Issue 2, April 2000
In this issue of Bin
ie d'r één van Nekkers ? :
From the editor
Results since last newsletter
Five generations in one view
Who does (not) want to visit Necker-island?
E-mail service, later this year a website
A family meeting at the beginning of this
century?
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Soest,
April 2000
From the editor:
This is
the second issue of “Bin ie der één van Nekkers?”. The first one was made
in 1997 and sent to some hundred readers (most of them with the Nekkers-surname).
To be complete: in May 1998 we released a special edition of “Bin ie der één
van Nekkers?”, when my parents Gerrit Jan Nekkers (1915) en Johanna Maria
Brandsma had their 60th
wedding party.
Many positive reactions came to us. People have an interest in the history of
our family. This motivates us to continue!
From now on, our community of readers will be
bi-langual. An English version is available for our relatives from the USA and
Canada. Many of them can not (no longer) read Dutch.
Peter Nekkers.
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Results since last newsletter:
There is
news of my (electronic) database: it is growing in number (of people) and depth
(of content, data from papers, announcements etc.). Summarizing:
·
In our database
(maintained with help of the Dutch family-tree computer application PRO-GEN)
data of some 1300 people are stored. About half of them have the Nekkers-name
(or variants like Neckers). With help of this PRO-GEN computer program and
data on persons (and on relations and marriages) it is simple to produce output
(reports). However, the size is already too big for publishing it in newsletters
like this one. And, the quality of the data is not on the right level, it
needs improvement.
·
A Neckers-group
from the USA knocked on our door. This is the way these things happen: a professor
in chemistry, Douglas Neckers, visits Nijmegen for giving lectures on the
Nijmegen-University. He is curious and pokes around in the telephone directory
of Nijmegen. He finds the number of Coby and Henk Nekkers. He calls Coby and
she is aware of the importance of such a contact. Through email I am in regular
contact with Douglas, who is a descendant of Winterwijk-emigrants (left Holland
1840-1850). He is also a removed cousin of Kevin, who visited Winterswijk
in the early 80-s. Kevin met Wouter Sonderen (Wouter is a genealogist and
his mother is a Nekkers). We now know, that there are many Neckers-relatives
on several locations in the United States. However, the pieces don’t fit together,
that will take more time. Douglas will certainly visit us on his next trip
to Nijmegen.
·
Another Nekkers-group
from Canada showed up. In this case it is like this: on the Internet Chris
(Christoffer Peter) from Canada is “surfing” and finds a “hit”, the name of
Guus Nekkers, working (at that time) at the University of Utrecht. Guus directed
this contact to me. This Canadian Nekkers-group was founded by Gerrit Jan
Nekkers, who ran a shop in sanitary facilities in Brummen and decided to emigrate
to Ontario Canada (in the vicinity of Toronto) in 1955 with wife Heintje Ribbink
and their children. Gerrit Jan is afraid of the political situation in Europe
(think of Hungary 1956) and does not want to see his sons enlisted in military
service. This Canadian “plumbers” group is now about 26 persons large. Son
Peter and his wife Ann Fernandez and their two children visited The Netherlands
(and us) in 1998 and we will visit
them in Ontario in the near future.
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Five generations in
one view
(subtitle: the art of leaving out information)
In order to show you, how much information I
have of the
Necker(s) and Nekkers family, a booklet of 55 pages can be printed. This is not
practical however. The information is not easy to read, it is a rather “dry”
listing of names, facts and dates. Although being exact and neat, it is not
attractive for the majority of the readers. Besides, the printing and
distribution process is rather costly.
A drawing (graphical) is much more clear and
simple. But how to put data of 700 Nekkers/Neckers in one chart? Just by
leaving out much of the available data. What did I leave out on the chart on
page 4 ?:
·
the family
name (is always Necker, Neckers or Nekkers)
·
all spouses
/ partners
·
the children
of Nekkers- daughters (since they have usually a new surname)
·
the youngest
generations (only the oldest generations X, IX, VIII, VII, VI have been printed)
What information per person in the chart?
·
the first
name (Christian name), the first 13 characters
·
the date of
birth
·
the city of
birth, the first 8 characters
By doing this the computer (with help of cut
paste actions) can make a picture of the 5 oldest generations Nekkers in one
page. However, you don’t find yourself back, since you (and I) belong to the
youngest generations, born in the twentieth century.
The rest of the family tree (generations V, IV,
III, II) consist of 13 branches, which got a number in the chart. Each of these
13 male Nekkers-descendants represents a family branch. From there on all
persons / descendants in the nineteenth and twentieth century can be located.
