It was a bit more interesting for me as I have Dutch and Indonesian in my family. I found the indonesian part to be interesting more in what they didn't say. In my research I have never found any problems with the Dutch marrying local women, at times it was actually encouraged. In their society, if you married, the woman and her children were raised to the same social level as the Dutch; this also applied if children were born outside marriage and the father acknowledged them, as in the case of Maria Anna de la Brethoniere. It therefore seems strange that their grand-daughter said that he resigned from the army due to racial concerns over his marriage.
Hendrik de Bruijn was an engineer with the Water department in Indonesia in the 1850's. So was my great great Grandfather. I wonder if they knew each other!
And I also found it strange that they had never looked at any of the photos and documents in their house. It even looked like some family trees on their walls.
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