Our Family Roots in The Netherlands

A Study of the Haasdijk, Scheffer, Benner and Neering families in The Netherlands

S.L. Nelson



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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  S.L. Nelson

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  A.C. Nelson

    A.C. married P.A.L. Walton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  P.A.L. Walton
    Children:
    1. 1. S.L. Nelson
    2. W. Nelson
    3. D. Nelson


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Levi Nelson was born about 1900.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Reference Number: 86856

    Levi married Helen Josephine Stretch on 16 Dec 1930. Helen (daughter of Thomas Charles Stretch and Ella Eugenie Wolner) was born on 24 Aug 1903 in Ponoka, AB, CAN; died on 03 Jul 1970 in Kimberley, BC, CAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Helen Josephine Stretch was born on 24 Aug 1903 in Ponoka, AB, CAN (daughter of Thomas Charles Stretch and Ella Eugenie Wolner); died on 03 Jul 1970 in Kimberley, BC, CAN.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Nelson
    • Reference Number: 86855

    Children:
    1. 2. A.C. Nelson
    2. B.A. Nelson
    3. P. Nelson


Generation: 4

  1. 10.  Thomas Charles Stretch was born on 04 Oct 1873 in Prince Arthur Landing, ON, CAN (son of Thomas Cook Stretch and Maria Phillip); died on 15 Nov 1934 in Ponoka, AB, CAN.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Reference Number: 1764
    • Moved to: Abt 1878, Livonia, MN, USA
    • Living: 1880, Livonia, Sherburne, MN, USA
    • Moved to: 1899, SW-20-44-25, Ponoka, AB, CAN
    • Moved to: 1900, NW-17-44-25 (CPR land), Ponoka, AB, CAN
    • Moved to: 1910, OR, USA
    • Moved to: 1911, NW-17-4-25 (CPR land), Ponoka, AB, CAN
    • Death: 07 Dec 1934, MN, USA

    Notes:

    went back to MN for the winter for logging, broke his leg; for the rest of his life one was 2" shorter than the other

    Moved to:
    raised by uncle's family: John and Jane Stretch

    Living:
    with uncle John Stretch and aunt Jane

    Moved to:
    first worked for uncle Joe Stretch

    Moved to:
    both Roger and Ella took typhoid; returned to the CPR lands in 1911

    Moved to:
    the farm buildings date from 1914

    Death:
    other source, Mary Bishop

    Died:
    had arm amputated after an accident with a mandril, died two weeks later

    Thomas married Ella Eugenie Wolner on 08 May 1902 in MN, USA. Ella (daughter of Joseph Maximillian Eugene Wolner and Helen Henrietta Hardy) was born on 25 Apr 1875 in 41 Aubery Street, Everton, Lancaster, England, GBR; died on 02 Feb 1948 in Ponoka, AB, CAN; was buried on 05 Feb 1948 in Forest Home Cemetery, Ponoka, AB, CAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 11.  Ella Eugenie Wolner was born on 25 Apr 1875 in 41 Aubery Street, Everton, Lancaster, England, GBR (daughter of Joseph Maximillian Eugene Wolner and Helen Henrietta Hardy); died on 02 Feb 1948 in Ponoka, AB, CAN; was buried on 05 Feb 1948 in Forest Home Cemetery, Ponoka, AB, CAN.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Herrick
    • Name: Stretch
    • Reference Number: 1765
    • Immigration: 1893, St. Paul, MN, USA
    • Living: 1900, Red Wing City, Goodhue, MN, USA
    • Moved to: 1902, Ponoka, AB, CAN
    • Immigration: 1902, Ponoka, AB, CAN
    • Moved to: Abt 1940, Ponoka, AB, CAN

    Notes:

    Birth:
    a subdistrict of London

    Immigration:
    with her parents

    Moved to:
    actually Ponoka district

    Immigration:
    from England

    Moved to:
    from the homestead on Menaik Road

    Buried:
    Rev. F.A. Peake officiated

    Children:
    1. 5. Helen Josephine Stretch was born on 24 Aug 1903 in Ponoka, AB, CAN; died on 03 Jul 1970 in Kimberley, BC, CAN.
    2. Roger Eugene Stretch was born on 25 Dec 1904 in Menaik, AB, CAN; died on 17 Sep 1979 in Ponoka, AB, CAN.
    3. Charles Herbert Stretch was born on 21 Jun 1906 in Ponoka, AB, CAN; died on 07 Nov 1978.
    4. Frances Helena Stretch was born on 28 Jul 1909.
    5. Cecil Gordon Stretch was born on 30 Sep 1912; died on 24 Aug 1966.
    6. C.E. Stretch


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