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Rijk van Roekel

Bakker, zoon van Geurt van Roekel en Janna de Wit, geboren 2-10-1882 NL Doorn [43], overleden 11-7-1914 USA MI Holland en begraven Pilgrim Home Cemetery

Trouwt 11-8-1909 NL Driebergen [16] Margaretha (Margaret) van Donselaar, dochter van Gijsbert van Donselaar en Jannigje van den Bosch, geboren 10-1-1882 NL Doorn [2], overleden 5-1956 en begraven bij man

Margaretha hertrouwt 12-7-1929 USA MI Grand Rapids Derk (Richard) Scharphorn, zoon van Jan Douwes (John) Scharphorn en Reina Gager, weduwnaar van Nellie Van Kuiken, geboren 27-10-1867 NL Uithuizen [73], overleden 14-11-1931 USA MI Grand Rapids en begraven Greenwood Cemetery

Kinderen van Rijk en Margaretha

1. Jeanette Margaret van Roekel, geboren 14-12-1911, overleden 7-11-1998
2. NN van Roekel, geboren ?, overleden 1914 en begraven USA MI Holland Pilgrim Home Cemetery

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Rijk woonde in de USA, passeerde Ellis Island 10-7-1906

Email Sandi Geurink 28-9-2014:

[...] Rijk was my great grandfather. He came to the US to work as a baker at a company in Holland, Michigan. He built a home here. My grandmother Jeannette was born in Holland. There was also a boy child who I have very limited information about. He died very young possibly even at birth. His headstone reads only our darling baby. Rijk died July 11, 1914 of Typhoid fever when my grandmother was only 3 years old. I know that she and her mother Margaret returned to the Netherlands for several months when she was about 9 or 10 [...]
Pictures of Rijk and Margaretha, the first two were taken on their wedding day, on the balcony pictures Rijks brother Tony is standing to the right:

Stamboom Volbeda

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Obituary of Margaretha

Website Find a Grave

Gravestone of 'Our Darling Baby'