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Worp Jacobs van Peijma

Male 1796 - 1881  (85 years)


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  • Name Worp Jacobs van Peijma 
    Birth 1796  Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 19y in 1815, 53y in 1849
    Gender Male 
    Profession of faith 21 Apr 1816  Hervormde Kerk, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Emigration 08 May 1849  Steamer Hermann, Long Island, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • via Bremerhaven with new wife and four children; and with Willem Beukma and family
    Moved to Abt 1850  Lancaster, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • bought farm near Buffalo, retired and died here
    Reference Number 90053 
    Death 1881  Lancaster, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I90053  Haasdijk family tree
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2017 

    Father Jakob Pieters Worp Peijma 
    Mother Reinou Freerks Donia 
    Family ID F39071  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sijke Rinzes Posthumus,   b. Abt 1796   d. 20 Oct 1847 (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Marriage 17 Aug 1815  Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Reinou Worps van Peijma,   b. 02 Jun 1816, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1824 (Age < 7 years)
     2. Jacob Worps van Peijma,   b. 06 Sep 1817, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Rinze Worp van Peijma,   b. 30 Mar 1820, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Pieter Worps van Peijma,   b. 26 Jun 1821, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1830 (Age < 8 years)
     5. Reinou Worps van Peijma,   b. 16 Nov 1824, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Pieter Worps van Peijma,   b. 30 Apr 1830, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Nieske Worps van Peijma,   b. 14 Jun 1835, Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1856, Lancaster, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 20 years)
    Family ID F39070  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2020 

    Family 2 IJtje Jacobs van der Meer,   b. Abt 1820, Terzool, Idaarderadeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 09 May 1849  Westdongeradeel, FR, NLD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Pieter van Peijma,   b. Abt 1850, Lancaster, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Eslka van Peijma,   b. Abt 1855, Lancaster, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F39067  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2020 

  • Notes 
    • published essay on land reclamation
    • had an ancestor Worp van Peijma d. 1624, the first family holding in Ternaard [1]
    • lensgrinder, clock and watchmaker, invented and sold lightning rods [1]
    • was friends with Roelof Hessels Hommema (ID90079) and Bente Willems Wassenaar (ID90097) [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S170] Origins, Vol. XXXIV, no. 2, 2016 pp. 4-14: "Two Prosperous Dutch Immigrants to North America" by Richard H. Harms.


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