G2F - Galama-Wybenga Family (1913-1922)

Galama-Wybenga Family 

Jetske and Ysbrand  on their wedding day.
Dressing in black for a marriage is standard in those days.  

Jetske Everts Wybenga and Ysbrand Haije Galama marry on May the 3^rd, 1913. 

An interesting fact is that that same day her sister Sytske marries Frans Hendriks Gerrit Kramer. We have no pictures of that event.

 And her other sister, Francisca, marries Sjoerd, the brother of Ysbrand Haye, on April 24, 1915. So two sisters marry two bothers. Francisca and Sjoerd are pictured here on the left. 

The newlywed couple moves into the farm Landlust on the Krabbedijk 4 in Dedgum, although the farm actually lies closer to the village of Blauwhuis than Dedgum. Her sister Francisca and Sjoerd eventually move to a nearby farm on the Himdyk 15.

The property, 39 ha, was bought by his father to set Ysbrand up as a farmer, just like his brothers and his uncles. These days, the farm is owned by a Hettema.

6 children follow in quick succession.

Haije Michiel Galama,     27 jun 1914 - 12 jul 2016, Amersfoort   (Leeftijd 102 jaar)
Evert Hugo Galama,     3 sep 1915 - 2 mrt 2022, Bunnik   (Leeftijd 106 jaar)
Gatske Elisabeth Galama,     27 sep 1916 - 25 dec 2012, Utrecht  (Leeftijd 96 jaar) 
Martha Barbara Galama,     25 feb 1918 - 5 jul 2006 , Bilthoven (Leeftijd 88 jaar)

Michiel Anno Galama,     19 sep 1919 - 4 jan 1944 , Eindhoven  (Leeftijd 24 jaar)
No baby pictures of him.

Hugo Sjoerd Galama,     12 feb 1921 - 10 mrt 2014, Blaricum (Leeftijd 93 jaar)
And we have no baby picture of him either.

Ysbrand is, besides farming, into playing billiards and working with harness horses and pedigree cattle. It seems he is quite accomplished in these hobbies. During the yearly cattle exhibitions in Bolsward in 1920 and 1921, he wins quite a few prizes for his cattle and his horse, Gretha.

 
But the Spanish flu, which starts at the end of the First World War, is still raging. Every now and then, just like Covid, the virus pops up again. And somewhere in February of 1922, Jetske Wybenga catches the flu. Her second son, Evert, is also sick. They bring him to the farm of his  grandparents, presumably to isolate him from the other children or the mother. 
There is an article on that in the NRC (link)

And on February 18, 1922, Jetske Wybenga dies. She is 37 years old.

She is buried at the church yard of the church where she married, 9 years earlier. 

 

Ysbrand is left, a widower at 33 years of age, with 6 young children. He moves quite quickly to another farm, on the Bolswarderweg 5 (Halfweg Tjerkwerd) in Tjerkwerd. According to the Hettema family, who state they moved into the farm in May of 2022, this must have been quite soon after the death of his wife.

He decides to remarry, and he does so, about a year and a half later, with Anna Tiel-Groenestege.

The story continues on the Galama - Tiel-Groenstege Family