Hi everyone
I just found all your responses to my request for information about the Bogers family in Scheveningen - many thanks to you all
Sorry for the delay in answering but I had trouble navigating around this program due to my limited Dutch language skills
I think the Bogers family come from Zuid Holland originally
Based on some recent research I managed to find out that an Oderwijk Bogers married a Petronella De Groot and set up a bakery in the township of Scheveningen (address/street unknown )
Oderwijk and Petronella were staunch Catholics.and had about 6 or 7 children .Once the sons were old enough they were set to work in their father's bakery .
One of these boys was Martinus Petrus Bogers ( my father ) who spoke about growing up in his father's bakery , sleeping above the ovens in order to keep warm ,baking bread most of the day and then having to deliver bread from house to house on a pushbike laden down with a huge basket full of bread whilst pedalling hard against the fierce icy wind ( around 1930 to 1935 and pre war )
Martinus Bogers married Johanna Hagel and set up a shop & bakery at 147 Kompasstraat after the war - they sold this business in 1954 and migrated to Australia - Martinus Bogers died 1988 in Melbourne Oz
To the best of my knowledge there were only two bakeries run by the Bogers family in Scheveningen One was the business started by Oderwijk and later taken over by one of his sons Jan Bogers and then the business started by Martinus in the Kompasstraat .
When I was about 3 yrs of age I accompanied my father in his visits to other bakers in the local area
As noted " it was all so long ago " and I have no recall of who and where these bakeries were but I have very fond memories of growing up in Scheveningen