Born: 3 July 1864, Lisse, Netherlands.
Died: December 1935
Father: Daniel Johannes (Dirk) van Stockum
Mother: Suzanna Cornelia Elisabeth Lastdrager
Married: Olga Emily Boissevain, 28 August 1906, Naarden, Netherlands.
Children:
Hilda Gerarda, b. 9 February 1908
Willem Jacob, b. 30 November 1910, d. 10 June 1944
Jan Maurits
Education:
Career:
Inventor and officer in the Dutch Navy
Other information:
Grandson John Tepper Marlin writes:
The van Stockums were cousins of the van Goghs. In Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Theo (his brother and patron), the painter mentions his van Stockum relatives. The van Stockums were centered on the seashore, around Rotterdam. For a while Bram moved inland near the van Halls, who lived in Astra near Zwolle; the van Stockum house was then known as Little Astra. Bram was one of nine children. He had five sisters. The oldest two were Dina ("Dien") and Dora. They were called "the Dreary One" and "the Cheery One" by Pic Gwynn, who visited them when she was engaged to their nephew Willem van Stockum. Dien was born about 1975 [!?] and died about 1932. She married another van Stockum (a cousin) and had three children: Ettie, Ida and Wil. Ettie married but had no children. Ida became a doctor. She had no children. Wilhelmina (Wil) became a schoolmistress and never married.
Dora married a man named Carst who lived in Hilversum. They had a son named Peer, who lives in South Africa. He had two children by his second marriage--Elizabeth and Karen. Karen has a boy.
Between these sisters, Bram had a brother Dirk, who was born in 1876 and married a German woman named Bertha. He was a notary, described by a relative as "rather dull." They had no children. The fourth child in the family was Willem, who was born in 1880 and is described as a "marvellous doctor." He visited the Marlins at Beulah, their home in Dublin [c. 1955]. He was a great friend of Bram and delivered Hilda when Olga was visiting Rotterdam. He married Trot (Tante Trot to us); they had a son named Dik, who married Una, an Englishwoman with expensive tastes. They moved to the United States, where Dik worked in a bank. He was made so tense by the family's financial needs that he borrowed money from the bank under questionable circumstances. When questioned about the transaction he committed suicide. They had two children, Johannes and Trevor.
The fifth child in the family, Bram's other older sister, Julia (nicknamed "Jupie"), who was born in 1881 and was married to Sam Aletrino, a bearded writer; they had no children. Hilda remembers Julia lamenting, in her advanced years, not being sexually attractive to men any more.
Bram had two younger sisters, Marie ("Pierre") and Anne ("Puck"). Pierre was born in 1885, and married a van Hamel of Utrecht. They moved to France, and Hilda van Stockum at 15 vacationed with her at her home in Neuilly, near Paris. They knew their relative Vincent van Gogh well enough that their children were each given a van Gogh original. They had a son Georges Maurice who married Alexandra (Alex), who was part Swedish and part Italian; they in turn had four children: Marc, Joost, Francesca and Bjorn, who grew up speaking French, Dutch, Swedish and Italian. Marc married Monique, and died at 30; Joost married Margriet and before they were divorced they had two children: Monique and Eric. Francesca has a daughter Sonja. Puck was petite and charming and was the head Infirmiere at Neuilly Hospital when Hilda vacationed with Pierre. Hilda had to have a foot operation when she was on vacation in Neuilly, and her Tante Puck assisted Dr. Hartmann who performed the operation. It was under a local; Tante Puck threatened Hilda with dire punishment if she made a noise, so she did not. Puck was in love with Dr. Hartmann, and he probably was with her, but he was married and in those days one did not divorce.
Bram's youngest brother was Jo, born in 1888. He became an explorer, contracted a bug in Africa about 1917 and lived in a nursing home until 1979. Bram was a captain (kapt.-luit. ter zee) and for a short time Vice-Admiral in the Dutch Navy, and an inventor. In 1915 he was living with his family in Ryswijk near the Hague. He invented a rice cooker but never profited from it, although he tried to market it. He came to the United States in 1919 at the expense of his brothers-in-law Robert, Eugen and Jan to try to market the rice cooker and a gearless car, but was unsuccessful. However, he had a wonderful time in New York City. He came back to Holland with stories of three-ring circuses and empty sidewalks because everyone had a car. He loved America. At that time he also decided to grow a beard--everyone else was clean shaven, so Bram decided to be different; that was characteristic.
Like his father-in-law Charles, he viewed war in moral terms. Charles said that the British were immoral aggressors against the Boers in South Africa. Bram said to his daughter: "This is a moral issue. Relations between countries are no different from relations between people. Bullying is immoral." Bram died in 1935.
Daughter Hilda wrote this piece about her father.
Brother-in-law Han de Booy wrote wrote this about Bram in his diary.