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  • Pioneers in Wisconsin – Walvoord

    Pioneers in Wisconsin – Walvoord

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    Amsterdam, Sheboygan (WI), 1889
    Map of Amsterdam and surroundings, Sheboygan County, 1889 (image: University of Wisconsin–Madison)

    In the 19th century, thousands of Achterhoekers emigrated to the United States in search of land, freedom and new opportunities. Among them was the Walvoord family. They were among the early European pioneers who sought refuge in the fertile but unexplored territories of Wisconsin.

    The family name Walvoort/Walvoord comes from manor house ‘t Walfort in Aalten. Scott Anthony Walvoord, who lives in the United States and is a descendant of emigrants from the Achterhoek, has spent years researching his roots. On his website he has collected an enormous amount of information about the Walvoort/Walvoord families, in the Netherlands and the US.

    The information below is mostly taken from Scott Walvoord’s website.

    Ancestors of ‘The Founding Five’

    Scott has been able to distinguish five branches of the Walvoort family that have emigrated to America. He calls these the ‘Founding Five’. They are all grandsons of Derk and Janna Walvoort, three brothers and two of their nephews. Most Walvoords and Walvoorts living in America today descend from this ‘Founding Five’.

    Salomon Walvoord (Winterswijk, 21 April 1778) married in 1801 Maria Elisabeth Klumpenhouwer (Dinxperlo, 21 June 1781). They went to live on the Gantvoort farm in Barlo and had ten children there. Maria died on January 6, 1840 at the age of 58. Salomon then moved with his youngest daughter, Janna Diena (1825) to the adjacent farm Leeland. On May 1, 1846, Salomon moved in again, he moved in with his eldest son Hendrik (1802) who lived on a farm in Vragender. There he died on 8 June 1848 at the age of 70.

    Walfortlaan, Aalten
    Walfortlaan, Aalten (photo: Google Streetview)
    Walvoord Road, Oostburg, Sheboygan
    Walvoord Road, Sheboygan (photo: Google Streetview)

    Hendrik Walvoord (1802-1865)

    Hendrik (Aalten, 21-03-1802) was tall, dark and slender as a young man. He married three times, twice to sisters, daughters of Garrit Doornink and Dersken Wesselink. His first marriage was with Teunisken Doornink (Vragender, 16-02-1800). They married in 1824 and he moved in with his parents-in-law. Together they had two children, Gerrit Jan (Vragender, 22 January 1826) and Derk Antoni (Vragender, 24 July 1827). Derk Antoni died on January 24, 1828, at the age of six months. Five months later, Teunisken died on June 22, 1828, at the age of only 27.

    Hendrik’s eldest son Gerrit Jan was cradled in the same cradle as Hendrik’s youngest sister, Janna Diena (Gerrit Jan’s aunt, born only one year earlier).

    Hendrik remarried on 24 July 1829 to Teunisken’s sister, Johanna Berendina Doornink (1806). Together they had a son, Antoni (Tonie) (Vragender, 29 April 1830). But Tonie died on January 23, 1833 at the age of two, while staying with his grandfather and grandmother in Barlo (Gantvoort farm). They may have taken care of Tonie temporarily because of the death of his mother, ten days earlier, on 13 January 1833 in Vragender, at the age of only 26 years.

    Hendrik’s third marriage took place on 4 May 1833 to Johanna Berendina Walvoord (1816). She was a daughter of Antonij Walvoord and Willemina Geertruid Konings. Hendrik and Johanna had two daughters together, Johanna Wilhelmina (1834) and Theodora Maria (1835). Theodora died at the age of five on November 29, 1840. Mother Johanna died on July 27, 1839 in Vragender, 27 years old.

    Emigration to America

    After the death of his parents, Hendrik Walvoord, three times a widower, left the Netherlands for America in 1849. He had made some investments with his inheritance before crossing the Atlantic and had six thousand dollars with him.

    Hendrik’s nephew Gerrit Jan Walvoord (Lichtenvoorde, 1816), not to be confused with Hendrik’s son of the same name, took over the family farm in Vragender. Later, in 1870, Gerrit Jan also emigrated with his family to America where he joined his son Toni Willem (William) Walvoord (Lintelo, 1843) in Nebraska. William had preceded his father and had sent back enthusiastic messages from bountiful prairie land.

    Zutphensche Courant, 20 October 1870 - G.J. Walvoord
    Zutphensche Courant, 20 October 1870 (source: Delpher)

    Hendrik left with his youngest sister, 24-year-old Janna Diena Walvoord, on the sailing ship Hector from Rotterdam to New York and arrived on 16 September. In America, he joined his son Gerrit Jan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Gerrit Jan had preceded his father and sister a few years earlier. Immediately afterwards, the whole family moved to Holland, Sheboygan County in Wisconsin, where Henry purchased 65 acres of wooded land and began developing a farm, which he expanded from time to time. Shortly after arriving in the US, he acquired 49 shares in the Holland Trading Company, which was engaged in the trade and transport of timber.

    After coming to Wisconsin, Henry sold plots of land to new immigrants in a region he had called Amsterdam. It would take some time for the authorities to officially recognize this name. Every lot he sold had a view of Lake Michigan. Hendrik also became known as a timber merchant. He needed a jetty for boats, which came to collect the wood. He rented a dredger from the government and dredged a small port two meters deep. There, piles of wood were waiting for boats.

    Every day, two or three ships left the jetty, loaded with wood. There were usually four or five ships in the bay at the same time. Seven or eight teams of men dragged the wood to the pier (according to Tony Walvoord, 80+ years old, who told all this to Louise Walvoord). Although the original pier has disappeared, the wooden piles of Walvoord’s pier are still visible. Hendrik not only owned shares in the timber company and the jetty, he had also bought a shop and large plots of land near Amsterdam.

    Henry Walvoord co-founded the Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove in 1853 and served as an elder for many years. On March 17, 1855, Henry became an American citizen. Two days later, his son Gerrit Jan did the same.

    On July 11, 1856, Hendrik lost his only son Gerrit Jan, who drowned in Lake Michigan at the age of thirty. Henry bought a plot of land for a cemetery that is now in the village of Cedar Grove (Walvoord Cemetery) and buried his son there.

    Hendrik Walvoord died on 21 December 1865. After his death, his land was inherited by Gerrit Jan’s children (Henry, Jane, Mary, Tonia, and Delia). Henry, his grandson, inherited 32 hectares and the granddaughters each inherited 16 hectares. In addition, Henry received all movable property from his grandfather, namely: horses, cattle, wagons and furniture. The four granddaughters each received $15 for a cow and another $300 when they turned twenty-one. When he turned twenty-one, Henry received the rest of his grandfather’s property (mortgages, notes, securities, credits, and money). When Tonia died, her brother Henry bought her land.

    Gerrit Jan Walvoord (1826-1856)

    Gerrit Jan Walvoord (Vragender, 22 January 1826) was spry and clever, a man of quick action. He was tall and slim, had black hair and good looking. At the age of twenty, he left his native country to seek his fortune in the New World. His father, Henry, would follow him later. Gerrit Jan may have sailed from Rotterdam to Baltimore with the ship Garrone. He first settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he farmed and also worked in the coal mines. There he married a German girl, Anna Maria Engel Nolten, who had emigrated to America with her brother in 1846.

    Their eldest son, Henry, was born in Pittsburgh in 1847. When Henry was about two years old, in the fall of 1849, the Walvoord family moved to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. They settled in the small settlement of Amsterdam on Lake Michigan, southeast of the village of Cedar Grove. The Walvoords had a shop there and shipped wood from the pier.

    Gerrit Jan Walvoord was not allowed to enjoy his new home for long. While he was measuring wood on the aforementioned pier, he accidentally drowned, thirty years old. No one saw the accident. He was found in the water. According to one story, Gerrit Jan heard a ship approaching while he was eating. He jumped off the table, ran to the harbor, climbed over the wood on the pier and lost his balance. He fell into the water, which was very cold, and although he was a good swimmer, the wood that had also slipped into the water kept him down and he drowned. Gerrit Jan died in Lake Michigan on July 11, 1856 and was buried in Walvoord Cemetery.

    At his death, Gerrit Jan left behind a family with five children. Son Henry was eight at the time of the accident. Gerrit Jan’s daughters were Jane, Mary, Tonia and Delia. Delia, the youngest, was only three months old when her father died. Soon after, the case on the pier would cause the Walvoord family even more suffering. In January 1857, the shop and home burned down and the family lost most of their possessions and almost everything they had invested there.

    The elder Hendrik Walvoord had money and bought some land. Both his family and Gerrit Jan’s family moved to a farm near Amsterdam. The house was built for the two families and they lived there together for some time. Henry Walvoord (son of Gerrit Jan) was married there.

    Janna Diena Walvoord (1825–1894)

    Janna Diena (Jane) Walvoord (born 27 June 1825) was the youngest sister of Hendrik Walvoord. Jane came to America in 1849 with her brother Henry. After arriving in America, she married a man also named Walvoord: Derk Antonij (Dirk Tony) Walvoord (Lichtenvoorde, 1820). Jane died on October 8, 1894 in Holland, Sheboygan. Jane and Dirk Tony had three sons: Garrett, Tony and William.

    Garrett married Delia Huenink in 1886 and had six children: Jennie, Minnie, Anna, Elmer, Alice and Della. Tony married Janna Pot in 1886 and had four children: Antoinette, Mabel, Agnes and Alvin. Tony’s second marriage in 1900 to Sarah Hilbelink produced no children. William married Jennie Flipse in 1892, an older sister of Mary Flipse who later married a distant cousin of William’s, John Garrett Walvoord. William and Jennie had five children: Louis, Clarence, Marion, Esther, and Harvey.

    Walvoord Cemetery

    On 11 July 1856, Hendrik Walvoord (1802-1865) lost his only son Gerrit Jan, who had drowned in Lake Michigan at the age of thirty. In his will, Henry reserved an acre of land (about 0.4 hectares) for a family cemetery in section 26 of Holland Township. As stated in the will:

    “First, I give and bequeath to the children of my son Gerrit Jan Walvoord (deceased) and to their children who may be born and their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, in a word to the descendants of the said children of my son Gerrit Jan Walvoord (deceased), an acre of land lying and located in the County of Sheboygan and the State of Wisconsin, known and described as follows: …” (then the exact location is described).

    Walvoord Cemetery, Cedar Grove, Wisconsin
    Walvoord Cemetery, Cedar Grove, Wisconsin (photo: FindAGrave)

    So according to Henry’s will, every descendant of Gerrit Jan Walvoord (“down to posterity”) could be buried on this family plot. Over time, the Walvoord Cemetery was surrounded by Cedar Grove as the village grew. Today, the cemetery is located in downtown Cedar Grove on Main Street.

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  • Adventurous couple

    Adventurous couple

    The emigration story of Willy Bulten and Peter Klaassen (1955)

    Wilhelmina Adriana Bulten (1928-2020)
    Willy Bulten

    Wilhelmina Adriana (Willy) Bulten was born on June 3, 1928 in Aalten. Willy loved to read and that helped her get through the five difficult years of the Nazi occupation. The kitchen of her parental home was bombed during the war, forcing the Bulten family to move. She helped her mother in the family’s flower shop, while her father ran a successful landscaping business.

    After the war, Willy went to study to become a teacher in Rotterdam. During this period she got into a relationship with the handsome Peter Klaassen from Susteren (Limburg). Peter was conscripted into the Dutch army after the Second World War and served in the Dutch East Indies for two years. They married on July 12, 1954 and made their honeymoon on a motorcycle through Europe.

    The housing market and the labor market in the Netherlands were challenging in the post-war years for the ambitious couple who wanted to explore the world. Like many before them, they sought their fortune abroad and considered emigrating to Australia, Canada or the United States. In 1955, an opportunity arose to move to the US. The adventurous couple boarded a ship in Rotterdam, bound for New York, followed by a train journey across America.

    They settled in the town of Mount Vernon, just north of Seattle, in the state of Washington. They later moved to Kirkland, Washington. In 1963, they became American citizens. They had four children: Paul, Annely, Janine and John.

    Wilhelmina Adriana Klaassen-Bulten - Naturalization of US citizenship, 13-05-1963
    Naturalization as a U.S. citizen, 1963
    Willy & Peter Klaassen-Bulten
    Willy & Peter Klaassen-Bulten

    In 1971, their thirst for adventure and discovery led the Klaassen family to drive across America to Fairfax, Virginia. Willy became principal of the Commonwealth Christian School there. In 1979 she founded the Appletree Private School, where toddlers up to group 3 received education and care. Parents were enthusiastic about this new school with the knowledgeable, energetic and cheerful headmistress with her charming Dutch accent. It was such a success that she opened a second branch in Northern Virginia a few years later. After two decades, she said goodbye to the Appletree Schools to spend more time reading, traveling with Peter, enjoying the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, and visiting family.

    Peter passed away in 2018 and Willy in 2020. They were buried at Flint Hill Cemetery in Oakton, Virginia.

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  • A mother remained faithful to her birthplace

    A mother remained faithful to her birthplace

    Trouw, 25 July 1953

    HARRY KRAAYENBRINK from Sioux Center in America, one of the most solidly built corporals in the American army of occupation in Germany, is a farmer in civilian life. Before he joined the company, he worked on his father’s farm (160 ha) in Sioux Center. In the American army there will be more soldiers who are well in the hands of the team, but there will not be many who, like Harry Kraayenbrink, can have a chat with a colleague from the Achterhoek without any difficulty.

    That’s how it is with Harry: Forty-one years ago, Hendrik Kraayenbrink and Leide Nijman emigrated from Sinderen near Varsseveld. The couple had seven children, five boys and two girls and father Kraayenbrink believed that there would be no work for his boys in the Netherlands, at least if they wanted to become farmers.

    That is why he had been planning to emigrate to America for years, but his wife opposed this intention. Until 1912. Then she could no longer cope and gave in: the Kraayenbrink family was going to America. Mother Leide (born in IJzerlo) was not at all happy with it. She went to America because her husband wanted it and because she wanted to stay with her children, but she didn’t feel like it at all.

    Dialect

    Once they arrived in America, father Kraayenbrink and his family were doing well. Over the years, they had their own company. But, no matter how prosperous it went, mother Leide could not forget Sinderen and the Achterhoek. For her, there was no better country than the Netherlands and no more excellent region than the Achterhoek in Gelderland. Mother Leide resolved never to forget her beautiful Achterhoek, nor the Achterhoek dialect. She also resolved never to learn to speak English and she held on to that until her death – now four years ago.

    Harry Kraayenbrink borrowed a bicycle in Aalten - Trouw, 25-07-1953
    Harry Kraayenbrink has borrowed a bicycle in Aalten. On this bike he has crossed the Gelderse Achterhoek in recent days and visited his family.

    Mother Kraayenbrink continued to speak the Gelderland dialect. Anyone who wanted to talk to her had to learn Achterhoeks and otherwise… Well, then the conversation didn’t go on.

    Benjamin

    The youngest son of the Kraayenbrink family was about sixteen months old when they left Sinderen. It was born as Bernard Willem Kraayenbrink, but he was called Benjamin or Ben.

    Benjamin had to go to school in America with his brothers and sisters. It was a school where lessons were taught in English. So the children started to speak English, but that did not stop mother Kraayenbrink from continuing to speak Achterhoeks at home. That is why the children spoke two languages: English and Achterhoek dialect.

    Benjamin Kraayenbrink became a man. Then the day came that Benjamin asked his parents for permission to marry Jeanette van Roekel. Jeanette was a girl whose parents lived in America, but whose ancestry came from the Netherlands. The latter contributed in no small way to mother Leide giving permission for the marriage. Jeanette was in any case of Dutch descent.

    The years came one after the other. Benjamin and Jeanette, who had started their own farm not far from Hendrik Kraayenbrink’s farm, had a family: seven children were born there: four girls and three boys. Harry Kraayenbrink was the oldest.

    Especially the eldest children often went to their grandmother and she told her grandchildren of the Netherlands, of the Gelderse Achterhoek, of Sinderen and of Aalten, where family lived. But grandmother continued to speak Achterhoeks, also to her grandchildren, who gradually also learned the Gelderland dialect during “private lessons” that they received unnoticed from their grandmother from their grandmother.

    The grandchildren thought they spoke the Dutch language, but they sometimes noticed that grandmother also spoke another language. They heard that when she read from the Bible.

    Four years ago, grandmother died and when the eldest grandchildren think of her, they think of the Achterhoek dialect and of the beautiful forests and the beautiful cornfields in the Gelderland Achterhoek, about which she has told so often and so beautifully.

    In Germany

    The previous year, Harry had to go into service. He was sent to Germany and thanks to the fact that an aunt – aunt Hanne – had maintained the relationship with the family in Aalten and Sinderen through correspondence, Harry was given addresses. Who knows, maybe he had the opportunity to go to the Netherlands. That opportunity came. Harry was given a leave of thirteen days. He boarded the train in Frankfurt and via Arnhem he traveled to Aalten, where he arrived with the last train, in the middle of the night. He thought it was too strange to visit his family so late. Harry spent the night in a hotel and the hotel owner made sure that one of the family members, Mr . H.A. Nijman from Aalten, was called, who came to pick Harry up.

    In the past few days, Harry has been looking at the Achterhoek. He has seen where his grandparents lived and where they went to church, where his father was baptized and where his grandmother worked in the fields. Harry has also discovered that he does not speak Dutch, but the Achterhoek dialect. He has had a lot of ease from the fact that his grandmother stubbornly held on to her own regional language.

    Amsterdam

    Harry thinks the Achterhoek is beautiful, just as beautiful as his grandmother always said. Next week he will go to Amsterdam for a few days. He wants to see the capital of the Netherlands, where, as grandmother has always said, it is just as busy as in the big cities of America…

    Another six months and then Harry will have finished military service. He is not sorry. “I don’t want to go back to my house and help my father on the farm”. But first, Harry wants to see Amsterdam. He just hopes that he can understand the people there, because of course they don’t speak Achterhoek and Harry doesn’t understand Dutch very well, but he will try to get by in Amsterdam with the Achterhoek dialect.

    “Maybe she laughs at me in Amsterdam and thinks, what kind of farmer is that, who can’t speak Dutch. She still has a lot of fun, because I’m also a farmer, an American farmer…”

    Biography of Harry Lester Kraayenbrink

    Harry Lester Kraayenbrink was born on February 20, 1930 in Sioux Center, Iowa, the son of Ben and Jeanette (Van Roekel) Kraayenbrink. He grew up on a farm near Sioux Center and graduated from Sioux Center High School in 1947.

    On February 26, 1952, Harry enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and was stationed in Germany. After his honorable discharge on February 9, 1954, he returned to his birthplace.

    On 20 April 1956, Harry married Wilma Cleveringa. He worked at the Sioux Center Co-op and the Sioux Center Lumberyard. In 1959, the couple moved to Maurice, where Harry farmed for six years before moving to a farm north of Sioux Center. This is where Harry and Wilma raised their four daughters.

    In 1988, Harry retired. He had many hobbies and interests, including woodworking, carpentry, golf, fishing, biking, pool, and playing cards at the Senior Center. He and Wilma also enjoyed trips to visit family and trips to the lakes.

    Harry passed away on December 15, 2017 at the age of 87 at the Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center. He was buried in Memory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery.

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  • Miss te Slaa has not forgotten the Netherlands after 42 years in the U.S.

    Miss te Slaa has not forgotten the Netherlands after 42 years in the U.S.

    Daily newspaper Tubantia, 23 May 1953

    “I will be very pleased if you try to speak to me in Dutch,” Wilhelmina te Slaa from Lyndhurst – a city in the United States – said to us four years ago when we were talking to her in the living room of the Somsen family, Hogestraat Aalten. That was Friday, August 5, 1949. A few days earlier, Ms. Wilhelmina te Slaa arrived in the Netherlands and because it was precisely in the period in which the question of Indonesia was in the center of attention in the Netherlands, but also abroad, we wanted to receive from Ms. in Slaa we would like to know what people in America thought about the Netherlands and the relations with Indonesia.

    Wilhelmina te Slaa - Dagblad Tubantia, 23-05-1953
    Miss Wilhelmina in Slaa in front of her home

    What Ms. te Slaa at the time, is irrelevant here. We have almost forgotten about it and the image of Miss te Slaa has also faded in our minds. Only occasionally, when we leaf through our photo album, did we suddenly remember this hefty lady with dark glasses, sparkling eyes, this lady who could talk so pleasantly and could speak English and Dutch so nicely.

    Major relief operation for disaster area

    In 1911 Wilhelmina te Slaa, together with her parents and her sisters Grada, Hanna, Betje and Drika and her brother Dirk went to America. In 1949 she was in the Netherlands for a few weeks and then she went back to her school in Lyndhurst, where she teaches American youth.

    However, that she has not forgotten the Netherlands is proven by several important events in her life and that has also recently become apparent. Miss Wilhelmina te Slaa has, immediately after the news of the disaster that has struck the Netherlands on February 1, organized a relief action for the affected in the Netherlands. In the Washington School at Lyndhurst she gave a speech to the youth. She told of the suffering that has affected many in the Netherlands and she gave an enthusiastic speech about the small country by the sea, her native country.

    “We have to bring clothes together for the people in the Netherlands,” said Ms. in Slaa and she didn’t have to say that twice. All students of the school were in favor of the plan and they went to work. A collection of clothes began in Lyndhurst. Miss te Slaa personally took the lead. Anyone who wanted to miss clothes could give it to one of the pupils, and there were many in Lyndhurst who responded to the call of Miss Slaa. “Operation Holland” called Ms. in Slaa the action. The local press in Lyndhurst cooperated every possible way to stimulate “Operation Holland” and even went so far in its zeal that it wrote that the popular miss in Slaa had been born in the region that had been flooded by the disaster… The latter was a bit exaggerated, because Aalten is still high and dry on the quietly rippling Slinge.

    Crates full of goods to the Netherlands

    The result of the action was that one crate after another could be packed with goods. This work was done by the pupils of Miss te Slaa in one of the annexes of the Washington School and when all the crates were packed – Yes, to whom was it to be sent then? Miss te Slaa didn’t know. She still knows a lot about the conditions in the Netherlands, but after all, it has been 42 years since she left the Netherlands as a girl of barely eleven years old. However, Miss te Slaa knew that the flooded areas were in the vicinity of Rotterdam and therefore she sent the coffins to the deaconies of various denominations in the Maasstad.

    Wilhelmina te Slaa, school Lyndhurst - Dagblad Tubantia, 23-05-1953
    Miss Wilhelmina in Slaa with the pupils of the Washington School in Lyndhurst. The goods collected for the victims of the flood disaster in the Netherlands are packed.

    Miss te Slaa has shown that, although she is American in her entire life, she has always kept a great place for the Netherlands in her heart. It is not the first time in the past forty-two years that Miss te Slaa has organized an aid campaign for the Netherlands. She also knows how to get things done and in that respect she shows that she has as much entrepreneurial spirit as her father, Berend te Slaa, the carpenter from Hoogestraat from Aalten who in 1911 became the topic of conversation in many families in Aalten because he had taken it into his head to go to the United States with his wife and offspring.

    “I didn’t like that at all at the time,” Miss te Slaa told us four years ago and neither did my brother and sisters. “I had just completed six classes of primary school in the Netherlands and in America, because I didn’t know a word of English – except for yes and no – I had to start again in the first grade. However, after two years I had gone through the entire school and I spoke English like the best. I trained as a teacher, graduated and worked successively in different schools. I like it quite a bit. In my spare time, I go to a university, because I want to try to get a doctorate.”

    As said, miss te Slaa has a warm heart for the Netherlands. This became apparent on 10 May 1940, the day on which the Netherlands was overwhelmed by the Germans. No sooner had Miss te Slaa in the U.S. heard the news of the raid on the radio than she called the Dutch embassy. “The Netherlands has been raided,” she said to the ambassador, “what do you have to do for me?”

    Organizing on a large scale

    “You are the first to call about this,” the ambassador replied. Miss te Slaa did not wait long for an organized relief campaign. She immediately began to organize. Friends and acquaintances were made enthusiastic about her plan and started under her leadership with the manufacture of garments for the merchant navy. Miss te Slaa constantly expanded the campaign. More and more women’s clubs and organizations from all over America were called in, so that the relief effort took on a tremendous size. The merchant navy did not need everything that was made for a long time. However, Miss te Slaa did not slow down the enthusiasm, she rather encouraged it. And so it was possible that, shortly after the liberation of the Netherlands, crates full of garments could be sent to the Netherlands, which were gratefully accepted here.

    The work of Miss te Slaa not only attracted the attention of numerous women’s organizations in the U.S., the Dutch government also knew about her work and it was a great satisfaction for “this Dutch American” when H.M. Queen Wilhelmina sent her the “Badge for Social Work” from London. However, it did not stop with this badge. During the war years, Princess Juliana came to speak personally with Miss te Slaa about her work. This meeting took place in New York. Afterwards, Miss te Slaa also had a meeting with Queen Wilhelmina, during which the relief work and its organization were discussed. Miss te Slaa is entirely the type of an American woman; a woman who goes through life purposefully, but after having lived in America for 42 years, her heart beats as strongly for the Netherlands as it used to, when Willemientje te Slaa sang at a school in Aalten: “Do you know the land, the sea snatched…”

    Wilhelmina te Slaa was born on November 12, 1899 at the Hogestraat 24 in Aalten, daughter of carpenter Berend te Slaa and Berendina Gezina Somsen. On November 24, 1911, the Te Slaa family left Aalten and emigrated to the United States.

    Wilhelmina te Slaa died on September 25, 1981 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The local newspaper wrote after her death:

    MIDLAND PARK – Wilhelmina te Slaa, 81, died Friday at the Valley Hospital, Ridgewood. Born in the Netherlands, she came to the United States at age 11, living for many years in Prospect Park before moving to Midland Park five years ago. She was a retired teacher of the Eastern Christian system for 23 years. She was a member of the Midland Park Christian Reformed Church and was a graduate of Calvin College, Michigan, and had attended Columbia and Rutgers universities. She also taught the blind at the North Jersey Training School, Totowa. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. Arrangements are by J.H. Olthuis Funeral Home, 159 Godwin Ave. John Goodrich Sr.

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  • A trip back and forth to the Netherlands

    A trip back and forth to the Netherlands

    De Volksvriend, 12 October 1950

    Travelogue of a Dutch emigrant, Hendrik Jan Tuininga, who visits the old homeland – and also Aalten – with his wife and daughter .

    In the last 4 years, many former Dutchmen living in America have made this trip, either over England or by “Holland America Line“. Many of these have no urge to report in a newspaper about what trip they had, or how they found the old homeland with their family and friends. And yet, if there is anyone who wants to do the pleasure of the “Friend of the People” to report something about it, I never skip reading such travel descriptions. For the latter reason, and because the Friend of the People also wants to give its readers of such a nature, I have also proceeded to recount our journey, which my wife and I and our youngest daughter Gertrude, did with the three of us, here.

    Departure from Orange City

    Arrival of the Nieuw Amsterdam in Rotterdam (1946)
    Arrival of the Nieuw Amsterdam in Rotterdam (1946)

    On Friday afternoon about 2 o’clock we were leaving Orange City, when our son Harry van Boyden picked us up and brought us on the train in the evening, which left 6.01 from Sheldon. In Madison the train stopped for coffee for 20 minutes, it was then 5.10 a.m. It was wet everywhere on the land. We stopped for a few days with our son in Chicago, and after seeing some peculiarities, we went by train to Hoboken, and stopped another night in Paterson, and saw New York a little, and went on board the “Nieuw Amsterdam” on the 28th of April, a huge ship, 700 feet long and 108 feet wide. I think this boat is 60 to 70 feet high from the steering bridge to the waterline.

    We heard that the Society had made 16 million last year. The travel costs are high, but the food and service is rata. In 1908 we gave 200 guilders for a ticket per person from Rotterdam to Rock Valley, lowa, then 80 dollars and per second class. The weather was also nice, and one has this free of charge, and then one can enjoy the other thing. One then makes pleasant acquaintance with many passengers, with some so that one never forgets each other. We had Sunday morning service of the Word, by a businessman.

    It was Saturday morning, May 6, when we moored at the pier in Rotterdam of the Holland America Line. First our luggage checked by the commies and then our return tickets were arranged. Then we saw my sister Mrs. W. Obbink van Aalten soon and after having lunch in a café, we went together to the Maas station by taxi, to get off at 4 o’clock in the afternoon at Aalten, Gelderland.

    Aalten

    In Aalten and surrounding villages we saw many houses missing among the others, which had been bombed and many where they were building and many were also finished. The ordinances there are such that when a new house is built, it must be absolutely modern. But in old houses, even if they are neat houses, almost everything is still primitive. In Arnhem, where there was also so much bombing, almost everything has been rebuilt.

    In Aalten we went to church on Sundays, where so many boys were picked up by the Germans on a Sunday afternoon for the labour camps. In Aalten, street sermons are held every Saturday evening at half past eight in the summer, in turn; one Saturday evening by the pastor of the Geref. Church, Mr. Jan Nawijn and the following Saturday evening by one of the Darbist brothers. I enjoyed both.

    There are three large church buildings in Aalten that belong to the Reformed; a large Reformed church; a Darbist meeting and a Roman Catholic church and a Synagogue. As far as I know, there are none in Aalten who belong to the resigned. Aalten is religious in every way.

    The surroundings of Aalten are beautiful. I have never seen such a tree growth anywhere. Oak trees so beautiful and straight and a whole beautiful avenue.

    The conditions of the worker have improved enormously compared to 50 years ago. At a certain age, they are provided with a pension. The civil servants with 55 years, the ordinary workman 60 and 65 and then it is not allowed to work with others, which is paid. There is also a free Saturday afternoon in the Netherlands. Almost everything can be bought freely again, everything, except coffee. People live generously again, a big difference from the past. Cake and candy are well used. Coffee is scarce and is therefore drunk with 8/10ths hot milk.

