Mijdrecht is a town in the Netherlands with about 15,000 residents. It located in the municipality of De Ronde Venen, about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the main A2 motorway, between Utrecht and Amsterdam.
Van Cammingha is an old Frisian noble family and their house from the Dutch province of Friesland. The family castle in Ballum is now the location of the town hall.
Willem Eduard Bok, also known as W. Eduard Bok was a Dutch-born South African Boer politician, civil servant and statesman, who served as first State Secretary of the South African Republic (Transvaal) from 1880 to 1889.
The Nationaal Archief (NA) is the national archives of the Netherlands, located in The Hague. It houses collections for the central government, the province of Zuid-Holland, and the former County of Holland. There is also material from private institutions and individuals with an association to the Dutch government or the political or social history of the Netherlands. The Nationaal Archief holds the Archives of the Dutch East India Company from 1602–1811, which were, along with related records held by South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme Register in 2003 in recognition of their historical value. Recently, the photographic archives of Spaarnestad Photo were included in the Nationaal Archief. It has been announced that Wikipedia will receive user rights over many photos from these archives.
Willem Eduard Bok Jr., was a South African lawyer, statesman and judge of Dutch descent.
There is a small population of Angolans in the Netherlands, largely consisting of refugees from the Angolan Civil War.
There is a small community of Nigerians in the Netherlands, which began to grow in the late 1980s.
Nederland's Patriciaat, informally known as Het Blauwe Boekje, is a book series published annually since 1910, containing the genealogies of important Dutch patrician non-noble families. It is published by the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (CBG) in The Hague. The Publication Commission of the CBG determines which families are included. The publication was modelled after the Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien.
Nederland’s Adelsboek, informally known as Het Rode Boekje, is a book series published annually since 1903, containing the genealogies of Dutch noble families. It is issued by the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie in The Hague.
Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, was a patrician woman from the Dutch Golden Age. She became famous as the mother-in-law of Johan de Witt.
De Witt is the name of an old Dutch patrician and regenten family. Originally from Dordrecht, the genealogy of the family begins with Jan de Witte, a patrician who lived around 1295. The family have played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age. They were at the centre of Dordrecht and Holland oligarchy from the end of the 16th century until 1672.
Van Vloten is a Dutch patrician family from Vleuten.
The Biografisch Portaal is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in The Hague, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible.
Nepalese in the Netherlands consists of immigrants, expatriates and international students from Nepal to the Netherlands as well as Dutch people of Nepalese origin. As of 2010, statistics of the Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek shows that there are about 1,505 people of Nepalese origin living in the country.
Anton August van Vloten was a Dutch agriculturalist. He was the founder of the Maarsseveense Stoomzuivelfabriek and director of the Waterschap Bethune water board. He also was alderman of Maarsseveen.
Willem Anton van Vloten is a Dutch dermatologist.
Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht was a Dutch painter and illustrator, famed for his military art.
Van Maanen is the name of a Dutch patrician family, originating in the Duchy of Guelders. The family takes its name from the town of Manen, situated south of the city of Ede in the province of Gelderland.
Leonardus Alexander Ferydoun "Leo" Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn is a Dutch-Persian historian, publisher and museum director.
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