Generation 15 · On the path to Rebecca Hardy
Gerrit Vander Mei
No citation is recorded for this person. That means undocumented, not doubtful — the person was on the 2010 chart and has been neither confirmed nor refuted since.
Gerrit Vander Mei was a Dutch/American piano teacher whose recorded death year is 1981. His life sits in the branch behind Frances Hildebrand, one of Rebecca Hardy’s three immediate teachers. No birth year is included here, so the page keeps its attention on the teaching connection that is known.
Gerrit’s teacher was Ruth Slenczynska, and his student was Frances. That makes him the link between Ruth’s work and Frances’s place in Rebecca’s personal lineage. The relationship runs forward from Ruth to Gerrit, then to Frances, and finally to Rebecca.
Although the page does not yet tell a full life story, Gerrit’s position is not minor or incidental. A teacher can be essential to a lineage because of the person they taught, and Gerrit is one of the people through whom Frances’s branch reaches Becky.