    There was a nervous thought about the Communists. And they all wanted to go to America. We have recommended it to few.

    Amsterdam

    We visited the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam. This is one of the most beautiful cities in Holland, with its four large long canals, Prinsengracht, Keizergracht, Heerengracht and Singel and with its many bridges. Is there any city in the world that has so many bridges? Amsterdam can regulate its own water level, because it has a complete lock system.

    Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter is deserted. I was told, people who lived in that neighborhood, that in the evening and at night one could hear women and children screaming when the Germans picked up carloads to Germany. And on the way, I was told, they put a hose in the tank or truck where they were sitting and let it go full throttle, so that they arrived dead in Germany, and were immediately consumed in ovens.

    The houses in the Jodenbreestraat are still there. One can see that what wanted to burn was demolished during the war years. And yet Israel is blind, and has a lid on her face. Hope in the Lord, you remnant, if Israel is in need, there will be deliverance. His goodness is very great. He will once set all Israel free from iniquities on the prayers of the remnant (from Ps. 130).

    Friesland

    On a Sunday morning we went by bus to Makkum for church. Here we saw a rather famous shipyard, whose director did business with Palestine Jews. Four 70-ton fishing boats were now made. One was ready and would sail to Palestine the next day under its own power, with a Jewish crew and a Jewish David’s flag on.

    We spent a lot of time in Bolsward, where family lived there and many friends from my school youth and also until I was eighteen, where we sailed to Amsterdam as turnsmen. Where now Mr. Jurian Kok is captain and owner. The ship that Kok bought from my father and is now 50 years old is still sailing. It was a great pleasure to see the forecastle and aft cabin for the last time.

    We also spent a day with Ulbe Faber and watched in Wieringermeer. Much has been suffered there, but God also helped out of it by restoring the flooded polder and allowing rich crops to grow again.

    Back home

    After having enjoyed a lot with my wife’s brother Klaas van der Kooi and wife in Longerhou, we went from there to Aalten at the end of June and then again on the Holland America Line in Rotterdam, to leave June 30 with the Veendam, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. We had great friends on the outward journey. On the return trip we will not soon forget friends Mr. Bakker of Amsterdam and Mrs. van der Lely of Naaldwijk.

    We are back in Orange City. If we can do it again, we won’t stop it. It was also beautiful at sea both trips. If you go and can, go in the spring. Holland is a beautiful country, and its spring is typical.

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  • Two Aalten boys in search of fortune

    Two Aalten boys in search of fortune

    De Graafschapper, March 30, 1948

    A few months ago, Johan Hoftiezer from the Aaltense Heurne was still working in the Noordoostpolder, and around that time his cousin Jan Hoftiezer, also from the Heurne, was still quietly milking the cows of farmer Westerveld from IJzerlo. Now, these two Aalten boys are looking at the black and white lines of the “Nieuw Amsterdam,” the flagship of the Holland-America Line, which will take them to America. On the occasion of their departure, both Hoftiezer families from “Meirika” and “‘t Oude Hondorp” came from Aalten to Rotterdam by bus last Friday to see Johan and Jan off.

    Nieuw Amsterdam, Holland-America Line
    The ‘Nieuw Amsterdam’ of the Holland-America Line

    They stand somewhat awkwardly on the Wilhelminakade, marveling at the immense dimensions of this proud sea castle that will soon carry their two relatives to the other side of the ocean, to America, the land of unlimited possibilities. With hands above their heads, they peer over the waters of the Maas, which cuts Rotterdam in two like a silver snake, and their eyes seek out the busy shipping traffic on Rotterdam’s great river. Meanwhile, embarkation is in full swing, and Jan and Johan also prepare to go on board. “It is not easy,” says mother Hoftiezer, “to give up your child, but it is for his future and there are many more opportunities there.”

    A moment later, we also go on board, as we wish to ask Johan and Jan a few more questions. Through a labyrinth of corridors and stairs, we finally reach the boat deck and find our future emigrants there. Johan worked in the Noordoostpolder for 2½ years. “It was good there,” he says, “but it would have taken another 5 or 6 years before I would have been eligible to lease a farm, and in Aalten you certainly stand no chance.”

    Jan has always been a farmhand but has never sought work as far away as his cousin. “During the war I had to go into hiding, and after the war I worked in IJzerlo. Of course, I have no chance here in Holland either. We are not married and not even engaged, so we are not leaving behind weeping wives or fiancées.”

    They further tell us that they are going to Woodstock, in the state of Minnesota. They previously corresponded with the Kruisselbrink family, who used to live at “Groot Kappers” and who have acted as their guarantors. They will be employed on a mixed farm of 200 hectares. “That is at least a bit larger than back home, because we only have 7 hectares at home,” Johan says laconically.

    When the bell rings, visitors must leave the ship, and we take our leave of the two cousins. “Give everyone in Aalten our regards via the newspaper,” Johan asks, and we confirm this. Slowly, two tugboats begin to pull the colossus toward the middle of the river. Those staying behind on the quay wave scarves and handkerchiefs, and the “Nieuw Amsterdam” disappears into a haze of smoke. For the two Aalten boys, the journey to America has begun. They will have to work hard there, but we are convinced that they will uphold the name of their village, Aalten, in Minnesota. Safe travels, a prosperous voyage, and much success is wished to them.

    Passenger card 'Nieuw Amsterdam', 1948 - Albert J. Hoftiezer
    Passenger card ‘Nieuw Amsterdam’, Albert J. Hoftiezer
    Passenger card 'Nieuw Amsterdam', 1948 - Gerrit J. Hoftiezer
    Passenger card ‘Nieuw Amsterdam’, Gerrit J. Hoftiezer

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  • List of emigrants from Aalten to the USA

    List of emigrants from Aalten to the USA

    The list below contains almost all emigrants to the United States who were living in Aalten at the time of emigration. We try to find their grave on FindAGrave as much as possible. Work in progress and errors reserved.

