Peter P and Margaretha Epp Buller (Grandpa’s parents) had twelve children. The first son, named Peter, was born on 10 August 1891 and died eight days later. Based on this information and working from the list of other children, we can identify the nine children in this photograph with a fair degree of certainty. The children who survived infancy are:
- Magaretha P—29 July 1892 (see further here)
- Katharina P—1 March 1895 (see further here)
- Benjamin P—5 July 1897 (see further here)
- Sara P—30 September 1899 (see further here)
- Klaas P—3 March 1902 (see further here)
- Elizabeth P—21 March 1904 (see further here)
- Cornelius P—17 April 1906 (see further here)
- Maria P—21 May 1908 (see further here)
- Peter E—25 May 1911 (see further here)
- Anna P—9 October 1913 (see further here)
- Henry P—20 December 1915 (see further here)
The two oldest girls in the center are obviously Margaretha and Katharina, although it is hard to tell which looks three years older than the other. The oldest boy on the right must be Benjamin, followed by the younger girl toward the left of the back row: Sara (one of the compilers of the Buller Family Record). That would make the boy to the far left Klaas, and Elizabeth would be the girl farthest to the right.
The lad wearing the double-breasted coat in the front is Grandpa Chris. The two remaining kids are Maria (another compiler of the Buller Family Record) and Peter, who seems to be just shy of two years of age.
If Peter is almost two, then we might date the photo to spring of 1913, when he was twenty-three months. Obviously, Anna and Henry were not yet born at that time. If the photo is correctly dated to 1913, Grandpa was seven years old
There is no indication of where the photograph was taken, but it was probably somewhere close to home, if not on the Peter P farm itself.
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Thanks to Abe and Alice Buller for providing the photograph and to Dad for supplying it to the Buller Time blog.
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