parents, siblings, partners and children of the featured person. If the names are highlighted in blue you can click that link to see that person’s page.

Often we begin to ask questions about our family’s history just when it is too late and we are left wishing we had asked our parents and grandparents more about their everyday lives. Until the digital age photographs rarely recorded the ordinary but were taken on special occasions, holidays and the like.

We are an ordinary family, but, as the tag-line suggests, some of us, sometimes, do extraordinary things, yet is the every day normal life of our predecessors that we would most like to know more about.

Bass

The Basses  – Bert, Muriel, Jack Sr. Alfie, Norah, Margaret & Annie 

Leighs, Butlers & C-Bs

Shears, Adams & Inghams

Rawlins & Francis

(See Generation 1 for labels of this and below)

Win’s 100th Birthday gathering of family!

Fosters & Kotuas