Legend:
Printed in bold you will find the male descendants, being (known) fathers themselves.
His children are listed after his underlined name. A question mark
between brackets (?) means: “date of birth unknown”.
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For example
the descendants of the third of thirteen ancestors, Gerrit Hendrik Nekkers
(1812, Winterwijk):
·
(1st marriage) Harmen Jan (1839), Hendrik Jan (1842), Hendrik Jan (1844), Hendrik
Jan (1845), Gerrit Antonie (1856), (2nd marriage) Berendina Hendrika (1848), Jan Hendrik (1851), Jan Albert (1853), Jan Albert (1860), Hendrik
Jan (1866 )
·
from Harmen
Jan (1839): Berendina
Gesiena (1874), Tonia (1875), Johan (1877), Johanna (1880), Lambertus (1882)
·
from Lambertus
(1882): Christina
Johanna (1907), Hendrika Gerritdina (1919)
·
from Jan
Hendrik (1851):
Janna Geertruida Hendrika (1881), Geertruida Christina (1885), Janna Geertruida
(1889)
·
from Jan
Albert (1860):
(1st marriage ) Theodora Christina (1887), Gerrit Hendrik (1889), (2nd marriage) Engelina Aleida (1895), Hendrik Jan (1898)
·
from Gerrit
Hendrik (1889): (1st marriage) Jan Albert
(1918), Johanna Berendina (1920), (2nd marriage) Jan Hendrik (1924), Johan Willem (1925), Janna Catherina (1927),
Johanna Aleida Berendina (1928), Gerrit
(1933)
·
from Jan
Albert (1918):
Derkje Janna Geertruida (1947), Jan
(1953)
·
from Jan
(1953): Ruud (1985)
·
from Jan
Hendrik (1924):
Hannita (1956), Jan Heico (1959), Jolanda (1961)
·
from Johan
Willem (1925):
Jan Gerrit Hendrik (1955), Johan
Willem (1957), Geert (1962)
·
from Jan
Gerrit Hendrik (1955): Renske (1982), Lonneke (1984)
·
from Gerrit
(1933): Freddy
(1958), Rene (1961)
·
from Rene
(1961): Tanja
(1990), Kim (1993)
·
from Hendrik
Jan (1898): Hendrik
Jan Albert (1927), J.B.C. (?)
·
from Hendrik
Jan Albert (1927): Hendrik Jan (1953), Jantine (1956), Gina (1960)
·
from Hendrik Jan (1866 ): Christina Hendrika (1893), Gerrit
Jan (1895)
I can send you the complete list of
the thirteen ancestors by email. Just send an email to PNEKKERS@WORLDONLINE.NL.
If, after
reading, you still don’t find yourself back in the listings, it is just an
indication that the archives are not complete yet. In that case, please send me
additional information.
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The thirteen ancestors and their descendants:
In the
chart on page 4 you find the thirteen ancestors, all male descendants of Pijter
(pronounce Peter like in English), who have children of their own.
Where did these children move to, and where do they live now? The majority per
branch can be found in:
1.
Peter (1797):
the complete USA-family, starting in Holland, Michigan.
2.
Christiaan
(1803): Winterswijk.
3.
Gerrit Hendrik
(1812): Winterswijk (some of them are railway-employees) . See the example.
4.
Peter (1812):
Friesland, Groningen, Zwolle (management of Odeon-theatre in Zwolle).
5.
Gerrit Jan
(1818): Arnhem (the miller, see newsletter number 1).
6.
Willem (1786):
Laren, Bathmen, Hellendoorn, Nijverdal, Hulsen, Wierden, Borne, Hengelo(O),
Den Haag.
7. Gerrit Jan
(1799): Laren, Bathmen, Lochem, and (mainly) Holten.
8.
Arend (1805):
Lochem, only one child (1830) registered.
9.
Berend Jan
(1811): Lochem, Zutphen, only one child (1845)
registered.
10. Teunis (1806):
Laren, Gorssel, Arnhem (the contractors).
11. Antony (1807):
Lochem, Laren, Goor, Roden, Pieterburen.
12. Jan (1817):
Lochem (the famous alderman Derk), Ruurlo, Zutphen, Den Haag, Naarden, Dordrecht,
Ijmuiden, Heemskerk.
13. Antoni (1821):
Lochem, Zutphen, Ellecom (city of Rheden), almost all persons in Zutphen (except
the railway-employees), Oldenzaal, Canada, Utrecht, Assen, Almelo, Deventer,
Soest.
With help
of this list you can all find your ancestor. Keep the place of residence of
your parents and grandparents in mind (and
your own).
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