Op 24 maart 2016 schreven wij in Het Laatste Nieuws over Marie Bijvoets, dochter van de Amsterdamse architect Yme Bijvoets en rechterhand van Prime Minister Mc. Donald's. In 1929 schreef de Telegraaf over haar een artikel. Om het artikel te lezen klik hier.
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel ontvingen wij eergisteren van Hilary Martin de volgende email:
I was very interested to find your website and your mention of Marie Byvoets as housekeeper to J Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the UK in the 1920s/30s.
Marie lived with my family in my early childhood in the 1950s. She had become a friend of my grandmother after my grandfather died in 1934. The two ladies lived in an apartment in Croydon, South London from the mid-1930s, through all the Second World War air raids before moving in with us in 1953. After about a year, she became unwell and spent the rest of her life in care.
I have some information about her time with the MacDonalds but Marie’s early life is a complete mystery. She must have moved to England sometime around 1912 as I have just found out that she spend eighteen years with the MacDonalds but had left by 1932.
If you are able to let me know anything about Marie’s family in the Netherlands, I would be very grateful. I have some photographs of her both during her time with the MacDonalds and in later life with my family if you are interested.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Hilary Martin
Ondertussen heeft Hilary Martin toegezegd meer gegevens over Marie Byvoets aan ons toe te sturen over haar Engelse periode. Dan zullen we ook voor het eerst foto's van haar kunnen bewonderen.
Uiteraard weer een verzoek aan onze leden om zo mogelijk informatie aan ons te zenden over de Nederlandse periode van Marie Byvoets. In onze stamboom is namelijk weinig informatie over te vinden KLIK HIER.
Mogelijk dat we met meer informatie een apart artikel over Marie Bijvoets kunnen publiceren.
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