    AchternaamTussenv.VoornaamGeb.datumEmigratieSchipLaatste NL adresGraf
    AalbersAntonia Antonetta22-11-18661882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AalbersGeertruida Stiena04-05-18701882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AalbersGerharda19-08-18681882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AalbersHanna Christina31-12-18181869Dale 71Orange City, Sioux, IA
    AalbersHendrikus Gerhardus20-10-18591882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AalbersMina Gerharda11-06-18651882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AalbersSophia Antonetta30-07-18581882Bredevoort 102
    AalbersStiena01-07-18741882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AalbersTonij Marinus13-12-18621882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    AarninkJohanna Harmina17-06-18151857CasildaBredevoort 118Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    AbersonAntonius10-02-18481868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
    AbersonCatharina Maria05-06-18631868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)
    AbersonChristina Elizabeth05-10-18581868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)Brooklyn, NY
    AbersonGerrit20-08-18161868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)Brooklyn, NY
    AbersonHendrika24-02-18561868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)
    AbersonIsabella10-08-18531869Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
    AbersonJohanna Maria06-05-18511868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)Brooklyn, NY
    AbersonJohannes Wilhelmus22-03-18491869Aalten 91 (’t Dal?)Middle Village, Queens, NY
    AlbersMargaretha11-12-18351887Aalten 279a
    AnsinkDela Harmina24-01-18321846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    AnsinkDerk Jan27-07-18181854Dijkstraat 30, Aalten
    AnsinkGerritdiena26-08-18511854Dijkstraat 30, Aalten
    AnsinkHendrika Gerritdiena16-01-18451854Dijkstraat 30, Aalten
    AnsinkHendrika Johanna07-03-18371846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)
    AnsinkJan Derk30-04-18401846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    AnsinkMaria30-06-17741854Aalten 201a (Prinsenstraat)
    ArentzenArent Jan10-10-18321846Lintelo 69 (Klein Hengeveld)
    ArentzenHendrika Berendina07-06-18401866Hogestraat 6, AaltenGreenwood Heights, Brooklyn, NY
    ArentzenJan Willem27-06-18361867Aalten 213 (Polstraat)
    AsmusJan Berend05-10-18211845Prinsenstraat 24, Aalten
    AssinkGerritjen12-10-18621882Bredevoort 103
    AssinkHendrik Jan30-06-18311872Dale 68 (Hunink)
    AssinkHermanus28-01-18581881Dale 66 (Wichers)Moxee City, Yakima, WA
    BatenAaltjen18-10-18061846Koppelstraat 10, BredevoortBrighton, Monroe, NY
    BatenBerend Hendrik21-09-18231846Koppelstraat 10, BredevoortAalten, NL (teruggekeerd?)
    BatenGerrit Jan11-02-18451846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)
    BatenManes25-12-18101846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)
    BatenWillemina30-09-18421846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)
    BeckerBernardus27-01-18461847Lichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    BeckerJohann Bernard16-02-18061847Lichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    BeckerJohanna Geertruida08-10-18431847Lichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    BeckerJohannes Arnoldus25-05-18411847Lichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    BecudeAdam Christiaan Wilhelm19-11-18471868Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, Aalten
    BeekingJoanna Berendina06-03-18401869Dale 8a
    BeekinkGeertruit30-12-17931847Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)
    BeeningJohannes13-10-18361868Aalten 63a (Landstraat?)Waupun, Fond du Lac, WI
    BeestterAleida Grada15-09-18331856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)
    BeestterArend14-06-17741856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)
    BeestterBerend04-06-18061856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    BeestterBerendina Harmina23-06-18461855Dale 79a
    BeestterBerendina Louiza19-12-18491856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)
    BeestterChristiaan30-06-18431869NestorianHeurne 16 (Ongena)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BeestterDerk Adolf Gerrit08-06-18411856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    BeestterEvert Coenraad03-05-18361856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    BeestterGarritjen05-10-18331869NestorianHeurne 16 (Ongena)
    BeestterGrada Hendrika23-06-18461855Dale 79aOverisel, Allegan, MI
    BeestterHendrik12-10-18391869NestorianHeurne 16 (Ongena)
    BeestterHendrik Jan08-03-18381854Barlo 68 (’t Fukker)
    BeestterHendrik Jan19-05-18291869NestorianHeurne 16 (Ongena)
    BeestterHendrik Jan24-08-18351855Dale 79aGreenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    BeestterHendrik Samuel27-11-18381856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)
    BeestterHendrik Willem03-05-18411854Barlo 68 (’t Fukker)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    BeestterJacobus Mauritz21-05-18441856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)Memphis, TN
    BeestterTonia Berendina13-09-18411855Dale 79a
    BeijerAleida Johanna07-06-18891893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Hull, Sioux, IA
    BeijerDerk Willem27-01-18761893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Sheldon, O’Brien, IA
    BeijerGerrit Jan30-01-18831893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Sheldon, O’Brien, IA
    BeijerHendrik Jan30-04-18781893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Hull, Sioux, IA
    BeijerHermanus21-02-18391893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Hull, Sioux, IA
    BeijerJohan Willem21-10-18731893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Sheldon, O’Brien, IA
    BeijerJohanna Hendrika18-02-18861893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Hull, Sioux, IA
    BeijerMina Everdina17-06-18801893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    BekinkHendrik Jan16-06-18851887Aalten 63Chili, Monroe, NY
    BekinkHendrika Willemina04-09-18571887Aalten 63Chili, Monroe, NY
    BekkersBerendina Willemina20-10-18401868Haart 24 (Beestman)
    BenninkGesina17-01-18201869Lintelo 142Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    BenninkJanna Berendina05-09-18491871Bredevoort 5 (Den Diek)Boston, MA
    BerendschotAleida10-09-18351868Aalten 63a (Landstraat?)
    Bergvan denAnna03-08-18251853Ambthuiswal 16, Bredevoort
    BessinkpasAnna Christina09-05-18661883Haart 44 (Jentink)Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    BlekkinkJan Hendrik26-01-18311854Gasthuisstraat 7, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    BlekkinkJanna Geertruid05-04-17921846HectorHaart 32 (Den Bosch)
    BloemersEvert09-07-18351867PennsylvaniaAalten 188 (Prinsenstraat?)Salem, Salem, NJ
    BloemersGerrit Willem25-01-18671867PennsylvaniaAalten 188 (Prinsenstraat?)Salem, Salem, NJ
    BloemersGrada Aleida14-07-18641867PennsylvaniaAalten 188 (Prinsenstraat?)Salem, Salem, NJ
    BloemersHendrik Jan06-08-18791882Landstraat 14, BredevoortHingham, Sheboygan, WI
    BloemersWilhelm30-12-18471882Landstraat 14, BredevoortHingham, Sheboygan, WI
    BoeijinkAlberdina Elisabeth07-09-18261846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)Milwaukee, WI
    BoeijinkGeertruid21-12-18341846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)
    BoeijinkHarmiena Johanna04-04-18281846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)Hammond, St. Croix, WI
    BoeijinkHendrik Jan01-12-17981846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)
    BoeijinkHendrik Jan14-09-18291846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)
    BoeijinkJan Willem04-05-18401846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)
    BoeijinkJohanna Hendrika13-09-18371846Dale 26 (’t Villeken)Milwaukee, WI
    BoeinckHendrik Willem14-12-18151845Aalten 30 (Dijkstraat)
    BoeinckHendrina08-10-18261845Aalten 30 (Dijkstraat)
    BöingElisabeth16-08-18421847Dale 7 (Grote Maat)
    BöingGerhard Johann10-05-18131847Dale 7 (Grote Maat)
    BöingGerhardus Johannes25-08-18461847Dale 7 (Grote Maat)Schenectady, Schenectady, NY
    BoinkEva15-05-18031847Aalten 94a
    BökersJohanna22-10-18281849Heurne 11
    BokkelteGarritjen27-02-18201847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BokkelteHendrika21-05-17911846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)
    BolandGerrit Hendrik19-04-18731881Barlo 99 (Tente)
    BolandJan Hendrik28-08-18451881Barlo 99 (Tente)
    BolandJohan Berend Willem16-02-18801881Barlo 99 (Tente)
    BolenderAnna Catharina12-04-18461847Bredevoort 146
    BolenderJohannes06-03-18121847Bredevoort 146
    BolenderWillemina15-03-18451847Bredevoort 146
    BoomBerend Willem25-09-18591882Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    BoomBerendina02-06-18671883Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BoomGerrit Willem26-09-18261883Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    BorgterJanna Geertruid27-06-18021855AlexanderBredevoort 76 (’t Zand)
    BorninkhofEngelbartha Gesina25-01-18331847Kath JacksonHaart 34 (Lieftocht a/d Borninkhof)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BorninkhofGarrit Jan05-05-18451881Dale 88 (Kleinpenning)Sheboygan, Sheboygan, WI
    BorninkhofGerritjen15-06-18681869Heurne 2 (’t Slaa)
    BorninkhofJan Willem21-08-18311869Heurne 2 (’t Slaa)
    BorninkhofJohanna Gesina24-01-18791881Dale 88 (Kleinpenning)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BorninkhofJohanna Willemina24-11-18411847Kath JacksonHaart 34 (Lieftocht a/d Borninkhof)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    BorninkhofTonia Aleida29-01-18381881Heurne 27 (Klein Kappers)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    BorninkhofTonia Sophia08-12-18381847Kath JacksonHaart 34 (Lieftocht a/d Borninkhof)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BorninkhofWillemina08-04-18801881Dale 88 (Kleinpenning)Sheboygan, Sheboygan, WI
    BoschCatharina Louiza08-12-18051856RenemLintelo 41 (Mager/Arendshuis)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    BosketeBerendina08-10-18241847Prinsenstraat 17, Aalten
    BosmanAnna Theodora28-10-18661868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)Kaukauna, Outagamie, WI
    BosmanBernardus06-12-18421868Aalten 53 (Dijkstraat?)
    BosmanHendrik11-09-18331868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)Wrightstown, Brown, WI
    BosmanJohannes Hermanus24-08-18641868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, WI
    BouhuisGesina Berendina21-08-18471869Barlo 88aBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    BouhuisHendrik Willem15-08-18451867Barlo 88aCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BouhuisLeida Grada10-01-18501869Barlo 88aCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BouwmanGerrigjen16-03-18101846Landstraat 30, Aalten
    BouwmeesterArent Jan22-07-18651869NestorianAalten 189a (Prinsenstraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    BouwmeesterGerharda10-02-18291872Heuvelweg 10, Lintelo
    BouwmeesterJohannes24-10-18321869NestorianAalten 189a (Prinsenstraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    BouwmeesterJosina Aleida26-12-18671869NestorianAalten 189a (Prinsenstraat?)
    BraketeArent Jan19-07-18281846Aalten 218Milwaukee, WI
    BraketeGerrit Jan01-09-17991846Aalten 218
    BraketeGrada Harmina05-07-18411846Aalten 218
    BraketeHendrik Jan16-01-18971911Dinxperlosestr. 110, IJzerlo
    BraketeHendrika Antonia23-03-18341846Aalten 218
    BraketeHendrika Johanna11-02-18391846Aalten 218
    BrethouwerAdrianus12-11-18141847Kath JacksonHaart 13 (Slotboom)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BrethouwerAleida08-09-18431847Kath JacksonHaart 13 (Slotboom)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    BrethouwerElisabeth02-03-18401847Kath JacksonHaart 13 (Slotboom)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BrethouwerJan Willem27-06-18371847Kath JacksonHaart 13 (Slotboom)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BreugelmanBernard10-12-18101835Kerkstraat 7, Aalten
    BrinketenAntonia28-04-18191854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenGibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    BrinketenBerendina22-10-18631892Lintelo 97 (Steengroeve)Galway, Saratoga, NY
    BrinketenDerk Jan24-05-18041847Aalten 205a
    BrinketenHendrik Jan20-12-18441847Aalten 205aHolland, Lancaster, NE
    BrinketenJohanna Harmina14-12-18861887IJzerlo 51aHull, Sioux, IA
    BrinketenJohanna Wilhelmina Eva15-04-18411847Aalten 205a
    BrinketenLambertus Hendrikus28-04-18851887IJzerlo 51aOrange City, Sioux, IA
    BrinketenTheodorus07-03-18551887IJzerlo 51a
    BruggemeijerWilhelm Simon18091855Kerkstraat 12, Aalten
    BrugginkJohanna Maria09-02-18211846Aalten 94b
    BrummelstroeteteBerend Willem23-12-18441845Barlo 75a
    BrummelstroeteteHendrik Jan08-04-18421845Barlo 75a
    BrummelstroeteteJan Willem04-04-18101845Barlo 75a
    BrusseGerrit Jan Lambertus23-02-18211851IJzerlo 58 (Huisstededijk?)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    BrusseGerrit Willem16-11-18481851IJzerlo 58 (Huisstededijk?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    BrusseJan25-03-18191847Lintelo 66 (Brusse)Lake Michigan
    BrusseJohanna Geziena13-05-18451851IJzerlo 58 (Huisstededijk?)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    BrussenBerendina27-11-18571882Landstraat 28, BredevoortWestfield, Emmons, ND
    BrussenHendrika03-07-18081847Barlo 16 (Straks)
    BrussenJanna Berendina26-05-18331869NestorianDale 38a
    BuenkGrada Antonia27-06-18761880IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)
    BuenkJohan Gerhard04-03-18481880IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)
    BuenkJohanna Adriana31-01-18801880IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)
    BühlerDerk Jan30-05-18431881Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortSheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    BühlerGerrit Jan19-09-18691881Hozenstraat 24, Bredevoort
    BühlerWillem11-11-18771881Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    BuielAntonij Hendrikus26-08-18591868Hogestraat 63, Aalten
    BuielJoanna Hendrika24-02-18541868Hogestraat 63, Aalten
    BuielJohanna Willemina14-03-18621868Hogestraat 63, Aalten
    BuielJohannes Hendrikus19-05-18511868Aalten 230a
    BuielJohannes Theodorus25-11-18561868Hogestraat 63, Aalten
    BuielMaria Mathilda03-11-18641868Hogestraat 63, Aalten
    BuijinkEvert Jan20-06-18241846Lintelo 93 (Kampe)
    BultenWilhelmina Adriana03-06-19281955Stationsstraat 32
    BuninkBernardus16-04-18301847Haart 10 (Bijvank)
    BuninkDerk15-02-17931855Haart 11 (Bijvank)
    BuninkDerk Antonij03-04-18461855Haart 11 (Bijvank)
    BuninkDora02-10-18281847Dale 22 (Beusink)
    BuninkHarmen Jan12-09-18251851Lintelo 8 (Groot Doornink)
    BuninkJohanna05-09-18231880Aalten 333/9 (NH Gasthuis)
    BussingGerhard Joseph22-10-18651888Dale 71 (Hofstee)
    BussinkJohanna04-01-18481880Lintelo 157Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    CaspersGerharda26-05-18071846Lintelo 74 (Rutgers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ColenbranderCatharina Elisabeth29-04-18311882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, Lintelo
    ColenbranderFredrika06-12-18831909Plein Zuid 1, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    DedertJanna Geertruid06-07-18071855IJzerlo 51 (’t Klooster)York, Fillmore, MN
    DegelinkAaltjen15-01-18031868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)
    DegenaarAdriaan Antonij21-09-18591864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarDerkjen Antonetta27-04-18491864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarEverdina Wilhelmina Margaretha12-01-18511864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Northbrook, Cook, IL
    DegenaarEvert03-09-18131864Aalten 253a (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    DegenaarHarmen Jan06-10-18111864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarHarmen Jan14-02-18571864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarHendrika Gesina17-11-18211854Aalten 170b (Kattenberg)
    DegenaarHendrika Theodora Berendina04-09-18401864Aalten 253a
    DegenaarHendrikus Bernardus06-02-18531864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarJan28-11-18441864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarJohannes03-02-18431864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DegenaarJohannes24-08-18441864Aalten 236 (Landstraat?)
    DegenaarWillemina Petronella03-02-18551864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    DemmingHarmina20-06-18371854Haart 42 (Klein Veenhuis)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    DemmingHenricus14-01-17961854Haart 42 (Klein Veenhuis)
    DemmingJoannes Hermanus03-03-18231846Haart 41 (Klein Veenhuis)
    DemmingJohannes24-08-18271854Haart 42 (Klein Veenhuis)
    DickerFrederica28-12-18531871Hogestraat 24, Aalten
    DickerJohannes Stephanus Albertus29-05-18401871Hogestraat 24, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    DickerKaatjen20-09-18471871Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    DickerKoosjen24-04-18571871Hogestraat 24, Aalten
    DickerTheodorus Albertus Carolus09-10-18421871Hogestraat 24, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    DoorninkAleida Johanna10-11-18311846Lintelo 52 (De Kamp)
    DoorninkDerk Antonij23-08-18651869NestorianDale 8 (De Glieuwe)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    DoorninkDerk Willem15-04-18391869NestorianDale 8 (De Glieuwe)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    DoorninkElisabeth11-07-18461869NestorianBarlo 91 (Bokkelder Brasse)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    DoorninkGeertruida Aleida23-01-18651869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    DoorninkGerrit Jan20-04-18681869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    DoorninkGerrit Jan23-12-18671869NestorianDale 8 (De Glieuwe)
    DoorninkGesina Aleida17-12-18231858Barlo 82 (Broekmans)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DoorninkGrada12-04-18511869NestorianKerkstraat 1, AaltenGreenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    DoorninkGrada25-09-18671869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    DoorninkGradus11-04-18081869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)
    DoorninkGradus Hendrikus12-08-18501868Austrian?Heurne 32 (Roele)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    DoorninkHarmanus13-03-18371869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    DoorninkHendrika Elisabeth06-03-18421866Dale 58 (Ruwhof)
    DoorninkHendrika Willemina13-10-18341846Lintelo 52 (De Kamp)Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    DoorninkJan Willem13-10-18471866EricssonLintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    DoorninkJohanna22-10-18381868Aalten 207b (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DoorninkRoelof18-09-18051846Lintelo 52 (De Kamp)
    DoorninkTeunisken Maria10-02-18081847Kath JacksonHaart 34 (Lieftocht a/d Borninkhof)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DraaijersGrada Klazina01-04-18201868Hogestraat 57, AaltenOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    DraijersJanna Geertruid31-10-18231889Dale 39 (Welink)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    DreijersHarmen Jan25-12-18131846Haart 4 (Eskes)
    DriessenJohanna Hendrika11-11-18601868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    DuenkAleida Elizabeth21-08-18381847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    DuenkArent Jan04-03-18411847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkArent Jan18-06-18481854Aalten 205b (Damstraat?)Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    DeunkBerend Hendrik01-08-18331869NestorianBarlo 76 (Hoenink)Hallam, Lancaster, NE
    DuenkBerend Hendrik01-08-18331869NestorianBarlo 76 (Hoenink)
    DuenkDerk Jan25-12-18201847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)
    DuenkEvert19-01-17901849Aalten 222
    DuenkEvert Jan07-10-17971847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)
    DuenkEvert Jan18-12-18401847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkGarrit Willem03-12-18211849Aalten 222
    DuenkGerrit Hendrik19-07-18251847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    DuenkGerrit Jan23-09-18451854Aalten 205b (Damstraat?)Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    DuenkGerrit Jan29-12-18431847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkGerrit Willem03-12-18211869NestorianBarlo 76 (Hoenink)
    DuenkGesina Engelina28-01-18421847Aalten 108Pedricktown, Salem, NJ
    DuenkGrada Aleida13-11-18461847Aalten 108
    DuenkHarmina Gerharda20-02-18251854Landstraat 4, Aalten
    DuenkHarmina Johanna05-08-18431847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkHendrik14-01-18251849Aalten 222Swedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
    DuenkHendrik14-01-18251869NestorianBarlo 76 (Hoenink)Swedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
    DuenkHendrik23-10-17811854Landstraat 4, Aalten
    DuenkHendrik Jan20-12-18141847Aalten 108Perkintown, Salem, NJ
    DuenkHendrika08-08-18391847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkHendrika Feijkje06-02-18181847Bredevoort 1 (Aalten 259)Center Square, Gloucester, NJ
    DuenkJan Berend26-03-18191854Landstraat 4, AaltenAlto, Fond du Lac, WI
    DuenkJan Willem13-09-18331847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Pettit, Tippecanoe, IN
    DuenkJohanna Antonetta13-01-18431854Aalten 205b (Damstraat?)Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    DuenkJohanna Berendina14-11-18081869Barlo 88aCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkJohanna Berendina15-11-18351847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkJohanna Geertruida08-11-18451847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkLeida19-07-18371847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    DuenkWillemina Johanna29-06-18471847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    DullElisa Sophia11-06-18251868Aalten 80 (Hogestraat?)
    EbbersBernard Hendrik09-10-18921911Landstraat 7, Aalten
    EbbersChristina17-04-18661868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    EbbersDerk Jan14-03-18501868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    EbbersDerk Willem02-02-18191868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    EbbersDina Johanna28-06-18991912Haart 87 (Nieuw Zigtvree)
    EbbersGeertruida Hendrika1-8-19011912Haart 87 (Nieuw Zigtvree)
    EbbersGerrit Hendrik18-04-18971912Haart 87 (Nieuw Zigtvree)Tallmadge, Ottawa, MI
    EbbersJohan Rudolph01-10-18951912Haart 87 (Nieuw Zigtvree)
    EbbersJohanna Gesina19-01-18941912Haart 87 (Nieuw Zigtvree)Everett, Snohomish, WA
    EbbersTonia24-02-18531868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)Hallam, Lancaster, NE
    EbbersZientjen Aleida24-01-18151846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    EelinkJanna Catharina02-12-18611912Haart 87 (Nieuw Zigtvree)Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    EestvanGerritje Elisabeth29-11-18331857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    EestvanGijsberta06-09-18441857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    EestvanHendrik08-08-18051857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    EestvanHendrik Huibert12-09-18371857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    EestvanMarius Hubertus11-03-18501857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    EestvanWillemina06-09-18391857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    ElburgAleida Harmina30-12-18161851IJzerlo 58 (Huisstededijk?)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    ElferinkGradus Harmanus27-07-18371872IJzerlo 8 (Den Dissel)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    ElferinkHarmanus28-03-18651872IJzerlo 8 (Den Dissel)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    ElferinkJan Willem30-08-18681872IJzerlo 8 (Den Dissel)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    ElferinkJohanna28-10-18331869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)
    ElferinkWillem15-10-18091870Barlo 44 (Oonk)
    ElferinkWillemina Gesina23-03-18421870Barlo 44 (Oonk)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    ElsinghorstCeno Hendrik Anton22-12-18481850Landstraat 8, AaltenCheektowaga, Erie, NY
    ElsinghorstGerharda Willemina04-01-18431850Landstraat 8, Aalten
    ElsinghorstJohan Henrich18-08-18071850Landstraat 8, AaltenCheektowaga, Erie, NY
    ElsinghorstJohanna Catharina Antonetta15-11-18401850Landstraat 8, AaltenDetroit, Wayne, MI
    ElzinkhorstAleida Maria01-11-18191843Vismarkt 2, Bredevoort
    EngenvanHendrika12-04-18841912Aalten 229Mosinee, Marathon, WI
    EppinkAleida Johanna20-02-18431868Heurne 34aOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    EppinkArent Jan04-03-18671869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    EppinkChristina08-08-17941868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    EppinkElizabeth Willemina06-06-18491869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    EppinkFredrik Willem20-07-18771912IJzerlo 30/33 (’t Hacht)
    EppinkGesiena28-09-18331856IJzerlo 40 (Klumpenhouwer)
    EppinkHendrika Berendina06-09-18461869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    EppinkHendrika Maria02-03-18291856IJzerlo 41 (Hoftijzer)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    EppinkJan Hendrik05-08-18531869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    EppinkJan Willem23-12-18161869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    EppinkJanna22-02-18631869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)
    EppinkJohan20-03-18691869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    EppinkJohanna Wesselina30-09-18301856IJzerlo 65 (Roele)
    EppinkWessel Johan30-11-18411869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    EppinkWillemina Christina18-03-18271856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    EssinkJan Hendrik20-05-18441868Heurne 29 (Groot Kappers)
    FastringBernardus Hermanus21-08-18411846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA
    FastringEngelbartus19-11-18381846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA?
    FastringGerrit Willem14-10-18331846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA
    FastringHendrikus06-10-18441846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA?
    FastringJoan Wilhelm26-01-18041846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA?
    FastringJohannes Petrus16-05-18311846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA?
    FockingJohan Bernard01-01-18371882Heurne 42
    FreersCatharina16-12-18131850Dale 60 (Pennings)
    FreersGarritjen10-08-18161854Barlo 12 (Nijland)
    FreersGerrit Jan16-09-18461850Dale 60 (Pennings)
    FrenbrugeBernhard Henrich04-01-18181845Dijkstraat 4, Aalten
    FrenkenAnna Berendina07-12-18091869Bredevoort 112
    FrenkenAnna Elizabeth12-02-18131850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, AaltenMilwaukee, WI
    FrenkenJohanna Hendrika30-11-18611869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    FrenkenJohanna Hendrika Willemina04-12-18541869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    FrenkenJohannes16-11-18301869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    FrenkenJohannes Antonius04-09-18651869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    FrenkenJohannes Bernardus03-09-18561869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    FrenkenJohannes Gradus13-02-18591869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    FreriksAleijda17-02-18081854Aalten
    FreriksDerk jr.24-04-18191854Arnold BoningerAalten (Hogestraat?)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    FreriksDerk sr.16-09-17811854Arnold BoningerAalten (Hogestraat?)
    FreriksJanna Hendrika11-11-18021845Barlo 75a
    FreriksJohanna Berendina14-12-18351854Aalten
    FreriksJohanna Sophia10-11-18461854Arnold BoningerAalten (Hogestraat?)
    FreriksSophia Catharina25-07-18491854Arnold BoningerAalten (Hogestraat?)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    FukkingAaltjen05-04-18191881Dale 86c
    FukkinkAleida Gesina20-10-18751881Aalten 143a (Hogestraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    FukkinkAntonij29-07-18261869IJzerlo 1 (De Lindert)
    FukkinkArent Jan17-07-18451881Aalten 143a (Hogestraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    FukkinkArent Jan24-08-18551869IJzerlo 1 (De Lindert)
    FukkinkBerend Hendrik11-10-18611880Haart 3 (Walvoort)Oak Harbor, Island, WA
    FukkinkBerend Willem07-01-18721881Aalten 143a (Hogestraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    FukkinkBerendina Frederika09-11-18571882Lintelo 142 (’t Boske)
    FukkinkChristiaan22-11-18541880Lintelo 156Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    FukkinkDerk Hendrik11-01-18561880Barlo 84 (Vieverink)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    FukkinkElisabeth22-02-18151846Aalten 199 (Prinsenstraat?)
    FukkinkGeertruid Elizabeth03-11-18381847Barlo 16 (Straks)
    FukkinkGerrit29-07-18481880Lintelo 157
    FukkinkGerrit Jan02-06-18571869IJzerlo 1 (De Lindert)
    FukkinkGerrit Willem13-07-18221880Lintelo 156
    FukkinkGezina Willemina20-04-18791880Lintelo 156
    FukkinkHarmen Jan24-03-18191847Dale 50 (Hunink)
    FukkinkHarmina Gesina09-03-18401869NestorianBarlo 1 (Nieuw Kolstee)
    FukkinkHendrika Willemina22-04-18771880Lintelo 156
    FukkinkHendrikus Lambertus03-04-18451847Barlo 16 (Straks)
    FukkinkJan Berend16-04-18021847Barlo 16 (Straks)
    FukkinkJan Willem26-07-18401847Barlo 16 (Straks)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    FukkinkJohanna Willemina Catharina30-09-18731881Aalten 143a (Hogestraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    GantvoortteAnna Geertruid24-10-18191854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aaltenop zee
    GantvoortteBernardus Hendrikus03-03-18261854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    GantvoortteGerhardus Theodorus23-09-18321854LeilaPeperstraat 2, AaltenDeuel County, SD
    GantvoortteGezina Aleida26-03-18151864Aalten 253a
    GantvoortteHendrik Jan14-12-18301854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    GantvoortteHendrik Jan28-07-17941854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    GantvoortteJohanna Geertruid23-01-18371854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    GantvoortteLouiza Johanna26-10-18381854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    GantvoortteTheodora Hendrika Petronella20-04-18341854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    GantvoortteWillem03-11-18271854LeilaPeperstraat 2, AaltenDeuel County, SD
    GeessinkBerend Hendrik14-01-18221854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, Aalten
    GeessinkHendrik Jan31-01-18261854Aalten 205b (Damstraat?)
    GeurinkArent Jan24-03-18221847IJzerlo 15 (’t Hacht)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    GeurinkBerendjen31-12-18621881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    GeurinkDerk Willem14-07-18781881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Cutlerville, Kent, MI
    GeurinkEverdina02-03-18741881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Cutlerville, Kent, MI
    GeurinkEvert02-02-18301881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Alton, Sioux, IA
    GeurinkGerrit11-12-18711881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Alton, Sioux, IA
    GeurinkHendrik06-02-18681881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    GeurinkReinier30-03-18281846Dale 57 (Bonte Hek)
    GielinkGerrit Willem06-04-18391870Aalten 54Davenport, Scott, IA
    GijsbersJan Albert15-01-18911911Aalten 258
    GijsbersJohanna Geertruid29-10-18061869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)
    GijsbersJohannes Christiaan01-02-18341864IJzerlo 60 (Huisstede)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    GoosenCatharina Willemina08-04-18591869NestorianDale 38aGreenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    GoosenGerrit Jan01-11-18321869NestorianDale 6 (Ebbers)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    GoosenGrada Harmina19-12-18661869NestorianDale 38aSpring Valley, Fillmore, MN
    GoosenHarmen Jan01-12-18301869NestorianDale 38aGreenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    GoosenHendrika Antonia13-05-18641869NestorianDale 38aSpring Valley, Fillmore, MN
    GoosenWillem Johan10-01-18611869NestorianDale 38aSpring Valley, Fillmore, MN
    GoossenWillemina Johanna23-04-18501889Dale 39 (Welink)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    GöringElisabeth04-11-18131861Dale 9 (Grote Maat)
    GorkumvanHendrina03-04-18141852Heurne 44
    GosensEverdina13-03-18411869NestorianDale 71bHolland, Lancaster, NE
    GosselinkAntonia16-06-18251854Dijkstraat 30, Aalten
    GossinkJan Willem08-03-18011856Kerkstraat 6, Bredevoort
    GossinkJanna Berendina24-02-18371854LeilaKerkstraat 6, BredevoortCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    GossinkJohanna Aleida26-08-18411856Kerkstraat 6, Bredevoort
    GraaskampChristiaan19-08-18071873Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortHolland, Lancaster, NE
    GravenAaltjen14-09-17961853Aalten 83 (Hogestraat)
    GravenAlida Harmina23-09-18181854Prinsenstraat 12, AaltenOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    GravenArent Jan15-01-17831846Barlo 33 (Graven)
    GravenArent Jan21-05-18411846Barlo 33 (Graven)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    GravenBerend Hendrik03-04-18121846Barlo 33 (Graven)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    GravenGerrit19-05-18451846ManchesterDijkstraat 7, Aalten
    GravenGerrit Jan18-06-18151846ManchesterDijkstraat 7, Aalten
    GravenGrada Gesina10-02-18421846ManchesterDijkstraat 7, Aalten
    GravenHendrik14-02-18431846Barlo 33 (Graven)
    GreutinkHendrika Johanna08-08-18361858Landstraat 45, Aalten
    GrevinkBerend Willem14-02-18671867Prinsenstraat 8, Aalten
    GrevinkHarmen Jan25-09-18401867Prinsenstraat 8, Aalten
    GrievinkJan Berend16-08-18481854Barlo 68 (’t Fukker)Wilson, Sheboygan, WI
    Groot NibbelinkEverdina01-06-18371881Lintelo 174 (Tolder)Alton, Sioux, IA
    GrootenhuisteArend Jan14-10-18581881Lintelo 71 (De Koop)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    GrootenhuisteHendrik Willem22-03-18231881Lintelo 71 (De Koop)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    GrootenhuisteHendrika05-04-18641881Lintelo 71 (De Koop)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    GrootenhuisteMiena Aleida18-04-18621881Lintelo 71 (De Koop)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    GrotendorstAleida Willemina Hendrika07-02-18371845Kath JacksonAalten 174 (Kattenberg)
    GrotendorstHarmen Jan09-10-18341845Kath JacksonAalten 174 (Kattenberg)Stiles, Oconto, WI
    GrotendorstJoannes Hendrikus04-12-18081845Kath JacksonAalten 174 (Kattenberg)
    GrotendorstJohanna Berendina27-10-18431845Kath JacksonAalten 174 (Kattenberg)
    GrotendorstJohanna Geertruida Elisabetha15-04-18411845Kath JacksonAalten 174 (Kattenberg)
    GrotenhuisJohanna Engelina16-08-18651883Bredevoort 106Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    GrotenhuisteAnna Geertruid10-07-18251869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)
    GrotenhuisteBerend Hendrik06-04-18311869NestorianDale 6 (Ebbers)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    GrotenhuisteDersken13-12-18491854LeilaAalten 218 (Prinsenstraat)Sheboygan, Sheboygan, WI
    GrotenhuisteEvert Jan15-03-18321866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    GrotenhuisteGarritjen17-07-18291869NestorianDale 8 (De Glieuwe)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    GrotenhuisteGerhardus Johannes11-01-18471854LeilaAalten 218 (Prinsenstraat)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    GrotenhuisteGerrit Jan03-08-18641866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    GrotenhuisteJan Willem11-01-18331868Dale 18 (’t Slat)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    GrotenhuisteJohanna Aleida19-01-18631866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)Sheldon, O’Brien, IA
    GrotenhuisteLammert14-02-18151854LeilaAalten 218 (Prinsenstraat)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    GrotenhuisteSandrina Hendrika21-12-18401868Dale 18 (’t Slat)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    GrotenhuisteTonia Johanna22-05-18521854LeilaAalten 218 (Prinsenstraat)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    GussinkloAntonetta18-09-18021855Haart 11 (Bijvank)
    GussinkloGerrit Willem27-03-18331870Barlo 58 (Haortelink)
    GussinkloJan Willem28-09-18371871Lintelo 80 (Lens)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    GussinkloteBernardus Engelbertus02-03-18211863Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, Aalten
    GussinkloteGerrit Jan29-07-18541883Köstersbulte 2, Aalten
    GussinkloteHendrik Jan26-04-18691913Aalten 141
    GussinkloteWillem15-02-18721893Hogestraat 21, Aalten
    HaankBerend14-06-18031854Aalten 160c (Landstraat)
    HaankJohanna Hendrika29-05-18411854Aalten 160c (Landstraat)
    HaarterAntonetta Hendrika01-01-18041856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HaarterGerrit Jan06-03-18641893Lintelo 41 (Rensink Gradus)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    HaarterGeziena07-03-18361869NestorianAalten 189a (Prinsenstraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HaarterWillemina25-07-18421867Landstraat 45, AaltenBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HaartmanBerend Antonij13-05-18321846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)
    HaartmanDerk Jan18-07-18211846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)Wilson, Sheboygan, WI
    HaartmanDerk Jan25-11-17871846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)Wilson, Sheboygan, WI
    HaartmanEvert15-05-18241846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)Wilson, Sheboygan, WI
    HaartmanGezientje04-12-18261846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)
    HaartmanHendrik Willem13-07-18191846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)
    HaartmanWillem06-06-18291846HectorHaart 11 (Haartman)
    HagentenAleida29-08-18081847Dale 7 (Grote Maat)
    HakentenBerend Hendrik30-12-18321889Dale 39 (Welink)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    HakstegeHarmina12-05-18391867Aalten 159 (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)
    HallerdijkArnoldus05-01-18211844Dale 15 (Hennepe)
    HallerdijkDina08-01-18291890Barlo 67 (Oonk)
    HamtenJan Willem18-07-18301880Bredevoort 128
    HaneHendrika08-06-18361883Barlo 83 (De Timp)Maurice, Sioux, IA
    HarbersHendrik07-09-18241882Lintelo 68 (Hemelmate)
    HaringhGerrit Jan18-07-18001847Kath JacksonAalten 275Franklin, Milwaukee, WI
    HaringhHendrik Christiaan03-08-18241847Kath JacksonAalten 275Milwaukee, WI
    HaringhJohanna Berendina08-03-18271847Kath JacksonAalten 275Franklin, Milwaukee, WI
    HaringhJohannes Jacobus28-02-18291847Kath JacksonAalten 275Franklin, Milwaukee, WI
    HarmelinkAleida Johanna03-01-18451867Lintelo 37 (Nieuwe Koop)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HarmelinkAleida Johanna05-04-18711880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HarmelinkDaatje07-01-18691880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Carmel, Sioux, IA
    HarmelinkDina Johanna02-07-18641881Lintelo 79 (Groot Fukkink)Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    HarmelinkGerrit Hendrik21-06-18361880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HarmelinkGerrit Jan01-03-18661880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Rock Valley, Sioux, IA
    HarmelinkGrada Harmina08-05-18801880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Rock Valley, Sioux, IA
    HarmelinkJan Hendrik18-03-18751880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HarmelinkTheodora Gesina27-05-18731880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HarmelinkWillem29-07-18771880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    HeebinkEngelbert14-07-18491854LeilaKerkstraat 9, AaltenBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeebinkGerharda Johanna20-11-18131854LeilaAalten 218 (Prinsenstraat)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HeebinkGerhardus Harmanus10-02-18441854LeilaKerkstraat 9, AaltenBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeebinkGerrit Jan09-03-18041854LeilaKerkstraat 9, AaltenBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeebinkHendrina24-05-18181852LeilaAalten 247 (Bredevoortsestr. 7)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HeebinkHerman16-05-18461854LeilaKerkstraat 9, AaltenBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeegtHarmina09-07-18321854Aalten 205e (Damstraat)
    HeerdinkJan Derk12-08-18521882Landstraat 2, Aalten
    HeidemanCatrina03-03-18381869NestorianDale 6 (Ebbers)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HeidemanTonij31-08-17991869NestorianDale 6 (Ebbers)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HeijdemanGerrit Jan26-04-18151854LeilaAalten 245 (Bredevoortsestr. 1)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HeijdemanJenneken20-02-18021860Dale 46 (De Bulte)
    HeijermanFredrik05-09-18811882Landstraat 28, BredevoortWestfield, Emmons, ND
    HeijermanHendrik Jan09-11-18481882Landstraat 28, BredevoortWestfield, Emmons, ND
    HeijermanHendrika Elisabeth24-02-18361868Lintelo 123 (’t Heegt)
    HeinenAbraham04-01-18511854LeilaLintelo 121
    HeinenAbraham30-11-18221854LeilaLintelo 121Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HeinenBerendjen04-09-18531854LeilaLintelo 121
    HeinenDora Gesina05-05-18031854Aalten 160c (Landstraat)
    HeinenGradus19-10-18271854LeilaHoekstraat 5, AaltenOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HeinenHendrik Jan25-05-18491854LeilaLintelo 121Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HeinenHendrikus31-03-18231846Landstraat 30, AaltenCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HeinenJan Willem17-09-18071846Landstraat 30, Aalten
    HeinenJohanna Willemina05-05-18611867Hogestraat 30, AaltenPedricktown, Salem, NJ
    HeinenLouiza23-01-18341854Aalten 160c (Landstraat)
    HeinenMaria Gesina27-10-18581867Hogestraat 30, AaltenSwedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
    HeldersAntonetta Antonia23-05-18731882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, Lintelo
    HeldersAntonij21-05-18641882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, Lintelo
    HeldersCatharina Elisabeth15-10-18691882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, LinteloBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeldersChristiana04-09-18661882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, Lintelo
    HeldersGeertjen08-07-18301882Hogestraat 38, Aalten
    HeldersGerrit06-10-18381882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, LinteloBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeldersGerrit Johan26-11-18601882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, LinteloBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HeldersHarmina04-09-18661882Varsseveldsestraatweg 94, LinteloBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HelminkArent Jan18-09-18881889IJzerlo 32 (Japikshuus)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    HelminkEverdina05-09-18631868Heurne 35Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    HelminkEvert08-02-18251868Heurne 35Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    HelminkGerrit Jan06-04-18311856Lintelo 4 (Groot Sondern)
    HelminkGerrit Jan26-09-18511889IJzerlo 32 (Japikshuus)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    HelminkGrada Johanna26-06-18841889IJzerlo 32 (Japikshuus)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    HelminkHarmina05-10-18381880Lintelo 69 (Bultink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HelminkHendrik Johan16-01-18801889IJzerlo 32 (Japikshuus)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    HelminkHendrika10-12-18661868Heurne 35
    HelminkJanna Gesina22-02-18601868Heurne 35Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    HelminkJohanna Everdina16-01-18821889IJzerlo 32 (Japikshuus)Sheldon, O’Brien, IA
    HemminkGezina01-02-18361884Haart 29 (Beestmans Nieuwhuis)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HendriksenDerk Jan12-07-18451846Heurne 41 (De Stegge)
    HendriksenJan Willem04-09-18121846Heurne 41 (De Stegge)Garden Prairie, Boone, IL
    HengeveldBernadus09-09-18341870Barlo 44 (Oonk)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HengeveldGerrit Jan29-09-18601878Oosterkerkstraat 6, Aalten
    HengeveldGerrit Willem12-02-18231878Oosterkerkstraat 6, Aalten
    HengeveldGezina Berendina13-08-18151867Barlo 84a (Kok)
    HengeveldHendrika Berendina23-05-18691870Barlo 44 (Oonk)
    HengeveldJanna Geertruid03-06-18591878Oosterkerkstraat 6, Aalten
    HengeveldJohanna Jacoba02-11-18661878Oosterkerkstraat 6, Aalten
