Born: 24 Jun 1865

    Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NETHERLANDS

Married: Jacoba Barnhoorn

31 May 1894

Noordwijk Binnnen, Zuid Holland, NETHERLANDS

Children:

    Neeltje Plug (b. 21 May 1901  d. 26 May 1903)

1. *  Pieter Plug (b. 13 Sep 1903  d. 21 Apr 1976)
   

    Johannes Cornelis Plug (b. 19 Jun 1905  d. 3 Jul 1940)

    Neeltje Plug (24 Nov 1906  d. 03 Jun 1991)

    

Died: 12 April 1944

- Hazerswoude, Zuid Holland NETHERLANDS

Farmer

Parents:

1. -Johannes Plug (b.1840 d.1927)
   

2. -Neeltje Verloop (b.1841 d.1925)
   

Historical Context:

1. -1865: HSBC is founded
   

2. -1865: also born in 1865; Jack Miner (d.1944), King George V (d.1936), Rudyard Kipling (d.1936).
   

3. -1866: Europe and North America are connected by telegraph cable
   

4. -1867: Confederation of Canada
   

    ..Population of Canada: 3.5 million

- 1869: The Suez Canal is opened

1. -1873: Heineken Family founds Heineken Breweries in Noordwijk
   

2. -1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
   

3. -1879: Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
   

- 1890: Wilhelmina enthroned as Queen of The Netherlands. (She reigns for 50 years through 1948).

1. -1891: St. Clair Tunnel Opens
   

2. -1900: Population estimates:
   

    ..World - 1.6 billion

    ..Europe - 284 million

    ..Netherlands - 5 million

    ..Canada - 5 million

1901: Marconi sends the first wireless transAtlantic message from England to Newfoundland

1. -1903: Henry Ford launches the Ford Motor Co
   

2. -1903: Wright Brothers first flight
   

3. -1906: Great Earthquake of San Francisco
   

4. -1912: The Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic
   

5. -1914: Germany declares war on France.
   

    World War I begins and  Netherlands remains neutral.

1. -1917: Russian Revolution
   

2. -1918 (to 1920): “Spanish flu” (influenza) sweeps the world killing between 50 and 100 million people.
   

3. -1921/22: Noordwijk Vuurtoren is constructed
   

4. -1922: Women win the right to vote in The Netherlands
   

5. -1928: IX (Summer) Olympic Games held in Amsterdam
   

6. -1932: Zuider Zee Project commences
   

7. -1933: Hitler appointed a Chancellor of Germany
   

8. -1939: Dutch government opens Westerbork as a refugee camp
   

9. -1939 September: Nazi Germany invades Poland and World War II commences.
   

   Netherlands declares neutrality:

    England and Canada declare war on Nazi Germany

1. -1940 May:
   

    Germany invades Netherlands

    Germany severely bombs Rotterdam

    Netherlands surrenders and becomes occupied territory

   Queen Wilhelmina evacuates to England establishes government in exile

- 1940: Princess Juliana in exile in Ottawa

- 1942: Nazis convert Westerbork refugee camp into a deportation camp.

Irene Blass-Plug (wife of Johannes Plug and daughter-in-law of Willem Plug) and Anne Frank were  both interned in Westerbork before being send to their deaths in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen respectively.

1. -1942: Construction of the “Atlantic Wall” begins in Noordwijk
   

2. -- 1943 January: Princess Margriet is born in Ottawa Canada
   

3. - 1944: Nazis commence V-1 rocket attacks on London from Noordwijk area

Willem Plug and Family

Front Row: Willem Plug, Jacoba Barnhoorn-Plug

Second Row: Neeltje Plug-Batelaan, Johannes Plug, Pieter Plug

Willem Plug and Jacoba Barnhoorn Plug

(Working in the Garden: 1900)