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J.A. Stuurmans



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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  J.A. Stuurmans

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Sheldon Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1897 (son of Haije Sasses Stuurmans and Durkje Jans Langhout); died about 1976.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Reference Number: 38258
    • Moved to: Abt 1915, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
    • Moved to: Abt 1920, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    • Moved to: 1926, Erskind, MN, USA
    • Graduation: 1926, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    • Moved to: 1946, CA, USA

    Notes:

    Moved to:
    to pursue his medical studies

    Moved to:
    practiced medicine there (Lucille was nurse) to 1946

    Graduation:
    as a doctor

    Moved to:
    southern

    Sheldon married Lucille Brandley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Lucille Brandley

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Stuurmans
    • Reference Number: 38259

    Children:
    1. M.L. Stuurmans
    2. 1. J.A. Stuurmans


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Haije Sasses Stuurmans was born on 01 Nov 1869 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD (son of Sasse Haijes Stuurmans and Grietje Pieters Visser); died in Lynden, WA, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Harry Stuurmans
    • Reference Number: 4771
    • Immigration: 05 Mar 1892, Orange City, IA, USA
    • Moved to: Abt 1930, Lynden, WA, USA

    Notes:

    "worked on various farms in Seney, Hull, Rock Valley and Alvord, all near or in Sioux County. In the 1930s Harry, Dora and their children migrated from the northwest corner of Iowa to the northwest corner of the contiguous United States, to Lynden, Washington, just 5 miles south of the Canadian border and 12 miles from the shore of the Straits of Georgia leading to Vancouver."

    Had six children (Ken Langhout)

    Immigration:
    on SS Amsterdam from Rotterdam, steerage passenger between deck 2; laborer, permanent settler

    Haije married Durkje Jans Langhout in 1897. Durkje (daughter of Jan Douwes Langhout and Anna Hessels van den Berg) was born on 14 May 1873 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died in Lynden, WA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Durkje Jans Langhout was born on 14 May 1873 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD (daughter of Jan Douwes Langhout and Anna Hessels van den Berg); died in Lynden, WA, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Dora Langhout
    • Name: Stuurmans
    • Reference Number: 4763
    • Immigration: May 1888, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Notes:

    Had Six children.

    Moved to:
    Settled in Lynden WA

    Children:
    1. 2. Sheldon Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1897; died about 1976.
    2. Anna Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1899.
    3. Grace Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1902.
    4. John Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1904.
    5. Elizabeth Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1906.
    6. Dora Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1909.
    7. Harry Haijes Stuurmans was born in 1915; died in 1967 in CAN.
    8. A.H. Stuurmans
    9. P.H. Stuurmans


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Sasse Haijes Stuurmans was born about 1840 in Witmarsum, Wonseradeel, FR, NLD (son of Haije Sijbolts Stuurmans and Dieuwke Johannes de Boer).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Reference Number: 38245

    Notes:

    Birth:
    25y in 1865

    Sasse married Grietje Pieters Visser on 23 Feb 1865 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD. Grietje (daughter of Pieter Ales Visser and Elisabeth Tozijns Bokma) was born about 1844 in Pingjum, Wonseradeel, FR, NLD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Grietje Pieters Visser was born about 1844 in Pingjum, Wonseradeel, FR, NLD (daughter of Pieter Ales Visser and Elisabeth Tozijns Bokma).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Stuurmans
    • Reference Number: 38248

    Notes:

    Birth:
    21y in 1865

    Children:
    1. Elisabeth Sasses Stuurmans was born on 11 Jan 1867 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.
    2. levenloos kind Stuurmans was born on 25 Oct 1868 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD; died on 25 Oct 1868 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.
    3. 4. Haije Sasses Stuurmans was born on 01 Nov 1869 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD; died in Lynden, WA, USA.
    4. Pieter Sasses Stuurmans was born on 19 Feb 1871 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD; died on 03 Oct 1872 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.
    5. Pieter Sasses Stuurmans was born on 29 Mar 1873 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.
    6. Dieuwke Sasses Stuurmans was born on 22 May 1875 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.
    7. Sijbolt Sasses Stuurmans was born on 13 Feb 1877 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.
    8. Ale Sasses Stuurmans was born on 07 Jan 1882 in Wonseradeel, FR, NLD.

  3. 10.  Jan Douwes Langhout was born on 03 May 1842 in Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, FR, NLD (son of Douwe Hendriks Langhout and Akke Gabes Kuindersma); died on 01 Nov 1919 in Hull, IA, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Reference Number: 4751
    • Immigration: May 1888, Cincinnati, OH, USA
    • Emigration: May 1889, Cincinnati, OH, USA
    • Immigration: 07 Jun 1889, Cincinnati, OH, USA
    • Occupation: Abt Jul 1889, Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, OH, USA; elevator conductor
    • Moved to: Abt 1890, LeMars, IA, USA
    • Moved to: Abt 1892, Hull, IA, USA

    Notes:

    Moved to Hull, Iowa.

    Immigration:
    "He came to the United States in 1888 with his family and settled in Cincinnati. Jan was an elevator conductor on Sycamore Street downtown, but could not withstand the air pollution of Cincinnati. In about 1890 he took the family to a farm community in Northwestern Iowa where there were many Frisian families to help each other become established. At first the men of the family were hired as farm laborers as they had been in Holland for many generations. They worked and lived first near LeMars, Iowa, then Orange City. But unlike Holland, farmland was available and Jan could use his meager savings to pruchase enough land for large garden plots in Hull, a small farm village in Sioux County. Jan chose to grow vegetable crops for the extended Langhout family which also included Jan's brother Hulke [Holke], who had brought his large, growing family from Friesland. Jan supplied the family with table food so that the rest of the Langhouts could work on larger farms growing cash crops and grain for cattle feed lots."

    Emigration:
    "In May 1889, Jan Douwes Langhout left, with his second wife and his his children, for the USA"; "According to my (Emma's) records the Jan Langhout family moved to Huntingsburg, Indiana, for about a year... thereafter they returned to Cincinnati and from there moved to LeMars Iowa where their children went to school"

    Immigration:
    New York arrival as steerage passengers on the ship Belgenland from Antwerp

    Moved to:
    then Orange City

    Moved to:
    used "his meager savings to purchase enought land for large garden plots"; he "chose to grow vegetable crops for the extended Langhout family which also included Jans' brother Hulka [Holke], who had brought his large, growing family from Friesland"

    Died:
    buried in Hull IA

    Jan married Anna Hessels van den Berg on 12 May 1866 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD. Anna was born on 08 Oct 1841 in Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died in FR, NLD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Anna Hessels van den Berg was born on 08 Oct 1841 in Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died in FR, NLD.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Langhout
    • Reference Number: 4757

    Children:
    1. Douwe Jans Langhout was born on 03 Jun 1867 in Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died in Dec in Cincinnati, OH, USA.
    2. Hessel Jans Langhout was born on 06 Jul 1868 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD.
    3. Durkje Jans Langhout was born on 22 Aug 1870 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died on 08 Nov 1870 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD.
    4. 5. Durkje Jans Langhout was born on 14 May 1873 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died in Lynden, WA, USA.
    5. Akke Jans Langhout was born on 25 Sep 1874 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died in Pease, MN, USA.
    6. levenloos kind Langhout was born on 20 Jun 1878 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD; died on 20 Jun 1878 in Baarderadeel, FR, NLD.


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