    HengeveldJohanna Willemina26-11-18651870Barlo 44 (Oonk)
    HengeveldWillemina25-09-18111868Aalten 24aOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HennepeteGerharda Hendrika23-05-18461868Aalten 245Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HennepeteHendrik Jan01-10-18381869Barlo 88aBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HennepeteJohannes Gerhardus29-08-18681869Barlo 88aBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HesselinkAbraham29-12-18251847Kath JacksonHaart 12 (Kleuver)
    HesselinkAdolph03-11-18111846Aalten 94b
    HesselinkAleida Christina18-03-18361847Kath JacksonHaart 12 (Kleuver)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HesselinkArent Jan24-04-18191846Aalten 80 (Hogestraat)
    HesselinkGerrit16-07-17961847Kath JacksonHaart 12 (Kleuver)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HesselinkGerrit Hendrik27-07-17811846Aalten 80 (Hogestraat)
    HesselinkJohanna Wesselina26-12-18431846Aalten 94bMuscatine, Muscatine, IA
    HesselinkWessel Abraham10-10-18441847Kath JacksonHaart 12 (Kleuver)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HettersChristina Antonia18-07-18381846Bredevoort 116
    HeusinkveldEngelina25-06-18201869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)
    HeusinkveldGerrit Jan11-07-18261867Lintelo 140Princeton, Lancaster, NE
    HeusinkveldGerrit Jan23-07-18651867Lintelo 140Lincoln, Lancaster, NE
    HeusinkveldHarmina20-09-18271870Dale 29 (Schreurs)
    HiddinkGerrit Hendrik08-08-18421867Haart 13 (Kleuver)Banks, Washington, OR
    HiddinkMechelina04-12-18191847Kath JacksonHeurne 34 (Groot Kappers)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HiebinkJohanna Wilhelmina30-10-18641866Hogestraat 6, Aalten
    HiebinkTheodor Gerhard07-09-18401866Hogestraat 6, AaltenGreenwood Heights, Brooklyn, NY
    HietbrinkJohanna Willemina16-03-18571881Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortSheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    HietbrinktenAnna Gesina29-08-18131846ManchesterDijkstraat 7, Aalten
    HietbrinktenCatrina Aleida01-03-18111854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)
    HietbrinktenDerk Hendrik10-10-18391869NestorianBarlo 9 (De Luthe)
    HietbrinktenDerk Hendrik28-08-18691881Barlo 98 (Klumper)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    HietbrinktenGarritje08-05-18131847Barlo 68a (Waterkooi)
    HietbrinktenGerrit Hendrik06-08-18651881Barlo 98 (Klumper)Panama, Lancaster, NE
    HietbrinktenGerrit Jan23-02-18671881Barlo 98 (Klumper)
    HietbrinktenGerrit Willem10-04-18391881Barlo 98 (Klumper)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    HietbrinktenJanna Gezina30-10-18721881Barlo 98 (Klumper)Firth, Lancaster, NE
    HijdemanCatharina08-10-18171847Aalten 44
    HilbelinkArent Jan16-09-17881853IJzerlo 63 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkArent Jan Derk06-03-18411847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkGerrit Jan19-02-18131847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HilbelinkGerritjen06-07-18221868Dale 39 (Schreurs)
    HilbelinkHarmina07-06-18151847Kath JacksonBarlo 57 (’t Fukker)
    HilbelinkHendrik Jan17-10-18421847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkHendrika20-01-18451847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkHendrika Aleida30-12-18491853IJzerlo 63 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkJan13-03-18211853IJzerlo 63 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkJan Willem15-10-18461847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)
    HilbelinkJohanna Christina10-05-18241847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 48 (Lensink)Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    HilbelinkJohanna Geziena16-07-18521853IJzerlo 63 (Lensink)
    HillenGarrit Jan04-05-18111846Barlo 23aCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HillenGesina Aleida01-08-18511882Landstraat 14, BredevoortHingham, Sheboygan, WI
    HillenHendrika28-06-18431846Barlo 23a
    HillenJanna Reindina06-08-18401846Barlo 23aCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HinkampArend Jan14-11-18511881Lintelo 91 (Brassenhutte)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HinkampEvert Hendrik23-08-1856188?Lintelo 91 (Brassenhutte)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HinkampHarmen Jan Jan Willem10-05-18251868Hogestraat 57, AaltenOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HinkampHendrik Jan07-06-18561868Hogestraat 57, AaltenMilwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
    HoffesteeteDora Everdina02-09-18331856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HoffesteeteGesina Hendrika11-03-18431856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HoffesteeteGrada Hendrika15-11-18401856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HoffesteeteHendrik Jan22-11-18371856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HoffesteeteJan Willem10-08-18351856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HoffesteeteTeunis24-03-18101856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    HoftiezerAlbert Johan Gerhard12-12-19221948MeirikaEscondido, San Diego, CA
    HoftiezerBartha Aleida04-04-18621868Heurne 21 (Legters)Lynden, Whatcom, WA
    HoftiezerBernard06-02-18521868Heurne 21 (Legters)Lynden, Whatcom, WA
    HoftiezerGerrit Jan13-10-19241948’t Oude HondorpChowchilla, Madera, CA
    HoftiezerHanna Geertruida30-08-18461868Heurne 21 (Legters)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HoftiezerHendrik Jan15-10-18121868Heurne 21 (Legters)
    HoftiezerHendrika Christina16-02-18561868Heurne 21 (Legters)Nobles County, MN
    HoftiezerWillemina Berendina16-07-18491868Heurne 21 (Legters)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HoftijzerAleida25-01-18571868ErinIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    HoftijzerAnna Catharina03-05-19101912Dinxperlosestr. 145, IJzerloRiverside, Riverside, CA
    HoftijzerDerk Hendrik Johan09-12-18301846ManchesterHogestraat 65, AaltenTonganoxie, Leavenworth, KS
    HoftijzerGerrit Jan16-08-18651868ErinIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)
    HoftijzerGrada Hendrika03-09-18591868ErinIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Wilson, Sheboygan, WI
    HoftijzerJohan Hendrik12-12-18801912Dinxperlosestr. 145, IJzerloOcheyedan, Osceola, IA
    HoftijzerJohanna Gesina01-05-19111912Dinxperlosestr. 145, IJzerlo
    HoftijzerJohanna Harmina31-03-18621868ErinIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    HoftijzerMaria Johanna22-11-18441846ManchesterHogestraat 65, Aalten
    HoftijzerWilhelmina09-06-18371846ManchesterHogestraat 65, Aalten
    HoftijzerWillem03-01-18011846ManchesterHogestraat 65, Aalten
    HoftijzerWillem29-11-18271868ErinIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HogemansArend Jan05-02-18361881Haart 32 (Hunink)
    HoitinkGeertruida01-05-18431869Heurne 2 (’t Slaa)
    HondarpAnton Herman Joseph11-02-18341846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpBernadus08-10-18171854Lintelo 5a (Manschotweide)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpBernard13-08-18371846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpChristiaan25-04-18411846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpDerk Jan06-06-18111846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpDerk Jan25-12-18031854LeilaHaart 47
    HondarpDerk Willem24-09-18461846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)
    HondarpDorus Frederikus31-01-18511854LeilaLintelo 5a (Manschotweide)
    HondarpHarmina Johanna19-12-18391846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpHendrik14-09-18351846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpHendrika23-11-18531854LeilaLintelo 5a (Manschotweide)
    HondarpHendrika Harmina27-08-18481854LeilaLintelo 5a (Manschotweide)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpJanna Geertruid08-05-18381854LeilaHaart 47Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HondarpRoelof07-10-18211846Lintelo 15 (Groot Doornink)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    HondarpTeunis Johan23-08-18441846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)
    HondarpZiena Christina02-01-18431846Lintelo 5 (Schenk)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HoopmanAbraham18-10-18231866EricssonLintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HoopmanAleida26-10-18181857Lintelo 147 (Kappersweide)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HoopmanArend Willem13-04-18431868Heurne 29 (Groot Kappers)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    HoopmanArent Jan14-09-18551866EricssonLintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)
    HoopmanBerendjen17-12-18431857CasildaIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HoopmanDela Johanna03-03-18661881Haart 32 (Hunink)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HoopmanGerrit Jan09-01-18611866EricssonLintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)
    HoopmanGerrit Jan22-12-18571881CasildaHaart 32 (Hunink)
    HoopmanGerrit Jan28-12-18381857CasildaIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HoopmanHendrika Cornelia27-05-18491857CasildaIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Holland, Kandiyohi, MN
    HoopmanHerman03-03-18741881Haart 32 (Hunink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HoopmanJan Willem13-06-18631881Haart 32 (Hunink)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    HoopmanJanna Gerharda24-06-18361856IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Lime Springs, Howard, IA
    HoopmanJohanna Hendrika12-10-18691881Haart 32 (Hunink)
    HoopmanLambarta21-07-18341868ErinIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    HoopmanManus18-01-18311868Heurne 29 (Groot Kappers)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HoopmanMina26-09-18651866EricssonLintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)
    HoopmanReindina Margaretha08-03-18351869Heurne 29 (Groot Kappers)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HoopmanRoelof21-09-18461857CasildaIJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Lime Springs, Howard, IA
    HoopmanWillem09-07-18291856Lintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)
    HorstterArend Jan29-04-18771880Barlo 74 (Fukker)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    HorstterGerrit Hendrik29-06-18251854Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    HorstterGerrit Jan09-03-18751880Barlo 74 (Fukker)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    HorstterGerritjen19-10-18791880Barlo 74 (Fukker)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    HorstterHendrika Johanna15-02-18381869Aalten 206c
    HorstterJan Willem28-08-18401880Barlo 74 (Fukker)Sioux County, IA
    HorstterWesselina Geertruida13-03-18731880Barlo 74 (Fukker)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    HoutentenJan Gerhard Kraak29-01-18011846Bredevoortsestraatweg 11-13, Aalten
    HouthuisJan Willem03-06-18271856Heurne 23 (Klein Goorhuis)
    HouwersBerend Hendrik16-12-18661867Bredevoort 99
    HouwersBerendeken03-05-17991854LeilaDale 8 (De Glieuwe)
    HouwersGarrit07-08-18201847Kath JacksonBarlo 57 (’t Fukker)
    HouwersJan Willem08-06-18461847Kath JacksonBarlo 57 (’t Fukker)
    HouwersWillemina26-04-18031854LeilaLintelo 144 (De Heuvel)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HuetinkHendrik Jan23-06-18191872Aalten 77a (Landstraat)
    HuetinkWilhelmina Hendrika17-09-18081880Aalten 288b
    HuiningJoseph25-01-18391870Dale 57 (Brunink)
    HuininkAbraham19-01-18321869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkArent Jan20-11-18651869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)
    HuininkBerendina Gesiena22-04-18681869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkChristiaan22-04-18661869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkDela29-08-18351869NestorianHaart 8 (De Wever)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkDerk Willem09-03-18271869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkDora Hendrika12-06-18611869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkDrikus Johannes31-01-18851911Landstraat 5, BredevoortVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    HuininkElsken10-01-17901856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    HuininkGeertruid30-09-18211850Dale 50 (Hunink)
    HuininkGerrit Jan25-11-18391869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)
    HuininkGezina01-06-18501882Barlo 3 (Nieuw Kolstee)
    HuininkGezina26-08-18371869Aalten 253aSioux Center, Sioux, IA
    HuininkGradus06-10-18671869NestorianDale 71bHolland, Lancaster, NE
    HuininkHendrik Jan11-02-17991869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)
    HuininkHendrik Jan15-10-18621869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkHendrik Jan28-11-18611869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)
    HuininkHendrika24-10-18631869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)
    HuininkJan Berend11-07-18011869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkJan Berend20-05-18591869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkJan Hendrik03-03-18401869NestorianDale 71bHolland, Lancaster, NE
    HuininkJanna Willemina05-01-18331869NestorianHaart 33 (Den Bosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HuininkJohanna Aleida18-07-18351869NestorianDale 69 (Kleinpenning)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    HuininkJohanna Aleida26-08-18651869NestorianDale 71bHolland, Lancaster, NE
    HuninkBerendina Gesina09-01-18641869NestorianHaart 8 (De Wever)
    HuninkBernardus16-06-18331869NestorianHaart 8 (De Wever)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HuninkGezina06-02-18661869NestorianHaart 8 (De Wever)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    HuninkJan Hendrik21-03-18621869NestorianHaart 8 (De Wever)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    HuninkJanna04-03-18681869NestorianHaart 8 (De Wever)
    JagerinkEngelbert22-08-18471880Lintelo 8Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    JagerinkGerrit Jan20-07-18451882Lintelo 141Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    JagerinkGerrit Willem04-07-18791880Lintelo 8Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    JagerinkGrada Aleida24-12-18811882Lintelo 141Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    JagerinkJan Willem13-07-18421870Heurne 25 (Veldhuis)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    JansenAnton09-03-17991847’t Zand 14-15, Bredevoort
    JansenChristina Elizabeth24-11-18221835Lichtenvoordsestr. 4, Aalten
    JansenGrada Christina11-06-18311835Lichtenvoordsestr. 4, Aalten
    JansenHendrika Willemina30-01-18261835Lichtenvoordsestr. 4, Aalten
    JansenHermanus Antonij09-10-18311870Aalten 118a (Hogestraat)
    JansenJanna Aleida23-02-18251849Aalten 228 (Prinsenstraat)Swedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
    JansenJoannes Gerardus Henricus13-07-17921835Lichtenvoordsestr. 4, Aalten
    JansenWilhelmus Hermanus11-10-18331835Lichtenvoordsestr. 4, Aalten
    JentinkAleida07-02-18421868Lintelo 108 (Groot Gussinklo)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkAleida Johanna09-12-18641869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkArent Jan17-03-18701870IJzerlo 56 (Chris)
    JentinkBerend08-10-18431870IJzerlo 56 (Chris)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkBerendina14-04-18371869NestorianBarlo 1 (Nieuw Kolstee)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkCatharina20-11-18341869NestorianHaart 12 (Haartman)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkGerrit Jan28-02-18311869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkGrada05-02-18441869NestorianHaart 19 (Lievers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkHendrik Jan10-09-18031869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkHendrik Jan28-08-18611869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkHendrik Willem27-04-18131869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)
    JentinkHendrika20-08-18381847’t FukkerSheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkHendrika Gesina12-10-18491869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkJacoba28-06-18391869Barlo 7 (Te Sligte)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    JentinkJanna Geertruid19-10-18331880Bredevoort 128
    JentinkJanna Geertruid20-07-18401847’t Fukker
    JentinkJohanna Hendrika02-09-18401879Lintelo 25 (Wieber)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    JonkerAnna09-03-18431873Prinsenstraat 16, Bredevoort
    KalfElisabeth21-05-18131869Dale 71a
    KampeteDina28-02-18811913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Vesper, Wood, WI
    KappersArent Jan01-01-18531856NanceAalten 162b (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    KappersBerendina13-06-18471857Lintelo 147 (Kappersweide)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersBerendina14-04-18531854Aalten 225/1
    KappersBerendina23-10-18511857CasildaBredevoort 118Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersDerk Hendrik10-01-18271856NanceAalten 162b (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)Madison, Dane, WI
    KappersDerk Willem04-06-18171868Aalten 24aOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersElisabeth05-09-18471868Landstraat 10, Aalten
    KappersGerrit Hendrik23-07-18101854Aalten 225/1
    KappersGerrit Jan21-06-18421868Haart 38 (Jentink)
    KappersGerrit Willem15-04-18491868Haart 21 (Drenthel)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersGrada Berendina16-11-18351854Aalten 225/1Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersGrada Willemina25-02-18511857Lintelo 147 (Kappersweide)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersHarmen Jan07-06-17941854LeilaHeurne 29 (Groot Kappers)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    KappersHendrik25-03-18151854LeilaDale 59 (Hunink)
    KappersHendrik Willem22-01-18411867Aalten 159 (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)
    KappersHendrika Gesina28-07-18411857Lintelo 147 (Kappersweide)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersHendrika Willemina27-08-18521868Aalten 24aOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersHendrikus25-07-18141857Lintelo 147 (Kappersweide)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersHillebrand16-09-18551857CasildaBredevoort 118Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    KappersJan17-11-18161857CasildaBredevoort 118Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersJohan Christiaan25-12-18501856NanceAalten 162b (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)
    KappersJohanna Arnolda19-12-18561857Lintelo 147 (Kappersweide)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersJohanna Gesina08-01-18551856NanceAalten 162b (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)
    KappersLambertus23-09-18431854Aalten 225/1Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KappersWillemina04-05-18131849Aalten 172 (Kattenberg?)
    KempermanHendrica Teresia02-05-18161850Landstraat 8, AaltenCheektowaga, Erie, NY
    KempinkBerend Hendrik25-05-18161847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)
    KempinkDela16-01-18171854LeilaLintelo 5a (Manschotweide)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    KempinkEverdina24-05-18391847Bredevoort 1 (Aalten 259)Center Square, Gloucester, NJ
    KempinkGarrit Hendrik08-10-18251856Hozenstraat 10, BredevoortIrondequoit, Monroe, NY
    KempinkGerrit Hendrik23-11-18411847Bredevoort 1 (Aalten 259)Center Square, Gloucester, NJ
    KempinkGerrit Jan04-08-18051847Bredevoort 1 (Aalten 259)Center Square, Gloucester, NJ
    KempinkGerrit Jan19-09-18101853Hogestraat 57, Aalten
    KempinkGrada Antonia25-12-18441847Bredevoort 1 (Aalten 259)Center Square, Gloucester, NJ
    KempinkHendrik Willem03-10-18511856Hozenstraat 10, BredevoortIrondequoit, Monroe, NY
    KempinkJan Hendrik07-01-18461853Hogestraat 57, AaltenCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KempinkJohanna05-02-18291856Aalten 64 (Landstraat)
    KempinkJohanna26-10-18541856Hozenstraat 10, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    KerkhofGesina27-09-18051869NestorianDale 52 (Brunink)
    KeunenTonij24-06-18251854Arnold BoningerBarlo 53 (Keuper)
    KipArent Jan20-04-18411868Dale 44 (Stampert)
    KlandermanJan Willem10-08-18301869NestorianStationsstraat 5 (Aalten 57)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    KlandermanJohan Berend Willem08-06-18651869NestorianStationsstraat 5 (Aalten 57)
    KlandermansAlibartus01-09-18321869Aalten 211Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KlandermansJohanna Jacoba16-08-18621869Aalten 211Sheboygan, WI
    KlandermansMartijn20-03-18661869Aalten 211Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    Klein BuninkAnna Gertruid14-08-18061854Dale 62a
    Klein WolterinkAleida21-10-18541870IJzerlo 43 (Hoftijzer)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    Klein WolterinkArent Jan06-02-18951912Lintelo 129 (Wolterink Nieuwhuis)
    Klein WolterinkHarmina Grada04-08-18581870Dale 29 (Schreurs)
    Klein WolterinkHendrik Jan26-04-18251854Landstraat 13, Aalten
    Klein WolterinkHendrika24-03-18861912Dinxperlosestr. 145, IJzerlo
    Klein WolterinkHermanus16-04-18851911Lintelo 129 (Wolterink Nieuwhuis)
    Klein WolterinkJohanna Willemina13-02-18641893Lintelo 45 (Nieuw Doornink)
    KleinhesselinkWillemina23-03-17981854LeilaHaart 47
    KleinmoddenbergWillemina06-10-17821845Kath JacksonDale 55a
    KleinsmiedeJan Hendrik12-11-18371869Markt 3, Aalten
    KleuversAleida Willemina18-08-18531872Lintelo 32 (Groot Doornink)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    KleuversArent Jan30-11-18141872Haart 39 (Nijhuis)Sioux County, IA
    KleuversJanna Hendrika23-03-18501872Haart 39 (Nijhuis)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    KleuversJohanna Geertruida11-03-18581872Haart 39 (Nijhuis)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    KlompenhouwerGerrit Jan22-12-18621887IJzerlo 20a
    KlompenhouwerJan Willem05-06-18321869Lintelo 1a (De Pas)
    KlompenhouwerJenneken13-01-18271869Barlo 43 (De Greute)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KlompsGerhard25-10-18441854Aalten 170b (Kattenberg)
    KlompsGrada Aleida27-08-18501854Aalten 170b (Kattenberg)
    KlompsHendrik Gijsbert25-06-18151854Aalten 170b (Kattenberg)Albany, Albany, NY
    KlompsHendrik Jan27-10-18601869Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortColonie, Albany, NY
    KlompsHendrikus22-11-18521854Aalten 170b (Kattenberg)Menands, Albany, NY
    KlompsJohannes13-01-18481854Aalten 170b (Kattenberg)Menands, Albany, NY
    KlompsJohannes15-01-18641869Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortMenands, Albany, NY
    KlompsTonia Berendina08-01-18681869Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortMenands, Albany, NY
    KlompsWillem21-10-18351869Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortMenands, Albany, NY
    KnikkinkJohannes Antonius15-05-18361871Willemstraat 17, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    KoelmanBernardus Johannes21-07-18871909Aalten 66 (Dijkstraat)
    KoelmanGradus Arnoldus14-05-18811910Aalten 36Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    KoelmanJohanna Catrina22-01-18431871Aalten 39Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    KoelmanMaria Josepha23-03-18851909Aalten 66 (Dijkstraat)
    KoesterJohan08-12-18221880Bredevoort 76
    KolenbranderGarritjen18251847Hozenstraat 8, Bredevoort
    KolenbranderGerhardus Bernardus06-02-18631882IJzerlo 33 (Eekink)
    KolenbranderHendrik Willem02-02-18611880Heurne 29 (Groot Kappers)
    KolsteArend Jan10-04-18161847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KolsteGesina Leida29-01-18431847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KolsteGrada Gesina19-10-18461847Kath JacksonHaart 34 (Lieftocht a/d Borninkhof)
    KolsteHendrik21-09-18191847Kath JacksonHaart 34 (Lieftocht a/d Borninkhof)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KolsteTonia15-05-18451847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)
    KolsteeGarrit Hendrik04-10-18081846HectorHaart 35 (Borninkhof)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KolsteeGesina03-06-18231846HectorHaart 35 (Borninkhof)
    KolsteeTonij02-10-17851846HectorHaart 35 (Borninkhof)
    KolwagenAnna Maria31-10-18121847Aalten 205a
    KortdeAntonia18-04-18101855Kerkstraat 12, Aalten
    KortumHendrik Jan18-04-18241847Aalten 263/19
    KortumWillem05-09-18281858Aalten 263/19 (NH Gasthuis)
    KoskampAleida25-11-18081857Dale 39
    KoskampArent Jan27-07-18611869NestorianIJzerlo 15Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KoskampChristiaan19-06-18671869NestorianIJzerlo 15Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    KoskampDerk Jan23-10-18331869NestorianIJzerlo 15Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KoskampGerrit Johan25-03-18641869NestorianIJzerlo 15Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KoskampHarmina27-12-18421892Damstraat 23, Aalten
    KoskampHendrika08-01-18451893Lintelo 163 (De Wever)Hull, Sioux, IA
    KoskampTonia Christina22-04-18581869NestorianIJzerlo 15Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    KotsBerend Willem30 Jul 18151846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    KotsGerrit Jan19-09-18261883Barlo 83 (De Timp)Maurice, Sioux, IA
    KotsHendrik Jan15-02-18661883Barlo 83 (De Timp)
    KotsHendrik Jan21-02-18441846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)
    KotsJan Berend08-12-18451846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)
    KotsJan Berend13-09-18591882Barlo 83 (De Timp)Maurice, Sioux, IA
    KotsJohanna09-04-18801883Barlo 83 (De Timp)
    KotsTonia17-02-18711883Barlo 17 (Oolthuis)
    KotsWillemina31-03-18741883Barlo 83 (De Timp)
    KrajenbrinkGerrit Hendrik10-05-18401847Lintelo 51a (Navis Nieuwhuis)Lake Michigan
    KrajenbrinkJohanna03-02-18441847Lintelo 51a (Navis Nieuwhuis)Lake Michigan
    KrajenbrinkKaatjen30-11-18451847Lintelo 51a (Navis Nieuwhuis)Lake Michigan
    KrajenbrinkWillem30-09-18101847Lintelo 51a (Navis Nieuwhuis)Lake Michigan
    KrienenTheodora10-10-18191847Lintelo 51a (Navis Nieuwhuis)Lake Michigan
    KronnieteGerrit Jan23-07-18751892Haart 11 (Loohuis)
    KronnieteJan Berend01-01-18281892Damstraat 23, Aalten
    KronnieteJohanna Berendina23-10-18771892Damstraat 23, Aalten
    KrozenbrinkGerrit Jan10-04-18591867Barlo 84a (Kok)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    KrozenbrinkHendrik Jan08-12-18291867Barlo 84a (Kok)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    KrozenbrinkJanna Aleida04-10-18611867Barlo 84a (Kok)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    KruisselbrinkHendrik Jan19-04-18931923Aalten?
    KruisselbrinkJanna Geertruid16-10-18541893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    KruisselbrinkWillem Frederik28-06-18961921Aalten?
    KwakGerharda Christina26-09-18381860Aalten 263/7 (NH Gasthuis)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    KwakHendrika03-04-18321869
    LaakvanJan Willem23-08-18031869Aalten 105 (Hogestraat?)
    LammersArent Jan02-11-18411854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenWaldo, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersBerendina Hendrika02-18241855AlexanderLintelo 118a
    LammersBerendjen23-09-18041846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)Elmwood, Pierce, WI
    LammersDora Hendrika06-04-18101869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersGerrit12-11-18441854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenGibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersGerrit Jan20-01-18251846Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, Aalten
    LammersGerrit Jan20-01-18251854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenGibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersGesiena Johanna24-01-18091846HectorHaart 35 (Borninkhof)
    LammersGrada Antonetta17-06-18341869NestorianIJzerlo 13 (Roelofshuus)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersHanna Hendrika21-03-18131869NestorianDale 6 (Ebbers)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersHendrika Jacoba Gesina12-01-18511854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenAlto, Fond du Lac, WI
    LammersHendrina25-04-18291846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)
    LammersHinners26-01-18071846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersJacobus02-11-18531854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenGibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersJacobus31-10-17831854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenGibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LammersWillem Arnoldus28-09-18671893Landstraat 11, Aalten
    LammersWillemina18-03-18671911Lichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    LeefferdinkBerend Willem14-07-18391870Barlo 97 (Van Eerden)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    LeefferdinkBerendina06-02-18421881Barlo 98 (Klumper)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    LeefferdinkGrada28-02-18681870Barlo 97 (Van Eerden)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    LeefferdinkJan Gerhard15-06-18501870Barlo 97 (Van Eerden)Hickman, Lancaster, NE
    LeefferdinkJan Gerrit05-09-18651870Barlo 97 (Van Eerden)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    LeefferdinkJan Willem20-10-18441868Barlo 74 (Van Eerden)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    LeemkuilDerk Jan09-02-18621868Aalten 207b (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Greenbush, Sheboygan, WI
    LeemkuilDerk Jan22-09-18491869NestorianAalten 137d (Hoekstraat?)Sheldon, O’Brien, IA
    LeemkuilGerrit Jan15-07-18341868Aalten 207b (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LeemkuilGerrit Jan27-07-18351846HectorHaart 32 (Den Bosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LeemkuilGrada Johanna14-02-18181872Haart 39 (Nijhuis)
    LeemkuilHendrik Jan29-01-18161846HectorHaart 32 (Den Bosch)
    LeemkuilHendrikus22-07-18441869Bredevoortsestraatweg 12, AaltenHospers, Sioux, IA
    LeemkuilHendrikus Antonius22-12-18591868Aalten 207b (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Hospers, Sioux, IA
    LeemkuilJan Willem05-07-18311846HectorHaart 32 (Den Bosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LeemkuilJan Willem31-03-17871846HectorHaart 32 (Den Bosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LeemkuilJanna Berendina18-04-18221846HectorHaart 32 (Den Bosch)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LeemkuilTonia Hendrika06-04-18191846Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LegtersBerendina06-04-18591870IJzerlo 36 (Rengelink)Ripley, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersDorus Johan08-10-18541870Haart 55 (Zigtvree)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersGerrit Willem25-06-18451869IJzerlo 56 (De Scheel)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersGesina Johanna04-02-18611870IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersHarmen Jan13-11-18361870Dale 29 (Schreurs)
    LegtersHendrik Jan19-10-18111870IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersHendrik Jan21-01-18641870IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)
    LegtersHendrika14-11-18481870IJzerlo 29 (Westendorp)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersHerman23-02-18511869Heurne 33 (Roele)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LegtersWillemine02-03-18201846Haart 14aClymer, Chautauqua, NY
    LeijttinkJohanna Margaretha19-10-18061849Barlo 23 (Oonk)
    LeitingJan Hendrik20-10-18391868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)
    LemHarmina Alberdina19-12-18021846Aalten 218
    LenkhofDora31-10-18521882Lintelo 141
    LensinkAnna Hendrika24-09-18161854Dale 73 (Peppink)
    LensinkArent Jan Willem06-04-18511855AlexanderLintelo 126 (Zoerens)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    LensinkEngelina22-09-18541855AlexanderLintelo 126 (Zoerens)Le Mars, Plymouth, IA
    LensinkEngelina Frederika28-09-18331881Haart 32 (Hunink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LensinkGerharda Dora03-02-18091853Hogestraat 57, Aalten
    LensinkGerrit Jan25-09-17991846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)
    LensinkGerrit Willem21-09-18141855AlexanderLintelo 126 (Zoerens)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    LensinkGerrit Willem30-10-18441846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)Andersonville, Macon, GA
    LensinkGesina Aleida25-11-18271856Lintelo 109 (Klein Gussinklo)
    LensinkGrada Willemina19-05-18351846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)
    LensinkHarmina25-10-18331846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)Elmwood, Pierce, WI
    LensinkJan Antonij06-08-18401846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)Bellingham, Whatcom, WA
    LensinkJanna16-07-18491855AlexanderLintelo 126 (Zoerens)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LensinkJanna18-08-18371846ManchesterLintelo 40 (Maatkamp)
    LensinkJanna Berendina15-01-18471855AlexanderLintelo 126 (Zoerens)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LeveringHarmina Gesina17-04-18261854Aalten 118a (Hogestraat)
    LiefferdinkBerendina06-02-18421881Barlo 98 (Klumper)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    LieftinkJanna29-11-17671847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    LieversBerend30-12-18851911Bredevoortsestr. 97, AaltenNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    LieversGerharda Johanna10-10-19091913Haart 91bBurnaby, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    LieversGerrit Jan29-4-19121913Haart 91bNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    LieversHendrik18-07-18881913Haart 91bNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    LieversJan03-12-18941913Haart 91b
    LieversJan Willem29-7-19081913Haart 91bPonoka, Ponoka, Alberta, Canada
    LieversJansjen14-02-18911913Haart 91bNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    LieversJohanna18-5-19091911Bredevoortsestr. 97, AaltenNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    LieversWilhelmina Hendrika13-1-19111911Bredevoortsestr. 97, AaltenNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    LiezenGerrit Jan30-06-17951855Dale 4 (Bekerbrusse)
    LiezenHarmina Berendina30-01-18261855Dale 4 (Bekerbrusse)
    LiezenJan Berend26-12-18331854Dale 4 (Bekerbrusse)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    LiezenLammert04-01-18381855LeilaDale 4 (Bekerbrusse)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    LigterinkWillem12-02-18441883Heurne 6 (Stapelkamp)
    LindertteBerendina15-08-18231846Heurne 41 (De Stegge)Garden Prairie, Boone, IL
    LindertteGerrit Jan05-06-18291853Aalten 83 (Hogestraat)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LindertteJanna Gezina08-02-18451880Lintelo 156Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    LindertteWessel18-11-18241846Dale 15 (De Hennepe)
    LobeekJan Willem17-01-18421867Kerkstraat 9, Bredevoort
    LohuisCatharina Aleida05-05-18441854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)
    LohuisDerk Hendrik11-07-18491854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)Spokane, WA
    LohuisDerk Hendrik22-04-18091854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)
    LohuisDerk Jan08-02-18511854Prinsenstraat 12, Aalten
    LohuisFrederika03-10-18521881Dale 88 (Kleinpenning)Sheboygan, WI
    LohuisGerrit12-07-18191854Prinsenstraat 12, AaltenOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    LohuisGerrit Jan24-02-18541854Prinsenstraat 12, Aalten
    LohuisGeziena Maria22-03-18391854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    LohuisHarmen Jan08-12-18131858Aalten?
    LohuisJohanna Berendina Maria28-07-18481854Prinsenstraat 12, Aalten
    LohuisJohanna Hendrika30-12-18521854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)
    LohuisRoelof05-12-18361854Aalten 201b (Prinsenstraat)Frankford, Mower, MN
    LohuisWillemina18-09-18451868Aalten 272 (Bredevoortsestraat?)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    LovinkJohanna Mina19-08-18641889Lintelo 74 (Sandbulte)Carmel, Sioux, IA
    LubbersBerend Hendrik23-03-18201845Barlo 15a (Nieuw Pakkebier)
    LubbersBerendina13-07-18521881Barlo 18 (Kuijerman)Moxee City, Yakima, WA
    LubbersFrederika16-01-18371869NestorianDale 59 (Hunink)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    LubbersHendrik Jan16-07-18391866Lintelo 1
    LubbersJohanna Gesina06-08-18371868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)Carmel, Sioux, IA
    LubbersJohanna Gesina07-10-18441868Lintelo 1 (De Pas)
    LubbersWillemina Gezina21-03-18421869Lintelo 1 (De Pas)
    LuijmesDela27-08-18431883Hozenstraat 8, Bredevoort
    LuimesGerrit Jan14-01-18271858IJzerlo 60 (Huisstede)
    LuitenJohanna Berendina19-11-18221854Arnold BoningerAalten (Hogestraat?)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    LumesAlida21-05-18471880IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)
    LurvinkBerendina Fredrika25-11-18281853Landstraat 43, AaltenCincinnati, Hamilton, OH
    LurvinkWillemina Hendrika21-05-18141847Lichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    Lutten / LensinkGeesken01-04-17801846HectorHaart 35 (Borninkhof)
    MaatterAntonij07-02-18361857Dale 46 (De Bulte)
    MaatterArent Jan22-12-18231869NestorianDale 82 (Oosterman)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    MaatterCatharina Gerharda28-10-18421868ErinKerkstraat 12, Aalten
    MaatterDerk Jan12-01-18671884Haart 24 (Drenthel Schoppe)
    MaatterGerrit Hendrik28-06-18611881Dale 101
    MaatterGerrit Jan20-02-18311859Dale 46 (De Bulte)
    MaatterGesiena19-02-18361881Aalten 143a (Hogestraat?)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    MaatterJan Hendrik25-03-18411860Dale 46 (De Bulte)
    MaatterJan Willem06-11-18331859Dale 46 (De Bulte)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    MaatterJanna31-07-18431860Dale 38 (Paskerhutte)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    MaatkampGeertruid15-02-18501880Lintelo 8Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    ManschotAleida14-03-18451850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, Aalten
    ManschotAntonij Hendrikus19-05-18381850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, AaltenMilwaukee, WI
    ManschotBernadus10-09-18481850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, Aalten
    ManschotFredericus06-05-18321850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, Aalten
    ManschotHendrika Berendina28-10-18291868Hogestraat 63, Aalten
    ManschotJohanna Theodora03-09-18341850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, Aalten
    ManschotJohannes Hendrikus12-07-17991850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, AaltenMilwaukee, WI
    ManschotJohannes Theodorus28-02-18431850Lichtenvoordsestr. 12, AaltenMilwaukee, WI
    MarijnesenGijsberta08-11-18071857Aalten 260a (Bredevoortsestr.)Kalamazoo, MI
    MeebelteJanna19-03-18341869NestorianDale 38aGreenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    MeijerinkJohanna09-11-18141846Bredevoort 38Monroe County, NY?
    MeijnenAntonetta Gesina29-10-18251869NestorianStationsstraat 5 (Aalten 57)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    MeinenDela Hendrika02-01-18551881Dale 86c
    MeinenDora15-11-18081854Bredevoort 92 (’t Zand)
    MeinenGarrit Jan06-05-18111857Dale 39
    MeinenGerrit Antonij15-03-18411868Heurne 34aOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    MeinenGesina Elisabeth26-02-18381855Haart 30 (’t Winkel)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    MeinenGrada Hendrika06-09-18671868Heurne 34aOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    MeinenHendricus05-12-18471873/1874Bredevoort 175
    MeinenHendrik Jan30-06-18241860Bredevoort 6 (Den Diek)
    MeinenJohanna Berendina04-11-18461857Dale 39
    MeinenJohanna Elisabeth30-11-18301858Barlo 4 (Gantvoort)
    MeinenJohanna Willemina03-02-18151857Aalten 91a (Hogestraat)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    MeinenLambertus Christiaan13-02-18931912Officierstraat 5, Bredevoort
    MeinenManus25-04-18511857Dale 39
    MekkinkBerendina10-12-18101847Aalten 108Perkintown, Salem, NJ
    MekkinkGesina29-05-18211869IJzerlo 1 (De Lindert)
    MelsenvanAnna Margaretha05-03-19051911SS RotterdamLichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    MelsenvanHerman Jan23-07-18971911SS RotterdamLichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    MelsenvanMaria Wilhelmina23-12-18931911SS RotterdamLichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    MelsenvanWillem Jan19-08-18681911SS RotterdamLichtenvoordsestr. 14, Aalten
    MenninkWillemina01-04-18091847Kath JacksonHaart 12 (Kleuver)
    MessinkJanna Geertruid11-03-18461870IJzerlo 56 (Chris)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    MetelingEva25-02-18131868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)
    MöllmannGrada Johanna02-12-18491853Landstraat 43, Aalten
    MöllmannJohanna Berendina16-01-18511853Landstraat 43, Aalten
    MöllmannJohannes Theodorus11-10-18231853Landstraat 43, AaltenCincinnati, Hamilton, OH
    MöllmannMauritius Josephus20-03-18311853Aalten 95 (Hogestraat)Saint Bernard, Hamilton, OH
    NagelArent Jan28-04-18371854IJzerlo 51 (’t Klooster)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    NagelBerend28-12-18081855IJzerlo 51 (’t Klooster)York, Fillmore, MN
    NagelBerendina Johanna Catharina13-09-18441855IJzerlo 51 (’t Klooster)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    NagelDerk Jan27-10-18401855IJzerlo 51 (’t Klooster)York, Fillmore, MN
    NagelGarrit Willem13-11-18481855IJzerlo 51 (’t Klooster)Cherry Grove, Fillmore, MN
    NagelGrada Willemina09-07-18641868Lintelo 22 (Hemelmate)
    NagelHendrik Willem01-04-18161868Lintelo 22 (Hemelmate)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    NagelHendrik Willem21-04-18481868Lintelo 22 (Hemelmate)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    NagelHendrika Geertruid07-05-18541868Lintelo 22 (Hemelmate)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    NavisArent Jan18-02-18811882Lintelo 142 (’t Boske)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    NavisBerend Hendrik05-06-18391869NestorianLintelo 39 (Marode)
    NavisBerentjen30-04-18131846Lintelo 36 (Klinke)
    NavisBernardus13-04-18411882Lintelo 142 (’t Boske)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    NavisDerk Willem26-07-18011847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    NavisEvert04-02-18091846Lintelo 36 (Klinke)
    NavisGeertruid18-07-18391847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    NavisGerharda Harmina?1846Lintelo 36 (Klinke)
    NavisGerrit Hendrik21-09-18331847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    NavisGerrit Jan10-07-18451882Lintelo 142 (’t Boske)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    NavisGerrit Jan13-02-18541869NestorianHaart 33 (Den Bosch)
    NavisGerrit Jan14-02-18411846Lintelo 36 (Klinke)Monterey, Allegan, MI
    NavisGrada Willemina05-04-18221868Lintelo 22 (Hemelmate)
    NavisGradus Theodorus02-10-18771882Lintelo 142 (’t Boske)
    NavisHendrik Jan19-03-18361847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    NavisHendrik Willem01-03-18421847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    NavisHendrika Johanna16-01-18371882Lintelo 142 (’t Boske)
    NavisHendrika Johanna17-03-18271847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    NavisHendrika Johanna17-10-18341846Lintelo 36 (Klinke)
    NavisJan Willem20-12-18581882Lintelo 85 (Brussen Spieker)Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    NavisWillemina20-03-17941846Lintelo 52 (De Kamp)
    NeerhofAleijda26-01-17941856IJzerlo 7 (Essink)
    NeerhofDela Johanna06-02-18431869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)
    NeerhofDerk Jan09-07-18441869NestorianHaart 19 (Lievers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofDerk Willem03-02-18691869NestorianHaart 19 (Lievers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofDora Hendrika06-02-18651869NestorianBarlo 1 (Nieuw Kolstee)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofGarrit Jan21-08-18261869NestorianBarlo 1 (Nieuw Kolstee)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofGerrit Jan06-07-18491869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofGesina Berendina03-02-18561869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)
    NeerhofHendrik Jan20-05-18511869NestorianHaart 19 (Lievers)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofJan Hendrik04-05-18471869NestorianHaart 19 (Lievers)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofJohanna Geertruid17-11-18461869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)
    NeerhofJohanna Geertruid28-10-18611869NestorianBarlo 1 (Nieuw Kolstee)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    NeerhofRoelof23-08-18671869NestorianBarlo 1 (Nieuw Kolstee)Horicon, Dodge, WI
    NeerhofRoelof26-12-18511869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)
    NeerhofWillem02-02-18101869NestorianDale 10 (Krieger)
    NiessingAleida Theodora Geertruida18-04-18411853Ambthuiswal 16, BredevoortNew York City, NY?
