A Family History

My aunt died last summer. From the things she left, I picked up a few books, one of which was written by her father, my grantfather, Cornelis Jan Guibal, a historian, who I never met. Folded inside Johan Willem Friso en zijn Tijd (a biography of J.W. Friso) was a one page document. It turned out to be a record of his family history, written by him. It starts in 1739 in Languedoc, France, when Francois Guibal, a Huguenot, moves to the Netherlands. It ends two centuries later, with the generation of his parents. My grantfather notes that with three males decendants, it seems reasonable to expect that the family name Guibla will continue to exist, at least for a while, even though he himself had three daughters. My aunt was the last of the three sisters.