Connecting Branches of Diederick Johannes van Romondt

Attach a picture of Octavio Lepidus Richardson ( Source: The Valerie Brown Collection) & Diederick Johannes van Romondt (source: The Eleanor O'Malley Collection)

As you may have read on our website we are finding more and more branches of Octavio Lepidus Richardson who was son of Diederick Johannes van Romondt & Susan Richardson. Diederick Johannes van Romondt was a business man, Landlord of Belvedere Estate and deputy governor of Sint Maarten, N.A. who send out to look for his son Octavio to help him on the plantation. Many remembered Octavio on a horse dressed in white clothes with a hat. He had 52 children.

The branches we found so far:Richardson Branch living in Curacao and Sint Maarten N.A., Nisbeth, James branch living in Sint Maarten N.A., Brown Branch living in Curacao and Sint Maarten N.A., Rumnit Branch living in Aruba, Farrel Branch living in Aruba and The Netherlands, Stewart Branch living in Curacao N.A.

Our eldest VR-descendant Mrs. Lilian Stewart (96) lives in Curacao N.A. and is daughter of Octavio Lepidus Richardson.

We hope to find all the branches of Octavio Richardson & introduce them to all the living descendants of Diederick Johannes van Romondt.

Diederick Johannes van Romondt married his cousin Juliette Isabel Antoinette van Romondt and had 4 children (Julliete Charlotte Inez, Marie Eoline, Austin Johannes, Amabella Leona. We found living descendants in Canada, The Carter branch.

Diederick Johannes van Romondt second wife was Mrs. Marion Octavia Carter and they had 3 children ( Irene Robertine, Edith Lilian and Diederick Johannes). Diederick's second wife mrs. Marion Octavia Carter emigrated to New York, U.S.A. in 1919 with her children Irene, Edith and Dick. DJVR was a mason and died of Brights desease (a kidney disease) while on trip to Sint Kitts so had to be buried there. Grandpa went to Sint Kitts or Nevis and had a child out of wedlock between marriages (Richardson) with a seamstress.
( Source; handwritten document by Irene van Romondt and info by Eleanor O`Malley 2006) D.J. ("Mr. D.J.") Van Romondt (1846-1918) was the author of 1917 letters to the editor of the New York Herald and to President Woodrow Wilson urging annexation of St. Maarten by the USA, * following the USA purchase of St. Croix and St. Thomas from Denmark, and of his second wife Marion Octavia ("Aunt Ockie") Carter (1869-1952). (Source: George Benson, 2007)

In the U.S.A. we have found the wonderful branch of Diederick's second wife Octavia Carter and the family has been very supportive to the VR-research. Eleanor O'Malley daughter of Irene Robertine van Romondt has been a motivational coach to Malaki Zuleika Croes to continue this research and we also found the Benson and the Quilty branch who are descendants of Edith Lilian van Romondt.

According to documentations Diederick Johannes van Romondt also had a daughter Alix Maarlin by mrs. Caroline Maarlin and also a daughter Henriette Augusta which connection is still being researched.