    NiessingJohann Gerhard07-12-18071853Ambthuiswal 16, BredevoortNew York City, NY
    NiessingJohannes Bernardus23-11-18521853Ambthuiswal 16, BredevoortNew York City, NY?
    NijenhuisJanna Geertruid06-05-18221853IJzerlo 63 (Lensink)
    NijlandDerk29-01-18641866IJzerlo 46 (De Krul)
    NijlandDersken15-01-18351866IJzerlo 46 (De Krul)
    NijlandHendrika24-04-18401866IJzerlo 46 (De Krul)
    NijmanArend Jan30-12-18611880Heurne 27 (Klein Kappers)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    NijmanBerendina10-12-18681881Heurne 27 (Klein Kappers)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    NijmanDela29-11-18321868Heurne 35Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    NijmanGerharda13-08-18751881Heurne 27 (Klein Kappers)Spokane, WA
    NijmanGerrit Jan11-07-18331881Heurne 27 (Klein Kappers)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    NijmanJan Willem07-03-18791881Heurne 27 (Klein Kappers)Spokane, WA
    NijmanJohanna Harmina21-08-18811911Aalten C571aVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    NijrolderHarmanus28-12-18071868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)
    NijrolderJohanna Berendina19-12-18431868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)Wrightstown, Brown, WI
    NonhofDerk Hendrik14-03-18371854LeilaDale 27 (Heurne)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    NonhofHendrik Jan09-03-18001854LeilaDale 27 (Heurne)
    NonhofJan Berend08-10-18331854LeilaDale 27 (Heurne)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    NonhofJanna04-04-18431854LeilaDale 27 (Heurne)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    NonhofWillemina15-03-18301854LeilaDale 27 (Heurne)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    NusselderBerendina Fredrika01-11-18501868Lintelo 123 (’t Heegt)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    ObbinkAalbert29-03-18681882Haart 34 (’t Winkel)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ObbinkArent Jan15-11-18561882Haart 26 (Beestman)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ObbinkBerend14-08-18281884Haart 29 (Beestmans Nieuwhuis)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ObbinkDerk Jan Engelbarts14-12-18481867Haart 18 (Lievers Huisken)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    ObbinkDora Aleida12-07-18721884Haart 29 (Beestmans Nieuwhuis)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ObbinkGerrit01-07-18601881Haart 29 (Beestmans Nieuwhuis)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ObelinkAnna Elisabeth18-10-18351846HectorBredevoort 55
    ObelinkBerend Hendrik16-11-18371846HectorBredevoort 55Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    ObelinkBerent13-10-18211847Kath JacksonHaart 35 (Borninkhof)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ObelinkLammert Willem30-08-18291846HectorHaart 35 (Borninkhof)
    ObelinkWillem07-04-18061846HectorBredevoort 55
    OberinkHendrika19-05-18121857IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)
    OberinkJanna Berendina22-03-18301866EricssonHaart 2 (Driessen)
    OblinkBerendina Johanna24-03-18491880Dale 65 (Kolstee)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    OngenaEvert Jan04-02-18451857Aalten 91a (Hogestraat)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    OngenaHendrik18-08-18461857Aalten 91a (Hogestraat)
    OngenaTonia25-04-18501857Aalten 91a (Hogestraat)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    OonkGarrit Willem28-06-18451849Barlo 23 (Oonk)
    OonkGerrit Jan09-10-18411849Barlo 23 (Oonk)
    OonkJan Derk25-04-18041849Barlo 23 (Oonk)
    OonkJanna Geertruid15-09-17861856Dale 76 (Bonte Hek)
    OverbeekGerrit Hendrik09-01-18611890Barlo 67 (Oonk)Galway, Saratoga, NY
    OverbeekGesiena03-07-18301857Heurne 39b
    OverbeekGrada Berendina16-03-18871890Barlo 67 (Oonk)
    OverbeekJohanna Aleida21-03-18891890Barlo 67 (Oonk)Rock City Falls, Saratoga, NY
    PakkebierAlbertus Hermanus06-05-18601878Damstraat 19, Aalten
    PakkebierGerhard Lambertus24-08-18611878Damstraat 19, AaltenPrairie View, Phillips, KS
    PakkebierGerrit Hendrik Hermanus20-03-18701878Damstraat 19, Aalten
    PakkebierGesina22-10-18321869NestorianLintelo 6a (Sondernweg)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    PakkebierHendrikus22-05-18251878Damstraat 19, Aalten
    PakkebierJohanna03-05-18671878Damstraat 19, Aalten
    PastenGarrit Jan15-12-17881847Haart 15 (Slotboom)
    PastenJanna10-08-17861849Aalten 172 (Kattenberg?)
    PasketeChristiaan07-01-18361860Dale 34 (’t Paske)
    PasketeDerk Jan05-01-18541868Barlo 8 (Hakstege)Ringle, Marathon, WI
    PasketeEvert15-07-18611882Landstraat 28, BredevoortOrange City, Sioux, IA
    PasketeHarmina24-11-18551868Barlo 8 (Hakstege)
    PasketeHendrik Jan16-05-18161868AustrianBarlo 8 (Hakstege)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    PasketeJan Willem24-12-18571868Barlo 8 (Hakstege)Three Oaks, Berrien, MI
    PasketeJohanna Adriana05-12-18591868Barlo 8 (Hakstege)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    PenningsArent Jan09-01-18291863Dale 66 (Pöppink)
    PenningsArent Jan09-01-18291857IJzerlo 50 (Thijs)
    PenningsArent Jan14-04-18521872Dale 69 (Pennings)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    PenningsBerendina28-01-18571872Dale 69 (Pennings)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    PenningsGerrit Jan16-12-18221872Dale 69 (Pennings)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    PenningsJan Willem05-01-18591872Dale 69 (Pennings)
    PenningsJohanna19-02-18611872Dale 69 (Pennings)Maurice, Sioux, IA
    PenningsWillemina12-09-18501880Barlo 74 (Fukker)Orange City, Sioux, IA
    PetersGerhardus Arnoldus20-10-18371854LeilaAalten 57 (Landstraat)(1863 teruggekeerd)
    PetersJohannes22-11-18001847Aalten 14(1863 teruggekeerd)
    PeulersBernard Joseph25-08-18231846Prinsenstraat 15, Aalten
    PiekAntonij02-06-18411854Bredevoort 91aYork, York, PA
    PiekGerrit Jan03-10-18301854Barlo 86 (Bouwhuis)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekHarmen12-12-18371854Bredevoort 91aRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekHarmen23-12-17921854Bredevoort 91aRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekHarmen Jan29-12-18351854Bredevoort 91aRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekHendrika14-11-18551857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekHerman30-09-18441857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekJan01-11-18491857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekJan Berend30-03-18471857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekJan Derk09-05-18211857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    PiekJanna Geertruid20-02-18531857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortMonroe County, NY?
    PiekJohanna10-11-18421881Barlo 99 (Tente)
    PiekMetta Hendrika05-06-18101846HectorBarlo 68a (Waterkooi)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    PiepersJanna Willemina28-04-18411857CasildaBredevoort 118Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    PietenpolAleida15-10-18341846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    PietenpolBerend Willem02-07-18291846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    PietenpolChristiaan31-10-18381846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    PietenpolDerk Willem01-10-18121868Dale 70 (Kleinpenning)op zee
    PietenpolFrederikus16-08-18481868Dale 70 (Kleinpenning)Princeton, Lancaster, NE
    PietenpolHendrik Willem04-09-18361846HectorHaart 19 (Pietenpol)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    PietenpolLambertus07-10-18381869Dale 71Orange City, Sioux, IA
    Polvan deAaltjen21-05-17861849Aalten 222
    PrangeArend Jan04-12-18231854LeilaHeurne 44Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    PrangeDerk Jan18-06-18271869Dale 58 (Ruwhof)Charlton, Saratoga, NY
    PrangeGerrit Jan04-09-18421846Aalten 199 (Prinsenstraat?)
    PrangeGerrit Jan29-08-18141846Aalten 199 (Prinsenstraat?)
    PrangeGrada Harmina28-09-18211847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    PrangeHarmina28-08-18451846Aalten 199 (Prinsenstraat?)
    PrangeJan Willem22-02-18301868Dale 58 (Ruwhof)
    PrangeJanna Geziena12-03-18391846Aalten 199 (Prinsenstraat?)
    PrangeLammert23-05-17891847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)
    Prange(n)Aleida Everdina19-02-18511854Damstraat 15, Aalten
    Prange(n)Hendrik Jan11-01-18451854Damstraat 15, AaltenAlto, Fond du Lac, WI
    Prange(n)Hendrik Jan21-02-18091854Damstraat 15, AaltenCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    Prange(n)Janna Hendrika24-01-18431854Damstraat 15, AaltenCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    Prange(n)Johanna Gezina24-02-18391869Barlo 35 (Groot Deunk)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    Prange(n)Willem22-10-18471854Damstraat 15, AaltenHolland, Lancaster, NE
    PrangenDersken24-03-17991846Aalten 93a
    PrangenGarrit Jan05-09-18251857Heurne 39b
    PrangenHendrika04-02-18571857Heurne 39b
    PrinsHendrikus Johannes26-01-18281854LeilaDijkstraat 22, Aalten
    PrinsTheodora31-08-17931854LeilaPeperstraat 2, Aalten
    PrinsenAntonij Johannes27-03-18511880Lintelo 26 (Sluiskes)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    PrinsenArend Jan15-06-18681880Lintelo 26 (Sluiskes)Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    PrinsenArent Jan12-01-18231856NanceIJzerlo 37 (’t Loo)
    PrinsenBerend Hendrik26-05-18581880Lintelo 11 (Groot Sondern)
    PrinsenBerendina11-01-18641880Lintelo 26 (Sluiskes)Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    PrinsenChristina11-12-18131857Lintelo 4a (Wieber)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    PrinsenCornelis08-11-18301855AlexanderLintelo 13 (Sluiskes)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    PrinsenDela Aleida25-08-18601880Lintelo 26 (Sluiskes)Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    PrinsenGarritjen18-11-18281856NanceAalten 162b (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)
    PrinsenGerrit Hendrik25-12-18221846HectorAalten 216 (Boomkampstraat 24)
    PrinsenGerrit Willem11-08-18311859
    PrinsenGerrit Willem27-07-18561879Lintelo 26 (Sluiskes)
    PrinsenGrada Willemina07-01-18251854LeilaIJzerlo 55a/1
    PrinsenHendrik02-07-18101847Barlo 1 (Maris)
    PrinsenHendrik Jan14-08-18371856IJzerlo 35 (Nieuw Rengelink)
    PrinsenJan Willem25-09-18341854LeilaLintelo 13 (Sluiskes)Rochester, Monroe, NY
    PrinsenWillem13-08-17921855AlexanderLintelo 13 (Sluiskes)
    PrinsenWillemina06-08-18181856NanceAalten 162b (Varsseveldsestraatweg?)
    QuerreveldJanna Geertruid23-08-18101856South CarolinaDamstraat 15, Aalten
    RabelinkFrederik18-07-18191867Aalten 158b
    RademakerJacoba14-02-17761846Aalten 80 (Hogestraat)
    RademakerJohanna Francisca Maria14-04-18151871Hogestraat 24, Aalten
    RauwerdinkJanna Hendrika09-08-18561881Dale 27a (Pakkebier)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    ReimesLammert21-11-18341858Aalten 90 (’t Dal 9)Pedricktown, Salem, NJ
    RensinkAntonie17-10-18371869Aalten 253aSioux Center, Sioux, IA
    RensinkArent Jan17-11-18411865Dale 27 (Heurne)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    RensinkBerend Hendrik14-09-18441889Dale 39 (Welink)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    RensinkBerend Hendrik31-01-18241847Aalten 69Franklin, Milwaukee, WI
    RensinkBerendina Aleida22-06-18391866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    RensinkBernard Gerhard02-10-18731889Dale 39 (Welink)Madison, Hancock, IA
    RensinkGarrit Hendrik26-12-18281854Barlo 76 (Hoenink)
    RensinkGerrit Hendrik22-11-18391869IJzerlo 60 (Huisstede)
    RensinkGerrit Jan03-02-18871889Dale 39 (Welink)Slayton, Murray, MN
    RensinkGerrit Jan16-10-18031866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)
    RensinkGerrit Jan22-01-18491866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    RensinkGerritdina Johanna11-07-18811889Dale 39 (Welink)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    RensinkGeziena23-08-18161847Kath JacksonHaart 13 (Slotboom)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    RensinkGrada Christina12-11-18151855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    RensinkGrada Cornelia28-07-18541866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    RensinkHendrik Jan10-11-18351866IJzerlo 46 (De Krul)Newkirk, Sioux, IA
    RensinkHendrik Jan11-02-18131846Haart 13 (Slotboom)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    RensinkHendrik Willem12-05-18841889Dale 39 (Welink)Forest City, Winnebago, IA
    RensinkHendrik Willem31-01-18331869Dale 55 (Kolstee)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    RensinkJan Derk12-06-18211847Aalten 263/15 (NH Gasthuis)
    RensinkJanna Dela15-09-18041851IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)
    RensinkJanna Geertruid10-04-18781889Dale 39 (Welink)Boyden, Sioux, IA
    RensinkJohanna Berendina24-01-18111851IJzerlo 30 (Japikshuus)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    RensinkJohanna Cornelia27-06-18371866EricssonLintelo 14 (Rensink)
    RensinkWillemina31-03-18091847Kath JacksonIJzerlo 6 (Essink)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    ReuwerdeJoanna Maria Francisca14-08-17851835Kerkstraat 7, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    RexwinkelJohanna01-02-18021847Lintelo 47 (Navis-Frederik)Lake Michigan
    RietkötterWilhelm19-07-18311838-1851Aalten 3
    RijksAntonij05-02-18451846Koppelstraat 10, BredevoortCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    RijksHarmen Jan18-11-18341846Koppelstraat 10, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    RijksJenneken12-11-17961854Bredevoort 91aRochester, Monroe, NY
    RijksManus02-01-18371846Koppelstraat 10, BredevoortCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    RijksWillem08-07-18081846Koppelstraat 10, BredevoortBrighton, Monroe, NY
    RikkersDerk Jan25-12-18131847Kath JacksonHeurne 46 (Kleine Rikkert)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    RikkersElisabeth29-10-18081855Dale 79aOverisel, Allegan, MI
    RikkersGerrit Jan08-09-18151846Heurne 46 (Kleine Rikkert)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    RikkersGrade06-07-18111847Kath JacksonHeurne 46 (Kleine Rikkert)
    RikkersHendrik Jan25-12-18371847Kath JacksonHeurne 46 (Kleine Rikkert)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    RikkersTonia Johanna29-08-18431847Kath JacksonHeurne 46 (Kleine Rikkert)
    RoelofsenHermanus Antonij24-08-18561881Barlo 101 (De Götter)
    RoosenGerrit Jan19-06-18221854Aalten 205e (Damstraat)
    RuesinkAleida Hendrika05-11-18501855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)
    RuesinkBerendina Aleida29-01-18411855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)
    RuesinkDerk05-10-18441855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)
    RuesinkDerk Jan24-09-18351854LeilaLintelo 45 (Steengroeve)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    RuesinkEvert17-08-18521855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    RuesinkMina24-10-18471855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)
    RuessinkArent Jan14-08-18341856IJzerlo 7 (Essink)
    RuessinkEverdina04-11-18291856NanceIJzerlo 37 (’t Loo)
    RuessinkGerrit Hendrik25-11-17971856IJzerlo 7 (Essink)
    RuessinkGerrit Jan18-05-18321856IJzerlo 7 (Essink)
    RuessinkJan Willem21-08-18161855AlexanderLintelo 133 (Akkermaat)
    RuessinkWillemina27-10-18371856IJzerlo 7 (Essink)
    RutgersAleida04-05-18101846Dale 26 (Villeken)
    RutgersGerritjen10-09-18681869NestorianDale 38a
    RutgersJan Hendrik01-03-18291869NestorianDale 38a
    RutgersJanna Berendina07-12-18661869NestorianDale 38a
    SandbulteArend Jan05-05-18651889Lintelo 74 (Sandbulte)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    SandbulteHendrika23-10-18621890Barlo 67 (Oonk)Galway, Saratoga, NY
    SandbulteJohan07-10-18591889Lintelo 74 (Sandbulte)Carmel, Sioux, IA
    SandbulteJohanna Aleida13-04-18861889Lintelo 74 (Sandbulte)Carmel, Sioux, IA
    SandbulteJohanna Harmina21-04-18881889Lintelo 74 (Sandbulte)
    SchaapveldGerrit Hendrik15-05-18261853Aalten 116b (Hogestraat)Dayton, Campbell, KY
    SchaapveldLammert26-11-18211854Aalten 77 (Hogestraat)
    ScheenkAnna Aleida Willemina04-04-18121845Kath JacksonAalten 174 (Kattenberg)
    ScheenkHarmen Jan15-09-17861845Kath JacksonDale 55a
    ScheffenMargaretha22-05-17891847Kath JacksonAalten 275Franklin, Milwaukee, WI
    ScheggetterGarritjen08-09-18221880Bredevoort 76
    SchemkesFrans Theodor15-02-18181847Aalten 230
    SchenkCatharina Wilhelmina05-03-18491869Aalten 53
    SchenkGerharda Hendrika11-03-18561869Aalten 53
    SchenkGerhardus Hendrikus21-02-18531869Aalten 53
    SchenkHarmina03-08-18421855Dale 23 (Beusink)
    SchenkJohanna13-02-18591869Aalten 53
    SchenkJohanna Wilhelmina Josephina22-02-18101846Lintelo 54a (Nieuwe Koop)New Orleans, LA?
    SchenkJohanna Willemina14-10-18391855Dale 78 (Schulenkamp)
    SchenkJohannes02-01-18611869Aalten 53
    SchenkJohannes16-04-18371854Dale 62a
    SchenkJohannes Gerhardus07-12-18501854Dale 62a
    SchenkJohannes Hendrikus22-02-18101854Dale 62a
    SchenkMaria Theresia14-08-18471854Dale 62a
    SchenkPeter27-10-18541869Aalten 53
    SchenkTheodor Joannes23-08-18031849Aalten 192
    SchepersAleida Dora21-05-18391867Prinsenstraat 8, Aalten
    SchepersBernadus03-07-18361869Aalten 80a
    SchepersHendrika30-06-18091854Aalten 225/1
    SchepersJan Berend15-02-18261869NestorianHaart 33 (Den Bosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SchlatzGerhard Heinrich20-04-18101847Aalten 94a
    SchlekingAnna Geertruid11-08-18471861Dale 9 (Grote Maat)
    SchlekingHermann16-06-18141861Dale 9 (Grote Maat)
    SchlekingJohannes Bernadus19-07-18491861Dale 9 (Grote Maat)
    ScholtenBerend Hendrik05-07-18421854LeilaDale 8 (De Glieuwe)
    ScholtenGerrit Jan25-08-18311854LeilaDale 8 (De Glieuwe)
    ScholtenHendrik Jan23-02-18041854LeilaDale 8 (De Glieuwe)
    ScholtenJan Hendrik13-01-18291854LeilaDale 8 (De Glieuwe)
    ScholtenJohanna Willemina12-04-18261854LeilaLintelo 121Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    ScholtsHendrik Jan14-08-18361854Vismarkt 11, Bredevoort
    ScholtzCatharina Elisabeth07-01-18611882Bredevoort 169
    SchoppersAaltjen27-11-18611887IJzerlo 51a
    SchoppersAleida24-03-18651881Dale 39 (Welink)
    SchoppersAleida Johanna17-06-18771881Dale 86c
    SchoppersBerend Hendrik04-12-18681885Aalten 192
    SchoppersBerendina Willemina14-11-18551880Aalten 102aGriffins Mills, Erie, NY
    SchoppersGerrit Jan29-12-18371872Heuvelweg 10, Lintelo
    SchoppersHarmanus14-12-18351885Aalten 192
    SchoppersHarmen Jan08-03-18631889Dale 39 (Welink)
    SchoppersHarmen Jan25-12-18781881Dale 86c
    SchoppersHarmina11-07-18781885Aalten 192
    SchoppersHendrik Willem29-01-18531881Dale 86c
    SchroërJohan Bernard Joseph22-01-18251869NestorianHeurne 15 (Kortbeek)
    SchulingkampFrans18311852Dale 78 (Schulenkamp)
    SchulingkampJoann Jacob20-09-18221847Bredevoortsestraatweg 31, Aalten
    SchulingkampWilhelm22-10-18301849Dale 57b (Schulenkamp)
    SchumacherHendrina17-01-17971854Haart 42 (Klein Veenhuis)
    SchutteGerrit Jan23-03-18591881Barlo 63 (De Brink)
    SchuurmanJacobus04-09-18191867Dale 38a
    SchuurmanJohanna Geertruid03-10-18661867Dale 38a
    SegerCatharina15-12-18191869Aalten 53 (Landstraat?)
    SelleteHarmen Jan21-04-18411873Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortPanama, Lancaster, NE
    SelleteHarmina21-06-18131873Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortPanama, Lancaster, NE
    SelleteJan Albert17-09-18691873Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortHolland, Lancaster, NE
    SelleteWillemina Elisabeth14-09-18711873Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortPanama, Lancaster, NE
    SellinkJanna Geertruid28-02-18631881Dale 101
    SikkinkCatharina15-05-17841854Lichtenvoordsestr. 44, AaltenGibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    SlaateAntonetta Gesina09-02-19061909SS Nieuw AmsterdamPlein Zuid 1, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateBerend10-03-18601911Hogestraat 24, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateBerendina Gerharda14-10-18341854LeilaLintelo 144 (De Heuvel)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    SlaateDerk Jan08-12-18941911Hogestraat 24, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateDora Gesina03-11-18881893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateElisabeth29-07-18921911Hogestraat 24, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateGeertruida03-11-18881893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateGerrit Jan12-08-18911893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateGerrit Jan20-10-18311854LeilaLintelo 144 (De Heuvel)
    SlaateGerrit Jan31-08-18571893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateGrada Aleida11-04-18891911Hogestraat 24, Aalten
    SlaateHanna30-08-18901911Hogestraat 24, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHarmanus06-09-17911854LeilaLintelo 144 (De Heuvel)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    SlaateHendrik19-10-18771893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHendrik25-03-18981909SS Nieuw AmsterdamPlein Zuid 1, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHendrik Jan20-09-18031854Dale 54 (De Smoege)
    SlaateHendrik Jan27-02-18791893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHendrika09-08-18851893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHendrika26-11-18961909SS Nieuw AmsterdamPlein Zuid 1, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHendrika Gerharda07-12-18861909SS Nieuw AmsterdamHogestraat 24, AaltenGrand Rapids, Kent, MI
    SlaateHendrika Gesina09-04-18801893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateHendrika Harmina24-10-18361854LeilaLintelo 144 (De Heuvel)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    SlaateHerman14-09-18401854LeilaLintelo 144 (De Heuvel)Sheboygan County, WI
    SlaateJan25-11-19081909SS Nieuw AmsterdamPlein Zuid 1, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateJan29-12-18641909SS Nieuw AmsterdamPlein Zuid 1, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateJohanna21-07-19011909SS Nieuw AmsterdamPlein Zuid 1, AaltenDoon, Lyon, IA
    SlaateJohanna Gesina14-10-18761893Heurne 30 (Groot Kappers)Hull, Sioux, IA
    SlaateWillemina12-11-18991911Hogestraat 24, Aalten
    SligteBerendina Gesina14-01-18381856South CarolinaDamstraat 15, Aalten
    SligteEngelina Aleida19-07-18231846Barlo 33 (Graven)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SligteGerrit Jan09-11-18491856South CarolinaDamstraat 15, Aalten
    SligteHendrik Jan06-07-18431856South CarolinaDamstraat 15, AaltenHolland, Ottawa County, MI
    SligteteAaltjen29-09-18081847Kath JacksonDale 65 (Smees)
    SligteteJan Hendrik15-02-18151856South CarolinaDamstraat 15, AaltenHolland, Ottawa County, MI
    SlinkingAlbert29-04-17821861Dale 9 (Grote Maat)
    SlotboomAleida Maria16-03-18401868Aalten 246Charlton, Saratoga, NY
    SluiskesAleida Johanna03-02-18351853Aalten 83 (Hogestraat)
    SluiskesGarrit Willem07-10-17981853Aalten 83 (Hogestraat)
    SluiskesGesina Harmina06-01-18371853Aalten 83 (Hogestraat)
    SmitCasparus Johannes20-02-18851909Lichtenvoordsestr. 34, AaltenKalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI
    SmitsGerrit Hendrik18-05-19081913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Lansing, Cook, IL
    SmitsGerrit Johan10-05-19031913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Vesper, Wood, WI
    SmitsGerrit Willem07-01-19121913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Lansing, Cook, IL
    SmitsGerrit Willem29-07-18821913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Vesper, Wood, WI
    SmitsHendrika Wilhelmina29-04-19061913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Monee, Will, IL
    SmitsHerman Hendrik21-03-19101913IJzerlo 13 (Den Dissel)Lansing, Cook, IL
    SmolAlef Jan16-02-18571882Barlo 3 (Nieuw Kolstee)
    SnoeijenbosAleida Berendina11-12-18151846Barlo 33 (Graven)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    SnoeijenbosChristiaan10-10-18281846HectorHaart 20 (Drenthel)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    SnoeijenbosGezina15-01-18231847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SnoeijenbosGrada21-02-18251847Landstraat 10, AaltenCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SnoeijenbosHarmen23-01-17761847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SnoeijenbosHendrika07-02-18211854LeilaHaart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    SnoeijenbosJanna Geertruid15-04-18141847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SnoeijenboschChristina Aleida05-01-18211868Heurne 21 (Legters)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    SnoejenbosJohanna04-11-18181854LeilaKerkstraat 9, AaltenBaldwin, St. Croix, WI
    SoerensAaltjen16-12-18271847Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SoerensEvert23-04-17921847Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SoerensEvert23-08-18451846HectorHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SoerensGarrit Hendrik22-02-18251847Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SoerensGerrit Willem09-03-18161846HectorHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SoerensHendrika16-05-18241855Lintelo 29 (Looman)
    SoerensJohanna Berendina17-08-18191847Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SoerensJohanna Hendrika21-04-18211855AlexanderLintelo 126 (Zoerens)
    SoerensReintjen16-05-18311847Kath JacksonHaart 30 (Kolste)
    SomsenAaltjen12-07-18041847Kath JacksonHeurne 46 (Kleine Rikkert)Alto, Fond du Lac, WI
    SomsenArent Jan29-01-18481851IJzerlo 30 (Japikshuus)Jamestown Junction, Stutsman, ND
    SomsenBerendina Gezina15-03-18571911Hogestraat 24, AaltenHull, Sioux, IA
    SomsenBernard Johan05-12-18791881Dale 27a (Pakkebier)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    SomsenElisabeth25-12-18441851IJzerlo 30 (Japikshuus)
    SomsenGerrit Jan05-01-18421851IJzerlo 30 (Japikshuus)
    SomsenHarmina Hendrika15-07-18781881Dale 27a (Pakkebier)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    SomsenHendrik Jan15-01-18011851IJzerlo 30 (Japikshuus)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    SomsenHendrika Johanna29-09-18401869’t Dal 1, Aalten
    SomsenJan Hendrik24-10-18501881Dale 27a (Pakkebier)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    SomsenJan Willem14-02-18391851IJzerlo 30 (Japikshuus)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    SpeksgoorGeertruida23-11-18351854Varsseveldsestraatweg 11, Aalten
    SpeksgoorJohanna21-01-18331854Varsseveldsestraatweg 11, Aalten
    SpeksgoorJohannes11-02-18301854Varsseveldsestraatweg 11, Aalten
    StaalAleida?1847Hoekstraat 4, Aalten
    StapelkampHendrik Willem12-01-18311846Aalten 93a
    StapelkampJan Willem01-11-18291855AlexanderIJzerlo 16 (Dorushuus)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    StrietholtAnna Catharina01-12-17741868Haart 41 (Veenhuis Huisken)
    StroeteteAleida Johanna17-11-18401854Aalten 197 (Prinsenstraat)
    StroeteteAntonij15-09-18141858Barlo 82 (Broekmans)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    StroeteteGarrit Jan02-02-17871859Barlo 82 (Broekmans)
    StroeteteGarrit Jan05-04-1802Lintelo 12 (Rensink Gradus)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    StroeteteGerrit Jan10-11-18291859Barlo 90 (’t Bokkel)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    StroeteteHendrik Jan07-01-18241859Barlo 82 (Broekmans)
    StroeteteHendrika Willemina20-01-18551858Barlo 82 (Broekmans)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    StroeteteJan Willem02-02-18191859Barlo 82 (Broekmans)
    StronksAleida Christina10-12-18761881Aalten 49
    StronksDela01-06-18221880Lintelo 26 (Sluiskes)Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    StronksEvert09-11-18451881Aalten 49
    StronksGarrit Jan17-06-17921847Kath JacksonDale 43 (Brunink)
    StronksGeertruid05-03-18121846Barlo 23aCedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    StronksGerrit Jan08-03-18261847Kath JacksonDale 43 (Brunink)
    StronksJan Willem27-04-18171846Dale 43 (Brunink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    SwartenkotBerendina21-01-18411846Bredevoort 38
    SwartenkotJan Willem28-02-18141846Bredevoort 38Penfield, Monroe, NY
    SweenenJanna Berendina08-09-18341867Bredevoort 99
    SwijtinkHendrikus25-03-18271850Markt 1a, Bredevoort
    SwijtinkJan Bernard01-04-18331850Bredevoort 10Rochester, Monroe, NY
    TammelGesina17-02-18471868AustrianBarlo 8 (Hakstege)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    TammelHendrik Jan11-04-18441864Barlo 8 (Hakstege)Milwaukee, WI
    TammelJacobus Johannes01-09-18371864Dale 60 (Pennings)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    TammelWillem03-05-18561856Barlo 8 (Hakstege)
    TammelWillem19-09-18321856South CarolinaBarlo 8 (Hakstege)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    TielemanJohannes Bernardus07-08-18231846Aalten 69
    TolkampDerk20-05-17951868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    TolkampGerrit Jan23-11-18371868ErinMarkt 2, Aalten
    TolkampHarmina Hendrika10-09-18431869Hozenstraat 24, BredevoortMenands, Albany, NY
    TolkampWillemina18-06-18211854Aalten 205b (Damstraat?)
    TolkampWillemina Aaltjen02-06-18271868Haart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)
    TuenterHerman21-06-18481882Aalten 202a (Varsseveldsestr.)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    TuenterJohanna Willemina13-11-18801882Aalten 202a (Varsseveldsestr.)Rochester, Olmsted, MN
    UebbingFerdinand07-05-18331852Aalten
    UffingJohan Wilhelm05-12-18341854Aalten 273b (Peperstraat)
    UffinkAleida Berendina06-05-18531854Aalten 118a (Hogestraat)
    UffinkJohannes Bernardus22-09-18231854Aalten 118a (Hogestraat)
    UffinkJohannes Hendrikus05-10-18261857Aalten 124a (Hogestraat)
    VaagsAleida Hendrika03-05-18661867Hogestraat 30, Aalten
    VaagsAleida Johanna20-09-18381867PennsylvaniaAalten 188 (Prinsenstraat?)Salem, Salem, NJ
    VaagsJohannes22-04-18371867Hogestraat 30, AaltenSwedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
    VaagsPeter Albertus06-09-18241851Heurne 19 (Oosterbosch)
    ValléeFrancisca06-08-18421871Willemstraat 17, Aalten
    VardinkGerrit Jan16-10-18531869Lintelo 142Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    VardinkJan Hendrik29-05-18251869Lintelo 142Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    VardinkJanna Aleida02-08-18571869Lintelo 142
    VehnhuisAnna Catharina09-03-17841845Aalten 30 (Dijkstraat)
    VeldhorstGarrit20-05-18061846Lintelo 74 (Rutgers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    VeldhorstHendrik Jan Bernard28-09-18581880Lintelo 49 (Rosier)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    VeldhorstHendrika28-11-18441846Lintelo 74 (Rutgers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    VeldhorstJohanna Geertruid06-03-18411846Lintelo 74 (Rutgers)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    VeldhuisJan Willem18-12-18431868Heurne 25 (Veldhuis)
    VenderboschAleida Antonia14-11-18201864Aalten 264 (Bredevoortsestraatweg?)Albany, Albany, NY
    VerheijChristina Catharina24-03-18161849Landstraat 5, Bredevoort
    VerholenAleida15-05-18411869NestorianAalten 28g (Dijkstraat?)
    VerholenGerhardus Johannes20-04-18281869NestorianAalten 28g (Dijkstraat?)
    VerholenSophia Willemina14-06-18321869NestorianAalten 28g (Dijkstraat?)
    VerholenTheodorus24-03-18301869NestorianAalten 28g (Dijkstraat?)
    VerveldeArent Jan04-10-18161849Aalten 172 (Kattenberg?)
    VerveldeBerendina08-07-18281867Hogestraat 30, AaltenSwedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
    VerveldeBernadus16-02-18161846Haart 14aClymer, Chautauqua, NY
    VerveldeDerk Jan29-12-18431846MayflowerDale 15 (Hennepe)Ripley, Chautauqua, NY
    VerveldeEva09-11-17861856Hozenstraat 10, Bredevoort
    VerveldeGerrit19-09-17801846MayflowerDale 15 (Hennepe)
    VerveldeGerrit Jan01-12-18101846MayflowerDale 15 (Hennepe)
    VerveldeGrada Aleida12-02-18461846MayflowerDale 15 (Hennepe)
    VerveldeJanna Gesina16-03-18451846MayflowerDale 15 (Hennepe)
    VerveldeJanna Geziena10-02-18391846MayflowerDale 15 (Hennepe)
    VillekesEvert28-12-18361854Prinsenstraat 14, Bredevoort
    VinkGrada Hendrika10-09-18481855AlexanderLintelo 118a
    VinkHarmina Mechgelina20-08-18511855AlexanderLintelo 118a
    VinkJan19-09-18211855AlexanderLintelo 118a
    VoetsJohannes Theodorus15-05-18421867Vismarkt 6, Bredevoort
    VoetsJohannes Theodorus29-07-18061869Bredevoort 112
    VoltmanEverdina Johanna22-11-18181847Bredevoort 146
    VosdeJannetjen19-09-18041846ManchesterHogestraat 65, Aalten
    VoskuilGerrit Jan21-09-18471880Dale 65 (Kolstee)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    VoskuilJan Willem12-09-18511869NestorianDale 61 (Nijenhuis)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    VoskuilJohanna Harmina25-03-18791880Dale 65 (Kolstee)
    VreemanAleida Theodora31-01-18361850-1861IJzerlo 17a
    VreemanJohanna Hendrika25-02-18381885Aalten 192
    VreemanLouiza Berendina20-03-18341863IJzerlo 17a
    VreemanWillemina07-06-18521882Aalten 202a (Varsseveldsestr.)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    VriesenElisabeth04-05-18251868Dale 70 (Kleinpenning)
    VriezeEverdiena Hendrika27-12-18511854LeilaHaart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    VriezeHerman28-04-18541854LeilaHaart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)Cordele, Crisp, GA
    VriezeLammert10-03-18471854LeilaHaart 44 (Snoeijenbosch)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    Waalvan derGerard Willem15-4-19101912Aalten 229Mosinee, Marathon, WI
    Waalvan derHendrik Jan Johan16-12-19111912Aalten 229Rockton, Winnebago, IL
    Waalvan derJohannes24-12-18861912Aalten 229Mosinee, Marathon, WI
    WalvoordHendrik23-03-18511870Barlo 97 (Van Eerden)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    WalvoordJanna Geertruid09-01-18451870Barlo 97 (Van Eerden)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    WalvoortAaltjen22-05-18831911Bredevoortsestr. 97, AaltenNeerlandia, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
    WalvoortBerend10-12-18331851IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Deuel County, SD
    WalvoortDerk Jan16-09-18311851IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    WalvoortGarrit Jan04-06-18051851IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)
    WalvoortJanna Willemina19-08-18321851IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)Deuel County, SD
    WalvoortLambertus27-03-18401851IJzerlo 39 (De Woerd)
    WamelinkBerendina Aleida27-01-18201835Kerkstraat 7, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    WamelinkFrederika02-11-18051854LeilaBarlo 68 (’t Fukker)Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    WamelinkGeertruid08-05-18191857CasildaGasthuisstraat 5, BredevoortRochester, Monroe, NY
    WamelinkHarmanus Bernadus23-03-17881835Kerkstraat 7, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    WamelinkJohanna Geertruida24-02-18141835Kerkstraat 7, Aalten
    WamelinkJohanna Josephina24-08-18221835Kerkstraat 7, Aalten
    WamelinkJohannes Theodorus10-11-18271835Kerkstraat 7, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    WamelinkLambertus Bernardus05-01-18131835Kerkstraat 7, AaltenCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
    WamelinkTheresia Harmina Theodora30-12-18101835Kerkstraat 7, Aalten
    WamelinkWillemina Berendina13-06-18161835Kerkstraat 7, AaltenChillicothe, Ross, OH
    WassinkBarta Willemina15-12-18591869Haart 48 (Zigtvree)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    WassinkBerend Willem07-12-18491869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)Sioux City, Sioux, IA
    WassinkBerendina Alberta23-02-18671869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)
    WassinkDora Gesina17-09-18631869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)
    WassinkJan Hendrik19-03-18151869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)
    WassinkJanna Berendina26-10-18471869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)
    WassinkJohanna Willemina27-10-18571869NestorianLintelo 19a (Nieuw Tammel)
    Wellevan derTheodora23-09-17951835Lichtenvoordsestr. 4, Aalten
    WeltjenGerhard19-04-18441880Aalten 102aGriffins Mills, Erie, NY
    WeltjenJohanna22-10-18791880Aalten 102aGriffins Mills, Erie, NY
    WentinkDerk27-04-18291866EricssonHaart 2 (Driessen)
    WentinkDerk Jan08-12-18631866EricssonHaart 2 (Driessen)Princeton, Lancaster, NE
    WentinkEngelina Gesina02-07-18611866EricssonHaart 2 (Driessen)Lincoln, Lancaster, NE
    WentinkGerharda Maria17-08-18551866EricssonHaart 2 (Driessen)Princeton, Lancaster, NE
    WentinkGerrit Jan11-09-18581866EricssonHaart 2 (Driessen)Princeton, Lancaster, NE
    WentinkJohanna Berendina14-09-18321866EricssonLintelo 132 (Groot Heinen)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    WesselinkArent Jan01-03-18681868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)
    WesselinkBerendina05-08-18661868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    WesselinkDerk Hendrik13-11-18411868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)Sioux County, IA
    WesselinkDora Gesina22-12-18471868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)Lime Springs, Howard, IA
    WesselinkGarrit Willem22-02-18451868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)Sioux Center, Sioux, IA
    WesselinkGrada Aleida09-10-18421868Dale 33 (Vervelde)
    WesselinkHendrik Jan06-05-18651868Barlo 36 (Wesselink)
    WesselinkJan Willem03-02-18161854Barlo 36 (Wesselink)
    WesselsHarmen Jan10-01-18031855AlexanderBredevoort 76 (’t Zand)
    WestendorpArent Jan30-10-18361859Dale 47 (Nieuwe Maas)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    WestendorpBerendina01-05-18291867Dale 38a
    WestendorpGesina Aleida18-03-18331854Dale 47 (Nieuwe Maas)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    WestendorpHarmina Elisabeth04-02-18161847Heurne 45 (Rikkert)
    WestendorpJanna Willemina26-03-18251854Damstraat 15, Aalten
    WestendorpWillem Frederik08-01-18291864Dale 47 (Nieuwe Maas)
    WestendorpWillemina27-06-18321867Lintelo 140
    WesterveldEverdina08-02-18501889IJzerlo 32 (Japikshuus)
    WeversAnna Willemina08-01-18331872IJzerlo 8 (Den Dissel)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    WeversArend Jan19-09-18061846Bredevoort 120
    WeversArent Jan15-11-18181847Kath JacksonHeurne 34 (Groot Kappers)Gibbsville, Sheboygan, WI
    WeversBerendina Johanna29-01-18361881Aalten 49
    WeversHendrik Jan26-08-18281852Aalten 222 (Achterstraat)Sheboygan, Sheboygan, WI
    WeversJan Hendrik12-11-18161881Aalten 49
    WeversJohanna Catharina21-09-18221854Barlo 36 (Wesselink)
    WeversJohanna Christina04-02-18421868Barlo 8 (Hakstege)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    WeversJohanna Geertruid07-11-18281869Aalten 211Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    WeversJohanna Mechtelina04-11-18341878Damstraat 19, Aalten
    WeversborgDerk Reinder25-03-18291856IJzerlo 65 (Roele)
    WeversborgHendrika Willemina03-01-18351856IJzerlo 65 (Roele)
    WeversborgJan Hendrik25-01-18551856IJzerlo 65 (Roele)
    WieberdinkArend Jan18-05-18671879Lintelo 25 (Wieber)Baldwin, St. Croix, WI
    WieberdinkBerend Hendrik17-11-18461857Lintelo 4a (Wieber)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    WieberdinkGerrit Jan20-03-18701879Lintelo 25 (Wieber)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WieberdinkGesina Geertruida26-01-18761879Lintelo 25 (Wieber)
    WieberdinkJan Hendrik30-12-18071857Lintelo 4a (Wieber)
    WieberdinkJan Willem04-09-18341879Lintelo 25 (Wieber)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WieberdinkJan Willem07-10-18431857Lintelo 4a (Wieber)Holland, Kandiyohi, MN
    WieberdinkJanna Gezina29-06-18651879Lintelo 25 (Wieber)Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    WieskampJanna Geertruid16-12-18241856Hozenstraat 10, BredevoortIrondequoit, Monroe, NY
    WiggersAleida09-01-18041854LeilaDale 27 (Heurne)
    WiggersJanna Berendina27-11-18031855Aalten 221a (Prinsenstraat)
    WijkampAnna Catharina07-05-18091853Aalten 116b (Hogestraat)Dayton, Campbell, KY
    WijnveenAleida Hendrika29-06-18511856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    WijnveenEngelina05-03-18441854LeilaDale 73 (Peppink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WijnveenEverdina Aleida11-07-18451856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    WijnveenGarrit Willem28-04-17941869Dale 71a
    WijnveenGarrit Willem28-04-17941856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    WijnveenGerrit Willem12-09-18471854LeilaDale 73 (Peppink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WijnveenGesina21-08-18521854LeilaDale 73 (Peppink)
    WijnveenJan Berend02-03-18501854LeilaDale 73 (Peppink)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WijnveenJan Berend22-07-18181856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WijnveenJan Berend22-07-18181857CasildaHaart 3 (Hoeve Walvoort)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WijnveenJan Willem08-06-18481856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    WijnveenJan Willem20-05-18211854LeilaDale 73 (Peppink)
    WijnveenJanna Berendina21-04-18541856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    WijnveenJenneken22-09-18111856Kerkstraat 6, Bredevoort
    WijnveenWesselina17-03-18561856Dale 77 (Nieuwe Weide)
    WikkerinkAntonetta Willemina09-02-18461854LeilaIJzerlo 55a/1Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    WikkerinkElisabeth13-11-18371855IJzerlo 4 (Mekkink)Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, WI
    WikkerinkGerritje11-09-18511854LeilaIJzerlo 55a/1
    WikkerinkHarmina Aleida17-09-18421882Aalten 262b
    WikkerinkJan Willem22-11-18531854LeilaIJzerlo 55a/1
    WikkerinkJannes23-07-18221854LeilaIJzerlo 55a/1Prairie View, Phillips, KS
    WikkerinkJohan07-09-18481854LeilaIJzerlo 55a/1Dover, Shawnee, KS
    WillemsenHarmen Jan14-10-18311854LeilaBarlo 2 (Maris)
    WinkelhorstBerend Hendrik08-12-18151854LeilaIJzerlo 6 (Oud Essink)
    WinkelhorstBerendina Wesselina11-02-18381868IJzerlo 11 (De Klaus)Holland, Lancaster, NE
    WinkelhorstElisabeth09-04-17901847Kath JacksonHaart 43 (Snoeijenbosch)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WinkelhorstGesina14-11-17771847Kath JacksonHeurne 44 (Kempink)
    WinkelhorstGeziena27-01-17811846Barlo 33 (Graven)
    WinkelhorstGezina Hendrika29-03-18201870IJzerlo 59 (De Scheel)Clymer, Chautauqua, NY
    WinkelhorstHarmanus06-05-18381868Dale 2 (Nieuwe Nooitgedacht)Sheboygan, WI
    WinkelhorstHendrik Jan04-04-18501869NestorianDale 52 (Brunink)
    WinkelhorstHendrik Willem07-04-18031869NestorianDale 52 (Brunink)
    WinkelhorstHendrika05-12-17911859Barlo 82 (Broekmans)
    WinkelhorstHendrika11-03-18361869NestorianIJzerlo 15Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    WinkelhorstHendrika Reindina15-04-18461869NestorianDale 52 (Brunink)
    WinkelhorstJan Willem05-12-18241868Dale 83
    WinkelhorstJohanna Harmina12-09-18481869NestorianDale 52 (Brunink)
    WinkelhorstWillem14-05-18301854Prinsenstraat 10, Aalten
    WisselinkBerend Hendrik23-12-18161854LeilaBarlo 68 (’t Fukker)Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, WI
    WisselinkGerrit Jan31-12-18491868AustrianBarlo 58 (Ligterink)
    WisselinkGrada Willemina12-05-18611868AustrianDale 39 (Schreurs)Silver Creek, Sheboygan, WI
    WisselinkJohanna01-12-18311868Barlo 37 (Bullens)
    WisselinkJohanna Gesina31-07-18561868AustrianDale 51 (Brunink)Spring Creek, Norman, MN
    WisselinkJohannes Theodorus22-01-18531868AustrianDale 39 (Schreurs)Hingham, Sheboygan, WI
    WisselinkWillemina Wandrina30-01-18261854LeilaMarkt 3, AaltenOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    WisselinkWolter04-08-18181868AustrianDale 39 (Schreurs)
    WissingGerhard Heinrich14-05-18351869IJzerlo 34 (Rengelink)Greenleafton, Fillmore, MN
    WissinkJan Hendrik09-05-18251846Dale 15 (Hennepe)
    WopereisJan Derk13-06-18081852Heurne 44
    WopereisJan Hendrik24-02-18501852Heurne 44
    WopereisJanna26-09-18451852Heurne 44
    WopereisJohannes Josephus09-11-18471852Heurne 44
    WubbelsGerrit Jan12-12-18361869NestorianAalten 198c (Prinsenstraat?)
    WubbelsMaria10-05-17971869NestorianAalten 28g (Dijkstraat?)
    YzaksAnna Elizabeth20-09-17991846HectorBredevoort 55
    ZoerensBerend Hendrik19-12-18311869NestorianLintelo 6a (Sondernweg)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    ZoerensGrada Berendina08-02-18671869NestorianLintelo 6a (Sondernweg)Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, WI
    ZoerensJan Willem17-04-18631869NestorianLintelo 6a (Sondernweg)Oostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    ZwartenkotBerendina26-06-18501870Bredevoort 1 (Meinen?)
    ZwartenkotJohanna Berendina16-05-18311883Prinsenstraat 16, BredevoortOostburg, Sheboygan, WI
    ZweerinkArnoldus Johannes09-01-18341847Kath JacksonDale 65 (Smees)Dinwiddie County, VA
    ZweerinkDerk Willem19-08-18021847Kath JacksonDale 65 (Smees)
    ZweerinkHarmina Everdina29-06-18371847Kath JacksonDale 65 (Smees)
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  • Indian stories

