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Descendants of Jan Simon De Heer




Generation No. 1


1. JAN SIMON1 DE HEER1 was born 1849 in Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland2, and died Unknown in Netherlands. He married JOHANNA DE YOUNG3,4. She was born 1847 in Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland4, and died Unknown in Grand Haven, MI.

Notes for J
AN SIMON DE HEER:
Married Johanna DeJong in Netherlands?, then left by himself to go back to The Netherlands
I Found Johanna De Heer as the head of the household per Michigan 1920 Soundex information.

May be listed as De Hare per Jacob De Heer's information

I found more about him on http://www.ellisislandrecords.org during my 19-Aug-2001 search.
he came to the US at Ellis Island on March 09, 1893 on the ship Maasdam.
The Ellis Island information shows him as 44 when they arrived.
The Port of Departure was Rotterdam & Boulogne.

The town of Shoonrewoerd is very near to Leerdam, Zuid Holland. Here is an exerpt I found at http://www.softcom.net/users/mdcourt/Surname.htm on 20-Aug-2001

                        LEERDAM
From Cor Snabel
Dear friends,

I know a lot of you have ancestors, who came from Schoonrewoerd and Leerdam in Holland and I like to give you some information about those places. About two years ago I found a book written in 1858 about the Netherlands. Eight-hundred pages with descriptions and historical information of cities, villages, hamlets, buildings, and so on. The writer describes a building, which was built a few years earlier, but does not exist anymore. It's like going back in time. It's a mixture of geography and history. All distances are measured in hours walking. I have tried to translate it as good as I can, but it is written in an exalted way and in the old spelling, so much of the charm of this text gets lost the moment you translate it.

This is what I found about Leerdam. If you want to have similar information about another place, just let me know. Don't forget you have to pretend you're living 140 years ago, while reading.


Leerdam

South of Vianen and Everdingen and west of Zijderveld is Heikop-en-Boeikop, or Heikoop-en-Boeikoop, with about 550 inhabitants and a small church in Heikop. Schoonrewoerd, a rather nice village south of Zijderveld, with 800 inhabitants, who are making a living in agriculture, was founded in 1025 by Jan van Arkel and burned down by Gorinchem in 1479. The manor became property of the Princes of Orange and still is a domain of the Royal Family. The Reformed Church has a square tower, but no organ, in the village is a rather important annual cattle market.

If we walk a little to the south we arrive in the city Leerdam, situated at the stream the Linge. It has over 2.900 inhabitants, but about 1.100 live outside the city borders, the majority (2.600) is Reformed. The city regular built in an elongated angular shape, with straight streets and is enclosed on three sides by walls, covered with trees; even some old bastions are still visible. The view from up here overlooking the countryside with the winding stream of the Linge and all the steeples of the towns and villages is lovely.

Leerdam used to be part of a county, of which Schoonrewoerd and Acquoy were a part too. First it was part of the old county Teisterband, but later the Lords of Arkel ruled there. The mighty Foppo van Arkel, who died in 1008, is said to have founded the village Leerdam. Around 1410 the county came, by marriage, into the hands of Frederik van Egmond, who was made first Count of Buren en Leerdam by King Maximiliaan. When Anna van Egmond married Prince Willem I the county came into the family Oranje-Nassau and in 1797 it became an official domain of the Royal Family.
The city itself has suffered a lot under the early "Geldrian" wars. In 1496 the Geldrians captured it, shortly after that by Albrecht van Saksen and in 1574 by Chiapijn Vitelli. In 1672 they were freed from the French.

Most of the inhabitants are in agriculture and horse trade; the city is famous for its horse markets. The city has 3 glass-factories, a tannery, a shipyard, one flourmill and two sawmills. The most important buildings are: the Reformed Church, partly from the 13th century, dedicated to the Mother of God, who was worshipped very highly before the Reformation and this worship existed here even after that for a long time. The church is very beautiful and extremely well furnished, is built in the shape of a cross with a strong square tower, which ends in a steeple. In the choir of the church is the grave of Jan, the last Lord of Arkel. Near the church is the Old Boarding School, but other important buildings, like the Market-house and the Estate of the Counts are long gone or turned into special houses.
But the Lutheran Church, founded in 1841 still exists, as does the little, but pretty Roman Catholic church and the synagogue. The castle near the Linge was torn down in 1729 and is turned into a park now.

Leerdam is forming a triangle with Asperen and Heukelum, both on half an hour distance along the Linge, one east and the other to the west. On the northwest side is Leerbroek, with 630 inhabitants, but it has nothing special to tell about.

From: Het Koningrijk der Nederlanden
by J.L. Terwen 1858
Published by G.B. van Goor, Gouda
Translated and Transcribed by Cor Snabel
cor.snabel@wxs.nl


More About J
AN SIMON DE HEER:
Immigration: 09 March 1893, Immigrated with family4

Notes for J
OHANNA DE YOUNG:
Called "The Bun Grandma" because she used to always make WONDERFUL home-made cinnamon rolls!

I found more about her on http://www.ellisislandrecords.org during my 19-Aug-2001 search.
she came to the US at Ellis Island on March 09, 1893 on the ship Maasdam.
The Ellis Island information shows her as 46 when they arrived.
The Port of Departure was Rotterdam & Boulogne.

More About J
OHANNA DE YOUNG:
Census: 1920, Shown as head of household5
Fact 1: Called "The Bun Grandma"
Immigration: 09 March 1893, Ellis Island6
     
Children of J
AN DE HEER and JOHANNA DE YOUNG are:
  i.   WILLEM2 DE HEER6, b. 1884, Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland; d. Unknown.
  Notes for WILLEM DE HEER:
I found more about him on http://www.ellisislandrecords.org during my 19-Aug-2001 search.
he came to the US at Ellis Island on March 09, 1893 on the ship Maasdam.
The Ellis Island information shows him as 9 when they arrived.
The Port of Departure was Rotterdam & Boulogne.

  More About WILLEM DE HEER:
Immigration: 09 March 1893, Ellis Island6

2. ii.   JACOB DE HEER, b. 10 May 1887, Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland; d. 20 December 1955, Grand Haven, MI.
3. iii.   RICHARD DE HEER, b. 1888, Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland; d. Unknown.
4. iv.   DERK DE HEER, b. 27 August 1890, Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland; d. 26 October 1982, Grand Haven, MI.
  v.   REKJE DE HEER6, b. 1874, Schoonrewoerd, Netherlands; d. Unknown.
  Notes for REKJE DE HEER:
I found more about him on http://www.ellisislandrecords.org during my 19-Aug-2001 search.
She came to the US at Ellis Island on March 09, 1893 on the ship Maasdam.
The Ellis Island information shows her as 19 when they arrived.
The Port of Departure was Rotterdam & Boulogne.

  vi.   JOHANNA DE HEER6, b. 1891, Schoonrewoerd, Netherlands; d. Unknown.
  Notes for JOHANNA DE HEER:
I found more about him on http://www.ellisislandrecords.org during my 19-Aug-2001 search.
She came to the US at Ellis Island on March 09, 1893 on the ship Maasdam.
The Ellis Island information shows her as 2 when they arrived.
The Port of Departure was Rotterdam & Boulogne.

  vii.   JANTZE DE HEER6, b. November 1892, Schoonrewoerd, Netherlands; d. Unknown.
  Notes for JANTZE DE HEER:
I found more about him on http://www.ellisislandrecords.org during my 19-Aug-2001 search.
She came to the US at Ellis Island on March 09, 1893 on the ship Maasdam.
The Ellis Island information shows her as 4 months when they arrived.
The Port of Departure was Rotterdam & Boulogne.




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