Pieter and Johanna’s sons Pieter and Marten get the credits for creating five new branches to the tree, of which four still are very much alive today. Around the turn of the 19th century the Van Vledder name became an export product with the emigration of Philip to Australia and Jan to South Africa, while yet another Pieter and Hendrik continued to grow the tree in the Netherlands. The baby boom (1945-1970) generated 7 male Van Vledders, the next 25 years (1970-1995) another 7, but the last 25 years (1995-2020) only 3 new Van Vledder boys were born. You can download the full genealogy on the second 200 years of the Dutch Van Vledders here (in progress)
Until recently the different branches knew of eachothers existence, but, despite the country being so small, hadn’t met. Fortunately that has changed in 2020! We have had a few video meetings and are planning on a live meeting in Vledder somewhere in spring 2021.