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Antonette Maassen

Female 1794 - 1876  (82 years)


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  • Name Antonette Maassen 
    Born 26 Jan 1794  Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Immigration 1848  Maria Magdalena Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Died 16 Nov 1876  Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 18 Nov 1876  St John Cemetery, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Old Unmarked
    Person ID I61225  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2014 

    Father Cornelius Maassen,   b. 15 Jan 1747, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jan 1812, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Johanna Bernardussen Mos,   b. 27 Sep 1750, Grave, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Apr 1821, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 07 May 1775  Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F26753  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Wilbert Gijsbers,   b. 05 Sep 1783, Beers, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Oct 1841, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Married 20 Jan 1822  Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Egbertus Giesbers,   b. 22 Nov 1822, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Jan 1835, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 12 years)
     2. Cornelius Giesbers,   b. 04 Sep 1824, Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Dec 1911, Bellevue, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     3. Elizabeth Giesbers,   b. 20 Nov 1825, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Mar 1895, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     4. Petronella Giesbers,   b. 05 Jan 1827, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Aug 1828, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     5. John Giesbers,   b. 01 Apr 1830, Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Sep 1862, KIA Civil War Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 32 years)
     6. Arnold Giesbers,   b. 11 Mar 1831, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Apr 1832, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     7. Cornelia Giesbers,   b. 03 Apr 1833, Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Dec 1900, Town of Kaukauna, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     8. Johanna Giesbers,   b. 16 Dec 1834, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Feb 1838, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
     9. Egbertus Giesbers,   b. 20 Mar 1836, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 May 1837, Mill, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F22586  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jacobus Casparus VanNiel,   b. 07 Jan 1823, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Dec 1898  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 1855 
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F130423  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • January 1933
      Wilbert Giesbers, husband of Nettie Maas, died in Holland while still a young man leaving a very young family not even in their teens. The widow operated a tavern in Holland to keep her family in tact. The Burgermeister of Mill, Holland, suggested that the townspeople patronize the widow's tavern as that was her only means of support. The struggling was too difficult and we find her emigrating to America with her children: Cornelius, Elizabeth Gerrits, John (killed in Civil War) and Kate Vanden Heuvel.
      she sailed in 1848 on one of Father VandenBroek's three sailing vessels. Rev. VandenBroek was a missionary interested in the colonization of Holland Catholics in the Fox River Valley. It is believed he secured money either from the Foreign Mission Society at Washington or the Government at Washington as well as from wealthy friends of his in Holland for the financing of this emigration from Europe. Migrating from Holland to Little Chute was a trip which required three months. The passage fare was paid by some although many were unable to pay at all.
      The emigrating colonists, after landing in America, sailed up the Hudson River to Albany, New York, connecting there with the Erie Barge Canal, a canal which was dug from Albany, N.Y. to Bugfalo and is still in existance today. The barges were horse drawn from a tow path on the canal bank -- a slow tedious journey taking a day between each stopping place. At each stopping place a relief team of horses was hitched to the barge for another day's travel, working in relays in this manner, until the canal trip was completed at Buffalo. Each stopping place was a day's journey. Although Fulton had invented the steamboat prior to this time, it is likely that sailing vessels were used through the Great Lakes to Green Bay and from there they walked and used os carts in going to Little Chute which was 25 miles southwest of Green Bay. The Fox River had no system of locks at that time making it unnavigable because of the rough rapids and uncontrolled waters.
      After settling, Mrs. Wilbert Giesbers married again to Mr. Van Niel and settled along the riverbank. Mr. Van Niel had studied for the priesthoof in Amsterdam but did not attain his ambition because of an accident while traveling which impaired his hearing. Because of his education, he was one of the leaders of Little Chute, and it was at his home that Rev. VandenBroek made his headquarters while on his mission travels.
      Cornelius married, lived on a farm west of Little Chute and later operated a tavern near the dopot before moving to another farm in Wrightstown. Children were born as follows:
      William in Green Bay 1854
      Mary -- Mrs. Albert Langenberg in Green Bay in 1857
      Hannah -- Mrs. Anton Langenberg in Green Bay in 1860
      Arnold in Kaukauna in 1862
      Nettie -- Mrs. Henry VandenHeuvel in Kaukauna in 1865
      John in Kaukauna in 1867
      Jennie -- Mrs. Herman Fink in Menasha in 1870.

      Although the elest boy was known as William, his real name was Wilbert. He spent many years of his boyhood with his grandmother, Mrs. Van Niel in Little Chute. As a young man he spent his winters in logging camps (pinery) earning money financing his father's farm. With his experience in farming, he spent many years as the superintendent of the J. K. DeLandy 160 acre farm which traded and sold horses. The Giesbers farm was sold to a Mr. Redemacher and as of 1933 all the buildings remain intact. William's parents, Cornelius and Nettier, are buried in Green Bay.