penal colonies - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:24:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg penal colonies - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Registration card of convicted vagrant Jan Geel in Veenhuizen, one of the Colonies of Benevolence (a penal colony) in the Netherlands https://historylab.es/registration-card-of-convicted-vagrant-jan-geel-in-veenhuizen-one-of-the-colonies-of-benevolence-a-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=registration-card-of-convicted-vagrant-jan-geel-in-veenhuizen-one-of-the-colonies-of-benevolence-a-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/registration-card-of-convicted-vagrant-jan-geel-in-veenhuizen-one-of-the-colonies-of-benevolence-a-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands/ vagrancy

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]]> Registration card of convicted vagrant Jan Geel in Veenhuizen, one of the Colonies of Benevolence in the Netherlands. Jan Geel at the age of 47. Jan Geel was sent to one of the Colonies of Benevolence, Veenhuizen, by the judge in Almaar. Here you see how he was registered when he came in (with two pictures and finger prints). He was convicted for vagrancy. He had been married, but divorced in 1884. He beat his wife and was often drunk. His wife died in 1888. He had 8 children who were raised by others. He died in 1923.

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