Hi Neil - W. L. Bosschart may be the Willem Lodewk Bosschart buried at the Brighton General Cemetery in Melbourne, details as follows: Buried: Saturday 16 Feb 1924 10:20 am Location: Meth "P" 1 Age: 64 years Occuptation: Retired Consul General for Netherlands Resided: 21 Winter St, Malvern Born: Amsterdam, Holland Undertaker: Rayboulds (Ernest Walker) Monumental Mason: Jaqeurs & Sons (Rustic Granite Kerbing 12/6/25) The wife's name may be a Mrs Louisa Arendina Bosschart. Looks like Willem died as a result of an operation. Happy to supply a photo of the grave if desired. Just put through a research request via the website below. I too am very much interested in contacting descendants of Willem for the purpose of compiling a profile for the Brighton Cemetorians. Kind regards Travis M. Sellers Brighton Cemetorians (CEMEtery hisTORIANS) PO Box 8054 North Road LPO EAST BRIGHTON VIC 3187 AUSTRALIA mailto:info@brightoncemetorians.org visit our website: http://www.brightoncemetorians.org ----- Message from "Neil" <newpond@bigpond.net.au> on Sun, 5 Mar 2006 07:27:30 +0800 ----- To: AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Ploos Van Amstel, de Vicq, Reelfs, Bosschart Hello I am trying to find information on or contact descendants of the following Consul-Generals for the Netherlands at Melbourne: Jan Willem Ploos van Amstel 1859 - 1878 Eduard Ploos van Amstel (Vice-Consul) 1864 Daniel Ploos van Amstel 1879 - 1889 J.A. de Vicq 1889 -? J.C.T. Reelfs 1890s W.L. Bosschart 1900 onwards Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much Neil W.A. -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg