Maartje Pieters Schaaf

1830 - 1879  (48 years)

• Name	Maartje Pieters Schaaf
  Birth	20 Jul 1830	Hichtum, Wonseradeel, FR, NLD
  Gender	Female
  Moved to	Dec 1831	armhuis, Vrouwenparochie, Het Bildt, FR, NLD   [1]
  	with mother and two siblings, while father and the rest staying in Hichtum to "raise what money they could"
  Moved to	Abt 1848	no. 18, Vrouwenparochie, Het Bildt, FR, NLD   [1, 2]
  	the Pieter Klazes Bouma farm, in the home of daughter Geertje ID99530) to 1853
  Emigration	26 Feb 1853	Harlingen, FR, NLD   [1]
  	left on the "City of Norwich" to England, then by train to Liverpool
  Moved to	Abt 04 Jul 1853	Vriesland, MI, USA   [1]
  Name	Mary Schaaf
  Name	Maude Schaaf
  Name	van der Stolpe  [3]
  Reference Number	99429
  Death	24 Jan 1879	Grand Rapids, MI, USA   [1]
  	buried in Fulton Street Cemetery
  Person ID	I99429	Haasdijk family tree
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Pieter Sjoerds Schaaf,   b. Abt 1797
  Mother	Mettje Nammes Sijbesma,   b. Abt 1794, Vrouwenparochie, Het Bildt, FR, NLD
  Marriage	08 Dec 1816	Het Bildt, FR, NLD
  Family ID	F42687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Leendert Pieters van der Stolpe,   b. 04 May 1824, Nieuwerkerk, Schouwen-Duiveland, ZL, NLD d. 02 May 1909, Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids, Kent, MI, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1858	Second Dutch Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Kent, MI, USA   [1, 3]
  Children	1. Marijntje van der Stolpe,   b. 1859, Grand Rapids, MI, USA   2. Metje van der Stolpe,   b. 1860, Grand Rapids, MI, USA   3. Pieternella van der Stolpe,   b. 1866, Wyoming, MI, USA   4. Martina van der Stolpe,   b. 1870, Wyoming, MI, USA
  Family ID	F42690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  left Liverpool on the packetship "William and Mary" in the company of Oepke Haitzes Bonnema and her cousin Sjoerd Bekius; were shipwrecked near the "Great Isaac Rocks" and saved and brought to Grand Bahama on 5 May; then on to New Orleans, St. Louis, Galena IL where Maartje and Sjoerd left the group to go through Chicago, Kalamazoo and on to Vriesland MI

  
  

• Sources

  [S170] Origins, Vol. XXXVI No. 1 2018 pp. 22-28: "Maartje's Story: from Dutch Polderland to American Heartland" by Kenneth A. Schaap. [S85] Bev Reg, Het Bildt 1840 p. 24. [S269] Find a Grave.