Louisa Isabella Bogaardt was born in 1798. She was the daughter of Anthony Bogaardt and Catherina Regel.
Like her husband Jan Willem Frederik van Citters she came from one of the leading families in the erstwhile Dutch mercantile community in the Indian sub-continent. After he passed away on 4 May 1836 she appears simply to have swelled the ranks of financially desirable Asian-born widows who were already well represented in Batavia and the other ‘Dutch’ towns of the Dutch East Indies. Her sister Catharina Johanna Wilhelmina Bogaardt (1807-1839), however, was a very different matter.
She passed away in Batavia, on 28 March 1871 and was buried in Tanah Abang 1 No. 1, Jakarta PusatBlok F West 7. On her gravestone it says: In memory of Louisa ISBELLA BOGAARDT Widow of J. W. F. van Citters Born at Chinsurah 30th July 1798 Died at Batavia 28th March 1871 P.S. CXXI And her only daughter Julia HERMINA VAN CITTERS Born at Chinsurah 31 January 1819 Died at Tjiekandie Oedik - Banten16 February 1879 For 28 years the devoted and beloved wife of Alexander Fraser[1]
Testament in Reg. Bata. 1836 fol. 76-80; en 1826 fol. 39.[2]
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