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Dear Members of the group,
I received a question from someone in Russia.
"My name is Andrey Sidorov and I live in the city of Vladivostok, Far East
of Russia. I found your name in the Internet while searching the
information for de Vries family.
James Cornelius de Vries was a merchant and a shipowner in Vladivostok
in the last half of the 19-th century. He came to the Far East of
Russia at around 1865 from the USA (he was a citizen of the USA)and
went back to the States in 1897. His wafe's name was Elisabeth (born
1829), and one of his children was William Francis de Vries.
Unfortunately, we have no more information, by the way, I do not know
the exact spelling of his name, I transliterated his name from Russian.
Here in Vladivostok a small peninsular (he had a farm there) in the Amur
bay is named after him and everybody knows this name, but not the person.
I'm working on memoires of a local Finnish-born merchant Otto Lindholm
who often mentioned his name,but we have no information on this
gentlemen: nor the dates of his life, nor his original name (James is
an English version of his Dutch name)."
Perhaps someone can help him with the answer.
If you have something, please send an e-mail to me
Best of regards
Olaf Nijhuis
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