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Johannes Hendricus Berendsen

Male 1804 - 1883  (79 years)


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  • Name Johannes Hendricus Berendsen 
    Born 04 Sep 1804  Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 09 Oct 1883  Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 11 Oct 1883  St John Cemetery, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Old Unmarked
    Person ID I24528  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 3 Feb 2014 

    Father Arnoldus Berntson,   b. 21 Feb 1754, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Dec 1840, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Willemina Mutters,   b. 21 Sep 1765, Elten, Emmerich am Rhein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jan 1823, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 01 Jul 1789  Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F8099  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine Hebing,   b. 21 Apr 1806, Beek en Donk, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Apr 1889, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 15 Jul 1826  Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Hermina Berendsen,   b. 30 Jul 1827, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Mar 1892, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     2. Johanna Berendsen,   b. 19 Dec 1828, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Jul 1862, Freedom, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years)
     3. Johannis Berendsen,   b. 15 Sep 1830, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Sep 1831, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     4. Johannes Berendsen,   b. 16 Aug 1831, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Feb 1898, St Joseph, Lawrence Co, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     5. Albert Arnold Berendsen,   b. 05 Aug 1834, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Feb 1898, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     6. Henrietta Johana Berendsen,   b. 15 Mar 1836, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Dec 1910, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     7. Bernard Martin Berendsen,   b. 11 Nov 1837, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1901, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     8. Louis Bartholmeus Berendsen,   b. 23 Aug 1839, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1919, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     9. Antonia Gertis Berendsen,   b. 11 Sep 1841, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Mar 1844, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     10. Theodore Henry Berendsen,   b. 18 Mar 1843, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Mar 1843, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     11. Arnold Gerhard Berendsen,   b. 04 Apr 1845, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Jun 1915, Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     12. Theodore William Berendsen,   b. 04 Nov 1846,   d. 19 Nov 1846  (Age 0 years)
     13. Maria Theodora Berendsen,   b. 02 Feb 1848, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Oct 1907, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
     14. Henry Theodorus Engelbertus Berendsen,   b. 31 Jan 1850, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jan 1896, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F8089  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • MY GREAT GRAND FATHER
      JOHANNIS HENDRIKUS BERENDSEN
      Johannis Berendsen was born in Dedam in the province of
      Gelderland, Holland, on September 4, 1804. After completing his
      education, he worked as an apprentice in a baker shop. Later he
      purchased his own bakery, which was soon enlarged to include general
      merchandising.
      In 1826 he married Catherine Hebing and from this union fourteen
      children were born. Realizing that his children would have little or no
      opportunity of making a success in their country, Mr. Berendsen decided
      to go to America.
      Before sailing, several bags of rusk were prepared with other foods,
      to be consumed on the voyage. Mr. Berendsen, his wife and eight
      children, (Johanna, Johannes, Albert, Hendrina, Bernard, Ludivicus,
      Arnold and Henry) sailed from Amsterdam, Holland on February 21,
      1856. Two children remained in Holland, Hermina haVing married
      Antoon Welling, and Marie who lived with an uncle and aunt.
      The sea voyage was rather a pleasant one since they had sufficient
      money and provisions for their comfort. They witnessed some hardship,
      however, among their fellow passengers. Other families, less fortunate
      than they in personal weqIth, were on the ship and in need of food, but
      due to the uncertainty of the time it would take to cross the ocean, only little
      of their provisions could be spared. Upon landing in New York, what food
      they had left was divided among their less fortunate friends.
      From New York they proceeded up the Hudson River to Albany,
      through the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
      Their boat stopped over one night at Mackinac Island located in the
      northern part of Lake Huron to unload coal. The night being fairly warm,
      the family wrapped themselves in blankets and slept on the wharf. The
      next morning each was amused to see the others had very dirty faces,
      and poked fun at one another until they discovered that they, too, were
      black from the coal dust which had blown on them during the night.
      The family landed at Green Bay after being on the way from
      Holland about two months. After resting a few days at Green Bay, they continued on to Kaukauna by going up the Fox River. The river was not
      navigable beyond this point, because of the rapids, so after resting at the
      Grignon Mansion they continued on foot to Little Chute. Here they
      visited o!c~friends, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hietpas, whom they had known in
      Ho:!and. The Hietpas' were very much surprised and pleased, for when
      they (the Hietpas') were leaving Holland for America, they had had
      coffee with the Berendsens, and had expressed the thought that they
      never expected to meet or have coffee with them again.
      Mr. Berendsen purchased 160 acres of land northwest of Freedom
      and moved there with his family. Farm life at first proved quite a hardship
      since they were not accustomed to this kind of work. In 1863 Mr. and
      Mrs. Berendsen retired from the farm and moved to Little Chute. The
      farm was taken over by their sons Arnold and Albert, each taking 80
      acres.
      (From Holland to Wisconsin - History of Berendsen and Hurkman