G2F - Wybenga, Jetske Everts (1884-1922)

 

 Wybenga, Jetske Everts (June 14, 1884 – February 18, 1922)

Jetske is my grandmother. Her life starts on June 14, 1884 at the hotel and café (Heerenhotel) of her parents, Evert Hugo Wybenga (1856-1915) (also written as Wijbenga) and Martha Frances Barendsma (1853-1923), in Blauwhuis.

The hotel still exists, on the Vitusdijk 17 in Blauwhuis, and is called De Freonskip (The Friendship). The hotel has a café on the ground and first floor, according to my father. The ground floor is for farmers that rent their farm (pachtboeren), and the 1^st floor is for farm owners. The Galama’s go to the first floor. 
He also remembered that the parents later had a house in that row between the hotel and the church. Next to the hotel her father also had some cows on the side. My father had a glass window pane from the hotel where his uncle Sjoerd had scratched his name.
I do not know when they began the hotel, nor when they stopped. Their son Hugo continued the business for a while but he died in 1960.

The inn in 1923 . Sjoerd Galama and Zijlstra are sitting in the window sill.
The driver is Regenerus, he helped with the milking.

The inn  today

A picture of Blauwhuis in the twenties. The inn is on the left side, behind the bushes. 

Jetske has 3 sisters and a brother.

 Barbera Wijbenga  1883-1944
Jetske Everts Wijbenga  1884-1922 
Sytske Everts Wijbenga  1885-1974
Francisca Everts Wijbenga  1887-1978
Hugo Everts Wijbenga  1891-1960

 Not much is known about her as a child. We have two pictures of her. One is with her sister Baukje (Barbera), when they are in their teens. 

The other is of Jetske alone at a later age. 

We have  pictures of her sisters, but none of her brother. 
Her oldest sister Boukje (Barbera Everts), and her family. She also marries a Galama, a cousin of Ysbrand. They run a hotel/restaurant, 't Hof van Holland, in Bolsward.

Left to right:  Martha, Nicolaas, Ysbrand Klazes (a cousin of Ysbrand Haije Galama), Akke, Johanna, Monica, Cecilia, Hugo, Julia, Evert, Barbera, Michiel and Jacobus. 

Sytske Wybenga

Her second sister Sytske, marries Frans Hendriks Gerrit Kramer. The picture is taken at the same studio as where Jetske has her picture taken, de Jong in Leeuwarden.

Her youngest sister Francisca and family. Francisca marries Sjoerd Martinus Galama (a brother of Ysbrand Haije Galama). They have  a farm in Blauwhuis.

Back row: Evert, Haije, Gatske, Boukje, Michiel, Jetske
Front row: Martha, Jan, moeder Franciska Wijbenga, Franciska, vader Sjoerd Martinus Trees and Hugo

We assume she meets Ysbrand Galama in Blauwhuis. Blauwhuis is a small village, and they must have run into one another at the church and the café of her father. His father’s farm is at the entrance of Blauwhuis, and they all play billiard in the café of Wybenga. 

On May the 3^rd, 1913, at the age of 29, she marries Ysbrand Galama. An interesting fact is that her sister Sytske marries on that same day with Gerrit Kramer. Her other sister, Francisca, eventually marries a brother of Ysbrand, namely Sjoerd Martinus Galama. And her oldest sisters also marries a Galama, a cousin of the two brothers. There was apparently not a lot of choice in town.

 Their storycontinues at the Galama-Wybenga family page.