Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates

In 1865, Mary Mapes Dodge published a children's book set in Holland called Hans Brinker -or- The Silver Skates. The title character Hans Brinker click to hear is a very poor boy who who lives with his sister, mother and invalided father; next to that is a storyline of a group of better-off boys from the same town who make a skating tour in the heart of Holland and visit museums and famous places, giving Mrs Dodge an opportunity to tell about Holland, and she does that nicely.
Judging from the book, Mrs Dodge really read up on Dutch history and culture; but unfortunately, the Dutch names in the story are a mess. For about half the characters I cannot think right away of what their Dutch names would be. I'm afraid that the person Mrs Dodge consulted on the names did not really know Dutch.
If there is ever time I should make a list of those names.

Contrary to popular thinking, it's not Hans Brinkers who puts his finger in the dike and saves the country: in the book that's a story told in a classroom in England, and the boy is not named.

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