Roelof Cornelis van der Palm

My grandfather’s grandfather, and the Van der Palm who left for the Indies. He worked as an engineer for the public waterworks (Waterstaat) in Padang, Cheribon, Bantam, Banjoemas, and back in Padang.

Transferred to Soerabaja in 1874, where he was also a board member of the Semarangsche schouwburg society. In 1875 he went to the Netherlands on two years’ leave because of illness, and lived in Amsterdam. He returned in 1876, where he became chief engineer first class of the waterworks and of the colony’s public works, member of the European school committee at Badong 1877, honourable discharge from the waterworks in July 1884, at Pasoeroean “rooimeester” (an official who staked out and measured land) and chairman of the cemetery management committee 1885-1890, moved with his family to Nijmegen in 1890, in 1893 to Ede, living at Kampen from October 1897, until his death on 20 July 1899.