    Indian stories

    Shoshone indianen, Wyoming

    Wyoming Native Shoshone, c. 1868/1869 – Photo: A.J. Russell, Beinecke Library Collection, Yale University

    In the course of the 19th century , more than 1500 people from Aalten emigrated to the United States. Many of them settled in Sheboygan County in the state of Wisconsin. Some later moved further west, to states such as Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wyoming. These areas had been inhabited for centuries by indigenous peoples, then called “Indians”. This sometimes led to tensions, as is evident from a story of the Somsen family, whose ancestors came from Aalten.

    Immigrants and indigenous inhabitants regularly lived close to each other and also traded. Indigenous inhabitants exchanged fur for blankets, tobacco or other goods. Sometimes there were also conflicts between the original and the new inhabitants, especially over land, cattle or other possessions. In that context, the following family story from the descendants of an emigrant family in Aalten takes place.

    The disputed horse of Henry Somsen

    Henry John Somsen (1852–1936)
    Henry John Somsen (1852–1936)

    Hendrik Jan Somsen and Johanna Berendina Rensink, from the Japikshuis in IJzerlo, emigrated to America in 1851 with their four children and settled in Sheboygan. Their fifth child was born there in 1852: Henry John.

    Around 1890, Henry lived with his family on a farm about ten miles north of Cokeville in the state of Wyoming. During that period, an incident took place with a group of indigenous inhabitants. His daughter Olive Somsen later described this in a biography of her father:

    One day, Henry and his wife were away from home, while their three eldest children – Henry of twelve, Olive of ten and Frank of eight – had to look after the house.

    A group of Indians stopped near the house. One of them came to the house and declared that a certain horse in the meadow belonged to him, and when they left he wanted to take the horse with him. The children knew that their father had bought the animal from a Native American trader a few days earlier, and they were determined not to let the horse be taken.

    Frank, the youngest, climbed on the horse and rode it to the river, where he hid among the willow bushes. His little sister Olive hid in the cellar, while the eldest son, Henry, mounted another horse and rushed to Cokeville, where his parents were; about ten miles south.

    The main group of Indians took the road to Cokeville, while two went along the river in search of Frank with the horse. They found him and, while holding bows and arrows at the ready, forced him to ride in front of them.

    Eldest son Henry arrived in Cokeville after a quick drive and warned his father. Shortly afterwards they drove back to the farm with a number of armed men. On the way they met the group of Indians, with Frank on the horse in front.

    They urged the Indians to stop and listened to their story. It is possible that the Indian, who had sold the horse to Somsen, had stolen it from the Indian who now claimed it. Anyway, they arrested the entire group and took them to Cokeville. The next day, their case went to court. He decided that Somsen would keep his horse and the Indian was assigned another horse.

    Do you also know a story of an emigrant family from Aalten? Let us know!

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  • Pioneers in Wisconsin – Huinink

    Pioneers in Wisconsin – Huinink

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    In the 19th century, thousands of Achterhoekers emigrated to the United States in search of land, freedom and new opportunities. Among them was the Huinink family from Dale.

    Derk Willem Huinink and Catharina Jentink
    Derk Willem Huinink and Catharina Jentink (photo: Dutch Genealogy)

    Derk Willem Huinink was born on March 9, 1827 on the farm the (Oude) Maas in the rural district of Dale in Aalten. He was a son of Jan Berend Huinink and Berendina Heesen. His father initially worked as a teacher, but later switched to farming. The couple had five sons and two daughters. Mother Berendina died on August 1, 1848.

    Derk Willem attended primary school and helped on the parental property. At the age of seventeen he learned the weaver’s trade, which he combined with work on the farm for ten years.

    On 28 May 1858 he married Catharina Jentink, daughter of Hendrik Jan Jentink and Dora Hendrika Lammers. She was also born in Dale, on November 20, 1834. She was one of ten children, four sons and six daughters, six of whom emigrated with their parents to the New World. The Jentink family settled in Lima, Wisconsin.

    Derk Willem’s sister, Janna Willemina Huinink, married Jan Berend Schepers on the same day.

    Emigration to America

    In the summer of 1869, Derk Willem, his father, wife and children left via Liverpool on the steamship Nestorian to North America. After eleven days, they arrived in Quebec and traveled on to Sheboygan County. On July 25, they reached Amsterdam (Sheboygan County). In the spring of 1870, Huinink bought 72 acres (29 hectares) of land in section 19 for $2,000. Later he added another 5 acres (2 hectares).

    Map of Holland Township, Sheboygan, 1889
    Map of Holland Township, Sheboygan, 1889 (image: University of Wisconsin–Madison)

    Family life and work

    Derk Willem and his wife built up a thriving farm with hard work. They had nine children:

    • Jan Berend (born 20 May 1859), businessman in Cedar Grove
    • Dora Hendrika (Aalten, 22 June 1861), married to farmer John Lohuis
    • Hendrik Jan (born 15 October 1863), cheesemaker in Cedar Grove
    • Christiaan (born 22 April 1866), veterinarian
    • Berendina Gesiena (born 22 April 1868), married Harry Scott
    • John William (born June 3, 1871), first child born in America
    • Garret John (Cedar Grove, 25 May 1875)
    • Catherina Wilhelmina (Cedar Grove, 6 December 1876)
    • Derk William Jr. (Holland, 30 July 1880)

    Community and death

    The Huinink family (also spelled Huenink in America) was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Derk Willem played an active role in this and was an elder for more than nineteen years. Both he and his sons voted politically for the Republican Party, which was common among Protestant immigrants in the Midwest at the time.

    Derk Willem Huinink died in Cedar Grove in 1911 and Catharine four years later. They are both buried at Presbyterian Cemetery in Holland, Sheboygan.

    Grave Derk Willem Huinink and Catharina Jentink, Presbyterian Cemetery, Holland, Sheboygan
    Grave Derk Willem Huinink and Catharina Jentink, Presbyterian Cemetery, Holland, Sheboygan (photo: FindAGrave)

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  • The steamship ‘Nestorian’ (1869)

    The steamship ‘Nestorian’ (1869)

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    Stoomschip Nestorian (1867)

    In the summer of 1869, a life-changing adventure began for more than a hundred Aalten residents. On board the steamship Nestorian, bound for Quebec, were hundreds of emigrants, including families from Aalten and the surrounding area. For them, this was the beginning of a new life in America, far away from the agricultural crisis and the limited future opportunities in the Achterhoek.

    The Nestorian was an iron steamship of the Allan Line (officially the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company), built in 1866 in Glasgow. The ship was about 97 meters long and 12 meters wide. For extra safety, the ship had three masts with sails, in case the steam engine failed. There was room for 115 passengers in first class and 600 in third class (the tween deck).

    The choice for the Allan Line and Québec

    Around 1869, the Allan Line advertised intensively in Dutch regional newspapers. Local intermediaries, such as in Arnhem, acted as sub-agents for the main agency in Antwerp. The shipping company convinced Achterhoekers with two strong arguments:

    • The shortest sea route
      By sailing to Quebec instead of New York, emigrants spent less time on the open ocean. Once the ship reached the Straits of Belle Isle, they sailed the rest of the way on the sheltered Saint Lawrence River.
    • The cheapest option
      Between 1860 and 1890, Liverpool was a popular port of departure for European emigrants due to its lower rates. Poorer emigrants were willing to tolerate the inconveniences of shipping through England in order to save on the transatlantic ticket. A ticket for the crossing (tween deck/steerage) cost about 60 to 80 guilders around 1869.
    Allan Line, Antwerp-Liverpool-Canada - Arnhemsche Courant, 11-09-1869
    Arnhemsche Courant, 11 September 1869

    The journey and the route

    Including the journey from the Achterhoek and the transfer in England, an emigrant was on the road for about 2.5 to 3 weeks. Here’s what their trip must have looked like:

    To Antwerp

    Achterhoek emigrants first traveled by horse and cart to a suitable pick-up point, such as Zevenaar or Arnhem. From 1855 it was possible to travel from there to Antwerp. In Antwerp, the emigrants were received by the agent of the Allan Line.

    The crossing to England

    In Antwerp they changed to a boat to Hull (England), a crossing of 12-24 hours. From Hull they took the train to Liverpool (4-6 hours). At that time, Liverpool was the heart of the flow of emigrants to America, with offices of shipping companies, agents and emigrant houses where travelers could wait for their departure.

    Where to stay in Liverpool

    Representatives of the Allan Line picked them up on arrival in Liverpool and took them to guest houses, often owned by the shipping company. Emigrants spent one to ten days there, waiting for their ship to the US or Canada.

    Departure from Liverpool

    The Nestorian departed from the Prince’s Landing Stage in Liverpool. The crossing from Liverpool to Quebec took an average of 10 to 12 days.

    Stay on board the Nestorian

    Although the Nestorian was known as a solid and fast steamship, luxury was hard to find. Most emigrants from the Achterhoek traveled in the ‘tween deck (steerage), where families slept in large, stuffy rooms in wooden cages with straw mattresses.

    The ticket price included the legally required rations (soup, potatoes, bread and salty meat). Passengers had to bring their own tin plate, cup and cutlery.

    The days were filled with card games, singing, praying, and talking about the future in America. There was a ship’s doctor on board, but resources were limited. Seasickness was universal, and infectious diseases spread quickly in the poorly ventilated dormitories. In outbreaks, the sick were isolated.

    Arrival and onward to Wisconsin

    On July 19, 1869 , the Nestorian reached the port of Quebec. The passenger list included well-known names from Aalten such as Eppink, Huinink, Jentink, Neerhof and Wassink. However, the journey was not over yet.

    From Quebec, the emigrants traveled west to Sarnia (Ontario) by Grand Trunk Railway . There they transferred to a steamer that transported them across the Great Lakes (Lake Huron and Lake Michigan). This trip took 1 to 2 days, depending on the weather and connections.

    Eventually, they set foot in the harbor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Most emigrants from Aalten settled in this region. In later years, some of these families moved further west to the fertile lands of Iowa and Minnesota, among others.

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  • Emigration from Aalten to America

    Emigration from Aalten to America

    Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1885

    Many 19th-century emigrants from the Achterhoek settled in the vicinity of Sheboygan, Wisconsin (pictured here in a drawing from 1885)

    During the 19th century, thousands of people left the Achterhoek region to build a new life in the United States. Many residents departed from Aalten as well. What began as a religiously motivated exodus grew into a broader emigration movement that continued well into the 20th century. In search of freedom, land, and new opportunities, people from Aalten found a new home on the other side of the ocean.

    The wave of emigration began around 1844, initially driven by religious motives. Many of the first emigrants belonged to the Afgescheidenen (Seceders): Protestants who broke away from the Dutch Reformed Church and organized their own congregations. In the Netherlands, they were often persecuted or socially excluded, prompting many to seek their fortunes elsewhere.

    Economic concerns and lack of space

    In addition to religious persecution, the economic situation played a significant role. In the second half of the 19th century, the situation in the rural Achterhoek became increasingly difficult. Crop failures, unemployment, and poverty forced many families to make drastic choices.

    Demographic pressure also played a part. The countryside was becoming increasingly crowded. Most of the wasteland had been reclaimed by then, and available farmland had become scarce. Consequently, for many sons of farmers, there was no prospect of owning their own farm. In America, where land became available cheaply or even for free through initiatives like the Homestead Act (1862), an independent life beckoned.

    From the Achterhoek alone, six to seven thousand people emigrated within fifty years—nearly a third of the rural population.

    From Aalten to Wisconsin – and beyond

    A significant portion of the emigrants from Aalten settled in Sheboygan County in the state of Wisconsin. This region attracted many Dutch people due to its fertile soil, employment opportunities in agriculture, and the presence of existing faith communities.

    In and around places like Cedar Grove, Oostburg, and Sheboygan, close-knit communities of Dutch-speaking migrants emerged. Over time, some people from Aalten moved further west to states like Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska, seeking cheap farmland and more economic opportunities.

    In addition to the Midwest, emigrants from Aalten also settled in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Michigan. In cities like Paterson and Grand Rapids, flourishing Dutch neighborhoods arose, often with a strong religious character. Emigrants established their own churches, schools, and social institutions there.

