Opa and Opoe Kegge lived in the van Speykstraat. This street has been largely demolished and rebuilt; coincidentally not their home at No. 87, of which I took a few photos (# 1 # 2 # 3), which I include hereby. I hardly remember Grandpa Kegge, I thought he was a big sturdy man with a mustache. He died in 1931 or 1932; I was 6 or 7 years old at the time. I kept visiting Opoe Kegge until her death in 1947 or 1948. Opa and Opoe lived on the 1st or 2nd floor; their eldest son Arie Dirk lived with Coba in the lower house; they had 2 children: the youngest was daughter Cobie, the oldest was son Arie Dirk, who had a snack bar in the Tiendstraat for many years. Uncle Arie was a taxi driver. I believe he parked that car in the warehouse next to his downstairs house: In the photo, 2 small windows have been replaced by a larger one, with a timber shop (van Mool) now located in the parking facility. Of a cigar and tobacco shop owned by Harry van Nek and a greengrocer, which in my memory was run by Uncle Jan Kegge and Aunt Anna. These would have been your grandparents. Aunt Anna was a sweet, warm woman with a somewhat round face. I only remember that Uncle Jan had a somewhat rounded back, as did my father, my brother and myself. In my mother's family they always said: "a Kegge back". In the Bajonetstraat lived Uncle Kees and the eldest daughter Anna, who ran a water distillery. Next to the water distillery was a small forge owned by Uncle Kees. Coincidentally, this building still exists: the photo clearly shows that behind the facade (compared to the left and right) is a higher house: once you passed the water distillery, there was a small set of steps down where the coal for sale was stored; behind it was the living room with a small kitchen, the basement area; they slept on the first floor above. I thought they had 2 sons: Cor and Nelis. Opposite the water distillery In the Bajonetstraat (photos # 1 # 2,) was (and is!) A warehouse. Tante Kee lived above it with her husband Toon van 't Lam, a nice and smooth man. They had 2 children, a boy and a girl: Annie. Aunt Kee spent a lot of time with Opoe Kegge to help. In that time until her death, Opoe lived a few buildings in the Bajonetstraat beyond the water distillery. Under that house was a cellar (used to be a contractor's warehouse with a very low entrance door). When you entered Opoe's house, you had to go up 3 or 4 steps in the hallway. She lived there until her death with her youngest son Rinus. Son Dirk was married to Mijntje and had 1 son: Arie Dirk. They lived in Zijdewindestraat for as long as I can remember. Jan Bouts, married to Aunt Aal. He was a baker / delivery boy, worked on the Schiedamseweg at baker Scholte, where I often saw him behind the bread cart on the way to school. They had 1 son, Jan, who only came after many years of marriage. It is very sad that Aunt Aal was murdered at an old age in her house on the Davidsstraat, where they lived for a long time. Why and how is not known to me. There was a small message in the newspaper. Wim has also always worked. He was married to Jopie. At my father's funeral (1965) I heard that she had died after a long illness. They lived in the Nieuwe Westen (Bellevoysstraat) above a bakery, afterwards in the Balkenstraat in Spangen near the Schie. I've last seen him after my father passed away. In the years 1970-1973 he worked as a miller in the flour mill of the company where I worked at the time.

Nico J. Kegge , Rotterdam, Holland dob 1925 sent to Willem Kegge dob 1941 in May 2006

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