List of Dutch supercentenarians

Dutch supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days) include:

People

11 Dutch supercentenarians

Thomas Peters

Thomas Peters (Leeuwarden, 6 April 1745? - Arnhem, 26 March 1857) was a supercentenarian from the Netherlands. He is the earliest recorded one accepted by Guinness World Records. Originally in a footnote, the Peters case was later promoted although subsequent questions were raised about documentation. Indeed, it appears that if the documentation ever existed, it has been lost. Thus, on paper Thomas Peters lived to be 111 years and 354 days, but scientifically the lack of reproducible evidence makes this case subject to doubt. [http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/oldest.html The Oldest Human Beings] ]

Geert Adriaans Boomgaard

Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788 - 3 February 1899) is accepted by most demographic scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record.fact|date=November 2007 However, some may view him as the second internationally recognized supercentenarian in the world after the meanwhile disputed case of his fellow countryman Thomas Peters (1745 - 1857) was grandfathered into the Guinness Book main tables (from the footnotes) in the early 1990s.fact|date=November 2007

Little is known about Geert Adriaans Boomgaard's life. He was born and died in Groningen, the Netherlands. His father was captain on a boat and civil records say that Geert did the same work as his father. Other sources say that he served as a soldier in the army of Napoleon.fact|date=November 2007

He married on 4 March 1818 to Stijntje Bus and remarried after her death on 17 March 1831 to Grietje Abels Jonker.fact|date=November 2007

Boomgaard lived to be 110 years and 135 days eventually.fact|date=November 2007

Evidence

Research on Geert Adriaans Boomgaard was published in three articles by E. J. Heeres in the genealogical periodical Gruoninga in 1976, 1977 and 1978. The website http://www.sthelene.org, which is dedicated to the rebuilding of the lost archives on the Médaille de Sainte-Hélène, shows his photograph, his (presumed) personal Sainte-Hélènemedal, and a certificate which states that "Adriaans, Gerrit, à Groningue, Pays-Bas, received this medal" on behalf of his active military service during the reign of Napoleon I. The certificate is registered at la Grande Chancellerie No. 1871, and bears the stamped signature of the Duc de Plaisance Général Anne-Charles Lebrun, Grand Chancelier 1853–1859.

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper

Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper (IPA|hɛndrikjɛ van andɛl ʃxipɛr, Kloosterveen, 29 June 1890 – Hoogeveen, 30 August 2005) was the oldest person ever in the history of the Netherlands.

References

External links

* [http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/oldest.html The Oldest Human Beings]