    Not all emigrants reached their destination. A tragic example is the disaster involving the steamship Phoenix in 1847 on Lake Michigan, in which an estimated 250 to 300 Dutch emigrants perished—including dozens from Aalten.

    A lasting bond

    Today, the traces of this emigration are still visible. Surnames from Aalten can still be found in communities in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the US. In genealogical and historical research, these emigration movements form an important link between the Achterhoek and the United States.

    De Grondwet, 24 March 1854 - Emigration from Aalten
    De Grondwet, 24 March 1854
    Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 19 August 1854 - Post-emigration follow-up
    Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 19 August 1854
    Arnhemsche Courant, 3 July 1869 - Emigrants
    Arnhemsche Courant, 3 July 1869
    Numbers of emigrants from Aalten to America
    Dagblad Tubantia, 12 May 1951

    List of emigrants from Aalten

    There is a list of over 1,600 emigrants from Aalten and Bredevoort who emigrated to the United States:

    View the list

    More information

    For more information on this subject, you can also visit the Euroregional Historical Documentation Center (EHDC) at Prinsenstraat 27 in Aalten.

  • Aalten residents who fought in the American Civil War

    Aalten residents who fought in the American Civil War

    In the 19th century, hundreds of Aalten residents emigrated to the United States in search of land, work and a better life. A number of them are known to have participated in the American Civil War. As far as is known, they all served in the armies of the Northern states (the Union).

    The American Civil War (1861–1865) was an armed conflict in the United States between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states (the Confederacy). Bloody battles and campaigns took place in many states. The war began with a Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. In June 1865, the last Confederate armies surrendered, and the Union emerged victorious.

    American Civil War

    Former Aalten fighters

    The following list is probably not yet complete:

    • Jan Derk Ansink (Barlo, 30-04-1840 – 02-07-1868)
      ‘John Ansink’ enlisted on 06-08-1862 with the 108th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, company E, in Rochester, Monroe County, NY. He was wounded in action on 03-07-1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg. In May or June 1864 he was transferred to Company A of the 21st Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps. After the Civil War he was discharged on 07-06-1865 in Trenton, NJ.
    • Gerrit Hendrik Duenk (IJzerlo, 19-07-1825 – Milwaukee, WI, 14-08-1883)
      ‘Gerritt H Duenk’ served from 20-08-1862 to 10-06-1865 in the 24th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, company I. He retired on the orders of the War Department. In 1883, he was eligible for admission to a National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. He suffered from rheumatism. At the time, he lived with his wife Clara and three children under the age of 16 in Milwaukee, WI, where he worked as a laborer. On 31-05-1883 he was admitted to the home. On 14-08-1883 he was found dead; he had drowned in the Milwaukee River. He was buried a day later.
    • Gerrit Jan Duenk (IJzerlo, 23-09-1845 – Milwaukee, WI, 19-04-1897)
      ‘Garrett Dunck’ served from 15-08-1862 to 10-06-1865 in the 24th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, company E. He was wounded on 02-06-1864 in Georgia, in the vicinity of Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills. After the Civil War he was fired on 10-06-1865.
    • Gradus Heinen (Aalten, 19-10-1827 – Holland, WI, 24-10-1908)
      ‘Grades Heinen’ enlisted on 21-08-1862 with the 27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, company F. This regiment left Milwaukee, WI, on 16-03-1863 for Columbus, KY. Gradus was injured at Jenkins’ Ferry, AR. This happened during one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought on 29/30-04-1864 at the swollen Saline River, after days of heavy rainfall. After the Civil War he was fired on 29-08-1865.
    • Antonij ter Maat (Dale, 07-02-1836 – Columbus, KY, 04-06-1863)
      He enlisted, together with his brother Jan Hendrik, on 21-08-1862 in the 27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, company F. He became ill and died.
    • Jan Hendrik ter Maat (Dale, 25-03-1841 – Memphis, TN, 03-10-1863)
      He enlisted, together with his brother Antonij, on 21-08-1862 in the 27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, company F. He became ill and died.
    • Gerrit Jan te Slaa (Lintelo, 20-10-1831 – Missouri, 30-08-1863)
      He enlisted on 21-08-1862 in the 27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, company F. He became ill and died on a hospital boat moored in the Mississippi near Helena, Arkansas.
    • Bernadus Vervelde (Aalten, 16-02-1816 – Sherman, NY, 08-04-1891)
      ‘Benardus Felton’ reported on 22-08-1862 in Westfield, NY as a soldier. On 24-09-1862 he was assigned to the 154th New York Infantry Regiment, company E. On 02-05-1863 he was taken prisoner of war in Virginia during the Battle of Chancellorsville. On 14-05-1863 he was released on parole at City Point, VA. On 21-05-1864 he was dismissed due to disability. His son Derk Jan (called ‘Garrett J Felton’ in the US) also fought in the Civil War.
    • Derk Jan Vervelde (Haart, 16-02-1843 – Ripley, NY, 05-09-1903)
      ‘Garrett J. Felton’ reported on 31-07-1862 in Westfield, NY as a soldier. On 15-08-1862 he was assigned to the 112th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, company E. On 30-07-1864 he was wounded during the Siege of Petersburg. On 06-07-1865 he was discharged from service at Lovell Hospital, Portsmouth Grove, RI. His father, ‘Benardus Felton’, also fought in the Civil War.

    Do you have more information about (above or other) Aalten emigrants who fought in the American Civil War? Comment below or send us a message!

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  • Peak became Pike in the US

    Peak became Pike in the US

    How an emigrant from Bredevoort laid the foundation for a successful construction company in the US.

    In the middle of the 19th century, the Piek family lived in the Gasthuisstraat in Bredevoort. Father Jan Derk Piek and mother Geertruid Wamelink had six children: three sons and three daughters. In 1857, the family emigrated to the United States. After arriving in New York, they traveled by boat via the Hudson River and the Erie Canal to Rochester, in the north of the state of New York.

    Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Jan Derk settled in Rochester as a carpenter. The family name was anglicized to Pike. His son Jan Berend Piek (1847–1927), who became known in the US as John Barnabas Pike, followed in his father’s footsteps. In 1873, he founded the John B. Pike Company . The first office was located at Minerva Place in downtown Rochester and specialized in fine carpentry.

    Known buildings and growth

    The company grew into a considerable construction company. Some well-known projects include the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the Rochester Savings Bank, Midtown Plaza (one of the first indoor shopping malls in the US), the archive building of the International Museum of Photography and the striking headquarters of the Security Trust Bank, also known as The Temple, which was demolished in the early 1980s.

    The company also built schools, hospitals, bridges, highways, tunnels and industrial complexes outside the region, from Maine to Florida and even as far as Vancouver, Canada.

    Although the construction of the First Dutch Reformed Church in Brighton (1891) was not carried out by Pike, John B. Pike was closely involved in the project as a member of the building committee. He worked together with, among others, Arend Willem Hoopman (1843–1928).

    Business takeover and continuation

    In 1907, the company moved to a new office on One Circle Street in Rochester, where it is still located today. In 1915, John Derek Pike, son of John B., took office as president of the now renamed John B. Pike & Son.

    John B. Pike died on January 18, 1927, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester.

    His company continued to exist and continued to grow under the leadership of his descendants. More than 150 years after its founding, the company still exists, now under the name Pike Construction Services, with more than 500 employees and several branches in the states of New York and Florida.

    Emigrants from Aalten and Bredevoort in New York

    The Piek family from Bredevoort was not the only one to settle in the state of New York. In total, at least a hundred emigrants from Aalten and Bredevoort are buried in this state, at least forty of whom are buried in Monroe County, which includes Rochester.

    Want to know more? View the list of emigrants from Aalten to the USA.

    Gasthuisstraat 5, Bredevoort
    Gasthuisstraat 5, Bredevoort
    Jan Berend Piek (1847-1927)
    Jan Berend Piek alias John Barnabas Pike (1847-1927)
    First Dutch Reformed Church of Brighton, 1891
    First Dutch Reformed Church of Brighton, 1891
    The new building of the John B. Pike Company on Circle Street, built in 1907
    The new building of the John B. Pike Company on Circle Street, 1907

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  • Walvoord Cemetery

    Walvoord Cemetery

    Cedar Grove, Wisconsin

    Walvoord Cemetery, Cedar Grove, Wisconsin

    On 11 July 1856, Hendrik Walvoord (1801–1865) lost his only son Gerrit Jan, who drowned in Lake Michigan at the age of 30. In his will, Henry reserved an acre of land (about 0.4 acres) for a family cemetery in section 26 of Holland Township. As the will stated:

    “First, I give and bequeath to the children of my son Gerrit Jan Walvoord (deceased) and to their children who may be born and their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, in a word to the descendants of the said children of my son Gerrit Jan Walvoord (deceased), an acre of land lying and located in the County of Sheboygan and the State of Wisconsin, known and described as follows: …” (then the exact location is described).

    So according to Henry’s will, every descendant of Gerrit Jan Walvoord (“down to posterity”) could be buried on this family plot. Over time, Walvoord Cemetery was surrounded by Cedar Grove as the village grew. Today, the cemetery is located in downtown Cedar Grove on Main Street.

    Over time, some families buried their deceased on this plot without formal rights, possibly because it was one of the few cemeteries at the time, next to an old indigenous cemetery near Amsterdam on Lake Michigan. A number of Sheboygan’s pioneers are buried here.

    In the 1960s, Harriet Vollbrecht-Walvoord and her aunt Louise Walvoord counted more than a hundred marked graves. Today, barely half of that remains. According to Harriet, the city of Cedar Grove quietly removed tombstones for years. Where these have gone is unknown.

    Walvoord family section of Walvoord Cemetery, located in the middle of the cemetery, circa 1960.
    Walvoord family section of Walvoord Cemetery, located in the middle of the cemetery, circa 1960.

    Under Wisconsin state law, after five years of neglect, a cemetery becomes the responsibility of the local government. This law aims to protect old cemeteries without a maintenance fund. Cedar Grove was apparently unwilling to pay for the maintenance and approached family members with the request to deposit money in a trust for the maintenance. It is unknown how much was collected. The last burial before this action was Willard Anthony Walvoord in 1986.

    Although Cedar Grove forbade further burials by law, because of the original will, which laid down the right to perpetual burial, it was decided to allow burials of direct descendants of Gerrit Jan Walvoord.

    Koreen Elizabeth Toutenhoofd (daughter of Meta Marie Walvoord and Andrew Toutenhoofd) was buried at Walvoord Cemetery on 1 January 1996, as was Kathryn Louise Walvoord (daughter of Anthony J. Walvoord and Ann Vogt), on 23 May 2002. Both were unmarried and were buried with their families.

    Description of the site

    • East of the Walvoord Monument to the pavement: no graves.
    • South-south-east (left and behind the monument): graves clearly marked.
    • North-north-east (on the right and in front of the monument): graves also well marked.
    • Northeast corner near the street: tombstones of G. Lammers and family are missing.
    • West of the monument (rear of the plot): most of the tombstones have disappeared.

    The following is a list of surviving tombstones, compiled in the 1960s by Louise Walvoord (1883–1969), Koreen Toutenhoofd (1902–1996) and Harriet Vollbrecht-Walvoord (1913–2006):

    1. G. Lammers (date missing)
    2. Mary A. Lammers (1874–1874)
    3. Anna Mary Lammers–Zeeveld (1848–1874)
    4. Anna Lammers–Huisheere (1856–1877)
    5. Harmina Lammers–Claerbout (1853–1888)
    6. Henry J. Lammers (1870–1890)
    7. Anna Mary Lammers (1878–1893)
    8. Leonard Vander Jagt (1837–1914)
    9. Alice Vander Jagt
    10. Morris van der Jagt (1918), veteran of WW1
    11. Peter Verhulst (1839–1887)
    12. Antonia Verhulst–Van der Weele (1843–1920)
    13. Jacobus Arnoldus Hendrikus te Gantvoort (1829–1894), born in Aalten
    14. Rosemond te Gantvoort–Young (1846–1923)
    15. William te Gantvoort (1877–1894)
    16. Arnold te Gantvoort (1883-1883)
    17. Adolph Stokdijk (1813–1886)
    18. Annette Stokdijk (1816–1890)
    19. Cornelia Verhulst (1870–1893)
    20. Peter van der Weele (1815–1893)
    21. Cornelis van der Weele (1835–1911)
    22. Susanna van der Weele—Pieters (1841–1919)
    23. Anna M. Lammers (1875–1876)
    24. Cornelius Quintus (1818–1907)
    25. John Kolste (1880–1906)
    26. Antonie du Mez (1798–1877)
    27. Wilhelmiena (Baby?)
    28. Wilhelmina te Slaa–Houwers (1803–1877), born in Aalten
    29. Maatje van der Jagt (d. 1875)
    30. C.M. van der Jagt (d. 1888)
    31. John Muller (1816–1861)
    32. Jan Muller (born 1851), infant
    33. Gilles Müller (d. 1860), aged 12 years and 9 months
    34. Herman Jan Wevers (1833—1905), born in Aalten
    35. Berendina Wevers—Te Slaa (1834—1902), born in Aalten
    36. Hendrik Willem Wevers (1865–1872), son of
    37. Johannes Manus van der Jagt (1837—1922)
    38. Jozina van der Jagt—De Meester (1841—1888)
    39. Maatje Ketman—Verseput (1849—1873)
    40. ? (1862-1888)
    41. Ketman (born 1873), infant son
    42. Ketman (1871), infant son
    43. Gertrude Schreurs (born 1868), infant
    44. Sarah Schreurs (d. 1884), age 10
    45. Jan Verseput (1816–1873)
    46. Krina Verseput-Fontaine (1820–1899)
    47. Nellie (1855–1946)
    48. Gerrit Jan te Brummelstroete (1829–1908), born in Winterswijk
    49. Trijntje te Brummelstroete—Kok (1831–1891)
    50. Janna Geertruid in Brummelstroete-Toebes (1788–1884), born in Winterswijk
    51. Esther te Brummelstroete (1897–1902)
    52. Mable in Brummelstroete (1900–1901)
    53. Jacob Zeeveld (1875–1898)
    54. Jacob Huisheere (1862–1896)
    55. Nellie Huisheere—Gilligan (1871–1891)
    56. Child Huisheere (1889)
    57. Jannes Huisheere (1867–1869)
    58. Alvah Huisheere (1891–1894)
    59. Peter Huisheere (1824–1925)
    60. Adriana Huisheere—Elias (1822–1909)
    61. August H. Schiereck (1852–1899)
    62. Abraham Lucas Verdouw (1848–1921)
    63. Adriana Maria Verdouw–Verseput (1858–1928) (W)
    64. Benjamin Verdouw (1879–1941)
    65. Anthony Verdouw (1875–1945) (H)
    66. Sarah Jacoba Verdouw–Holle (1877–1932) (W)
    67. Christian William Holle (1840–1899)
    68. Magdalene Holle–Guequierre (1844–1923)
    69. Peter Ott (1845–1927)
    70. Berendina Delia Schreurs—Ott (1843–1924), born in Winterswijk
    71. John Ott (1869–1956)
    72. Dirk Johan Walford (1854–1903)
    73. Elizabeth Walford–Obrink (1867–1916)
    74. Henry Walford (1890–1891)
    75. Arthur Walford (1898–1918), veteran of WW1
    76. Henry William Walvoord (1853–1895)
    77. Delia Walvoord-Potts (1863–1894)

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  • Pioneers in Wisconsin – Ruesink

    Pioneers in Wisconsin – Ruesink

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    In the 19th century, thousands of Achterhoekers emigrated to the United States in search of land, freedom and new opportunities. Among them was the Ruesink family from Lintelo. They were among the early European pioneers who settled in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.

    The Ruesink family lived on the Akkermaat farm in the rural district of Lintelo near Aalten. The family consisted of father Jan Willem Ruesink, mother Grada Christina Rensink, four sons (one of whom died shortly after birth) and three daughters.

    The family emigrated to America in 1855. They left Rotterdam on August 2 on a ship and arrived in New York after 42 days. They traveled on to Milwaukee, where Jan Willem Ruesink worked for more than two years as a foreman in a lime kiln, with a wage of one dollar a day, later increased to $1.25.

    In the US, the Ruesink couple had another son and two daughters.

    Establishment in Holland Township

    In the spring of 1857 the family settled in Holland Township, on the farm of D.A. Walvoord. Jan Willem worked there for more than two and a half years, mainly cutting wood for transport via the pier of Amsterdam (Wisconsin). He then bought 10 acres (4 ha) of land for $200, and added another 10 acres six years later for $150. In 1882, he retired from working life and moved to Gibbsville, where he enjoyed his old age.

    Jan Willem Ruesink was considered one of the hardest working immigrants in Sheboygan County. It is estimated that he cut about 2800 “cords” of wood (more than 10,000 m³) in his lifetime, for which he received between 32 and 75 cents per cord.

    Fishing pier near Amsterdam, Sheboygan, circa 1930 (Photo Sheboygan County Historical Research Center)
    Pier near Amsterdam, Sheboygan, circa 1930 (Photo Sheboygan County Historical Research Center)

    From farmhand to shopkeeper

    Son Evert Ruesink, born on August 17, 1852 in Lintelo, arrived with his family in Holland Township at the age of five. He would live there for the rest of his life. At the age of fourteen he started working as a servant for Harmen Jan te Selle (1844-1919), a farmer in Holland Township, where he stayed for two years. He then worked for six years in Fond du Lac County.

    By living frugally, he had saved $800. With those savings, Evert started a shop in Gibbsville. After about eight years, he sold the business and switched to horticulture, a business he ran for five years. In the autumn of 1887 he took over Henry Merion’s company in Oostburg, where he continued his entrepreneurship.

    Evert married on December 11, 1878 in Holland, Sheboygan, with Janna (“Jane”) Heinen, daughter of Gradus Heinen and Willemina Wisselink. Janna was born on April 19, 1858 in Holland Township. The couple had five children.

    Union Cemetery - Oostburg, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
    Union Cemetery, Oostburg, Sheboygan

    Community and death

    Evert Ruesink was considered a self-made man: he started as a day laborer and worked his way up with diligence, perseverance and thrift to become a respected entrepreneur in Sheboygan County. Evert and Jane were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, and politically, Evert, like his father, was a supporter of the Republican Party.

    Evert Ruesink died in 1898, only 45 years old. Jane followed him to the afterlife almost a year and a half later. Both were buried at Union Cemetery in Oostburg, Sheboygan County.

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  • The sailing ship ‘Leila’ (1854)

    The sailing ship ‘Leila’ (1854)

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    Heading of the Leila's passenger list, Rotterdam–New York, 1854
    Heading of the Leila’s passenger list, Rotterdam–New York, 1854

    In 1854, a large group of emigrants from Aalten emigrated to the United States by ship. They were part of a broader emigration stream from the Achterhoek in the 19th century. One of the ships on which these emigrants traveled to America was the sailing ship Leila, which departed from Rotterdam in that year.

    The ship sailed at the end of August 1854 and had 234 passengers on board. The captain of the ship was W.J. Stafford.

    According to the passenger list, more than half – about 120 passengers – came from Aalten and more than 50 from other parts of the Netherlands. The majority of the remaining passengers came from Bavaria.

    On September 30, 1854, the Leila arrived in New York City.

    Three passengers died during the journey, two of whom were from Aalten:

    • Anna te Gantvoort, 34 years old, as a result of tubercoluse (1 September)
    • Jan Hondorp, 2 years old, as a result of ‘stomach complaints’ (September 26)

    Apart from the information in the passenger list, no further technical or historical information has yet been found about the ship itself.

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  • “We have it better than ever”

    “We have it better than ever”

    Letters from Gradus Heinen from America

    Gradus Heinen was born on 19 October 1827 on the Nijenhuis farm in Dale, the son of Jan Heinen and Harmina ten Brinke. On 21 July 1854 he married in Aalten with Willemina Wandrina Wisselink, who was born on 30 January 1826 on the Bullens farm in Barlo, as the daughter of Garrit Jan Wisselink and Johanna Nijeboer.

    When Gradus married, he was a servant at geneverbrander (gin distiller) Salomon ten Bokkel in the Hoekstraat in Aalten.

    A few weeks after their marriage, on 21 August 1854, Gradus, Willemina, Gradus’ brother Abraham with his wife Johanna Scholten and three of their children left Rotterdam for the New World on the three-masted Leila . Willemina’s brother Berend Hendrik Wisselink and his wife Fredrika Wamelink traveled with them.

    Gradus Heinen (1827–1908)
    Gradus Heinen (1827–1908)

    The crossing

    Gradus Heinen described the course of the journey in a letter to his family, dated October 31, 1854:

    On 21 August, the group left Rotterdam for Hellevoetsluis. The next day, on August 22, the crossing to America began. However, the sea was turbulent, causing almost everyone on board to become seasick. Fortunately, the majority recovered within two days. The rest of the trip went well, with favorable weather. Of the approximately 224 passengers on board, three died during the crossing: the eldest daughter of the Gantvoort family and two children.

    On the morning of September 29, they saw land. At five o’clock in the afternoon they arrived in New York. After one day they traveled on. First they sailed for two hours by steamer (presumably to Piermont, the starting point of the New York & Erie Railroad), followed by a train journey to Dunkirk. From there, they took another steamer to Toledo, traveled by train to Chicago, then by steamer to Milwaukee, and then by another steamer to Sheboygan. Finally, a two-hour journey followed, after which they reached their final destination in Lima Township.

    There were three empty houses there, so they had shelter.

    New York & Erie Railroad, 1855
    New York & Erie Railroad, 1855

    Work and Daily Life in America

    In his letters to family in the Netherlands, Gradus described how he went to work with his cousin Hendrik. He earned 25 shillings a day, including room and board. According to him, it was possible to earn as much in one day as in the Netherlands in a week, while the cost of living was lower. He also described the daily diet and the environment: little rye bread was eaten; wheat bread was common. Beef and pork were cheap, and potatoes were plentiful.

    According to the compilation Dutch Immigrants to America, 1820–1880 by Robert P. Swierenga, Gradus was registered as a “servant” on arrival, he was classified as a “poor man”, and he gave the reason for emigration: “to join family and/or friends“.

    Three letters from Gradus to his parents and siblings have been preserved. In all three he expressed his satisfaction with life in America. For example, on October 31, 1854, he wrote:
    “We have had no regrets. We have it better here than we have ever had in the Netherlands.”

    On January 27, 1856, he reported:
    “We can now speak and understand English quite well. It’s a difficult language to learn, but not as difficult as people think in the Netherlands, because we live among Americans who are very nice people… We had a good time in the Netherlands, but here it is much better. That’s why I don’t want to go back to the Netherlands.”

    And on December 6, 1856, he wrote:
    “The Americans are good people. We cannot thank the Lord enough for sending us to North America. We really have a good life here.”

    Gradus also wrote about the cultivation of the land, the harvests, prices and the livestock. In his letter of 27 December 1856 he announced the birth of his firstborn: Johanna Harmina, born on 2 September 1856.

    Veteran of the American Civil War

    More than twenty former Aalten emigrants are known to have fought in the American Civil War (for the Northern states, or the Union). One of them was Gradus Heinen. On August 21, 1862, he enlisted in the 27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company F. In March 1863, the regiment departed Milwaukee for Columbus, Kentucky.

    Gradus was wounded at the Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry in Arkansas on April 30, 1864, one of the bloodiest battles of the war. On August 29, 1865, after the Civil War, Gradus was discharged from military service.

    Jenkins' Ferry Battleground
    Location of the Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry (photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

    Holland Township

    Gradus owned land in the 11th section of Holland Township, Sheboygan County — an estimated 50–60 acres, bisected by the Onion River. This land and the buildings on it passed on to subsequent generations of the Heinen family. A house on this land, which may have been built by Gradus himself, was still along Highway 32 in 2021, although it was clearly in need of a facelift.

    Holland Township, Sheboygan (WI), 1889
    Holland Township, Sheboygan, with in the middle the piece of land of ‘G. Heinen’ (1889)

    Death and cemetery

    Willemina died on 12 March 1879 and Gradus on 24 October 1908. Both died in Holland Township and were buried at Union Cemetery in Oostburg, Sheboygan.

    After Gradus’ death, the local newspaper reported:

    G.J. Heinen, who lived with his son Gerret Heinen, died last Saturday morning, after suffering a stroke a few weeks ago. The deceased was a Civil War veteran. He left behind two children, Gerret and Mrs. A. te Stroete, several grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The funeral took place on Monday from the Reformed Church. Reverend Beckering led the service.”

    Grave G. Heinen & W.W. Wisselink in Holland, Sheboygan, WI
    Grave Gradus & Willemina in Oostburg, Sheboygan

    Sources

  • Pioneers in Wisconsin – Heebink

    Pioneers in Wisconsin – Heebink

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    In the 19th century, thousands of Achterhoekers emigrated to the United States in search of land, freedom and new opportunities. Among them was the Heebink family from Aalten. They were among the early European pioneers who settled in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.

    On the corner of the Kerkstraat and the present Hofstraat there was once a house where the Heebink family lived. In 1801 Gradus Heebink (Aalten, 1773) married Dersken te Stroete (Aalten, 1776). They lived in this house and used part of it as a tavern. Their ‘address’ was Aalten 5.

    Kerkstraat 5-17, Aalten
    In the middle of the photo, with the round door: the Heebinkhuis in the Kerkstraat, Aalten

    They had seven children, the first being a daughter, Elisabeth (1802). She was a vulnerable child with a deformity of the spine. This was followed by a son, Gerrit Jan (1804), named after his grandfather. He was a sturdy little fellow with all the traits of his Dutch origins. Little did they know that he would later become the father and grandfather of an entire community in America.

    In 1806 daughter Hendrika was born and then another son, Derk Jan (1809). However, he died a week after his birth. This was followed by another son, Derk Hendrik (1810) and two daughters, Gerharda Johanna (1813) and Johanna Geertruid (1817).

    To supplement the family income, Gradus also manufactured hats in addition to managing the tavern. Because it was customary for the eldest son to follow his father’s trade, Gerrit Jan also learned the trade of hatter. He became quite adept at it. Derk Hendrik served as an apprentice to a cooper and eventually followed that course.

    Back of the Heebink House from the Hofstraat, ca. 1920
    Rear of the former Heebink house from the Hofstraat, ca. 1920

    The other children helped in the house and in the garden, where they grew vegetables for the family. They also helped tend to a small plot of land outside the village boundaries, where rye and clover were grown as food for their two cows. These cows were grazed on the communal village meadow during the summer months.

    Children in the poorer classes received very little education at the time. While Gerrit Jan learned to write legibly, he read poorly. This was partly due to a lack of practice and partly because he had poor eyesight.

    Military service was compulsory at this time. In the period 1830-1833, Gerrit Jan served as a house guard in Breda for three years and four months. Belgium separated from the Netherlands in these years and it was one of its tasks to force apostates to be loyal to their country. Because Belgium was largely Catholic, many Dutch Catholics were positive about that country and their loyalty to the Netherlands was questioned.

    Adult

    The years had passed quickly for Gradus and Dersken and their family had grown up. Elizabeth had died in 1831 at the age of twenty-nine. She had always been frail because of her spinal weakness.

    Hendrika was married in 1840 to Willem Heinen and they had a daughter named Johanna Aleida (1842).

    Gerharda Johanna was married in 1845 to Lammert te Grotenhuis and they had two sons, Gerhardus Johannes (1847) and two daughters, Dersken (1849) and Tonia Johanna (1852). They would have another son in America, Lambertus or Bart (1856).

    Derk Hendrik was married in Amsterdam in 1839 to Hendrika Geertruida van Buul. He had settled there as a cooper in the Jordaan. They had two sons, Gerhardus (1840) and Jan (1844). The eldest son had been very helpful to his parents and they depended on him for financial support to a large extent. He was a sailor and during one of his voyages he became very ill with dysentery. He died at sea and was buried in Batavia. The other son died during a storm on one of his voyages and was buried at sea. After the death of his first wife, Derk Hendrik remarried in 1850 to Elisabeth Fransiena Schagt. They had a daughter named Elisabeth Francina Hester (1853).

    The youngest daughter, Johanna Geertruid, married Christoffel Schoemaker, who was also a hatter. They emigrated to America in 1848. He continued to make hats there for a while, until he became a Baptist minister. He was an inquisitive man and had an excellent command of three languages – English, Dutch and German. Joanna, his wife, died shortly after coming to America and was buried in Baltimore. Two sons were born, but they died at a young age.

    After his return from military service, Gerrit Jan resumed his father’s millinery business and helped manage the inn. He became interested in a daughter of the Snoejenbos family named Johanna. She lived on the farm ‘Snoeijenbosch‘ on the Haart. They married in 1843. Gerrit Jan was thirty-nine years old at the time and Johanna twenty-four.

    Gerrit Jan gradually took over his father’s business. It was common for the eldest son to continue his father’s business and support his parents during their advanced years. After the death of the parents, a settlement was reached with the other siblings for their share of the estate. Gradus was over the age of eighty and was happy to be relieved of business care.

    Gerrit Jan and Johanna had four sons, Gerhardus Harmanus (1844), Herman (1846), Engelbert (1848) and Derk Johan (1852). Caring for four young sons was rather difficult for Johanna and her health suffered as a result. She became neurotic and was often ill. Gerrit Jan was a kind husband and father and helped in his calm, comforting way to share her burdens in any way she could.

    America beckons

    During this period in history, many Europeans became interested in the opportunities that America offered them and many families and entire communities emigrated across the Atlantic and settled in the United States. In August 1846 , Christiaan (Chris John) Snoeyenbos, Johanna’s youngest brother, had joined a group of emigrants on their way to America. He had settled in Oostburg, Wisconsin, and was now well established in the new country.

