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Note for:   Raymond Brummel,   25 NOV 1906 - 12 JAN 2003         Index

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     Resided at the Brummel homestead at 1010- 104th Ave, Holland MI, southwest of Zeeland, MI until 1974, then moved to 223 Woodlawn, Zeeland, MI.

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Note for:   Lammert Hendriks Kiel,   24 JUL 1821 - 14 MAR 1896         Index

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Occupation:   Cobbler

Burial:   
     Place:   Oakland Cemetery, Overijsel Twp.

Individual Note:
     At the age of 34, with wife Zwantje(age 34) and three sons: Berend(age 7), Hendrik(age 5), and Pieter(not yet 1), sailed from Rotterdam on the South Carolina in 1856 and arrived in New York on July 22, 1856. An Overisel Township map of 1873 shows an L. Kiel owning 40 acres about 1 mile south of where Don was born.

Listed with family in membership list of Drenthe, Michigan, Presbyterian Church at www.calvin.edu/hh/drenthe.htm Transferred from Nederlandse Hevormde Kerk, Groningen

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Note for:   Swantje Kraak,   4 OCT 1821 - 1 DEC 1882         Index

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Burial:   
     Place:   Oakland Cemetery, Overijsel Twp.

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     Listed in membership list of Drenthe, Michigan, Presbyterian Church at www.calvin.edu/hh/drenthe.htm

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Note for:   Harm Kiel,   APR 1858 - 18 DEC 1945         Index

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     Harm and Geesjen were married in New Holland, SD and started farming in that area. A hail storm wiped out their entire spring crop. They soon moved to Sioux Center and lived there until 1944 when they moved to the Holland Home in Chicago, IL

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Note for:   Grietje (Margaret) Kiel,   OCTOBER 1865 -          Index

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     Lived in Grand Rapids, on Valley Avenue, across from John Ball Park Henry was a butcher.

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Note for:   Berent (Benjamin) Kiel,   1848 - 11 JUN 1937         Index

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     One other reference gives birthday as 1850

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Note for:   Fannie Brummel,   8 SEP 1868 - 2 APR 1947         Index

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Burial:   
     Place:   Zeeland Cemetary

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Note for:   Bertha Brummel,   22 FEB 1860 - 10 NOV 1943         Index

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     married a Haverdink

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Note for:   Dirk Feikes Boonstra,   3 JAN 1827 - 6 NOV 1915         Index

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Burial:   
     Place:   Zeeland Cemetery

Individual Note:
     In 1857 Dirk, at the age if 29, migrated to the USA (with Maaike?)
    www.erfskipterpdoarpen.nl/documents/Engels/Emigrants1/AmelanderJong.html

The message states that all Boonstra's originate in Aldeboarn. In 1811 when
Emperor Napoleon obliged everyone to choose a fixed surname, some chose to
use the name of the town or village they lived in (in some form or another).
That's how the name Boonstra/Boarnstra came into being. At the end of the
19th century many left for the US. From Friesland they also spread al over
The Netherlands.

More on this family at www.erfskipterpdoarpen.nl/familygroup.php?familyID=F4254&tree=SET

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