    He wrote them letters, who were very enthusiastic about the opportunities in America. He urged them to come to America as well, where land was cheap and food plentiful, where the laws were so just and impartial that everyone had equal rights. Gerrit Jan and his wife became motivated and were up for it. However, they were afraid to share their wish with father Gradus, who lived with them. They believed that he was too old to undertake such a long and strenuous journey. So they carefully hid Christiaan’s letters from him. One day, Gradus found one of the letters and suggested that they also make plans to make the trip to America.

    Gradus was as excited as a child about the emigration and began to make plans for the venture despite his advanced age. He collected his garden seeds and fishing nets for use in the new land. Unfortunately, his joy was short-lived. He contracted dysentery and became seriously ill. According to the doctor, he had only a few days to live. The plans for the trip were of course abandoned. Shortly before his death, Gradus called his children together and spoke to them. He told them that he wanted to be buried in his native country, which he loved, but that they should continue their emigration plans. Gradus Heebink died on August 13, 1854, just before their planned departure for the United States.

    Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 19 August 1854 - Post-emigration follow-up
    Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 19 August 1854

    Despite the grief over the death of their kind, noble father, the Heebink family left a few days later, for their promised land. Before the emigrants left, a prayer meeting was held for them. Reverend Pape of the Reformed Church in Aalten held a farewell service. He stated that he understood the doubts and fears they would have for taking this step, but he encouraged them to have faith in God, who would help them overcome their difficulties and bring them safely to the promised land, America.

    Cousins

    Sheboygan Nieuwsbode, 24 June 1856 - Arend Jan Prange & Henderina Heebink
    Sheboygan Newsman, June 24, 1856

    In 1852, niece Hendrina Heebink (Varsseveld, 1818) also emigrated to America. She was a daughter of Christiaan Heebink – a brother of Gradus – and Dora Willemina Doornink. Until then, Hendrina had been employed as a maid by ‘surgeon and midwife’ Servaas van Leuven and his wife Henrietta Wilhelmina Christina Theodora Rost. Until her emigration, she lived with the Van Leuven family, on the Bredevoortsestraatweg (nowadays no. 7). Hendrina married in 1856 in Oostburg with Arend Jan Prange (Aalten, 1823).

    Her sister Elisabeth (Varsseveld, 1819) and brother Gerrit Jan (Vriezenveen, 1829) also emigrated to the US. Although it sounds plausible, it is not (yet) known to us whether they went together. Both married emigrants from Winterswijk. Elisabeth traveled to Sheboygan, just like Hendrina, but later moved to Iowa. Gerrit Jan ended up in Clymer, New York. His branch of the family is written as ‘Habink’ from 1860 onwards.

    Across the Atlantic

    Rotterdam emigration 19th century
    Port of Rotterdam, 19th century

    The first part of their journey, from Aalten to Arnhem, they made in covered wagons and took ten hours. At Arnhem, they boarded a boat that took them to Rotterdam, where the ship that would take them across the Atlantic Ocean was anchored.

    In Rotterdam they were met by Derk Hendrik Heebink, the brother of Gerrit Jan. He lived in Amsterdam, but had come to Rotterdam by train. He came to meet the ship in a small rowing boat and brought sweets and food as farewell gifts. This was a memorable day in their lives, August 18, 1854.

    The ship was an English sailing ship named ‘Leila’, headed by Captain W.J. Stafford. There were three hundred and sixty passengers on board. Almost a third of them came from Aalten. The conditions on board were very unpleasant. The emigrants were tween deck passengers – the only type of accommodation offered. Before boarding, each passenger had to show their food to determine if it was sufficient for the trip.

    Rotterdamsche Courant, 23-08-1854 - Leila
    Rotterdamsche Courant, 23 August 1854

    Each family provided its own bedding. The bunk beds were hard and narrow. During a storm in which the boat rocked heavily, it was impossible to stay in the bunk beds. The water supply was kept on deck in large barrels. It tasted bad. The offer was limited and each passenger was only allowed to take a small part.

    During such trips, deaths among travelers were no exception. Not even during this trip. On September 1, 1954, the thirty-four-year-old Anna Geertruid died in Gantvoort, according to the ship’s logbook of tuberculosis. It was common to encounter heavy storms at sea. One of them lasted two days. The ship was in total darkness and it was impossible to find anyone. Ten-year-old Gerhardus Harmanus (Gerrit) Heebink disappeared during this storm. When the captain gave the order to leave the deck, he was nowhere to be seen.

    Mr. Vrieze searched all corners of the ship, but could not find him. The huge trap doors had to be closed without people knowing where Gerrit was. His parents were almost delirious, because they thought he had been washed off the deck into the ocean. There was no other option than to wait until the storm had passed to resume the search. The storm eventually ended and a sailor found him clinging to a rope with which he had saved himself during the storm. At another point, the boat hit a sandbar and all the passengers had to walk back and forth in an attempt to get it off the bank, which they eventually succeeded.

    The journey became very tiring. Weeks dragged on in a month and they had not seen a land. The emigrants became concerned that their food supply would not be sufficient and they prayed daily that they would soon see land. Finally, on the forty-second day of their journey, word spread that land had been seen in the distance, and the passengers screamed with joy. At last America was in sight and on September 30, 1854, their long ocean voyage, which had lasted almost a month and a half, came to an end.

    Arrival in New York

    Port of New York, circa 1855, by Samuel Bell Waugh
    Port of New York, circa 1855, by Samuel Bell Waugh / Museum of the City of New York

    Because the water was too shallow for the ‘Leila’ to get close to the coast, the passengers were loaded into smaller boats and brought ashore. Before they were allowed to disembark, doctors came on board to examine them and determine whether there was any pestilence or diseases among the emigrants. Everything was good and the emigrants were very happy and relieved when they finally set foot on land again.

    One of the first problems on the spot was the difficulty of making themselves understood, because none of them spoke English. Gerrit Jan was fluent in German and because many people in America spoke this language, it helped them considerably. From that time on, he took charge and was the spokesman for the emigrants.

    Their next problem was to get a hotel for the night and find storage space for their luggage and belongings. They were advised to go to a certain hotel, not far from the dock. It was a second-rate hotel, but they were happy with it because they were hungry and tired and unable to travel far. They also found a place to store their luggage.

    After reaching the hotel, Gerrit Jan was negotiating with the manager, while the other fellow travelers were waiting in the lobby near the dining room. Bessie Vrieze and Gerrit Grotenhuis were very hungry and took a cracker. One of the waiters had been watching them and had angrily beaten the young people. Gerrit Jan heard their outbursts and came to their aid and hit the waiter on the head. The manager of the hotel was called and he scolded the waiter for being so impatient with the hungry children.

    They had spent the night well in the hotel and then decided to continue their journey by train. When Gerrit Jan wanted to pay the hotel bill, the clerk tried to charge him too much. Gerrit Jan strongly objected and eventually came to a reasonable settlement. They were still some 1600 kilometers away from their final destination and many more challenges would await them along the way.

    Transit to Sheboygan County

    They took the train from New York to Buffalo. From Buffalo to Toledo, they made the journey by ship. Gerrit Jan earned food for himself and his family by heating the boat. When they reached Toledo, they abandoned ship and arranged passage by rail. There were no passenger carriages available and one had to sit in a freight car without seats. The journey from Toledo to Chicago took three days. The train stopped at stations along the way so that they could buy bread and coffee. However, their food supply was very scarce. If the train happened to stop near an apple orchard, they often picked apples.

    Voyage New York - Oostburg, 1854
    The route, projected on a map from that time

    After three days they arrived in Chicago. They expected more trouble because they did not speak English, but fortunately they met a compatriot in the depot. He was a man from Zeeland. He was eager to help them and arranged accommodation for the group in a first-class German hotel. Some emigrants decided that they could better guard their suitcases and luggage when camping in the open air, so these did not go to the hotel.

    It necessarily took more time to cook their meals over their campfire. As a result, they were not ready to leave when it was time to board the ship that would take them to Sheboygan. The Heebink group had been taken from the hotel to the dock in a flat cart and arrived on time on board the ship, which left at eight o’clock. The others stayed behind for the next ship.

    The ship was expected to stop in Milwaukee, but to the disappointment of their friends and relatives who were waiting there to greet them, it did not. Grace Decker was one of the people waiting on the Milwaukee pier. The emigrants reached their destination Sheboygan at midnight. They were taken to the old Wisconsin House, which was owned by a German hotelier, Joseph Schrage, who treated them very warmly.

    It was now only ten miles to their destination, Oostburg. Gerrit Jan and little Gerrit Heebink decided to walk to Oostburg to the house of Chris John Snoeyenbos and spread the news of their arrival. Then wagons and ox carts could be brought to bring them from Sheboygan to Oostburg. They had not yet gone far when they bumped into one of their old friends from the Netherlands, Mr. Walfort. He was on horseback and agreed to return with them. He offered them his horse to ride. They took turns driving back to Oostburg.

    Arrival in Oostburg

    Since there were no means of communication at that time other than a slow postal service, the relatives and friends in Oostburg did not know the exact date of their arrival, but they had agreed that the first person to hear the news would blow on a ‘dinner horn’ and this would be passed on to those who lived further away from Sheboygan. Immediately after Gerrit Jan and little Gerrit arrived, this was done.

    The first farm Gerrit Jan came to was that of the Te Stroete family. They were busy threshing grain, but stopped all work to welcome the newcomers. A car was found to take them to Chris Snoeyenbos’ house, their final destination. News of their arrival had spread and a caravan of chariots and carts had gathered to meet them. They quickly left for Sheboygan where they would meet the emigrants waiting there and take them to their various destinations.

    The ten-mile journey was a long, slow ride, but for the emigrants it didn’t seem long, as it was the last leg of their long journey out of Europe. Their destination was almost in sight and their new home where long-separated brothers, sisters, relatives and friends awaited them. Finally they arrived and what a joyful meeting it was! The daily activities were put aside and the day was spent visiting and welcoming the newcomers. Greetings and memories were exchanged, plans were formulated and it was a day that would never be forgotten.

    Pioneering

    Now the challenge followed to help the emigrants find a home. Of course, it took a while before people could buy a farm or rent a house themselves. They were all eager to find a home of their own before winter came. Their friends and relatives were happy to share the little they had with them. This trait was characteristic among the early pioneers and soon living quarters were arranged for all of them.

    Log cabin of Dutch emigrants in Wisconsin
    A 19th-century log cabin of Dutch emigrants in Wisconsin (not from the Heebink family)

    Chris John Snoeyenbos offered the Heebinks a home with him. They gladly accepted until they were able to build a hut of their own. Gerrit Jan Heebink ran a country shop from 1855 to 1861 for the convenience of his neighbors and a small part of the house was intended for this purpose. He also bought thirty hectares of heavy timber land that they began to cultivate. Later he built a small hut for his family.

    In the year 1856 Gerrit Jan and his wife Johanna had their fifth child. It was a son and they named him George.

    These were difficult years – not only for the newcomers, but also for the older settlers. In 1857, they underwent a depression known as the Panic of 1857. Money was very scarce and everyone lived on cheap food. There was little food for the cattle. The pigs were fed with beech nuts, which were plentiful. The Heebinks managed to earn a reasonable living from their shop and their timber land and therefore did not suffer from it.

    Civil war

    Then came the Civil War (1861-1865). At first, it seemed that it would be short-lived, but the true circumstances were not yet known at the time. Depression struck the community – in fact, the whole country. Food was scarce. The crops had been disappointing. Spring wheat had been a total failure, so flour was scarce. Fortunately, Gerrit Jan had sown winter wheat and winter rye and both crops had yielded a decent yield. For example, he was better prepared than many of his neighbors. He was a generous, kind man, and when his customers couldn’t buy flour, he lent it to them until they could afford it.

    The war dragged on. President Lincoln needed more men, so men were called up for the army. More and more of them left, until there was no one left to do the work on the farm and it was left to the women. They took care of the supplies, worked in the fields, and it was a common sight to see threshing crews made up entirely of women.

    The war dragged on to the bitter end. There was great joy in this patriotic community when they heard that the Union had won. However, they mourned the many who had lost their lives in the war. The assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 caused everyone great grief, because they had looked up to him as the only leader who could bring order to this troubled period.

    The excitement of the Civil War had barely subsided when Indian rebellions broke out in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Several massacres had been reported in Minnesota, and Wisconsin also feared attacks. Bridges to Sheboygan City were raised and guns were stationed at strategic points, but fortunately the reports proved false. However, the Sauk tribe did pass through the community and caused a lot of fear and anxiety – but little damage was actually done.

    A Sauk Indian Chief came to Gerrit Jan’s shop and demanded ‘firewater’. He was summoned out of the store, but before he left he showed a long-bladed knife very threateningly. Gerrit Jan was not afraid and slammed the door behind him. However, his son Bart was so shocked that he fainted.

    In 1862 Gerrit Jan and Johanna had their sixth and last child. It was their first and only daughter and they named her Johanna. The following year, their eldest son Gerhardus Harmanus (Gerrit) married Gertrude Lemmenes, also an emigrant, born in Meddo.

    More than ten years after their departure from Aalten, they had not yet been forgotten there. In 1865, their niece Johanna Aleida Heinen (1842-1925) wrote in a letter to her family in America: “… for I am now so very alone here. I still pass your house all the time, and Uncle Heebink also has his, and I sometimes look into it with attention.”

    Happy Valley

    One of the other Aalten settlers in Oostburg was aren’t Jan (John) Westendorp, born in Dale. He had become interested in land in the western part of Wisconsin known as Happy Valley in St. Croix County, 500 miles away from Oostburg. John decided to explore this area, he came back with the message that there was excellent agricultural land for sale. He had bought a plot of land there and intended to settle there in the short term.

    Shortly afterwards he took his wife, Willemina (ter Haar), and his family, together with their personal belongings, to his new farm. Chris John Snoeyenbos and Gerrit Heebink Jr. accompanied them on this journey. Not long after, Herman Heebink and Lammert Vrieze also got the urge to see this pioneer country and they too left for St. Croix County on April 1, 1869.

    They went from Sheboygan Falls to Fond du Lac and then by train to La Crosse, where they took a boat to Prescott. There was so much ice in the river that the boat didn’t get any further than Winona, so they took a train from there. They didn’t know that the train went directly through Prescott, so they went on to St. Paul, Minnesota. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway was the only one in Minnesota at the time, extending only to St. Paul. There was a small, poorly built depot near the Wabasha Bridge, and a five-cent toll was collected to cross the bridge. This was in the year 1869, and St. Paul had a population of only eight thousand. They spent the night in St. Paul in a small German hotel on Third Street.

    The route from Oostburg to Happy Valley

    They left the next morning on foot for Happy Valley. When they reached Afton , they inquired at a farm how to cross the St. Croix River . The woman who opened the door was baking cookies and invited them to eat some of her warm cookies. They were so hungry and tired that this came to them as ‘manna from heaven’. The woman advised them to walk to the shore where they would find a trapper boat. They did so and waited for the treadle, which came at four o’clock. He was drunk and they were hesitant to cross with him, but it was their only alternative, so they decided to take the risk. In Hudson, they left their luggage and inquired about the way to Happy Valley. They were mistakenly directed to Pleasant Valley and after wandering back and forth for a mile they realized their mistake and returned to the main road.

    The roads were wet and muddy, with crusts of ice and snow here and there. This made traveling on foot very difficult and forced them to rest regularly along the way. During one of their frequent rest periods, they heard a vehicle approaching in the distance. It was Chris McCabe and George Tubman who returned from Hudson with a truckload of rail studnails. They stopped to inquire where the boys were going, and when they learned it was John Westendorp in Happy Valley, they were invited to ride along while McCabe and Tubman walked. The tired boys were very grateful and would never forget their kindness. It gave them a very nice impression of their new neighbors.

    At three o’clock in the morning they arrived at the Westendorp house in Happy Valley, tired, wet and almost exhausted. Because they had been on the road longer than they had expected, their money was almost gone – Herman had forty-three cents left and Lammert had two and a half dollars. They had walked no less than 70 kilometers. The Westendorp residents welcomed them warmly and gave Herman a job with them for a short time. The Herrick farm was for rent and Herman, Gerrit and Lammert decided to rent it. They each bought a yoke of oxen and rented three more yokes so that they could do their farm work well.

    Baldwin, St. Croix

    In 1869, St. Croix County was still very sparsely populated. Only a hundred people lived in Hammond. Four families lived on the eastern border of the township of Baldwin. Baldwin was more than 30 kilometers from Hudson’s transportation facilities, and people were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the railroad.

    Main Street, Baldwin, November 1912
    Main Street, Baldwin, November 1912

    Herman Heebink and Lammert Vrieze soon found work. A strip of land from Woodville to Baldwin had to be cleared to make the railroad possible. They signed a contract to clear a space 30 meters wide and 20 meters of it had to be cleared of undergrowth. It was hard work to rid the land of pine trees and stumps and the felling of hardwood yielded little money, but they were happy with the little work that could be found.

    For almost a year, Herman transported supplies for the stagecoach company and the railway. A beautiful road had been built for the stagecoach company. Because there was no other way to travel, the stagecoaches did good business.

    On November 24, 1871, the first train with passengers from Menomonia arrived in Baldwin. This was a memorable day. In the years that followed, more and more buildings were erected in Baldwin. Shops, a hotel, a saloon, saw and grain mills and a small school of six by nine meters. The small settlement gradually began to take on all the characteristics of a village.

    Relocation

    In 1872 Herman had returned to visit Oostburg and took his brother Bart back with him. Then their mother came to visit them and Bart took her back to Oostburg. Bart tried to persuade his parents to sell their property there and return with him to St. Croix County and establish a house there. After careful consideration, they decided to do so and Herman began to build a small house for them. They left Oostburg on the day after Thanksgiving Day in 1872, with Derk Johan (John), George and Johanna. The Snoeyenbos family had organized a farewell party for them where they said goodbye to their friends, neighbors and relatives in Sheboygan County. Then they started their journey through Wisconsin to Baldwin.

    They were brought to the station by their cousin Gerrit te Grotenhuis . All their personal belongings were packed into a wagon and they sat on the packed boxes. Because the travel conditions by train were very bad, it took two days to cover the relatively short distance from Oostburg to Baldwin. When they arrived in Baldwin, there was no one waiting for them, so they waited in the depot for Gerrit to come and pick them up. After some time, Herman and Gerrit arrived with a team of horses and a bobsleigh to take them to their new home.

    Baldwin, Wisconsin - Folder 1897
    Map of Baldwin and surroundings from 1897 (click for a larger version). We come across many names from Aalten and Winterswijk.

    Herman had bought ten acres of land a mile south of Baldwin and built a house for them there. There had been no time to finish the interior so Herman, Bart and John finished it for them. Later they bought Herman’s house.

    Bart bought 22 hectares of land in Hammond, cleared the land and built buildings there. In 1874 Bart married Gertrude Brethouwer from Oostburg, also a daughter of emigrants from Aalten, namely Adrianus Brethouwer and Geziena Rensink. For a while he engaged in diversified agriculture and then sold the land again, to acquire 65 hectares elsewhere in Hammond. He cultivated it and built a comfortable house there in 1890. Bart grew the usual crops and specialized in Hereford cattle and Poland-China pigs. He also kept brown Leghorn fowl and bred horses. Bart was a staunch Democrat and served on the school board for Hammond and Baldwin for six years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

    A few years later, in 1877, his brother Herman married Dena te Stroete from Oostburg, emigrant daughter of Gerrit Jan te Stroete and Janna Geertruid Peters, born in Winterswijk. Herman, Gerrit and Bart had set up a small grocery and trading business in Baldwin and did good business.

    In 1885 John married Plona van Driest from Cedar Grove, daughter of Zeeland emigrants. They spent the first year and a half of their marriage with John’s parents, after which they bought a farm two miles north of Baldwin.

    Gerrit and Bart both lost their first wives. Gerrit remarried in 1886 to Alice Flipse, daughter of Zeeland emigrants, and Bart in the same year to Anna Maria (Mary) Esselink, born in Winterswijk.

    End of an era

    In the meantime, the health of pater familias Gerrit Jan Heebink gradually declined. Although he was not ill for long, he died on December 17, 1887. His wife and family missed him greatly, for he had been a kind, generous man, loved and respected by all.

    Herman had withdrawn from the trading firm and had set up a small timber yard in Baldwin. George also married, namely in 1892 with Dena Hoopman, daughter of former Aalten residents Abraham Hoopman and Johanna Berendina Wentink. For the first year of their marriage, they lived in Baldwin and later moved to a farm near Dahl, five miles northeast of Baldwin, where some of their eight children were born.

    After Gerrit Jan’s death, his widow, Johanna Sr., lived for a while with her daughter Johanna and George in their house south of Baldwin. Later they moved to Baldwin in the old Norby house. Here Johanna ran a small boarding house. Later, Johanna married Neal Beaton. He was a photographer and built an establishment in Hammond where they lived for several years.

    Mother Johanna Heebink-Snoejenbos then took turns living with her sons. She was in very poor health and suffered from severe rheumatism. She was unable to walk for the last seven years of her life and became helpless as a child. She died on 20 October 1898. She had been a kind, sympathetic mother, but because of her high-strung, nervous temperament and emotional nature, she had suffered much at a time when hardships abounded.

    Heebink family, ca. 1900
    The Heebink children and their spouses (from left to right), standing: Herman, Neil Beaton, Johanna, Bart, Mary (Esselink), George, Dena (Hoopman), John and Gerrit. Seated: Dena (in Stroete), Plona (van Driest) and Alice (Flipse).

    The twentieth century

    The five brothers had all settled in the community in or around Baldwin. The trade and grocery trade flourished, but Gerrit had withdrawn as a partner and returned to agriculture. Bart retained his interest for a while, but the active work was taken over by Bart’s son, George B. Heebink.

    John and George had a meat shop in Baldwin for a few years, but stopped to farm. George later moved to Souris, North Dakota. Johanna and Neil Beaton sold their photography shop and moved to Quebec, Canada (where Neil was born). Herman’s timber trade flourished.

    After a short period of illness, Gerhardus Harmanus (Gerrit) died on March 16, 1910. His younger brother George died of colon cancer on December 9, 1919. Engelbert (Bart) died on April 9, 1934 as a result of kidney ailments. Herman reached the age of eighty-nine, after a short illness that eventually led to pneumonia from which he died on December 5, 1935. Derk Johan (John) died on 16 September 1940 in Baldwin. Johanna’s death in Canada in 1947 marked the end of this generation of Heebinks.

    Around 1940, the offspring numbered almost 300 people. Most of them lived in Baldwin and the surrounding area. Many had also spread across Wisconsin, while others lived in North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, and West Virginia. Johanna’s children lived in different parts of Canada.

    This story is largely based on ‘The Heebink History’, recorded in 1940 by Nell A. Heebink – daughter of Derk Johan (John) Heebink.

    She wrote the following in her foreword:

    “Family history details, unless recorded, are only stored in the minds and memories of our parents and ancestors. When they die, they are often lost to the current generation. In order to preserve a part of history for our current generation, I have collected anecdotes, stories and experiences in this booklet that may be of interest to them. It mainly relates to their former life in the Netherlands, migration to America, pioneering in eastern Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan and their permanent settlement as a community in western Wisconsin. Herman and John Heebink have provided all the historical data in this booklet.”

    This story was elaborated and published online in 1998 by descendant Joel Heebink and translated into Dutch in 2022 and supplemented by Remco Neerhof.

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  • Gruesome arrival in New York

    Gruesome arrival in New York

    Emigrants from Aalten to the US

    Between 1845 and 1880, hundreds of emigrants from Aalten and Winterswijk settled in Clymer, a town in the west of the state of New York. In 1854, Berend Hendrik Legters and his family also left for the United States, with Clymer as their final destination. A sinister story is still circulating within the family about their journey…

    Clymer, New York

    Berend Hendrik Legters was born on 18 January 1827 at Klein Goorhuis in Heurne in Aalten. In the mid-30s, the family moved to Nieuw Hoornenborg on the Haart. After the death of his mother, his father remarried in 1845 and they moved to the Koks farm in Ratum.

    On 18 June 1847 Berend Hendrik, a weaver by profession, married Anna Catharina Hellekamp (Miste, 31 August 1810). They went to live at her parental home, Hellekamp in Miste. In June 1854 they left for America with their two young sons, together with the Oonk-Kortschot couple, who also lived at Hellekamp.

    The crossing to New York took a long time and was tough. It became too much for Anna Catharina; after 30 days at sea, she died, just days before they were to arrive in New York. Berend Hendrik had seen what happened to the bodies of deceased passengers: they were given a watery grave. He wanted to spare his wife that fate. So he and his travel companions came up with a ruse. They pretended that Anna was seriously ill and thus hid the fact that she had died. Despite illness, you were counted on with the food. An additional advantage was that they now had an extra portion of their own!

    Once they arrived in New York, they had to leave the ship via the gangway. They held the deceased between them and put her arms over their shoulders. Carefully they kicked her legs so that it looked like she was walking herself. The trick worked and they managed to get her off board safely.

    They had her buried in the first cemetery they came across, with the intention of having her remains later transferred to their final destination, Clymer. However, in the first few years, they did not have the means to do so. When they finally had enough money saved, they returned to pick her up. But unfortunately, they could not find the grave again…

    After widower Berend Hendrik had settled in Clymer with his two sons, he asked the pastor what he should do. On his advice, he remarried to Gesina Berendina “Minnie” Schreurs (Barlo, 20 April 1820), widow of Gradus Kobus. She died in 1865 and Berend Hendrik married again, this time to Geertruida Johanna “Kate” Schreurs (Winterswijk, 13 December 1840). Berend Hendrik (Henry) Legters died on 25 January 1910 in Clymer.

    The above representation of this story is based on the sources mentioned below. However, these sources contain varying information about the course of events. We have combined the (in our opinion) most plausible information into the above version. Additions/corrections are welcome!

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  • Amsterdam Pier, Sheboygan

    Amsterdam Pier, Sheboygan

    Visserspier bij Amsterdam, Sheboygan, circa 1930 (Foto Sheboygan County Historical Research Center)

    Fishing pier near Amsterdam, Sheboygan, circa 1930 (Photo Sheboygan County Historical Research Center)

    The Amsterdam pier in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, was built around 1851 and was once an important transshipment point for lumber, agricultural products, and fish. With a length of about 300 meters, it provided access to the deep water of Lake Michigan. A lively community of Dutch immigrants, fishermen and traders arose around the pier. After the arrival of the railway in 1872, the pier fell into disrepair. Nowadays only a park remains on the water.

    The construction of the pier

    Who exactly built the pier of Amsterdam in 1851 is uncertain; some sources mention the Walvoords, others Gilbert Smith. The pier extended 300 meters into Lake Michigan from what is now called Amsterdam Road, and at the end had a depth of more than 6.5 meters — enough for the ships of the time. Initially, the pier was used for the export of wood, but soon also for agricultural products and fish. The village had many fishermen who derived their livelihood from the lake.

    Dutch immigrant Hendrik Walvoord, one of the company’s administrators, and his son Garrit Jan Walvoord came to the area in 1849 with other family members. The Walvoord family opened a grocery store, where they offered food and general merchandise in exchange for local products such as firewood, barrel wood and fish.

    Tragedy and setbacks

    On July 11, 1856, a tragedy occurred. According to various sources, Garrit Jan Walvoord was either on his way to a dredger that had been hired to deepen the pier that morning, or he was measuring firewood. During this work, he fell off the pier, possibly because the wood started to move while he was scrambling over it. He was buried under water when some tree trunks fell on top of him and died. His wife Anna Maria Engel Nolton and his father continued the shop for a while.

    But fate was not long in coming: in January 1857, the Walvoord shop was completely destroyed by fire and was not rebuilt. At the beginning of June 1858, the steam sawmill of Thompson, Tinsler and Watser also went up in flames.

    Growth and decline

    Despite these setbacks, Amsterdam seems to have flourished for decades. At its peak, there were at least two shops, a blacksmith, an inn, a cooperage and a school. In 1872, everything changed: the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway was built, but it ran inland via Cedar Grove. As a result, Amsterdam lost its transport function. Due to the disappearance of the wood supplies and the arrival of the railway, many residents moved to Cedar Grove. Some stayed, especially the fishermen.

    In addition to the Smith family, other families also started fishing businesses. Names associated with this activity include: De Witt, De Zoute, Grotenhuis, Huibregtse, Ingelse, Kobes, Kolste, Moennig, Nath, Roerdink, Smies, Stokdijk, Van der Jagt, Van Drieste, Weiskamp, Westerbeke and Zuurmond.

    Plot plan Amsterdam, Sheboygan, by Charles M. Foote, 1889 (Photo Wisconsin Historical Society)
    Plot plan Amsterdam, Sheboygan, by Charles M. Foote, 1889 (Photo Wisconsin Historical Society)

    Rescue on the water

    On March 18, 1906, Captain Delos Smith and his crew rescued more than 60 people from the burning steamer Atlanta on the fishing boat Tessler. They managed to pull the ship ashore just north of Amsterdam. Only sailor Michael Hickey did not survive: he jumped between the two ships and drowned.

    The demise of the fishing industry

    As timber stocks dwindled, fishing became the most important economic activity. In the beginning, fishing was done close to the coast with sailing boats and trawls. Later, they switched to pound-nets in deeper water, first with steam and later with gasoline engines. White fish and sturgeon were initially abundant, but later mainly herring, smelt and trout were caught. However, fish stocks declined sharply after the arrival of the sea lamprey in the 1930s. As a result, the once flourishing fishery slowly collapsed.

    The Amsterdam of today

    Little is left of the former village of Amsterdam today. The former site now houses a small park with a playground, picnic area and a boat ramp. What was once a bustling trading and fishing village is now a silent reminder of Wisconsin’s Dutch pioneering history.

    Amsterdam Park and Beach, 2024 (Photo: Kendra A. Kennedy)
    Amsterdam Park and Beach, 2024 (Photo: Kendra A. Kennedy)

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